Luo Clement = WD Gann, revisited and found

Now 15 months ago I proposed Luo Clement = WD Gann and the evidence I provided was met with "I doubt it."  No refutation of evidence or offering of one single person that ever lived in New York City, much less in the United States with the name "Luo Clement."   And even mucher less,  with the first name spelled "Luo."  [Luo = 3 3 6 or 3X3=9 and 6, or rearranged, 69.  How quaint, the same numbers found in WD Gann and Robert Gordon's concatenated name and birth number, 96 and 69, respectively.]

In my investigation, I found the publisher of Luo Clement's one and only book "The Ancient Science of Numbers," (hereafter "TASON") namely Roger Brothers at 82 Duane Street, cannot be found as having been located at 82 Duane Street, only a couple blocks from and between WD Gann's 120 Liberty Street address and 82 Wall Street Address.  To be found at that address in that time period was a stationary and office supples company, a firm and writer of a newsletters, such as OROLO or WD Gann might use.  And might, from an appreciative vendor, use as a fictitious publisher's address.

As well, I was asked by a major WD Gann researcher and publisher to consider that being a publisher is not a past time and that it takes a lot of work to pursue such a business.  And, further he pointed out, the books that had been identified with Roger Brothers were metaphysics losers.  Actually, he made my point.  Roger Brothers published, at my latest recollected count based on the research of several very capable person, less than 20 books.  I find only 11 on my personal spreadsheet.  Why would any publisher only publish only 11 or 20 books and such lousy ones at that?

Why because?  He knew they (the 11 books) were losers but they articulated his metaphysical philosophy.  And because money really was inconsequential to him.  He wasn't interested in making money because, as proven dispositively in the Ticker Interview (and to the contraindication of those who argue he was not rich when he died), he could make all he wanted.  22 losers in 286 trades; dispositive.  That cannot happen in the Random Walk world.  And, in my thinking, the 22 losers were there to make it, well,  "fashionable."  But I digress as per normal.

He wanted Luo's book published just as he wanted Thomas Troward's, Judge David Patterson Hatch' and all those metaphysical books published.  They are as off the wall as "The Magic Word" but there is importance in the "Roger Brothers secret reading list of WD Gann."  I do have to agree on one point about Roger Brothers; those books are tough to read.  They make "The Magic Word" look like a Tom Clancy novel.  With great pain I read them and don't understand the importance of each, but I believe each has its place.  Clearly, Judge Hatch, Luo Clement, Thomas Troward have a clear place.  The others, well, I'm an accountant, not a poet, theologian or metaphysical philosopher.  They're, well, a lot deeper than me.

All that said, I have been long confounded by being unable to find "Luo" or "Clement" in the acrostic and telestic encoding of WD Gann's "The Tunnel Through the Air."  I knew it had to be there.  After all, both TASON and TTTTA tell us to have faith:

Those asterisks in both TASON and TTTTA were the "tell" for me.  But, that's me.

Why in the world would Roger Brothers publish Luo Clement's book which was a near copy of L. Dow Balliet's book, "The Philosophy of Numbers" first published in 1908?  Really?  Look at that copyright statement in the link provided.  Luo's book, a near copy of Mrs. Balliet's book despite that copyright statement.  Was Pythagorean numerology a fly off the shelves best seller?  Please.  It wasn't to make money as a publisher.  It was WD Gann who wanted to monument his "great 1908 discovery."  The discovery wasn't Pythagorean numerology, rather, its an allusion that it was a key to that discovery in my opinion.  I know that's the reason, but I have faith.

With that background, this morning I was rewarded by a frequent commenter, Steven Hahn, who found "Luo Clement" on page 343:

Focus,  in light tan above you have "Luo" and in dark tan you have "Clement."  The career doubter will say "But Jim, you can make anything out of an infinite number of letters."  Well, that's silly, there are 15,341 lines in TTTTA and therefore only 30,682 acrostic and telestic numbers, not an infinite number.  But let's defer the resolution of that quarrel.  The "evidence" gets better.

We have "ancient" and "science" spelled as highlighted in green and yellow, respectively.  At this point, we have spelled "Luo Clement ancient science" or 24 letters in 33 lines or 66 letter positions.   24 meaningful letters in 66 possible letter positions.  I don't know how to evaluate the statistical IMprobability.  But I do know two things.  First, the "doubters" will say "I doubt it" not having any greater clue regarding the statistical inference than I.  At least, I know I don't know as a great philosopher once, many times, said.  And second, it gets better:

Focus on the red highlighted letters.  "Numbers."  There is an imperfection.  The light blue letters above lack the letter "f."  As well, out of the several "n"s I am short an "n."  The light blue highlighted letters give you "the" and "ov."  Mr. Gann has spelled in 66 letter positions:

Luo Cleme_t The Ancient Science o_ Numbers

Two letters missing.  In the second insert, I assigned the second missing letter to "Cleme_t."  Of course, I will recreate the exercise, but that's the way it looks now.  If you try to configure the entire phrase, you're short an f and an n.

If you count the spaces between the words, you have 42 characters (counting the missing 'f'' and 'n')  in the above phrase spelled discretely....errr, there hasn't been a person to identify the above in the 88 years since TTTTA was published.... that is, encoded in TTTTA.  Until Steven.

One last 'i' to dot and 't' to cross.  Would WD Gann publish Mrs. Balliet's book without some attribution in the least?  No.  Inspired by a similar message about Mrs. Dow found by Steven Hahn on page 234, I find the following on page 320/321:

L Dow Balliet a w_se person

We are missing only one letter "i."  As developed in the ENS series beginning with Yellowstone, what is missing is often more important than what is present.  In two sets of phrases we are missing "i" and "f" or "IF."  The arch enemy of the doubter.  A word the doubter is loathe to admit.  The doubter never wants to honestly "consider."

Mrs. Balliet not only codified Pythagorean numerology (some disagree Pythagoras designed this system but that's an incorrectly framed argument that is actually there's an absence of proof that he did design the system) but fused it with Bible verse as Mr. Gann fused Bible verse with the stock market, war, love and prediction.  

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"You can spell anything you want with an infinity of letters" says the doubter.  And you can find any contrary explanation of something found if you are not honest with you, in your heart, know is true.  

What is important is not the 'evidence' provided above because it will not convince the doubters.  Rather, read the narrative accompanying the L Dow Balliet message.  The great buildings of "the greaty City of Chicago" are destroyed and Joshua 8:8 seems the theme as well, both subjects of previous essays.

Again as in many essays, I've circled back, via messages, to a central theme of prophecies yet unfulfilled in these years following the election of the 266th Pope.  As if Mr. Gann intended a point of emphasis via Philo of Alexandria's teaching of repetition as a method of teaching.

"But Jim, the cornerstone of Descartes' Meditations is to begin with doubt as you said in a previous essay."  And I say, he didn't stop with doubt but used it as a tool to consider that, as he was doubting, he realized he was thinking;  "cogito ergo sum."  From there, he proved God and from that perfect thought and perfect order, he proved the external world.  We don't stop with doubting, we must move forward with proving what is good and cleaving to it.

If you are a professional doubter, you've wasted a good half hour of your time scanning the above.  If you consider, then to you remains the task of proving, or disproving, the above to yourself.  The letters missing in the L Dow Balliet message:  "IF."  You must first consider before you can prove or disprove.  So poetically, we find Rudyard Kipling's poem "IF" on page 208/209.  I believe Mr. Gann left out the letters "i" and "f" to bring us back to "IF."  But that's me.

And at some point, the greater proofs will allow one's intuition to accept lesser levels of evidence.  At some point it will become "According to thy faith, be it unto thee."

Jim Ross