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101955 Bennu (provisional designation ) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has the highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale. It has a cumulative 1-in-1,800 chance of impacting Earth between 2178 and 2290 with the greatest risk being on 24 September 2182. It is named after the Bennu, the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth.

 has a mean diameter of  and has been observed extensively by the Arecibo Observatory planetary radar and the Goldstone Deep Space Network.

Bennu was the target of the OSIRIS-REx mission which is intended to return its samples to Earth in 2023 for further study. On 3 December 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at Bennu after a two-year journey. It orbited the asteroid and mapped out Bennu's surface in detail, seeking potential sample collection sites. Analysis of the orbits allowed calculation of Bennu's mass and its distribution.

In October 2020, OSIRIS-REx successfully touched down on the surface of Bennu, collected a sample using an extendable arm, secured the sample and prepared for a return trip to Earth. On 10 May 2021, OSIRIS-REx successfully completed its departure from the Bennu asteroid while still carrying the sample of the asteroid rubble.

Discovery and observation

Bennu was discovered on 11 September 1999 during a Near-Earth asteroid survey by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR). The asteroid was given the provisional designation  and classified as a near-Earth asteroid. Bennu was observed extensively by the Arecibo Observatory and the Goldstone Deep Space Network using radar imaging as Bennu closely approached Earth on 23 September 1999.

Naming
The name Bennu was selected from more than eight thousand student entries from dozens of countries around the world who entered a "Name That Asteroid!" contest run by the University of Arizona, The Planetary Society, and the LINEAR Project in 2012. Third-grade student Michael Puzio from North Carolina proposed the name in reference to the Egyptian mythological bird Bennu. To Puzio, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with its extended TAGSAM arm resembled the Egyptian deity, which is typically depicted as a heron.

Its features will be named after birds and bird-like creatures in mythology.

Physical characteristics

Bennu has a roughly spheroidal shape, resembling a spinning top. Bennu's axis of rotation is tilted 178 degrees to its orbit; the direction of rotation about its axis is retrograde with respect to its orbit. While the initial ground based radar observations indicated that Bennu had a fairly smooth shape with one prominent  boulder on its surface, high resolution data obtained by OSIRIS-REx revealed that the surface is much rougher with more than 200 boulders larger than  on the surface, the largest of which is  across. The boulders contain veins of high albedo carbonate minerals believed to have formed prior to the formation of the asteroid due to hot water channels on the much larger parent body. The veins range from 3 to 15 centimeters wide, and can be over one meter in length, much bigger than carbonate veins seen in meteorites.

There is a well-defined ridge along the equator of Bennu. The presence of this ridge suggests that fine-grained regolith particles have accumulated in this area, possibly because of its low gravity and fast rotation (about once every 4.3 hours). Observations by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has shown that Bennu is rotating faster over time. This change in Bennu's rotation is caused by the Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect, or the YORP effect. Due to the uneven emission of thermal radiation from its surface as Bennu rotates in sunlight, the rotation period of Bennu decreases by about one second every 100 years.

Observations of this minor planet by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2007 gave an effective diameter of , which is in line with other studies. It has a low visible geometric albedo of . The thermal inertia was measured and found to vary by approximately 19% during each rotational period. It was based on this observation that scientists (incorrectly) estimated a moderate regolith grain size, ranging from several millimeters up to a centimeter, evenly distributed. No emission from a potential dust coma has been detected around Bennu, which puts a limit of 106 g of dust within a radius of 4750 km.

Astrometric observations between 1999 and 2013 have demonstrated that 101955 Bennu is influenced by the Yarkovsky effect, causing the semimajor axis of its orbit to drift on average by  meters/year. Analysis of the gravitational and thermal effects has given a bulk density of ρ =  kg/m3, which is only slightly denser than water. Therefore, the predicted macroporosity is %, suggesting the interior has a rubble pile structure or even hollows. The estimated mass is .

Photometry and spectroscopy
Photometric observations of Bennu in 2005 yielded a synodic rotation period of . It has a B-type classification, which is a sub-category of carbonaceous asteroids. Polarimetric observations show that Bennu belongs to the rare F subclass of carbonaceous asteroids, which is usually associated with cometary features. Measurements over a range of phase angles showed a phase function slope of 0.040 magnitudes per degree, which is similar to other near-Earth asteroids with low albedo.

Before OSIRIS-REx, spectroscopy indicated a correspondence with the CI and/or CM carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, including carbonaceous-chondrite mineral magnetite. Magnetite, a spectrally prominent water product but destroyed by heat, is an important proxy of astronomers including OSIRIS-REx staff.

Water
Predicted beforehand, Dante Lauretta (University of Arizona) then stated that Bennu is water-rich- already detectable while OSIRIS-REx was still technically in approach.

Preliminary spectroscopic surveys of the asteroid's surface by OSIRIS-REx confirmed magnetite and the meteorite-asteroid linkage, dominated by phyllosilicates. Phyllosilicates, among others, hold water.
Bennu's water spectra were detectable on approach, reviewed by outside scientists, then confirmed from orbit.

OSIRIS-REx observations have resulted in a (self-styled) conservative estimate of about 7 x 108 kg water in one form alone, neglecting additional forms. This is a water content of ~1 wt.%, and potentially much more. In turn this suggests transient pockets of water beneath Bennu's regolith. The surficial water may be lost from the collected samples. However, if the sample return capsule maintains low temperatures, the largest (centimeter-scale) fragments may contain measurable quantities of adsorbed water, and some fraction of Bennu's ammonium compounds.

Activity

Bennu is an active asteroid, sporadically emitting plumes of particles and rocks as large as , (not dust, defined as tens of micrometers). Scientists hypothesize the releases may be caused by thermal fracturing, volatile release through dehydration of phyllosilicates, pockets of subsurface water, and/or meteoroid impacts.

Before the arrival of OSIRIS-REx, Bennu had displayed polarization consistent with Comet Hale-Bopp and 3200 Phaethon, a rock comet. Bennu, Phaethon, and inactive Manx comets are examples of active asteroids. B-type asteroids displaying a blue color in particular, may be dormant comets. If the IAU declares Bennu to be a dual-status object, its comet designation would be P/ (LINEAR).

Surface features
All geological features on Bennu are named after various species of birds and bird-like figures in mythology. The first features to be named were the final four candidate OSIRIS-REx sample sites, which were given unofficial names by the team in August 2019. On 6 March 2020 the IAU announced the first official names for 12 Bennu surface features, including regiones (broad geographic regions), craters, dorsa (ridges), fossae (grooves or trenches) and saxa (rocks and boulders).

Analysis showed that the particles making up Bennu's exterior are loosely packed and lightly bound to each other; "The spacecraft would have sunk into Bennu had it not fired its thrusters to back away immediately after it grabbed dust and rock from the asteroid's surface." Analysis also revealed that the Sun's heat fractures rocks on Bennu in just 10,000 to 100,000 years instead of millions of years as was thought before.

Candidate sample sites

On 12 December 2019, after a year of mapping Bennu's surface, a target site was announced. Named Nightingale, the area is near Bennu's north pole and lies inside a small crater within a larger crater. Osprey was selected as the backup sample site.

IAU named features

Origin and evolution
The carbonaceous material that composes Bennu originally came from the breakup of a much larger parent body—a planetoid or a proto-planet. But like nearly all other matter in the Solar System, the origins of its minerals and atoms are to be found in dying stars such as red giants and supernovae. According to the accretion theory, this material came together 4.5 billion years ago during the formation of the Solar System.

Bennu's basic mineralogy and chemical nature would have been established during the first 10 million years of the Solar System's formation, where the carbonaceous material underwent some geologic heating and chemical transformation inside a much larger planetoid or a proto-planet capable of producing the requisite pressure, heat and hydration (if need be)—into more complex minerals. Bennu probably began in the inner asteroid belt as a fragment from a larger body with a diameter of 100 km. Simulations suggest a 70% chance it came from the Polana family and a 30% chance it derived from the Eulalia family. Impactors on boulders of Bennu indicate that Bennu has been in near earth orbit (separated from the main asteroid belt) for 1–2.5 million years.

Subsequently, the orbit drifted as a result of the Yarkovsky effect and mean motion resonances with the giant planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn. Various interactions with the planets in combination with the Yarkovsky effect modified the asteroid, possibly changing its spin, shape, and surface features.

Cellino et al. have suggested a possible cometary origin for Bennu, based on similarities of its spectroscopic properties with known comets. The estimated fraction of comets in the population of near Earth objects is . This includes rock comet 3200 Phaethon, originally discovered as, and still numbered as an asteroid.

Orbit

Bennu currently orbits the Sun with a period of 1.20 years (437 days). Earth gets as close as about 480,000 km (0.0032 au) from its orbit around 23 to 25 September. On 22 September 1999 Bennu passed 0.0147 au from Earth, and six years later on 20 September 2005 it passed 0.033 au from Earth. The next close approaches of less than 0.09 au will be 30 September 2054 and then 23 September 2060, which will perturb the orbit slightly. Between the close approach of 1999 and that of 2060, Earth completes 61 orbits and Bennu 51. An even closer approach will occur on 25 September 2135 around 0.0014 au (see below). In the 75 years between the 2060 and 2135 approaches, Bennu completes 64 orbits, meaning its period will have changed to 1.17 years (427 days). The Earth approach of 2135 will increase the orbital period to about 1.24 years (452 days). Before the 2135 Earth approach, Bennu's maximum distance from the Earth occurs on 27 November 2045 at a distance of .

Possible Earth impact
On average, an asteroid with a diameter of  can be expected to impact Earth about every 130,000 years or so. A 2010 dynamical study by Andrea Milani and collaborators predicted a series of eight potential Earth impacts by Bennu between 2169 and 2199. The cumulative probability of impact is dependent on physical properties of Bennu that were poorly known at the time, but was found to not exceed 0.071% for all eight encounters. The authors recognized that an accurate assessment of 's probability of Earth impact would require a detailed shape model and additional observations (either from the ground or from spacecraft visiting the object) to determine the magnitude and direction of the Yarkovsky effect.

The publication of the shape model and of astrometry based on radar observations obtained in 1999, 2005, and 2011 made possible an improved estimate of the Yarkovsky acceleration and a revised assessment of the impact probability. In 2014, the best estimate of the impact probability was a cumulative probability of 0.037% in the interval 2175 to 2196. This corresponds to a cumulative score on the Palermo scale of −1.71. If an impact were to occur, the expected kinetic energy associated with the collision would be 1,200 megatons in TNT equivalent (for comparison, TNT equivalent of Little Boy was approx 0.015 megaton).

The 2021 orbit solution extended the virtual impactors from the year 2200 to the year 2300 and slightly increased the cumulative Palermo impact scale to −1.42. The solution even included the estimated masses of 343 other asteroids and represents about 90% of the total mass of the main asteroid belt.

2060/2135 close approaches

Bennu will pass  from Earth on 23 September 2060, while the Moon's average orbital distance (Lunar Distance, LD) is  today and will be 384,404 km in 50 years time. It will be too dim to be seen with common binoculars. The close approach of 2060 causes divergence in the close approach of 2135. On 25 September 2135, the Earth approach distance is  ±20 thousand km. There is no chance of an Earth impact in 2135. The 2135 approach will create many lines of variations and Bennu may pass through a gravitational keyhole during the 2135 passage which could create an impact scenario at a future encounter. The keyholes are all less than ~20 km wide with some keyholes being only 5 meters wide.

2182
The most threatening virtual impactor is on 24 September 2182 when there is a 1 in 2,700 chance of an Earth impact, but the asteroid could be as far as the Sun is from Earth. To impact Earth on 24 September 2182 Bennu needs to pass through a keyhole roughly 5 km wide on 25 September 2135. The next two biggest risks occur in 2187 (1:14,000) and 2192 (1:26,000). There is a cumulative 1 in 1,800 chance of an Earth impact between 2178 and 2290.

Long term
Lauretta et al. reported in 2015 their results of a computer simulation, concluding that it is more likely that 101955 Bennu will be destroyed by some other cause:

The orbit of Bennu is intrinsically dynamically unstable, as are those of all NEOs. In order to glean probabilistic insights into the future evolution and likely fate of Bennu beyond a few hundred years, we tracked 1,000 virtual "Bennus" for an interval of 300 Myr with the gravitational perturbations of the planets Mercury–Neptune included. Our results ... indicate that Bennu has a 48% chance of falling into the Sun. There is a 10% probability that Bennu will be ejected out of the inner Solar System, most likely after a close encounter with Jupiter. The highest impact probability for a planet is with Venus (26%), followed by the Earth (10%) and Mercury (3%). The odds of Bennu striking Mars are only 0.8% and there is a 0.2% chance that Bennu will eventually collide with Jupiter.

Meteor shower
As an active asteroid with a small minimum orbit intersection distance from Earth, Bennu may be the parent body of a weak meteor shower. Bennu particles would radiate around 25 September from the southern constellation of Sculptor. The meteors are expected to be near the naked eye limit and only produce a Zenith hourly rate of less than 1.

OSIRIS-REx

The OSIRIS-REx mission of NASA's New Frontiers program was launched towards  on 8 September 2016. On 3 December 2018, the spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu after a two-year journey. One week later, at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, investigators announced that OSIRIS-REx had discovered spectroscopic evidence for hydrated minerals on the surface of the asteroid, implying that liquid water was present in Bennu's parent body before it split off.

On 20 October 2020, OSIRIS-REx descended to the asteroid and "pogo-sticked off" it while successfully collecting a sample. OSIRIS-REx is expected to return samples to Earth in 2023 via a capsule-drop by parachute, ultimately, from the spacecraft to the Earth's surface in Utah on 24 September. On 7 April 2021, OSIRIS-REx completed its final flyover of the asteroid and began slowly drifting away from it. On 10 May 2021, the departure was completed with OSIRIS-REx while still managing to contain the asteroid sample.

Selection
The asteroid Bennu was selected from over half a million known asteroids by the OSIRIS-REx selection committee. The primary constraint for selection was close proximity to Earth, since proximity implies low impulse (Δv) required to reach an object from Earth orbit. The criteria stipulated an asteroid in an orbit with low eccentricity, low inclination, and an orbital radius of . Furthermore, the candidate asteroid for a sample-return mission must have loose regolith on its surface, which implies a diameter greater than 200 meters. Asteroids smaller than this typically spin too fast to retain dust or small particles. Finally, a desire to find an asteroid with pristine carbon material from the early Solar System, possibly including volatile molecules and organic compounds, reduced the list further.

With the above criteria applied, five asteroids remained as candidates for the OSIRIS-REx mission, and Bennu was chosen, in part for its potentially hazardous orbit.

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See also
 List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft
 , provisional target of the cancelled Asteroid Redirect Mission
 162173 Ryugu, an asteroid being studied by JAXA concurrent with the NASA mission to 101955 Bennu
 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, a disintegrating-comet

References

External links

 Video (2:53) – Asteroid Bennu Mission Overview (NASA; 11 May 2021).
 Video (01:12) – Asteroid Bennu ejecting material into space (CNN; 5 December 2019)
 Video (01:32) – OSIRIS REx's approach to asteroid Bennu (NASA; 7 January 2019)
 Earth Impact Risk Summary: 101955 1999 RQ36 (Years: 2175–2199) – Jet Propulsion Laboratory near-Earth object site
 NEODyS-2 Ephemerides for 2135 (step size: 10 days)

 Nominal and impacting solution for 2182

Apollo asteroids
Potentially hazardous asteroids
Active asteroids
Discoveries by LINEAR
Bennu
Potential impact events caused by near-Earth objects
Minor planets visited by spacecraft
Bennu
Articles containing video clips
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The other day I had quite the surprise when I was browsing the library at the Lodge. I was drawn to a book on Royal Arch. In it, I noticed a photo of something I was looking at days prior in relating to Fulcanelli and his observations.
Please take a look this link of the photo: http://forum.alchemyforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=651&d=1342924994
Does anyone have further information about this rather enigmatic photo? (At the center you'll notice the 'G'.)
solomon levi
"The tau is the mark described at Ezekiel 9:4, to be placed by an angel on the foreheads of those who mourned the wickedness of the city, in order that the angel of death would forego slaying them. Thus the triple tau is symbolic of the peculiar and more eminent separation of the Holy Royal Arch Freemasons from the profane. The triple tau is constructed of three tau crosses conjoined at their feet. According to the English Royal Arch lecture, "The triple tau forms two right angles on each of the exterior lines, and another at the centre, by their union; for the three angles of each triangle are equal to two right angles." Within Royal Arch Freemasonry, the Triple Tau began as a monogram of T over H for "Templum Hierosolymae" (Temple of Jerusalem), appearing on the original Charter of Compact for the first Grand Chapter of England and on early Royal Arch jewels and aprons. Here, again, we have Thomas Dunckerley to thank; the monogram's meaning is evidenced in a letter he penned on 27 January 1792. The T and H lost their serifs and merged into the Triple-Tau sometime in the early 1800s. It has also been noted that the letters are the initials for "Hiram of Tyre". Also worth noting is that this degree was originally open only to past masters of craft lodges, and the three taus are essentially identical in shape to the three levels borne on the apron of an installed or past master of a lodge under English, Canadian and other jurisdictions (one level on each lower corner, and one on the bib)."
http://www.ram-il.org/CapitularDegrees.htm
"In the midst of life we are in death." is a line from the Burial of the Dead in the Book of Common Prayer.
Very interesting. Thank you.
Krisztian, how do you interpret this in relation to Fulcanelli's work? I've read both the Fulcanelli books, but don't claim to have understood them, and would welcome some tips. (As I'm a Royal Arch Mason, this has non-alchemical interest to me as well...)
I've read both the Fulcanelli books, but don't claim to have understood them, and would welcome some tips. (As I'm a Royal Arch Mason, this has non-alchemical interest to me as well...)
At this point in my study, call it evolution of soul, whatever, it doesn't matter, I don't differentiate between alchemy and the rituals, symbolism, etc. of Freemasonry. It's one and the same.
I also attend Lodges here in Canada and US.
True Initiate
Albert Pike has some interesting comments on letter G in his Morals and Dogma:
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Later the meaning expands:
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And in the Higher degrees this explanation is given:
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I am sure there are on ther meanings as well like on this site:
http://whale.to/c/g.html
Hi Krisztian,
I remember watching one of the obscure fringe tv channels which had great documentaries on alternative subjects. One doc had a Freemason, one of the items he talked about was "G", that it referred to the "G"enerative force, or rather as it applied to males and the building up of that force and redirected.
Looking at your pic, the curl at the end of the G, icon is like an incomplete star - like a ring of energy running through the star.
Albert Pike has some interesting comments on letter G in his Morals and Dogma.
You see, this is why I love this Forum! True Puffer and thoth - thanks Gentlemen!
Krisztian, fair enough -- I'll take the hint, and do my own digging through Fulcanelli.
True Puffer, many thanks! it's been too long since I've read Pike, anyway -- I'd forgotten about that remarkably detailed account of the Great Work in the Knight of the Sun degree. Clearly I'll have to reread the whole thing in the not too distant future.
Thoth, a teacher of mine once claimed that the G in the Masonic emblem had four meanings. To the ordinary, exoteric Freemason, it means God; to those who grasp its philosophical side, Geometry; to those who grasp its political dimensions, Government; to those who understand its esoteric core, Generation. My teacher didn't cite a source for the claim, alas.
I suspect Kriztian is referring to the following passage in Dwellings of the Philosophers:
Such is the chemical composition of the Kohl of oriental women, used by the ancient alchemists as a term of comparison to teach the secret preparation of their antimony. It is the solar eye Egyptians called oudja, which also figure among the Masonic emblems, surrounded by a halo, in the center of a triangle (28). This symbol offers the same meaning as the letter G, seventh of the alphabet, initial of the common name of the Subject of the sages, represented in the middle of a radiating star. This matter is Artephius' Saturnine Antimony, Tollius' regulus of antimony, and the true and only stibium of Michael Maier and all the Adepts. As for mineral stibnite, it possesses none of the required qualities, and whatever the manner in which we want to treat it, neither the secret solvent nor the philosophical mercury will ever be obtained from it. If Basil Valentine gives philosophical mercury the nickname of pilgrim or traveler ([*235-1] --- stibeus) (29), because it must, says he, go through six celestial cities before fixing its residence in the seventh; if Philalethes affirms it is our only path ([*235-2] --- stibia), this is not sufficient to invoke that these masters claimed to designate common antimony as the regenerator of philosophical mercury. This substance is too far from perfection, from purity, and the acquired spirituality of the humid root or metallic seed --- which one could anyway not find on earth --- to be genuinely useful to us. The antimony of the sages, raw matter directly extracted from the mine, "is not properly mineral, and even less metallic as Philalethes (30) teaches us; but without partaking of these two substances it is something between one and the other. It is not corporeal however, because it is entirely volatile; it is not spirit because it liquefies like metal in fire. It is therefore a chaos which stands in stead of mother to all metals". It is the metallic and mineral flower ([*235-3] --- anthemon), the first rose, black in truth, which has remained down here as a part of the elementary chaos. From it, from this flower of flowers (flos florum) we first draw our frost ([*235-4] --- stibe) which is the spirit moving on the surface of the waters and the white ornament of the angels; reduced to this bright whiteness, it is the mirror of the art, the torch ([*235-5] --- stilbe), the lamp or lantern (31), the brightness of stars and splendor of the sun (splendor solis); still, united to philosophical gold, it becomes the metallic planet Mercury ([*235-6] --- stilbonaster), the nest of the bird ([*235-7] --- stibas), our Phoenix and its small stone ([*235-8] --- stia); finally it is the root, subject, or pivot (Latin, stipes, stirps) of the Great Work and not common antimony. Know then, brothers, so as to no longer err, that our term of antimony, derived from the Greek [*235-9] --- antemon, designates through a pun familiar to philosophers, the ane-Timon (32), the guide which in the Bible leads the Jews to the Fountain. It is the mythical Aliboron, [*236-1], horse of the sun. One more word. You probably know that in primitive language, Greek cabalists used to substitute numbers for certain consonants, for words whose common meaning they wanted to veil under a hermetic meaning. And so they used the epistimon ([*236-2]--- stagion)(33), Koppa, sampi, digamma (34), to which they granted a conventional value. The names modified by this process formed genuine cryptograms, although their form and their pronunciation did not seem to have undergone any alteration. Furthermore, the word, antimony, [*236-3], stimmi, when it was used to signify the hermetic subject, was always written with the episemon ([*236-4], equivalent of the consonants sigma and tau together. Written in this manner [*236-5] --- simmi, it is no longer the stibnite of mineralogists, but indeed a matter signed by nature, or still better, a movement, a dynamism, or a vibration, a sealed life ([*236-6 --- simenai) so as to allow a man to identify it, a very peculiar signature submitted to the rules of the number six. In addition, a close term frequently used in phonetic cabala for assonance, the word [*236-7] --- epistemon indicates one who knows, one whois informed of, one who is skilled at. In Rabelais' book Pantagruel, one of the main characters, the man of science, is called Epistemon. He is the seret artisan, the spirit, the mind enclosed in raw substance as translated by the Greek epistemon, because the spirit can single-handedly perform and perfect the entire work without any other help apart from elementary fire.
Vega33, many thanks!
I added a comment on Sunday (3 Days Ago) to briefly elaborate on what you asked; I can't find the posting now under this Thread. I'm trying to recall what I said. Please forgive me.
My research has taken me to suspect that Fulcanelli, a chemist, or should I say, master of [old French] alquimie, 'borrowed', used, uncovered, or whatever the term that best suits it, the symbol I started this Thread with, which has significance to Royal Arch, to Freemasonry in general. After some meditation on the subject, for my curiosity was elevated when several events of synchronicity 'knocked on my door', I needed to investigate it further.
English chemist John Dalton (19th Century, relevant detail) also referenced the "G" captured inside a circle under his chart of chemical symbols, 7th symbol in his system. It refers to 'gold'. That fact also gets mentioned in the section vega33 kindly posted about 'Masonic emblems', Fulcanelli alludes to it as 'solar eye'.
What this seems to indicate that the overemphasis of Masonic Rituals about 'the stone' isn't regarding, lifeless brick of stone. It's about Eau-de-Vie, Spiritus mundi, or maybe Philosopher's Stone? Probably, one would suspect involving solar activity.
So, it has come to my attention that the entire sequence of Masonic Rituals are encoded with very relevant, very real alchemical operations and steps. In other words, the initiate must turn - here comes the cliché - lead into gold but how?
syncronocity...i don't know much about it..maybe there is theme about it, but since it is connected with fulcanelli among other i hope you won't be angry for offtopic :)
i think that these random situations which seem like coincidence, but are thitly connected with my inner experiencies and thoughts, begun with, i think, my spiritual awakening. interesting coincidence about fulcanelli, yesterday i bought mystery of cathedrals, and now his name pops up here, and i was absent for few weeks.
often these coincidence are connected with my dreams. recently i had a dream about some red/gold painting od ouroboros whose author was goethe, although i never read him before.i research his works where he manchioned ouroboros and lovely story about green snake and beautifull lilly came to me.
often i dream about water. anyone have idea what that could mean? few days ago i had a dream about some very filthy water. girl in red dress jump in it and than rise from it with her long black hair over her face...it was scary picture. day after i find video never let me go by florence, and for the first time i read lyrics, and i had strong emotional feeling...
yesterday one friend send me video - what the bleep do we know, just the day after i saw reference for same video on some gnostic site.
usual one coincidence lead to another, and i try to follow them, it seem like signs. is it synchronicity?
and i will get back to fulcanelli when i read it. :)
sorry for off...
"It is the solar eye Egyptians called oudja, which also figure among the Masonic emblems, surrounded by a halo, in the
center of a triangle. This symbol offers the same meaning as the letter G, seventh of the alphabet, initial of the common
name of the Subject of the sages, represented in the middle of a radiating star."
http://www.whale.to/b/false_54.jpg
here's a nice one. with gnosis and the triangle embossed.
gold certainly seems to be what "they" worship, but it doesn't fit
Fulcanelli's description: not a metal or mineral; he even says:
"which one could anyway not find on earth".
Use of the word chaos makes me think of Gas:
"It is not corporeal however, because it is entirely volatile; it is not spirit because it liquefies
like metal in fire. It is therefore a chaos which stands in stead of mother to all metals".
I wondered if there is a gas that "liquefies in a fire".
"The wind carries it in its belly."
I understand the eye is the symbol of Amun (as well as Horus), the hidden one/god.
So this leads me to ammonium gases, ammonium nitrate in dew, rain, frost:
"From it, from this flower of flowers (flos florum) we first draw our frost..."
https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkR9WqUbpx3gBHpAlnjSdo83anZgnjM frTuC1EgzEVF2o7JD8efw
Here we see sal armonacum as sun:
"It is the solar eye Egyptians called oudja, which also figure among the Masonic emblems, surrounded by a halo, in the center of a triangle."
http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/362792/large/V2100018-Alchemy_symbols-SPL.jpg
This sixness is seen in our cubic stone:
https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT60SC8Kles3RRrLlG8wv0iDDtiT-jxCFFYSRpifCdMdA1HO5xO7Q
"a matter signed by nature, or still better, a movement, a dynamism, or a vibration, a sealed life ([*236-6 --- simenai)
so as to allow a man to identify it, a very peculiar signature submitted to the rules of the number six."
"If Basil Valentine gives philosophical mercury the nickname of pilgrim or traveler ([*235-1] --- stibeus) (29),
because it must, says he, go through six celestial cities before fixing its residence in the seventh.":
https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQVgjmLk-1Uh4UzRuNIIyselGcpbm3bJQCs9OoHGMuJcewNqmmqaw
https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSozzqmZtWxOkXUopGKBnJXcm1RKzphj tk3oKC1GJTA3_1tVwo7Xw
"ITS POWER IS PERFECT IF IT BE CHANGED INTO THE EARTH":
ammonium carbonate - volatile alkali - offa alba
"from this flower of flowers (flos florum) we first draw our frost ([*235-4] --- stibe) which is the spirit moving on the
surface of the waters and the white ornament of the angels; reduced to this bright whiteness, it is the mirror of the art, the torch."
That's my comprehension anyways. :)
"which one could anyway not find on earth".Use of the word chaos makes me think of Gas:
Wow, thanks for those photos! That's absolutely amazing!
You know, that's why I like the set of plates from Crowning of Nature. It parallels what Fulcanelli describes, chaos is one of the first Plates. I think you could be right, maybe gas. I was suspecting some sort of solar event, solar radiation, like Black Sun, or alignment of sun with moon, Planet Earth in-between, like an eclipse of the moon that sends in 'forces', radiation, "invisible gas" as a result of occultation.
From Wikipedia: "An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer. The word is used in astronomy."
Yes, captured in liquid, but only for brief period. Then released, as all things are in Nature.
O, I got to go now. My clients are showing up. Couldn't finish my train of thought.
I'm thinking that our respiratory system [Air] would firstly carry it, and eventually integrate it into our watery-body structure [Water]. It's inside of us [Earth] or, it can be grounded, I think. Its kept there because of our 'secret fire', continuous, consistent, never goes out (unless departure we call 'death') between 35 to 40 Celsius [Fire]. As long as the spirit remains. The reptile image over the 'eye in the center of the sun' (on the stone) reminds me that it has connection to our reptilian brain, older structure.
Valentine and his quote about the 'six celestial cities' sounds like the force slows it's frequency, it's vibration to enter our Plane. For me, that's emanation, solar radiation of some sort.
Fulcanelli uses so many similar concepts that I find in the symbolism of Crowning of Nature.
Freemason, one of the items he talked about was "G", that it referred to the "G"enerative force, or rather as it applied to males and the building up of that force and redirected. Looking at your pic, the curl at the end of the G, icon is like an incomplete star - like a ring of energy running through the star.
That photo of Fulcanelli's "G" represents a cypher of something that I think worth looking at. It's geometrically from the fusion of two triangles. Basic alchemical symbolism: the downward pointing one signifying element Water and the upward pointing representing alchemical symbol of Fire, later of which I see as secret fire.
I believe when you fuse the two, into one Earth, meaning 'in the body of an organism', the living incubator (references are made between a Masons' apron and the alchemical symbol for the crucible); you have what the "G" represents, what Fulcanelli says 'seventh of the alphabet', also Dalton's symbol for gold. Air carries the solar radiation, solar eye.
Thoth, thanks for that posting, I think, that's important also, "G"enerative force as you write.
Krisztian, that makes a good deal of sense, in historic as well as symbolic ways -- a good many of the earliest accepted Masons (men initiated into lodges who were not working stonemasons) were in fact alchemists, with Elias Ashmole a good example. And of course Fulcanelli worked in a milieu (early 20th century French occult scene) that was permeated with Masonic and quasi-Masonic ideas, symbols and rituals, reaching back to 18th century occult Masonry of the Martinez de Pasqually variety.
One question well worth considering might be -- which sequence of Masonic rituals? Different rites have different rituals, in different sequences; some (for example, the Scottish Rite) were massively rearranged for other purposes (Pike was a brilliant occultist but I don't know of any evidence that he was a practicing alchemist) while others are older, and potentially still present a specific sequence of operations. I note, for example, that the York Rite contains 12 levels -- 3 Blue Lodge, 4 Chapter, 2 Council, and 3 Commandery -- which might be worth mapping onto the Twelve Gates.
Definitely worth further study!
I like this too. Generate.
Fire and water generate air/gas, which has magically been associated with the mental plane.
In Hermeticism "All is Mind". I've been speaking about this as dimension, but that is probably
too abstract a word for people to relate to. If you've seen the illusory nature of the ego, then you
have a good idea of what a dimension, a bubble, an hermetically sealed space is - the hexagon/cube
formed/"G"enerated by the two triangles (which are only two in appearance - one thing/nothing
folded onto itself).
"G"enesis 1:1
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
If we can take that linearly, the heavens הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם is the first thing God created, and it is spelled with the
glyphs for fire and water, as alchemists and qabalists know:
"SHAMAYIM, say our Sages (Chagigah 12a, Rashi on Bereishit 1:8), is a compound of ESH (fire) and MAYIM (water);
it is where opposites coexist. Those entities which, from an earthly perspective, are perceived as antipodal, originate from Hashem.
This does not, in any way, stand in opposition to Hashem's Absolute Oneness."
source - http://www.ou.org/torah/ti/5764/vayera64.htm
"it is where opposites coexist" = volatile alkali: fix the volatile, volatilise the fixed: rebus, etc.
I also related some of this in the thread BRAShITh. Besides "in the beginning", this can be interpreted as BRA ShITh, "he created six" -
thus Fulcanelli's reference to sigma/digamma/six. Fulcanelli also speaks of the significance of the lamb - using phonetic cabala as he
does repeatedly, in french lamb is "agneau", which is again fire/agni (not french - "The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" (noun), cognate with
Latin ignis (the root of English ignite); In Hinduism, his vehicle is the ram" - wikipedia) and water/eau (french). And the lamb is the whiteness
as explained in my previous post. But Fulcanelli may be referring to something other than volatile alkali when he refers to the lamb.
Krisztian, your pic is reminiscent of Fulcanelli's cross of Hendaye.
And I don't know if it's just coincidental, but the G is the one letter you would choose if you were trying to suggest a spiral. The star at the starting point of the G spiral, emanating out. The 5 pointed star at end of G like "MAN" the microcosm, surrounded by the 6 pointed microcosm.
Thanks for pointing that out, thoth! Your comments always are appreciated. Yes, that's rather interesting.
Master builder's death, Hiram Abiff's, representing the first alchemical phase, nigredo (or blackening). . . .
I tend to lean on Englishman Francis Bacon as the founder of speculative English Freemasonry, also used a pseudonymous mask, we come to know as, Shakespeare. Queen Elizabeth referred to him as "baby Solomon". Peter Dawkins' research has this writer convinced at least.
Take a look at the titlepages of Bacon's
Novum Organum (1620) - Entering the Temple
Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning (1640) - Passing Beyond the Pillars
Sylva Sylvarum or A Natural History (1626) - Raised into Light
What comes to mind? Blue Lodge, 1st, 2nd, 3rd degrees?
Fulcanelli also speaks of the significance of the lamb - using phonetic cabala as he does repeatedly, in french lamb is "agneau", which is again fire/agni (not french - "The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" (noun), cognate with Latin ignis (the root of English ignite); In Hinduism, his vehicle is the ram" - wikipedia) and water/eau (french). And the lamb is the whiteness as explained in my previous post.
I also think it's another cipher, the lamb is. I tend to always go back to my faithful book of Chevalier and Gheerbrant called The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols. Yes, the lamb refers to "spotless, white, and shinning, [but also] as a manifestation of the power of Spring! It embodies the triumph of renewal, of the victory, always to be won afresh, of life over death" (p. 585).
But Fulcanelli may be referring to something other than volatile alkali when he refers to the lamb.
Do you mean sacrificial blood? Some watery-essence of men?
Well, he mentions the roasting of the lamb a couple times, and I can't imagine roasting volatile alkali;
I imagine the roasting of antimony. Antimony is supposed to be aries ruled. But it doesn't seem to fit
the whiteness except perhaps as antimony tri-oxide it is white. Fulcanelli certainly seems to describe the antimony path
at some instances - antimony with iron makes the star regulus (when well purified with tartar and nitre) and it
also makes the net with copper. But that's part of Fulcanelli's mischeviousness - he describes more than one method
and they're all jumbled together, so you have to discern which path he is talking about when.
Some people think he speaks of a path with "G"alena, lead sulphide; some think arsenic. And then he also describes
the "pure" path of Spiritus Mundi. Some also think the cinnabar path is described. It's hard to say.
I really favor the urine path and creating a volatile alkali from that.
I was hoping to make some progress with the urine alkahest and volatile alkali, but I had to move and haven't had
a lab for a few months now. :( I see a phosphorus/Venus/Lucifer path described by Fulcanelli. Phosphorus actually
manifests in black, white and red forms. It's somewhat dangerous to work with if isolated from urine, but safer
when not isolated.
It is therefore a chaos which stands in stead of mother to all metals".
van Helmont, as you probably know, also made that connection from the Greek word "chaos" to gas. Is that why you mentioned it?
Thats a really interesting connection, chaos in ancient Greek is actually an abyss/void place/chasm.
One other possibility is this:
(from here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29))
Martin Ruland, in his 1612 Lexicon Alchemiae, states, "A crude mixture of matter or another name for Materia Prima is Chaos, as it is in the Beginning."
The term gas in chemistry was coined by Dutch chemist J. B. Van Helmont in the 17th century, directly based on the Paracelsian notion of chaos. The g in gas is due to the Dutch pronunciation of this letter as a spirant, also employed to pronounce Greek χ.[19]
Isn't it interesting that this is the same optic chiasma, the same black chat noir (the Khi, graphical spark of light), masks the name of the medium who's substance clothes the sun? Perhaps that old cat of ancient Egypt, the old gender bending Mau (from whom the cat gets its distinctive sound, which literally means "to see") did know something after all (http://www.moggies.co.uk/breeds/egyptmau.html).
Yes. And Fulcanelli saying it is entirely volatile and not found on earth.
Chaos also shares gematria correspondences (value 871) with Αγνιζω Agnizo - purify/cleanse;
also Αφρος Aphros - foam (Aphrodite) and παραδεισου paradeisou - paradise;
and αποστολον apostolon - apostle... AHS Fulcanelli - Apostle of Hermetic Science. :)
Fulcanelli saying it is entirely volatile and not found on earth.
If we are referring to the same Chaos, I'd say it can be found EVERYWHERE: On Earth, in Space, in the entire Universe, at ALL times.
(Except on the Archetypal 'Day of Rest', when the Primordial Polarities collide, when Time-Space becomes infinitely compressed, and the super-dense/concentrated Fire implodes back into 'Nothing').
Infinity is dead. Long live Infinity! :)
I would agree that it is not found pure/uncorrupted/unspecified, unless made manifest by Art.
But this only means I haven't personally seen such a manifestation in UN-aided Nature - not that it isn't possible :)
As for the 'G' (Fulcanelli's or not) - what I see is the G-like Glyph of Capricorn (The Builder, The Goat, Pan/Universal, Saturn/Time/Space).
And this (IMO) does not at all contradict what was said above, because it IS our Chaos.
And in this case, what would be the 'Stone' that the 'Builders' rejected?
One explanation could be that it means the Chaos that has not (yet) been used/manifested/determined for 'Reality Construction'.
Also, in relation to the symbolism of G, it may be worth to check out THIS THREAD (http://forum.alchemyforums.com/showthread.php?1954-G) as well.
Khi
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/khi
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kh%C3%AD
Interesting, the first link shows a vietnamese definition of khi as "to despise".
That link links to another which shows khi defined as "gas" in vietnamese.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chi
here we have a definition as "a form of psychic energy"
but again for the vietnamese (whom Fulcanelli would have loved their language I think)
we have "leg, limb", reminding me of Schwaller's references to the thigh bone
which also brings us back to:
http://www.fleurdelis.com/graphics/bone_thigh.gif
which is so often equated with the hourglass, another "chiasm"
https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThWV37FHjuHqhRshvkbMkLJWRb37OYs 7KYJvLJq9Mlx-U2hUi4mA
http://www.rexresearch.com/abrelzar/pl4.gif
chiasm - chasm - void:
https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSbQ_XGszmTMPO5-3b-6XIcawWRgUVQpCbKL7nhNk_CAqm6fD6B
https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRCansSj1eylcB8pwehrPCcbB8ZIwHZh k1x6KfnEjHmROApAeeV_g
The sand flows just like the magnetic field and torus vortex.
These hourglasses and light cones almost always a line/bar down the center
which gives us the sal ammoniac symbol and the chi-rho/labarum.
https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStUFJwZREzu93o706hLEE4PIJ0xkcOX Y_WLhFTIRwUQ74dJjwgpw
Interestingly, some etymological sources say labarum means "four heads" as seen
in the corners of the above pic and mentioned by Ezekiel, and brings to mind alchemical
rotation of the elements. The labarum was the result of Constantines vision of a "cross of light".
The "G"oat brings more associations to mind, many of which are joined in this pic:
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/photos/skull-and-bones.jpg?9d7bd4
We have the "skull and bones" group, the time/clock/hourglass,
the "goat of mendes" pentagram represented by the five central
persons and the embroidered skull. Which pentagram leads us back to
Venus/Aphrodite/Phosphorus, etc... quite a labyrinth.
https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5XCUUKTqtEBp0e5vqhVeKc0LJ4ekRA PCPD-eMPGo7ZLJ5Hg4upw
It's curious, this relation between saturn and venus. The initial subject is known by both names.
Are we looking for saturn, or his daughter?
"All ores, through the Hermetic voice, rendered homage to it with their name. It is also called Black Dragon,
covered with scales, venomous serpent, daughter of Saturn and the most beloved of his children." - Fulcanelli
For me, phosphorus joins all these neatly together, being both Saturn/satan/lucifer and Venus/aphrodite/morning star.
"Wadjet was closely associated in the Egyptian pantheon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pantheon) with Bast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast_(mythology)), the fierce goddess depicted as a lioness warrior and protector, as the sun
goddess whose eye (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus) later became the eye of Horus, the eye of Ra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Ra), and as the Lady of Flame. The hieroglyph for her eye is shown below; sometimes
two are shown in the sky of religious images. Per-Wadjet also contained a sanctuary of Horus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus), the child of the sun deity who would be interpreted
to represent the pharaoh. Much later, Wadjet became associated with Isis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis) as well as with many other deities.
Another early depiction of Wadjet is as a cobra entwined around a papyrus stem, beginning in the Predynastic era (prior to 3100 B.C.) and it is thought
to be the first image that shows a snake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(symbolism)) entwined around a staff symbol. This is a sacred image that appeared repeatedly in the later images and myths
of cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, called the caduceus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus), which may have had separate origins.
An interpretation of the Milky Way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way) was that it was the primal snake, Wadjet, the protector of Egypt. In this interpretation she was closely associated with Hathor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor) and other early deities among the various aspects of the great mother goddess, including Mut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mut) and Naunet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naunet). The association with Hathor brought her son Horus into association also. The cult of Ra absorbed most of Horus's traits and included the protective eye of Wadjet that had shown her association with Hathor.
When identified as the protector of Ra, who was also a sun deity associated with heat and fire, she was sometimes said to be able to send fire onto those who might attack, just as the cobra spits poison into the eyes of its enemies.[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet#cite_note-11) In this role she was called the Lady of Flame.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Wadjet_N5139_mp3h8831.jpg/200px-Wadjet_N5139_mp3h8831.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wadjet_N5139_mp3h8831.jpg)
She later became identified with the war goddess of Lower Egypt, Bast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast_(goddess)), who acted as another figure symbolic of the nation, consequently becoming Wadjet-Bast. In this role, since Bast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast_(mythology)) was a lioness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion), Wadjet-Bast was often depicted with a lioness head.
After Lower Egypt had been conquered by Upper Egypt and they were unified, the lioness goddess of Upper Egypt, Sekhmet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekhmet), was seen as the more powerful of the two warrior goddesses. It was Sekhmet who was seen as the Avenger of Wrongs, and the Scarlet Lady, a reference to blood, as the one with bloodlust. She is depicted with the solar disk and Wadjet, however.
Eventually, Wadjet's position as patron led to her being identified as the more powerful goddess Mut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mut), whose cult had come to the fore in conjunction with rise of the cult of Amun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun), and eventually being absorbed into her as the Mut-Wadjet-Bast triad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_deities).
When the pairing of deities occurred in later Egyptian myths, since she was linked to the land, after the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt she came to be thought of as the wife of Hapy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapy), a deity of the Nile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile), which flowed through the land.[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet#cite_note-12)
Wadjet is not to be confused with the Egyptian demon Apep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep), who is also represented as a snake in Egyptian mythology."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet
That explains a lot!
Also, "The Ancient Greeks identified Hathor with the goddess Aphrodite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite) and the Romans as Venus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology))."
"Her image also rears up from the staff of the "flag" poles that are used to indicate deities, as seen in the hieroglyph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieroglyph) for uraeus above and for goddess in other places."
I was trying to find this connection earlier and there it is!
The labarum is a flag, but also the rho glyph similar to our P is a flag as is the phoenician R:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Phoenician_res.svg/85px-Phoenician_res.svg.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Phoenician_res.svg)
neter:
https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQQOwLteg03FkemjKPQW51sMp_ZoRaM 33_A9Ccyes0z8-fjAws
Putting metals/minerals/ores aside for a moment - What was the mythological Venus/Aphrodite born out of? Who is 'her' parent? If we momentarily consider 'Saturn' to be her possible parental archetype, then we have Saturn/Time/Space/'The See of the Philosophers' as the Chaos/First Matter that COULD be also marked by the shape of G (also alternative Glyph for Capricorn, ruled by Saturn).
If we momentarily consider 'Saturn' to be her possible parental archetype, then we have Saturn/Time/Space/'The See of the Philosophers' as the Chaos/First Matter that COULD be also marked by the shape of G (also alternative Glyph for Capricorn, ruled by Saturn).
For the Ancients, Saturn is the High point in the Sky. Saturn is accounted the primary son of Nature (p. 10, Crowing of Nature). Plate 17 & 18, shows the black toad in the sealed flask, the sphere of Saturn swelling with tincture. According to McLean, the black toad symbolizes the essence of the Earth element. For Dubuis, ". . . in the origin the creation of man is the work of the Earth element or of the Earth energy" (p.29, The Experience of Eternity). So I think there must be something to the timing of Saturn in relation to chaos, or prima materia?
I was surprised to find that Saturnalia, is a festival of Saturn in December.
I'm looking at more the timetable when the most beneficial alignment occurs. Dubuis refers to it as the "head and tail of the Dragon". Well, even Aleister Crowley alludes to it; in other words, cauda and caput draconis.
Entirely plausible -- and since Craft Masonry was a documented phenomenon only a dozen years after Bacon's death, and was to all appearances a familiar presence in its first recorded appearance, the suggestion that he had a role in founding or reorganizing the Craft doesn't require any particular leap of historical faith.
I'm interested, though, in tracing alchemical symbolism as well into the Chapter degrees, especially the Royal Arch, which also appears to be quite ancient. The quote lwowl paraphrased from Francis Bacon comes to mind -- "once the Stone is found, the real work begins" -- and I'm wondering whether the Royal Arch or the Chapter degrees in general might embody the later stages of the Work in symbolic form.
I'm sure glad we're engaged in this conversation! Another mason brother and I are very much researching this connection.
Peter Dawkins' work on Francis Bacon makes it very difficult to argue otherwise especially since Bacon was an exceptional poet and wrote under the pseudonym referring to Spear-shakers, now known as Shakespeare. Fulcanelli's G clearly depicted, same symbol, in Royal Arch. I can't tell you how many connections there are! (Maybe we should start a new Thread?)
Thanks for engaging in this dialogue; there isn't many in the Craft who would entertain such notions!
Ghislain
You missed out a "supposedly" when you stated...
"since Bacon was an exceptional poet and wrote under the pseudonym referring to Spear-shakers, now known as Shakespeare."
There are many who may disagree.
Awani
...Bacon was an exceptional poet and wrote under the pseudonym referring to Spear-shakers, now known as Shakespeare.
Was he that good really? Isn't Bacon/Shakespear overrated? I used to think so but I have kind of changed my opinion since I read The Philosophers Stone by Colin Wilson. A very good book but can be hard to find.
You missed out a "supposedly" when you stated..."since Bacon was an exceptional poet and wrote under the pseudonym referring to Spear-shakers, now known as Shakespeare."There are many who may disagree.
Could be.
My mind changed towards seeing Bacon as the writer of the Shakespearean plays after I looked at his life: his friends and their personalities [show up in the plays, almost identical]; his particular travels and published works of Shakespeare coincide; phases in his life like romance, loss and grief, foreign travels, are themes in the plays, etc. He invented various ciphers, was disinterested in being known for the Shakespearean plays. I think that was a smart move.
He was part of a writer's group, kind of like a fraternity of sort, seen as the leader.
I looked at 3 or 4 Shakespearean plays, analyzed by Dawkins. He sure makes compelling arguments. I always was very involved in the Arts, and I greatly respect it! I do know that many would prefer to keep the 'statues quo' untouched, it's somewhat of an 'identity threat'; but I prefer evidence over what I may have been spoonfed before.
In any case, we're all entitled to our own conclusions.
I was reading about Hephaistos and thought that if the G reflects a hammer and anvil,
it may point to Hephaistos as these are his tools. But then Hephaistos points to others,
like the star I mentioned being Phosphorus...
"Phosphorus (Greek Φωσφόρος Phōsphoros), a name meaning "Light-Bringer", is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. Φαοσφόρος (Phaosphoros) and Φαεσφόρος (Phaesphoros) are forms of the same name in some Greek dialects.
Another Greek name for the Morning Star is Ἑωσφόρος (Heōsphoros), which means "Dawn-Bringer". The form Eosphorus is sometimes met in English, as if from Ἠωσφόρος (Ēōsphoros), which is not actually found in Greek literature, but would be the form that Ἑωσφόρος would have in some dialects. As an adjective, the Greek word is applied in the sense of "light-bringing" to, for instance, the dawn, the god Dionysos, pine torches, the day; and in the sense of "torch-bearing" as an epithet of several god and goddesses, especially Hecate but also of Artemis/Diana and Hephaestus."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosphorus
As an adjective, the Greek word is applied in the sense of "light-bringing" to, for instance, the dawn, the god Dionysos, pine torches, the day; and in the sense of "torch-bearing" as an epithet of several god and goddesses, especially Hecate but also of Artemis/Diana and Hephaestus."
That would be a connection I saw referring to Bacon's Spear-Shakers and all that it applies. Apollo, Pallas Athena (literally means, "Shaker of the spear"), St.Michael, St.George are all known traditionally as "shakers of the spear of light against the dragon of ignorance."
Bacon supposedly scripted the lineage of English Freemasonry, as well as, I use the word again, supposedly, pointing to a profound symbolism when penning the Shakespearean plays, meaning, the spear of pen bringing the light to ignorance.
It would seem there're some connections?
The quote above is just to exemplify the theory below :)
The French Alphabet contains 26 main letters, just like the English one. When assigning numerological values to the letters, every letter carries not only the numerical value of the 'first' count, but instead, we can continue counting and reassigning numbers to the letters in 'skips' of 26. Thus, A = 1 but also 27, 53, etc... Similarly, G is not only 7 but also 7+26 -> G = 33. I find this interesting in many areas.


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This year is a special one for the Sikh community in the UK. Not only is it the 300th anniversary of the Guru Granth Sahib being installed as the Guru of the Sikh community, it is also the 100th anniversary of the first Sikh Gurdwara opening in this country and this book was commissioned by the Khalsa Jatha UK, more commonly known as Shepherds Bush Gurdwara to celebrate this double anniversary.
The founders of the Khalsa Jatha were larger than life figures in a British landscape where no organized Sikh community or infrastructure existed. From the early students and educated elite of the Sikh society in this country to the Maharaja of Patiala, a frequent visitor to the UK and both an extravagant spender and a generous patron of the community a colourful story of hardship and a drive to found a focus for the sikh community comes to life. Teja Singh Mastuana, a Cambridge University student first laid the foundations of the first Sikh temple by initiating a Sikh religious gathering in 1908 in Cambridge. Sardar Narain Singh Sargodha, a barrister-at-law became the first secretary of the Khalsa Jatha and Hardit Singh Malik, one of the select few Indians flying in the Royal flying corps in the First World War was also involved. In 1913, the Maharaja of Patiala, on a shopping spree that included seven Rolls Royce cars helped fund a move by the Gurdwara to Putney in London.
The book is well illustrated and includes copies of photos and documents never published before. Intriguing pictures of the early leaders and congregation captured in both formal and informal poses show the primitive conditions and the communal spirit and leave a lasting impression on the reader of a community in its formative years.
They first arrived more than a century ago, a few students at Oxford and Cambridge from wealthy families and a trickle of pedlars who travelled across Victorian Britain, selling fine silks and jewellery from door to door. Sikhs in, those days must have felt far from home. And so, for moral support and to underpin their faith, religious elders in Punjab sent over five young men to spread the message of the Gurus. They leased a house in Putney, West London, to serve as a Gurdwara. It was the first such temple anywhere in Europe. And this weekend, its successor, the Khalsa Jatha as it was known, celebrates 100 years of the first Sikh temple in Britain.
The small community's lucky break came in 1911. A student delegation met Maharajah Bhupinder Singh, the ruler of the principality of Patiala, who was visiting England on a cricket tour, coupled with the celebrations for George V's Coronation. They told him of their need for a centre in London that could serve as a rest home for Sikh visitors and also a place of worship. Impressed, the pious maharajah immediately offered £8,000 — a huge sum then — which secured a 99-year lease on the Putney house. Weekly services were held on Sundays, and the Maharajah used to visit when he was staying at the Savoy, his London base.
In 1913, while on a shopping spree (which included seven Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts), he obtained a new lease on more suitable premises in Sinclair Road, West London. An association, named the Guru Khalsa Foreign Mission, was created, with a seven-member executive committee set up in April 1914.
One of the driving figures was Teja Singh, a gifted student who became the first turbaned Sikh to enroll at the University of Cambridge. He spent 18 months at Downing College studying natural sciences but also devoted much time to preaching the tenets of the Gurus to fellow students. He gave regular talks on Sikhism. There was an undercurrent of national pride and leaflets were distributed calling on Sikhs — one of the last peoples on the sub-continent to be subjugated in the 19th century — to agitate against British rule.
Teja Singh remained president of the London gurdwara until he left England. By 1913 the management of the institution was more ambitious and took up the Sikh cause throughout Western Europe. The London community numbered more than 100 and organised a committee of students to go to Britain's ports and stations to welcome newly arriving Sikhs and direct them to the gurdwara in London where they were helped to find homes. One of the aims was to rekindle religious feeling in those arriving: many, perhaps intimidated by the hostile stares and laughter that greeted them in England, used to cut their hair and adopt European practices.
With the outbreak of war a large number of Sikhs arrived from India to fight on the Western Front. Their disproportionately large contribution to the war effort has since been recognised in official memorials. Many of the wounded Indian soldiers were sent to makeshift hospitals in England, and the Government paid for them to see the sights of London as part of their convalescence.
More Sikh traders began to arrive in the 1920s and 1930s, and for the first time some were accompanied by their womenfolk. The beginnings of a permanent community in East London were being laid. Prominent academics, barristers and Sikh businessmen were also beginning to make a name for themselves. But they retained their links to the gurdwara — and the tradition of communal meals, offered free to anyone who attended the temple, kept the community together. That tradition lives on in every gurdwara today — and there are now some 250 in Britain, serving a community of around 400,000.
The community was also caught up between the wars in the vengeance wreaked on the British governor who had ordered the notorious Amritsar massacre in 1919. Udham Singh, himself a survivor of the killings, arrived in Britain in 1933 with the intention of killing the perpetrators, and moved into the Shepherds Bush gurdwara. His target was General Reginald Dyer, who had commanded the troops, but he had already died. Instead, he sought out the former governor of Punjab, Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who had given the orders for the massacre. On March 13, 1940, Udham Singh walked into Caxton Hall, where O'Dwyer was attending a meeting, and shot him dead. He was swiftly arrested, tried and hanged.
By the end of the Second World War Sikhs had begun to settle elsewhere in Britain, particularly port cities such as Cardiff, Gravesend, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Sikhs contributed to the agitation for Indian independence, but were aghast at the British decision in 1947 to partition India. The division ran through the middle of Punjab, the Sikh homeland, and hundreds of Sikhs demonstrated in London against Partition.
Immigration from the sub-continent peaked in the 1960s. Sikhs were among the arrivals, and quickly tested British law by challenging — and overturning — the bans on wearing turbans as part of their uniforms on the buses or when riding motorcycles. The temple in Shepherds Bush was becom¬ing too small, and a new site became available nearby in 1964. The commu¬nity bought a derelict former Salvation Army centre, and set about rebuilding it as a temple. Hammersmith council, however, had wanted to take over the site with a compulsory pur¬chase order and tried to halt the work. Some 200 Sikhs, armed with picks and shovels, promptly marched through Shepherds Bush to begin work, insist¬ing they had prior planning permission. Hammersmith backed down, and the present temple in Queensclale Road was officially inaugurated on December 7, 1969 — an auspicious occasion that coincided with the 500th anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev's birth and the global celebrations of this religious landmark. The theme has since been enlarged and refurbished, and has set up a youth centre, classrooms and a small museum inside to record the history of Sikhs in Britain. Ironically, as the area has been gentrified, all but the richer Sikhs have moved away. It is still a magnet for many, however, and featured in the film Bend it Like Beckham.
Peter Bance, a Sikh historian who has written extensively on the community in Britain, has produced this book, Khalsa Jatha, British Isles 1908- 2008, on the Gurdwara and will join the many Sikhs who will be celebrating in London this weekend. Auspiciously, the anniversary coincides with the 300th year of the installation of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.


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Елизавета Соломоновна Веснина (настоящая фамилия Едиткина; 28 октября 1917, Сухуми — ?) — белорусская советская актриса. Заслуженная артистка Белорусской ССР (1960).

Биография
Работала в Гомельском областном русском драматическом театре (1939—1941, 1945—1946), переведённом потом в Могилёв (1946—1948) и в Брестском областном драматическом театре (1948—1949).

С 1949 по 1977 год — актриса Государственного русского драматического театра БССР, затем переехала в Ленинград.

Роли в театре
 Варвары — Катя
 Поднятая целина — Лушка
 Главная ставка — Марья
 Барабанщица — Нила Снижко
 Враги — Полина
 Любовь Яровая — Банова
 Её друзья — Светлана
 Товарищи по работе — Калугина

Примечания

Заслуженные артисты Белорусской ССР
Женщины в Великой Отечественной войне


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