Topology of Time
The precession of the equinox is a topology of terrestrial time. Interpretation of this topology starts by observation of astronomy, producing the empirical model at
http://www.bautforum.com/attachments...-2-million.jpg. The hypothesis that human culture is adapted to the long term cycles of precession requires study of history against this topology. The theory suggests that changes in culture can be mapped against long term physical patterns of time. Precession produces ages about 2148 years long. One way to map the topology of this period is on a cube. The sum of the angles of a cube is 2160 degrees (24 vertices x 90°), with the result that angles of 89.5° will produce the year values on the first attached diagram, mapping the years of an age onto a cube. This idea comes from a reading of Revelation 21, the Biblical vision of the New Jerusalem, in which precession of the equinox is directly encoded.* The angle of 89.5 degrees results from the same reason that precession shifts the stars by one degree in just under 72 years: 72 x 30 = 90 x 24 = 2160, but the precession period of 2148 years produces the equation 71.7 x 30 = 89.5 x 24 = 2148.
The ongoing problem with this material is that its subject matter has informed anti-scientific outlooks, making the idea of exploring it with science seem preposterous. The need for a scientific explanation is great, since otherwise we have believers who maintain that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will break the laws of physics. The precessional cosmology I am presenting reconciles science and religion, explaining the energy of Christ in terms of a physical turning point of the precessional cycle, allowing the Second Coming to be postulated as an event within physical time. This approach refines the study of time by discarding traditional miraculous theories and explaining a natural philosophy with no reference to the supernatural, reconciling Laplace and Augustine.
In preparing the attached cube of time, I also inscribed the cube in a sphere as an interesting problem in geometry. Each circle can be viewed from two different perspectives, creating a simultaneous dual view of the circles pulling the cube as a cart in two directions which are incompatible in three dimensions but compatible in two. Several illustrations are attached.
*A precessional interpretation of the following passage is at
http://www.geocities.com/rtulip2005/...lve_Jewels.htm. By long tradition, the twelve jewels are the twelve signs of the zodiac in reverse order: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, Leo, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, mapping the order of precession. “...the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
21:11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it was a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
21:12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
21:13 On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
21:14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
21:15 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
21:16 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
21:17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
21:18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
21:19 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
21:20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.”
A good interpretive study of precession is by Alan Oken in his essay “The New Consciousness and the Cusp of the Ages”. For example, Oken interprets the feeding of the 5000 by observing that the two fishes and five loaves from which Jesus fed the multitude are traditional signs for Pisces and Virgo. Oken suggests that Jesus was therefore noting the Pisces-Virgo precessional axis of his time as a productive source of physical and spiritual nourishment. He provides numerous similar thoughts about the ages of Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius and Capricorn, with a ten thousand year historic sweep from 4000BC to 6000AD.
Along this line, the event which to me symbolizes the previous precessional transition from Taurus to Aries in 2000BC is the Odyssey story of the escape from Polyphemus the Cyclops. Deconstructing the analytical psychology, the story symbolizes the triumph of Ulysses the Arian man over Polyphemus the Taurean Cyclops. By wile, Ulysses hides himself and his men holding the fleecy bellies of rams emerging from the cave while the blinded giant feels the woolly backs of his stock in a failed effort to prevent the captives’ escape. Similarly, the cult of Mithras of the Roman Legions celebrated the triumph of man over bull. From my southern hemisphere perspective in Australia, I have read this Mithraic image in the star constellations as Orion killing Taurus, but I have heard the old story was that Perseus did the deed.