Perhaps Mr. Gann's great discovery of 1908…indeed.

I've been up all night on the following trail concerning "The Tunnel Thru the Air." This post is not my thoughts on yesterday's riddle which I've promised.  I'll have to work on that after a couple hours sleep.  The trail below consumed me last evening and all this morning.  I had to document it while I had it somewhat clearly in mind.

Before reading this post, you need to understand the circumstantial evidence that Luo Clement is WD Gann provided two essays previous.  And to fully understand the 1908 discovery, you will need to understand the Pythagorean and Descartean properties of Robert Gordon's 7 days with which I struggled and published several months ago on this blog.  What follows is a train that leads to that same geometry of space and time.

Luo Clement's, "Ancient Science of Numbers," published in 1908 indicates the "pendency" of a later book of higher instruction, "Numerical Vibration," which was never (that I can find) published."

A Google search for "Luo Clement Numerical Science" returned on the first page a September 18, 1920 Publisher's Weekly ad requesting Luo Clement's book "Numerical Vibration" and is shown HERE.

A simple Google search of "September 18, 1920" produces as the very first and second result Scientific American published that date. The remainder of the first page of results, athletic articles.

Inspection of the contents of Scientific American yields one title of possible relevance to Mr. Gann's work; "New Concepts of the Past Century; The Change in Outlook Since Classical Days, Which Makes Non-Euclidian Geometry a Possibility" written by the "Einstein Prize Essay Editor."  A reading of that article and its December 4, 1920 sequel, "That Parallel Postulate; The Dividing Line Between Euclidian and Non-Euclidain Geometry and What the Latter Means," contrasts Euclidian (3 dimension) and non Euclidian (not exactly 4 dimension but kinda) and the mathematicians that disproved Euclid's never proven "Parallel Postulate."  Continuing the thread to a further sequel of the Einstein Editor backwards to a previous article of the Einstein Editor "What Has Been Said About Einstein; A Review of the More Important Popular and Semi-Popular Books and Articles in English" we find glowing praise of Dr. A.S. Eddington, Cambridge and his book "Space Time and Gravitation; An Outline of the General Relativity Theory."

[The Einstein Editor is not named that I can discover and a request for his name put to Scientific American has not, as yet, been answered.]

The contents of the first chapter of Dr. Eddington's book concern "The Fitzgearld Contraction" and describe the differences in perception of reality based upon the differing positions of observers.  Time and reality differ among observers based on their location.  The second chapter begins with the 1908 assertion of the German physicist Minkowski:

From Wikipedia we find that Minkowski space integrates the three dimensions of Euclidian geometry with a fourth dimension….time.  The coordinates of {X,Y and Z} become {X,Y, Z and T}.  The Lorenz Transformation creates the scenario of event prediction according to this delightful presentation courtesy of MIT that can be found HERE.

But forget the Lorenz Transformation as the Einstein Editor may have given us a lead to 2000 year-old Greek Euclidian geometry and the Descartian coordinate system to navigate Minkowski's four dimensions.  From the previously cited September 18, 1920 Scientific American article:

Descartes, Pythagoras theorem…. both aspects proven as 'an' if not 'the' math lesson of Robert Gordon's 7 days in the several posts I have provided on that subject.  Entirely Cartesian and Pythagorean math and geometry.

Pythagorean geometry and Dr. Descartes cameo appearance in TTTTA.

An aside.  Using the first edition printing of TTTTA, I discovered my last name spelled telestically on page 14 in about December 2014.  I found my first name spelled acrostically on page 75 in early January and it is adjacent the subtitle date of January 28, 1927.  Still unconvinced but shaken, I found my street address (Tottenham) and professional designation (CPA) spread on pages 350 and 351 spelled with a combination of the narrative and acrostics.  And I found the last piece on exactly January 28, 2015.  Exactly 88 years after the date on page 75 to the day.  I should have published a memo on that day.  I might now get a second bite of that apple.

Another aside.  Today I've completed what I believe is a very promising, albeit tenuous, thread beginning with Luo Clement's apparently never published book and leading to the 1908 special relativity mathematics presented by Minkowsky and enabled by the Lorenz Transformation.  The next subtitle dating found in "The Tunnel thru the Air" after the aforementioned January 28, 1927 is March 15, 1927.  And today is March 15, 2015.  Exactly 88 years later.  I'm planting this memo to document the date.

The next date shown in TTTTA as a subtitle will be April 30, 1927 on page 97.

Perhaps this thread will prove to be or lead to Mr. Gann's great discovery of 1908.  If so, did he predict when his great discovery would subsequently be found?

Is it possible to suspend our belief in chaos and consider the alternate?

Jim Ross

NOTE:  As Mr. Gann wrote "Ancient Science of Numbers" under the name Luo Clement, I will present the case that the unnamed "Einstein Essay Prize Editor" is, again, Mr. Gann.  The circumstances that indicate the former have become persuasive and one cannot construct the above, highly tenuous, but entirely logical, trail without the connection.  The case for for the latter promises to be equally likely and more easily and more firmly documented.

TTTTA encoded riddle 1

I'm trying to write a book or get a "hidden mysteries" type fiction novelist to adopt my idea.  I may not be up to the job.  I have the necessary obsessive qualities to do the work but I'm too much a creature in need of instant gratification.  I can imagine Mr. Gann or his buddy Mr. Frank Higgins, each, alone in a room reading and composing for hours.  I can't imagine myself being able to do that as much as I dwell on their work and the work of many others.  So, to amuse myself and hopefully others, a series of puzzles confined to "Tunnel Thru the Air" that may add up to something of value.

First, a concept in encoding, some very old and all but forgotten encoding methodologies and then a treasure hunt.

An interesting take found at the Nazarene Way of Essenic Studies on Philo of Alexander is that he considered allegory as less capable of teaching truths than the use of enigma.  Allegories are too dependent on the observer's subjective interpretation to be relied upon to convey meaning.  Enigmas involved wrestling with concepts to refine understanding.

We know Mr. Gann was a distinguished Mason and there are signs (see other essays) of a Rosicrucian, Hermetic orientation.  So where do we find Pythagoras of Samos in TTTTA?  Pythagoras' notable accomplishments including the theorem, the diatonic scale and the first elements of the gematria system often attributed to him?  Sure, we can draw a 40X12 right triangle on page 69 using the "J" in Jonas as shown in a previous essay.  [At least I think I published that.  It was not my original discovery but given to me by a persona screen named "JB" which he may or may not have discovered.]  But that does not identify Pythagoras.  It might allude to Masonry, Rosicrucianism….  Where is Pythagoras, personally, appearing in TTTTA?

That's the Philo concept.  I call it strategic denial.  We sense that Pythagoras is a great component on Mr. Gann's but we can't find him anywhere.  Only telltale bits and pieces.  Perhaps its the opposite of "The lady doth protest too much methinks."  Lord Francis Bacon is said to have never spoken of the great William Shakespeare, yet, Ignatius Donnelly and Petter Amundsen, in my opinion, offer conclusive evidence Bacon wrote some or most of works attributed to Shakespeare (Stratfordians disagree).  [And, by the way, Lord Bacon was very important, IMO, in Mr. Gann's work.]

Is Mr. Gann's denial of Pythagoras an emphasis of the latter's greater importance?  If so, again, where do we find Pythagoras of Samos secretly in TTTTA as confirmation?  That's one of many concepts of Philo that Gann may have used so let's follow it to the next step.  That's the strategic enigma IMO and the next step would be to find a tactical confirmation of Pythagoras.

In this case the tactic is an an affirming acrostic or telestic.  An acrostic is a word spelled using the first letter of consecutive line and an acrostic/telestic is a word spelled using the last letter of consecutive lines.  [Actually, you could define it as every other line, but I doubt you'd have anyone ever discovering the encoded word you want them to discover.  You'd have outsmarted yourself.]

I'll give you exactly where you will find Pythagoras in TTTTA and unmistakably so; the bottom of page 128 and top of page 129.  There are several "plain word" allusions but one defining an acrostic/telestic Mr. Gann had to actively contrive.

You can find the first edition printing of TTTTA at archive.org.  I'll open up the website for comments and give the answers I have (you might find more) tomorrow.

I have dozens, if not hundreds, of these in TTTTA.  But this one "proves", IMO, not only the importance of Pythagoras, as measured by the extent of denial and buried confirmation, but the contrivance of Mr. Gann to create the tactical confirming device.

Perhaps I overstate the case, but perhaps not.

Jim

Still following Luo Clement - More evidence

Following up on the thesis that Luo Clement's "The Ancient Science of Numbers" was written by WD Gann.

In "The Ancient Science of Numbers" Clement has a page that indications a book on "Numerical Vibration" was in preparation.  I find the following in Publisher's Weekly, vol 98, part 1, September 18, 1920, pg 632:

It seems to indicate a book "Numerical Vibration" was available for sale at Schulte's Book Store, 80 Fourth Avenue, NY, on September 18, 1920?  [I have been corrected, the citation is for a book 'wanted' not a book available.  Regardless, after 12 years since "Numerical Vibration" was said to be imminent of publication, this is the first subsequent notation of it found on the web.  Whether it was a book wanted or a book available, the citation was, in my opinion, Gann's means of calling someone's attention to the date.]

On that date, I find an article was published in the Scientific American "The Change in Outlook Since Classical Days, Which Makes Non-Euclidian Geometry a Possibility."  It's image is difficult to read but it can be found here .

The context of the article is Scientific American's competing essays forum that examines the concept of Einstein's "four dimensional time-space manifold."  The particular author is NOT NAMED.  The nature of the article deals with ancient Greeks deriving through Pythagorean geometry (triangle and sum of the squares) a system of theoretical geometry that may be extended, through inference, to describe all properties of space about us.

The author argues that modern science proposes "postulates," or fancy assumptions, we must accept to follow the modern scientist to prove things that may or may not be true based, all conditioned on those beginning assumptions. 

Instead (as best shown on the continuation on page 288, the first full paragraph), classic geometry gives us everything we need to examine the time-space dimension. Here is my transcription of that paragraph (again, the article is hard to read, hence, I re-typed as best I could read it):

Until proven otherwise, the 1908 notation in "The Ancient Science..." of the future publication of "Numerical Vibration" leads me to the "Numerical Vibration" in the Publisher's Weekly on September 18, 1920 and the September 18, 1920 date leads me to the examination of Classical Euclidian geometry as a means to examine Einsteinian four-dimensional time-space.  Gann is telling us the nature of time is geometric....Euclidian geometry.  Time is a Pythagorean structure that can be described by distance and Cartesian coordinates. [As you might detect, I'm struggling with the concepts of the article.  There is a follow-up article referenced below.] 

That article expresses the implication of Robert Gordon's 7 days according to the many blog posts I've presented.  That RG circumnavigated the globe and that his travels produced a perfect Pythagorean triangle when one relates squares of the distances traveled east west and north south.  And, as you might note, RG's travels are described by Descartes' system of Cartesian coordinates. 

And as further proof, you might further search Tunnel Thru the Air for the further proof for "Descartes."  The good professor makes a cameo appearance in RG's search for Marie.



IMO the above article was written by WD Gann and Luo Clement's "The Ancient Science of Numbers" was written by WD Gann as well.  The evidence has been laid out previously: Mathew 9:29 on page 16 and in Marie's letter, the five asterisks in both books, the triple triangle in both books (see my previous essays).  And the correspondence of the 1908 publication date of "The Ancient Science..." with Gann's asserting his greatest discovery having occurred in 1908.....

I'd appreciate any evidence to disprove my assertions; a citation of Luo Clement having lived in New York City, the text of the book "Numerical Vibration", something, anything.  jrosscpa01@gmail.com.

Jim

Note. My listing of books published or co published by Roger Brothers is up to 10 titles including Luo Clement's one book.  Not a particularly large portfolio of publications, but that's another thread.  It remains tempting to think Roger Brothers was related to Gann as well (underwritten, etc.).

Second note.  The author of the September 18, 1920 article, whom I believe is WD Gann, followed up that article with a second and meatier article in December 1920 found here2.

 

On "passing time"

In reading Bible Code I (I'm a slow study since it was written two decades ago), I came upon an Einstein quote something to the thought that we may discover past, present and future coexist.  A favorite thought of mine from wherever it originated (I doubt my originally having thought it without influence 'cause I'm not that smart).

Then I wandered readings from a list of Roger brothers published books (see prior posts) including Judge David Patterson-Hatch "Straight Goods on Philosophy."  And from a Google search on the good Judge I was led to Elsa Barker's book "Letters from a Living Dead Man."  So the story goes, Elsa was afflicted (gifted) with spiritual writing.  Her hand was 'borrowed' from a recently dead person's spirit and she wrote numerous letters which, later, were identified by Judge Hatch' son as the writings of his father who had recently passed.  

Having read the two so closely in time, Judge Hatch' philosophies on sympathy and imagination were unmistakable.  Whether that is the result of Elsa Barker's spiritual hand or collusion of Ms. Barker and Judge Hatch isn't what struck me.  It was the consideration of Einstein's thought, not then having been identified as such (which is, no doubt, hardly unique and a question asked as far back to the ancients):

Whether collusion or spiritual intervention, the perspective of a supposedly dead man on the nature of time seems interesting.  [Excerpt is from "Letters from a Living Dead Man" available on Internet Archive.org, Elsa Barker, pg 106].

Jim

Following the Luo Clement mystery

Recall the assertion Luo Clement = WD Gann in a previous post.  "Ancient Science of Numbers," written by Luo Clement but, as asserted by Gann, was published by Roger brothers and appeared to be the only book published by them.  Not true.

Thanks to a reader of my blog, the only books published solely by Roger brothers (perhaps Gann himself?) according to a search of Internet archive.org other than Luo Clement's Ancient Science:

Judge David Patterson Hatch, subject of Rosicrucian Order initiate Elsa Barker's "Letter's from a Living Dead Man."  Supposedly, Elsa Barker wrote letters when she dreamed/imagined.... messages from a Mr. X.  Came to find out they were messages from Judge Hatch who had recently passed and whom she'd never met.  Judge Hatch' son believed it was his father.  The letters are very interesting, indicating post death experience and importance of pre death preparation.

So, Elsa was Rosicrucian Order Alpha et Omega.  Was Judge Hatch?  From pg 53 of Straight Goods on Philosophy (very heavy stuff) we have a triangle with 36X9 dimension giving us a hypotenuse of 37.  37 is the smallest angle of the 3 4 5 triangle and page 53 is the complement.  Page 53:

The "One" is bolded in both cases.  "O" of One, "O" or One and 'n" define a right triangle; one, number, one.  "not your" and "big mirror" were bolded as well but I didn't see any geometry formed by them.

I wonder if we find the signature of the Rosy Cross in the other authors' works that are on the list.  Come to think of it, I need to check Ancient Science, Higgins ' Cross of the Magi' and even Troward's books.  Don't know where this is going but I believe I've read RC represented they knew the methods of divining the future.

Jim

Chapter 34 or XXXIX and the philosophers stone numbers of TTTTA

Prominent [intentional] mistake in The Tunnel Thru the Air, the 34th chapter is denoted as XXXIX or 39.  Mistake, I don't think so.

Two philosophers stone numbers (IMO) prominent by their highly veiled inclusion in TTTTA are the numbers, 432 and 252.  They are emphatically there, you have to look really hard and study far afield to find them and how Gann emphasized them.  And 432 / 252 can be reduced to its smallest whole number reflection of 12 / 7.

How does this relate to chapter 39 aka 34.  Well, 3 + 9 = 12 and 3 + 4 = 7.

Mark 8:19 and Mark 8:20.

12 / 7 = 1.714285 or the Egyptian royal cubit.  Double it and you find Pi.

How many times do you find 1.714 on the following page?

http://www.skhane.com

Many meanings of Gann's most prominent mistake.  I like this one very much-ly.

Enjoy,

Jim

Duh

In writing "The Great 1000-year Cycle" chapter of my book, I reached a dilemma.  After deriving what might be the correct analytically derived sub cycles, I was challenged with finding the proof of the cycle and sub cycles.  Gann "proves up" the 1000 and 100 year cycles by looking back at those cycles in history to find repetition.

Fair enough.  But he also says the cycle must have the correct starting point.  He compares the period of 1914-1920 to the period of 916-912.  And then he defers to Hans Delbruck regarding the comparable period 2000 years earlier.  Gann avoids naming the period 2000 years earlier, that being 86 BC or so.

I don't have a Hans Delbruck who might help me avoid the comparison.

I tried the same thing.  War seemed to be a recurrent theme, I could look to the 2001 sneak attack or the 2003 kickoff of the Iraq war.  What of great significance might have occurred 2000 years before 2001?

I didn't find a war but the answer was pretty obvious.  AD began with 1 AD; December 25, 0001.  There wasn't a 0 AD.  There was a 1BC nor a 1AD, but there isn't a 0 either way.  Duh, I knew that.

Turn the comparison upside down, like the inversion of the 9 on page 69 or in Robert Gordon's birthdate.

Do we know if there has been an event in 2001 comparable to 0001 AD?  Or will we not know for some years to come; what, of importance, happened in 2001?

Perhaps the answer will become obvious to the extent one dwells on the question.

Where is the starting point?

Jim