"The Twelve Days of Christmas;" a simple mathematic reflection, 1 of 2

Entirely irrelevant to the study and application of WD Gann to the market; well, many would say more irrelevant than usual.  Skip if you'd prefer, enjoy if you're in the seasonal mood and have some time.  Hey, its the season to rest, consider and rejoice.

The version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I learned in Sunday School dates back to 1909 and Frederic Austin though the lyrics predate his rendition.  In plain sight, might there be more?  Did Frederic Austin create a mystic mathematic gem or a deep theologic confirmation?  Or did it TTDOC simply coalesce out of nothingness guided by....well, something?   I'm not his biographer but I don't see the latent genius of Mr. Austin's resume.  Alas, were he here, he could say the same about me and I'd be inclined to agree.

Create the first iteration of TTDOC by listing 1 though 12 on the left side of a spreadsheet, then, from the bottom 12, fill in 12 through 1 on the bottom line from left to right.  Now, fill in the blanks to create consecutive number sequences from the left side and bottom line:

Some quite notable numbers sum the columns and adorn those same sums accompany the rows; 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, 66, 78.

They sum to 364 or 52 weeks X 7 days per week (green highlighted sum).

There's a rhyme sequence to the numbers.  Each increasing number is the previous plus the difference of the previous two numbers plus one.  For example, 78 equals 66 plus 66-55 plus 1.  Each successive number of the sequence does this.  Somewhat like Fibonacci but not the same.  It gets better.

Take the first three of those sequenced numbers, namely 1, 3 and 6 (in yellow).  Now look at the second 3, namely, 1, 6 and 3 (no color).  Now the third three, 1, 9, and 9 (in yellow).  And the last sequence, 1, 3 and 6.  Notice anything?  The number 1 repeats every third item.  Interesting.

So, let's consider those four sequences and, in particular, their same.  The first sequence of 1, 3, and 6 sums to 10 and you can reduce that number to (1+0=) 1.  The second sequence of 1, 6 and 3 sums, again, to 10 which is reduced to 1.  The third sequence is different; 1, 9 and 9 and sums to 19.  Different but the same ultimate result because 19 reduces to 10 and 10 reduces to 1.

Just a mathematically interesting outcome?  Maybe there's more.  1 is the monad, philosophically, the "all" from which all things were created.  I'd say most agree with that.  Gurdjieff finds the 1 elaborated according the Law of Three into the positive, negative and neutral force, thus creating all things.

The "All," kinda like the iteration of the "Almighty" perhaps.  Oh the theologic gnashing of teeth by the many who associate 777 with the identity of God because we find it so frequently in the Bible and because God rested on the seventh day (not to be confused with WD Gann's second riddle).  In opposition there are those few who look at '1' as being the more logical identity; 111.

Scriptures aren't a lot of help because just about every book has a 1:11.  In perusing, my first inclination is James 1:11 for the obvious reason, I am a 'James.'  Verses 1:1 and 1:11:

1  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the 

twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 

11  For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 

withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the 

grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the 

rich man fade away in his ways.

The 12 tribes, 12 days of Christmas.  Maybe James 1:11 is a fruitful path.

Hmmm, 777, Isaiah 7:7, Ask Seek, Knock or 'ASK.'  That sounds pretty good too.  A quick search and you'll find WD Gann included Isaiah 7:7 three times in the 'plain sight' narrative of "The Tunnel Thru the Air" (lines 89, 2749 and 3020).

Did you notice the half Christmas tree above?  If you multiply the value of each cell on each row and then sum the row, you have a half Christmas tree formed by the sum of the products.  I could adorn the tree by multi-coloring each of the sum of products which represents known 'canon-like' numbers.

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Pretty far afield given how we started with a simple mathematic elaboration of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."  Faux mathematics, faux mystic theology or is there something there?  Well, I'm a little ahead of the reader having constructed a magic square from the above spreadsheet.  There may be an explanation of God's "number," 111 versus 777 inferred from the magic square.

But, for now, today is December 21 (12/12 or reduced to two single digits 3/3 if that rings a bell) and as of today, 7 of 12 days of Christmas are behind us.  12 and 7, two of WD Gann's favorite numbers.  A ratio of 12 to 7, why, that's the reduction of WD Gann's philosopher stone number (then number of all pages in "The Tunnel Thru the Air", not just the numbered ones) and John Dee's philosopher stone number 252:

Are these "things," coincidences, synchronicities engineered by some genius or do they coalesce according to a greater plan?  Or are they random arrangements of mindless infinity?  I'm fully vested with Luo Clement being a pen name of a genius, WD Gann, and with the never named Einstein Editor being a non de plume of WD Gann.  But could Mr. Gann's genius be extended to inventing Frederic Austin who, in the same year (1909) as Luo Clement published "The Ancient Science of Numbers" and one year after WD Gann made his 'great discovery, created the 1909 rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."  On this one, "I doubt it."

But, my doubt of the mortal origin does not cause me to disbelieve a "divine plan."

Next up, the magic square of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

Jim Ross