Digress to what I think I've learned and previously written. First, Luo Clement = WD Gann. I've written several essays deriving Luo Clement as a nom de plume of WD Gann and challenged anyone to find a person named "Luo" "Clement" found in NYC in the early 1900s. I can't and I've spent hours if not days trying. The name, "Luo" has an Asian heritage as a last name, not a first name and virtually no usage as a first name in America....again, that I can find. "Clement" is European and notably might be styled after St Clement of Rome, the martyr, a contemporary or near-so of Peter and Paul. There is also of line of Pope Clements having adopted, no doubt, the martyr's last name.
A learned librarian friend once remarked to me the seeming numeric 'perfection' of the name "Luo." According to Luo Clement's triads of enumeration, the letters enumerated are 3-3-6 and notably add to 12 and which reduce to 3. That's a teaser.
Luo Clement's "magic square," as I've defined it, would be the triads of letter enumeration:
The triads would seem to derive the "atomic weight" of fate to which Mr. Gann alludes in the "Ticker Interview:"
Follow the carefully sequenced logic of the above. All things vibrate > the elements vibrate according to their atomic weight as classified by the periodic table > expanded, the "diversity of phenomenal nature" is according to numerical relationships that are not accidental > numbers are the cause and effect, they are the internal mechanism upon which the mathematic principles or natural law or cause and effect are dependent.
Luo Clement's TASON defines a metaphysical periodic table....IMO. As the compliment, WD Gann's "The Tunnel Thru the Air" defines the mathematic laws governing the relationships between the elements of the metaphysical period table and the mathematically determined and determinable causal destination. The "fate." Absent the connection between Luo Clement and WD Gann, I do not believe anyone can discover Mr. Gann's true methods of prediction. According to my research, (which isomer often than not wrong) not a single published researcher has a clue; how self serving. But I admit, I have a clue but hardly a solution. The closest any body of thought has come is through astrology and, even there, 'something is missing.'
Without the associated letters given in the first of the above inserts, here is a reflection of "Clement's magic square:"
Looks straightforward; not a lot of mystery at first glance. Look between the numbers and, more specifically, at the mathematic relationships:
You can find arithmetic, geometric and exponential progressions. You can find decomposition, composition and acceleration. You find only prime numbers associated with the first triad mused as representing decomposition. You find only non prime numbers in the second triad characterized as decomposition. You find both prime and non prime numbers in the third triad which seems to connote exponentiation. [Perhaps the "Law of Three?" The negative, positive and neutral....]
Now look at the formation of the rows and columns as a magic square and perhaps you see some curiosities, oddities:
The cross footing of the rows summed gives us WD Gann's most notable angle in stock market analysis; the 45 degree angle. Important, as he put it so quizzically, the 45* angle divides equally "time and space." I have not gone back to look that quote up. But it struck me when I first read it, Mr. Gann did not say "time and price." Why say "time and space" to describe the two-dimensional chart of "time and price." A mistake, a Freudian slip, or an intended mystery? It's 'as if' the markets were Mr. Gann's laboratory in which he tested his mathematic theories of time and space. Why, that might be a great context for an essay, WD Gann's laboratory of time and space.
The footings, reduced produces 6-6-6, the number of man. And all footings and cross footings ultimately reduce to 9, the end at which we begin again. Hmm, seems I've read that some where as well.
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The 'mysteries' are on the table and enough for now. It would seem the above is the periodic table of all things that classifies all things according to categories, which, like the elements of the Periodic Table, that behave similarly and interact according to natural law resulting in a determinable "fate," destine each so classified by Clement's magic square to have a mathematically determinable fate.
I regret naming this essay "magic square." So much depends on the disposition of the reader as Luo Clement declares on pages 15-16 of TASON. No, it isn't magic according to Luo and all natural phenomenon are the result of mathematics of the highest order according to the Ticker Interview. A student's disposition should not be as if examining magic but, rather, as Luo admonishes, as Marie wrote to Robert and as Jesus said the the blind men:
Hmm, both Luo and Mr. Gann made a big deal about that quote? What a coincidence.
Jim Ross