CHAPTER IV. THE KEY APPLIED 

It is now proposed 

to offer the reader 

some further proof 

of the presence 

of 

a coherent scheme of GeΩmatria 

a geometrical nature in the New Testament 

which will serve to show 

the great importance 

of 

the doctrinal meaning 

to be associated with number

 or capable of being so associated

 and

 the peculiar value and precision

 of 

the method of numbers used 

for this purpose.

 Reference will be made also

 to 

the Gnostic books

 but the main argument

 and 

illustrations will be drawn

 from the canonical Scriptures

 The number EIGHT

 which has been called the Dominical number

 is found everywhere 

symbolically employed 

to convey the ideas

 of

 Salvation

 Perfecting

 and Regeneration

from the Company of Noah,

 onwards

through the Bible,

 and is nowhere 

more emphasised

 than in the name 

 LorD

 which teaches the doctrine

 of

 the perfected Humanity

 in the number 

888 = ΙΗΣΟΥΣ

This, there can be little doubt,

 is the "mystery" to which Irenaeus

 alludes when he describes 

the numbering of the name of Jesus

ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ = 1178

1178 = the square root of 2 

divided by 12

1178 = the volume of the 

tetrahedron with

side Length one

 To this moral or "spiritual" perfection

 the figure of the cube

 is allied on the geometric side 

– and

 "our Lord" is "said"

 to give sanction

 to this teaching

 when He gives to Peter

 the name ΚΗΦΑΣ

The "name" is a mnemonic

ΚΗΦΑΣ = 9 Χ 9 Χ 9

The perfect cube of 729

This is a mnemonic 

Not the other way around

The number was not randomly

assigned to the "word"

the mnemonic was 

formed to describe the concept

of the number

the rock is the perfect corner

Defining the Octave of octaves

of music/sound/color

729 is the corner of the Octave of octaves

this is the first F note

the value is also formed from

3 X 243 

243 is the first B note

The value is also formed from 

27 X 27 

27 is the root of the A note octave

27 54 108 216 432 864 1728 3456

 This suggestion of perfectness

 in the number Eight 

is reflected in the constitution 

of the Greek alphabet 

with its three Ogdoads

 of units, tens, and hundreds 

– the final Ω which

 with the Α

 takes its place in

 Christian arithmology 

being 800 – in GeΩmatria 

ΚΥΡΙΟΣ = Lord = 800

the leading epithet of "Christ"

 and in the Old Testament of "God"

 The 800 of ΚΥΡΙΟΣ is found

 in antithesis to the 600

 of ΚΟΣΜΟΣ – the World

 just as the 888 of ΙΗΣΟΥΣ

 is 

in a yet more marked degree

 contrasted with

 the 666 of the Beast of the Apocalypse

 whose number emphasises

 the qualities of incompleteness

 and materiality 

With the idea of

 a spiritual revelation 

is associated Light

 and the "Divine" significance of Light

 is clearly apparent

 in the number symbolism

 of 

the "Scriptures"

 as well as in the Gnostic books

 The number of Light – ΦΩΣ – is 1500

 It is the Robe of the Lord – ΕΝ∆ΥΜΑ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ

 ΕΝ∆ΥΜΑ – 500 

– is one of the many mystical words

 or

 words appertaining to the mysteryreligions

 used by St. Paul

 In the Pistis Sophia

 Jesus has three of these robes of Light

 and the number of the word ΕΝ∆ΥΜΑΤΑ = 801 

 is again that of the Α and Ω 

and of the ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΑ

 And the three ΕΝ∆ΥΜΑΤΑ are 

3 × 500 = 1500 

which is the number of Light ΦΩΣ

 801 = 3 X 267 = the number of the Kingdom – Η ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑ 

Ten times the number 267 is 2670 

= ΚΥΡΙΟΣ ΦΩΤΟΣ Lord of Light

 or

 as applied to "Christ"

 ΤΟ ΦΩΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ – The Light of the World

 which is also

Η ∆ΥΝΑΜΙΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΦΩΤΟΣ = 2670 = The Great Power of Light

 which descends "upon the Lord" 

in the Pistis Sophia

 This is also the number

 of 

"the Church of Jesus Christ" = Η ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΙΗΣΟΥ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

 Incidentally we may here point out 

that the number 

of 

the Great Power = Η ∆ΥΝΑΜΙΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ 

 the title so blasphemously claimed 

by Simon Magus,* is 800 = ΚΥΡΙΟΣ 

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Light, though really threefold, has traditionally also a sevenfold nature. The emanations of the Divine Essence are figured in the Apocalypse as Seven Lamps, which are the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars which are the Angels of the Seven Churches. In the scheme of geometric representation, the first emanation from, or manifestation of, the Absolute, in the series we are now considering, is figured as a Cube developed from an original point, which is one of its angles, and this is portrayed in its visible aspect of symmetry as a Hexagon with six internal lines radiating from the centre. 

Theoretically there is a seventh radius but never more than six are visible because the seventh approaches the eye and unites the central visible point with the eighth point lying exactly behind it. The Six outward points, with their connecting lines, represent the Kosmos, or manifestation of the Divine Source, the revelation of God to man. But the eighth or invisible original is required to complete the figure of the cube, which is only apprehended by the higher reason. The Six again may be held to represent the periods of Creation and the seventh point, the Sabbath rest of God. 

But the perfect, or New, Creation, is symbolised by the Cube, for a true knowledge of which a sense beyond that of mere physical vision is required. By this the presence of the seventh ray is revealed and the Eight points are manifest in their true relation. Thus from One are seen to proceed Seven and the Seven are connected with the parent One by rays or lines of Three several lengths (or which are now seen to be of three several lengths), whereas in the flat representation only six were seen, and they were apparently of equal length.* Now we are in the presence of three geometrical entities which by their joint operation determine the form of the Cube, and these are first, the length of it side which is figured as 100 – the basic number in the Denary system (far older than the decimal notation), on which the whole of the Gematria

may be said to be built. In the Appendix the Cube of Light and its special Gematria will be found fully described.? There are, as will readily be seen, three rays of this first order emanating from any one point in the cube, and connecting that point with the three lying nearest to it in the cube. Secondly there are to be seen three more connecting lines which are the diagonals on the square sides of the cube, linking the first point with the three next in order of remoteness, and these lines, on the scale now determined, measure each 100 × √2, or 141.42 – their total, 424.26, being integrally expressed as 424 or 425 by substituting unity for the fraction. Finally, there is the One ray leading diametrically across the cube to the opposite point, and the measure of this is 100 × √3, or 173.205. Call this 173. Thus we have for the total of the Seven rays the sum 300 + 424.5 + 173, which is 897 or 898 and may with equal propriety be taken as either, as the actual figure is halfway between. Hence we find in Gematria that whereas 897 gives ΑΙ Ζ ΕΝ ΤΗ ΑΣΙΑ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ, 898 is the number by gematria of ΟΙ Ζ ΑΣΤΕΡΕΣ, the seven stars or rays which are the angels of the seven Churches. 

In the three incommensurable orders of magnitude derived from the measures of the cube we have clearly a very suggestive parallel to the description in the Pistis Sophia of the three kinds of Light in the Lord’s ΕΝ∆ΥΜΑ, which we are told vary in the quality of their beams (variae lucis) and in the incommensurable nature of their proportions (vario ΤΥΠΩ aliis aliis praestantibus infinito modo). What are the authors of this old book trying to tell us? Let us assume that they really mean something – that they have a rational idea which they are trying to express. With this assumption let us endeavour to see what sort of parallel modern science can offer to the interpretation we have placed upon the ‘seven rays’ and the three cardinal measures of the Cube. Those who have studied the physics of Light will know that the reputed Seven colours of the spectrum are really Three, and three only, the Red, the Green and the Violet-blue. And these occupy a certain part of the field, indefinite as to its boundaries, but having an acme of intensity at or near the centre of each section. Near the centre of the spectrum, at a point where the purest green is observed, is the position of one of the fixed lines of colour known as Frauenhofer's E line. There are other such lines, lettered A to H, distributed over the field, and these are measured according to their wavelength, in inverse order to their frequency, and the lengths are given in what are called tenth-metres (see Ganot's Physics). The whole series of light-rays comprises those whose wave-length varies from a little more than 7600 tenth-metres in the extreme Red to a little less than 3900 in the extreme Violet - altogether about an octave of light. Now if we take our Green ray at about line E or 5270 in measure, then our series must be as follows:- Red 7453 . . . . or 5270 × √2 Green 5270 Violet 4302 . . . . or 7453 ÷ √3 and this is remarkable, because 7453 brings us to the intense Red close to Frauenhofer's A line (7604) and between it and B, whilst 4302 for the Violet brings us to the point of the most intense deep Blue, and practically on to Frauenhofer's line G, which is 4307. 

We must be content to leave our instructed readers to judge as to the real nature of so striking an approximation. If, on further investigation, the parallel appears based on undeniable physical fact, then a few more such instances may go far to rehabilitate the lost wisdom of Antiquity. And if it be true that the data of the colour-scale - which are derived from molecular motions - are indeed founded upon harmonics whose source is not, as in the case of Sound and other physical measure, based upon the interaction of forces having wholenumber proportionals, but upon those mysterious entities, the Roots of Two and Three, then we are face to face with a condition pointing to a genesis of motion in a region of space unknown to us, and wherein the dynamic laws operate in a relation quite unfamiliar. It looks as if a fourth, and interior dimension must be assumed, and is this not precisely what some physicists say of the Atom, that it must possess some substance in a fourth direction?