On page 82
of “Tunnel Thru the Air” WD Gann speaks of the 266th Pope in a very
curious passage referring to St Malachy's prophecy of future Popes. Most of what I’ve read
regarding that passage concerned the obvious importance of the number ‘266’.
2 * 6 * 6:
-
2 X 6=12 , 12 divisions of the circle
- 2X 6 X 6=72 or the pentagon. Didn't someone write a book on that? Bradley Cowan?
- (6X6) / 2=18 and 2X6+6=18
- 6 / 6 / 2 = .5
- 2+6+6=14 reduced to 5
Can there
be any doubt that Mr. Gann intended to emphasize many permutations of 266?
Was the 266th Pope just a convenient forum to bring up an important
number? But maybe an important meaning might be the simplest
explanation? Occam's razor. Look at the first sentence of that
paragraph, pg 82 TTTA.
"Some
evidence of long-range predictions which have been fulfilled that has
attracted attention, appeared in the New York American, January 29,
1922." pg 82
Maybe he was also talking about
what he said he was talking about; duh, long range predictions. And the long
range predictions are St Malachy's prophecy (which, by some, are thought to
have been authored by Nostradamus). Not 2 or 3 years in the future,
decades and centuries in the future. And yet, Gann extrapolates the long
range predictions to an evil period of only 1926 to 1932? Really?
To be sure, Gann makes mistakes,
but what is the likelihood that he accidentally mistook the 266th pope to be
elected in the 1926-32 era? And after having read the New York American
article he cited in the first sentence? Pope Pius XI (1922-39) was the
259th. Implausible. Gann knew the 266th Pope would be elected
decades thereafter. Perhaps Gann knew or extrapolated in which
repeating cycle the 266th pope would be elected?
"To
those who understand numbers, "266" reveals some remarkable events
that are to follow the election of the new Pope. It shows that wars are not yet
over and that Europe will have troublesome conditions, and in fact, the entire
world must yet pass thru a very evil period between 1926 and 1932. It also
confirms both the major and minor cycles which indicate that the years 1928 and
1930 to 1932 are to be years of famine, depressing business conditions and
panic, not only in Europe, but in the United States. The maximum evil of the
great 1000-year cycle, which will not be completed until 1932 to 1934, will
bring serious troubles to the United States. Another bad period for the United
States will be 1940 to 1944." pg 82
The maximum evil of the great 1000-year
cycle.
"He
had figured out from the Bible that a time of trouble such as the world had
never seen would begin in 1927, and would continue until 1932. There would be
war, famine and pestilence all over the earth, and that except the time be
shortened every human being on the face of the earth would be destroyed
according to the Bible.' pg 41
So the greatest evil of the
1000-year cycle would not occur in the 1927-1932 period.
The world would not be destroyed because there was not enough time in the 1926-32
cycle. [Interesting that Bradley Cowan places the end of the 1914-1933
Pentagonal Uranian cycle as 1933.] When might greater evil occur?
A problem in all this is who is
Pope is the 266th. Some count Pope Francis as the 266th, some count him
as the 268th (counting antipopes). Perhaps Gann saw that interpretation
as a problem to his observations about the distant future.
"His
prophecy on the future Pope is No. 266. Fides Intrepida, which means --
"Unwavering Faith, unshaken belief in the face of danger; unfaltering
devotion." pg 82
"Unfaltering."
When I first researched Pope Francis in Wikipedia I found
"Unfaltering orthodox" as a component of his description. I
cannot find that description in Wikipedia now. Not a lot of evidence in subjective characterizations.
So how might we identify the real
266th Pope? What is the 'number' of Pope Francis according to the methodology
Awodele identified which Gann may have used to compute the 'number' of Woodrow
Wilson, '28'?
By that methodology, the number of Pope Francis is 5
and 266 reduced is 2+6+6=14 further reduced to 5. That's interesting. But
try this on for size.
Pope Francis was born on
12/17/1936. On what solar degree of the circle does 12/17/1936 appear?
His birthdate
appears on the 266th degree of the solar year.
If Gann was, in its
simplest explanation, talking of the reign of the 266th Pope, if Pope
Francis is he, if cycles of history repeat, and if
the most evil section of the 1000 year cycle was yet to come after the 1926-32
period, then what might that say about the cycle in which Pope
Francis reigns?
Jim
Note: As a side, I've read St Malachy's prophecy implied the 266th Pope would be the last. I've interpreted that to mean an end to some phase of the Catholic church.