Some disparate thoughts, 2016 and good fortune

Probably not worth anyone's time in reading but very meaningful to me this morning.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).  An 'o' at the end of the first name with a value of 6 and an 'i' at the end of the last name with a value of 9 (Pythagorean as taught by "Luo Clement").  The wondrous page 69 of "The Tunnel Thru the Air."  And the first three of his notable quotes will come up if you Google 'Galileo':

We cannot learn from anyone but from one who knows.  Of the hundreds or thousands of WD Gann experts, there is only one who truly knows what Mr. Gann taught and that is Mr. Gann.  We can only learn by studying his work directly.  And only guidance from others can be accepted…the learning comes from the personal work.  If we study Gurdjieff and his interchanges with PD Ospenksky, we find the latter, a philosopher in his own right, subjecting himself to the superior knowledge and guidance of the former.  As I studied golf, my heretofore lifelong passion, I studied the great "Bantam" Ben Hogan.  So the story goes, one golfer watching Mr. Hogan practice one day asked another, "Who is better golfer, Ben Hogan or Jack Nicklaus?"  The other remarked, "Well, I've seen Jack Nicklaus watch Ben Hogan practice but I've never seen Ben watch Jack."  And another 'so the story goes', so goes the question, "Where did Ben Hogan get the dynamics of his swing?"  The responsive phraseology is "He dug it out of the dirt."  He hit golf balls with a work effort like no other.  He took divots with each swing.  He dug his swing out of the dirt; the elemental.  He worked and worked and worked until he perfected and understood.

So goes the study of WD Gann.  It dawned on me last night that there are 37 written chapters (36 numbered chapters and the Foreword) in TTTTA just as there are 37 books in the Old Testament.  If you subdivide the pages before the Foreword and after 'The End', you might find 5 additional subdivisions.  At the beginning of the book 1) the title pages, 2) blank pages and 3) information and dedication and following 'The End' you have 4) blank pages and 5) the rear dust jacket.  37 written chapters and 5 additional subdivisions for a total of 42 divisions of the book.  And if one accepts that there are 15340 lines in TTTTA as computed in previous essays you have 42 years.  And if we 'double' and 'redouble' according to the rules of "Tid Bits" on page 45, we arrive at 168 years.

And 168 years is one unit of 15 that comprise the Biblical "Great Week" of 2520 years (derived from the duration of the "Rule of the Gentiles").  The "Great Week" of 2520 years that may refer to solar (365 days per year) or lunar (354 days per year) years when computing Biblical events according to Thomas Troward ("Biblical Prophecy….," 1914).  So might the year 2016, the subject of many recent essays, comport with any distantly important events?

If we were to deduct 2520 solar years from 2016 we arrive at 504 B.C. which does not appear to be all that important in ancient events.  Notable events in 504 B.C….. not so much.

But look at the lunar calculation of the Great Week of 2520:

One "Great Week" prior to 2016 we find the Jews deported from their land for the third time under Nebuchadnezzar.

Might 2016 find such a Biblical event repeated?

On good fortune.  Where I lost my life long passions of running and golf to impairing (but hardly debilitating, so don't feel sorry for me) osteoarthritis, I've found another teacher who has brought challenging and rewarding endeavors into my life.

Jim Ross