Chapter 17: Chapter IV: The Celestial Triangles

Primary elements necessary to understand the construction and relations of the Archeometer

When Man emerges from intellectual torpor induced by ignorance or servitude, he looks around and seeks to comprehend the “Why” and “How” of all that surrounds him. Nature in her manifold aspects, his own inner being and the origin of his aspirations—love, hatred—then the vicissitudes of all living things on earth: Disease, Death, moral suffering, and human relations—all this strikes the Thinker and demands a more or less satisfactory solution.

All philosophers, all propagators of religious systems—and now most learned societies—have offered solutions to these diverse problems.

In this present work—prelude to any profound study of occultism—we shall review the answers given by current science to some of these problems, then examine solutions provided in ancient initiatic temples. Finally, we shall explore possible relations between these two proposed formulas.

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The first thing to strike the human mind is Nature in her diverse manifestations: sunrise and sunset, the Moon’s phases, Stars shining in

the night; then Seasons, Storms, Rainbows, the growth of Plants, animal reproduction and their use by Man—all demanding long and solemn meditation.

And let us state at once—contrary to certain positivists of the profane world—that the entire instruction of Earth’s first thinkers was imparted not through childish reasoning, but by direct impulse from invisible Beings of various planes. Direct revelation lies at the beginning of all science; experience comes later—first to deny the affirmations of superior Beings, only to return to them eventually: hence the saying, “A little science estranges from God; much science leads back to Him.” But let us not anticipate.

Modern science teaches that we inhabit a planet called Earth, which revolves with others around a star named the Sun—dispensing heat and life to Earth and fellow Planets in its system. These planets, starting from the Sun, are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (all known to the Ancients), with Uranus and Neptune added by modern scholars.

Each Planet may in turn have smaller orbs revolving around it—called satellites. Earth has one satellite—the Moon; Mars several; Jupiter likewise; and Saturn is encircled by a veritable cloud of satellites and moreover by a true ring. All useful details may be found in elementary astronomy books.

Each Star we perceive in the firmament—called a Fixed Star—is a Sun with its retinue of Planets. Conversely, the celestial bodies that appear above Earth’s horizon at certain seasons, traversing the heavens from one star group to another—often displaying particular colors—are Planets.

By studying these astral movements—the Earth’s rotation upon its axis, its revolution around the Sun, and finally the Moon’s orbit around Earth with its changing phases—mankind established the foundations for measuring Time and devised various calendrical systems.

The Sun appears to trace a specific path across the sky, marked by groups of fixed stars. These stars serve as celestial milestones encircling the solar way. In one terrestrial year (365 days and a fraction), the Sun visibly passes through all twelve of these stellar groupings called signs of the Zodiac or simply: the Zodiac. Thus, the Sun traverses one zodiacal sign each month.

Earth completes one rotation in 24 hours. During this period, half the globe is illuminated by the Sun while the other half lies in shadow. We call “Day” the interval of illumination and “Night” the interval of darkness. The precise duration of days and nights varies by terrestrial location and season due to Earth’s axial tilt relative to the ecliptic.

Meanwhile, the Moon orbits Earth in four periods of seven days plus fractions. During these 28 days, the Moon undergoes four phase changes: New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter. The seven-day intervals between phases gave rise to the week.

The Lunar month spans 28 days; the Solar month slightly exceeds 30. The quest to reconcile these two month-types birthed diverse calendrical systems across civilizations—some adhering solely to Lunar months (Native Americans and Africans), others to Solar months, while yet others sought true time through their synchronization.

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No spectacle could strike the human mind more profoundly than the apparition of Stars and Planets during a splendid summer night. Yet how few contemporaries truly comprehend the marvels the Heavens present! Modern science reveals how negligible our tiny Earth appears amidst this immensity of diversely colored Suns (there being red, green, or blue stars) orbited by multiple Planets bearing humanity. For these details, we refer readers to Camille Flammarion’s magnificent writings on these enthralling subjects.

All this is wondrous—yet Contemporary Science describes only Effigies, external aspects; it dissects Nature’s anatomy while neglecting her Physiology.

Imagine a scholar discovering a manuscript in an unknown tongue—who then weighs it, measures it, analyzes its chemical composition, and meticulously counts its lines and characters. Such is modern science’s approach to Nature.

Fear of Hypotheses has led to obsessive detail-analysis. Since the Renaissance, all philosophical, synthetic aspects of science were banished from “serious” study, relegating higher scientific speculations to hidden, “occulted” realms—now called the Occult Sciences.

The anatomical study of celestial bodies became Astronomy, while their physiological study was scorned as Astrology. The synthetic branch—Astrosophy—remains virtually unknown.

Likewise occurred with Chemistry and Alchemy, Physics and Magic, Theology and Theurgy, Natural Sciences and Physiogony, Numbers and Occult Mathematics.

When observing passersby, what interests you isn’t their weight, attire, complexion, or gait—but their moral life, friendships or enmities, social laws, and intellectual existence.

Yet modern science treats celestial bodies as strangers whose true life must be ignored—mere material masses interacting through volume and distance.

Contrarily, Astrology teaches that celestial bodies are living Beings—as alive as terrestrial animals or plants—endowed with Friendships and Enmities, influencing one another through circulating fluids. Astrology populates the sky with living Beings and intelligent forces, while Astronomy shows only an immense cemetery of inert masses and blind forces overhead. Pending the official union of serious Astronomy and occult Astrology, let us outline essential knowledge for understanding ancient and modern astrological texts.

Three subjects demand study:

1. 1° The Planets;
2. 2° The Zodiac Signs and their role as Planetary Houses;
3. 3° These celestial bodies’ and signs’ relations to the Life and Destiny of Beings inhabiting the Planets.

The Planets

We have seen that Planets revolve around the Sun, and that for Science, their order is as follows:

Sun… Mercury… Venus… Earth… Mars… The Asteroids of the shattered Planet… Jupiter… Saturn… Uranus… Neptune…

For calculative convenience, Astrology considers Earth the planetary center, arranging celestial bodies thus: Neptune… Uranus… Saturn… Jupiter… Mars… The Sun… Venus… Mercury… The Moon.

In all matters concerning ancient Astrology, we disregard the two Planets linking our system to the next—Neptune and Uranus—focusing instead on antiquity’s seven Planets^[*], whose list we urge readers to memorize:

Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, The Moon.

While memorizing this list, one should repeatedly draw the signs—derived from the Adamic Language (the Watan, Saint-Yves d’Alveydre)—assigned to each Planet.

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To properly understand how the Ancients conceived celestial physiology, some astronomical notions are indispensable. Without

astronomical knowledge, astrological treatises often become baffling puzzles.

Let us suppose it is about eleven in the morning near Paris, in a field. What do you see?

The sky above your head and a horizontal circle bordering your view all around. This circle is the horizon. The sky overhead resembles a great inverted dome—presently showing only some clouds and the sun slowly ascending toward the zenith of this celestial vault. When the Sun reaches that point, it will be exactly Noon at your location. Imagine a great semicircle passing

through this midday solar point, intersecting the horizon to right and left—thus forming what is called the Meridian.

The Horizon (horizontal circle) and the Meridian (vertical semicircle) intersect as shown above.

But Earth is a spherical mass (approximately); while one hemisphere is sunlit—with the Sun indicating Noon—the opposite hemisphere lies within the shadow cone experiencing Night, where Midnight reigns at the shadow’s apex when Noon shines at the light cone’s summit.

Thus nighttime prevails beneath your feet—on Earth’s far side—when the midday Sun blazes overhead.

The accompanying diagram gives a clear idea of this crucial fact.

Let us carefully note what are called the Cardinal Points.When the Sun is at the meridian—whether you gaze directly at it or merely turn your face toward it—you

have Noon or South before you, North behind you (or more precisely beneath your feet), East to your left and West to your right. Note immediately that

this orientation is precisely opposite to that used in geographical maps, which place North before you—as occurs at midnight according to our previous example.

Astrologers invariably cast horoscopes with Noon facing the observer. This fundamental principle must be remembered.

Terrestrial roads employ milestones marked with kilometer distances for orientation. How then may one orient oneself in celestial Space?

Quite simply. The celestial vault has been divided into sections

called Degrees. The visible half comprises six zones of thirty degrees^[*] 30° each, yielding one hundred eighty degrees 180° for the visible hemisphere and another one hundred eighty degrees 180° for the obscured half—totaling three hundred sixty degrees 360° for the entire sphere.

Celestial bodies traverse this heavenly path at varying speeds—like an automobile and a peasant’s donkey cart leaving a village simultaneously yet passing the first milestone at different times, the automobile being far swifter. Similarly, the heavens contain both swift and sluggish bodies. Earth completes its celestial circuit in 24 hours through axial rotation. With 12 Divisions of thirty degrees 30° each in the celestial sphere, Earth traverses thirty degrees 2° per hour. Conversely, by apparent motion, the Sun crosses each degree monthly, requiring one

year to complete its journey through the three hundred sixty degrees 360° of heaven. Thus each thirty-degree 30° division represents thirty minutes of terrestrial rotation and one month of solar progression. Readers understand, of course, that Earth orbits the Sun annually—yet we retain the language of appearances for astrological comprehension.

Study carefully the following diagram showing astronomical celestial divisions.

Each thirty-degree 30° division constitutes what Astrologers term a

House. The heavens are divided by Astrologers into 12 Houses containing the Zodiac Signs (one per House) and the Planets.

This House division follows the Sun’s annual course—each thirty-degree 30° House representing one month. The astrological year begins in March with Aries (March 20-April 20) as House No. ¹, followed by House No. ² with Taurus, and so forth as shown:

Important Note. — For clarity in this elementary study, we assume the Houses and Signs coincide precisely—which occurs only for persons born in the First degree of Aries. We have maintained this conflation of Houses and Signs to facilitate studying astrology’s static elements. Later, we shall provide necessary explanations regarding how the First House changes signs according to birth date. Let advanced astrologers therefore refrain from premature objections—this note exists to clarify our present pedagogical approach.

Three Houses indicate a Season. Thus Spring is marked by Houses 1, 2, 3—called Aries, Taurus, Gemini—spanning March 21 to June 21 when Summer begins, indicated by Houses 4, 5, 6 (Cancer, Leo, Virgo relative to Zodiac signs) from June 21 to September 21. Autumn then commences with Houses 7, 8, 9 and signs Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius (September 21-December 21). Winter begins then with Houses 10, 11, 12 and signs Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces (December 21-March 21), when Spring recommences as the Sun enters Aries.

(Let us note immediately that the Sun no longer enters the Zodiacal sign of Aries on March 21—it did so when Ram established the Zodiac approximately

12,000 years ago. Due to the Precession of Equinoxes, the Sun now enters Aries between April 15-May 15, returning to its original position every 26,000 years. We mention this to prevent astronomical misconceptions—now we return to Astrology.)

Serious researchers must memorize the twelve Zodiac signs and their corresponding House numbers.

Ascendant and Descendant Houses

As Houses progress from No. 1 to No. 12, half occupy the northern celestial hemisphere^[*]: these are the Septentrional or Ascendant Houses, extending from the East at House 1 to the West at House 6. Houses 7-12 occupy the southern sphere—the Descendant Houses. Zodiac signs divide identically into Septentrional/Ascendant and Meridional/Descendant signs.

Ascendant signs span 1° to 180°; Descendant signs from 180° to 360°.

The Angles

Each Cardinal Point determines an Angle containing its respective House

. Thus Aries and House 1 occupy the East—establishing the Eastern or Ascendant Angle (a crucially important term).

House 4 and Cancer form the Northern Angle (Nadir).

House 7 and Libra constitute the Western Angle or Descendant.

House 10 and Capricorn form the Southern Angle—South or Midheaven (Zenith). Study the following diagram carefully.

These four Houses—1, 4, 7, 10—are

Angular Houses marking the four Cardinal Points.

The House following an Angular House is termed Succedent or Fixed —namely Houses 2, 5, 8, 11.

The House following a Fixed House is called Cadent or Mutable.

Thus Mutable Houses are 3, 6, 9, 12.

The following diagram illustrates these divisions:

The Ancients taught that Heaven exerted dominant influence over Physical Forces, living Beings, and States of Matter on Earth.

Hence they designated solids as “Earth”, liquids as “Water”, gases as “Air”, and force manifestations as “Fire”. It is gravely erroneous to assume these terms referred literally to earthly soil or liquid water

terrestrial water, atmospheric Air, or furnace Fire; terms such as antimony Earth, Water of Life, Air (or Spirit) of Wine, Philosophical Fire, etc., would serve to enlighten the Profane when necessary.

These various States of Matter were symbolically represented by triangles: Fire by an upward-pointing triangle without a bar at its apex; Air by an upward-pointing triangle barred at its apex; Water by a downward-pointing triangle

without a bar, and Earth by a downward-pointing triangle barred at its apex. Here follow the hieroglyphs of these elements.

Each astrological House corresponds to one of the four elements.

Houses 1, 5, 9 are Fiery and correspond to the Element Fire. Connecting the midpoints of these Houses with straight lines inscribes the Fire triangle in the heavens.

Houses 2, 6, 10 correspond to Earth and form the triangle of the Land of the Living in the heavens.

Houses 3, 7, 11 form the Air triangle.

Houses 4, 8, 12 form the Water triangle or the Celestial Great Waters.

The Earth and Water triangles intersect to form a Hexagram or Star of Solomon, as do the Fire and Air triangles.

Study the preceding diagrams carefully regarding this.

Planetary Influences: The Asteroids Uranus and Neptune

According to astrologers, planets exert significant mutual influences. Earth undergoes this influence from its neighbors, manifested through two principal factors: size and proximity. Thus the Moon, though merely a satellite yet very near, exerts a positive and tangible influence on earthly events, whereas the numerous asteroids between Mars and Jupiter bear no weight in astrological calculations.

Astrological planetary influence belongs not to the planet itself, but rather to its sphere of influence—represented by the distance between that planet and its nearest neighbor. The asteroids therefore fall under either Mars’ or Jupiter’s influence, requiring no special consideration.

May I now offer a purely personal opinion that is mine alone? I maintain contemporary astrologers regrettably err by incorporating Neptune and Uranus—the two planets beyond Saturn—into their calculations. My reasoning follows.

Jupiter is 1,300 times larger than Earth and 155 million leagues distant—its influence is evident. Uranus measures merely 75 Earths and lies 673 million leagues away. Neptune, only 86 times Earth’s size, orbits 1,073 million leagues distant.

In my view, these two planets—and others yet undiscovered—serve as intermediaries between our solar system and the next. Their rotational direction indicates as much for discerning observers.

We should therefore attribute Uranus’ and Neptune’s influence to Saturn—which equals 864 Earths in size and orbits 268 million leagues away^[*].

Regardless, if contemporary astrologers wish to acknowledge astronomical discoveries^[*], they must either incorporate the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter or disregard distant Neptune and Uranus by subsuming them under Saturn’s sphere.

This is why we shall disregard these two planets in this astrological primer.

The Planets

Having examined the Houses and fixed Zodiac signs, we note each House possesses—for the astrologer—a lord or governor in the form of one of the seven planets. Each planet (except the Sun and Moon) has two domiciles: a positive or diurnal domicile and a negative or nocturnal domicile.

The Moon’s sole domicile is House 4 (Cancer); the Sun’s is House 5 (Leo).

Mercury: diurnal domicile—House 3 (Gemini)^[*]; nocturnal—House 6 (Virgo)^[*].

Venus: diurnal domicile—House 2 (Taurus); nocturnal—House 7 (Libra)^[*].

Mars: diurnal domicile—House 1 (Aries)^[*]; nocturnal—House 8 (Scorpio)^[*].

Jupiter: diurnal domicile—House 12 (Pisces); nocturnal—House 8 (Sagittarius).

Saturn: diurnal domicile—House 11 (Aquarius); nocturnal—House 10 (Capricorn).

A FRIEND OF SAINT-YVES.

PLANETARY DOMICILES

o Diurnal. N Nocturnal

TRIANGLE OF THE WORD, OF JESUS

TRIGONE OF THE EARTH OF THE PRINCIPLE AND OF IMMANATION IN HIM

Its apex is at the Winter Solstice, Christmas, starting point
of the astronomical Year

THE TRIANGLE OF JESUS or of the Land of the Living

The three characters of the Adamic Language
I Sh O

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LETTERS

Y, I, J — 10

This letter is the first of the Land of the Living. It governs the northern solstitial Trigone, that of the Word and of the Immanation of the Living in Him. It is the

Royal letter of the Archeometric System of the Ancient Patriarchs and of their solar and solar-lunar alphabets. It summons the Word: Ia, Je.

It corresponds to the Wisdom of God, to the Queen of Heaven of the Ancient Patriarchs and of the Litanies of the Assumption of Mary.

It is the first letter of the Names of the Father and the Son. They are substantial in It. Its note is fundamental Sol, upon which we have constructed all the Sonometry and the entire musical system of the Archeometer.

Its number is 10, its color is blue; its zodiac sign, Virgo; its Planet, Mercury; its Archangel, Thrice-Great Raphael, also called Hamaliel by the Chaldeans.

In the Liturgical Year, it corresponds to the period of the Assumption, from August 15 to 21.

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS ONE BY ONE:

Y, I, J — 10

P, Ph — 80

This letter crowns the angle of the Northern Solstice of the Land of the Immortal Living. Its equilateral triangle form indicates it governs the Trigone of the Word. It corresponds to the Power of God in act through His Word.

Its number is 80, its color pure yellow, its Archangel Hamael, its zodiac sign Capricorn, Gate of God in the celestial City; its planet nocturnal Saturn; its musical note is natural B when dividing the string of G into 100, and B-flat when dividing this string into 96, the total number of zodiacal letters in the first trigone.

The B-flat relates to divine Love. In the Liturgical Year, this letter corresponds to Christmas, our December 24, that is to say the point where the sun renews the Year by ascending the ecliptic.

Let it be clearly understood once and for all that, on the Archeometer, the astral Year and astral Signs are but a consequence of the typical and eternal Year of the Word and of the World of Glory.

P, Ph — 80

O, V — 6

This letter is the third of the Land of the Living, of the Name of the Word and of the Name of Jesus; just as I belongs to the Wisdom of the Father, Ph and Sh to the Son, O relates to the Holy Spirit.

It is the third letter of the Name IHOH, the third likewise of the Names of Jesus the Word, IShO, IPhO, and the second letter of the Names of the Holy Spirit, ROuaH-ALaHIM.

The preceding fact corresponds to a mystery of the Athanasian Creed. But we limit ourselves to expounding the autology of the Archeometer.

This letter is conjunctive or conjugal in all solar languages; likewise its number 6, which the ancient Schools called the matchmaker. Likewise its red color is experimentally conjunctive of blue and yellow.

We shall treat of these experiments in the pages devoted to Archeometric Chromology.

It is curious to note that simple inspiration has always attributed the blue color to the Robe of the Blessed Virgin of the Assumption, white and yellow to that of the Infant Jesus, and finally red to the seven Tongues of fire of the Holy Spirit and to the Ionic Dove, that of the Conjugal Union of sexes in psychic Love and in the Living-God.

F is the note, string and mode of this letter. Its zodiac sign is Taurus, whose Angel is Asmodel; its planet, diurnal Venus, whose Angel is Haniel, the Intelligence Ilagiel, the Spirit Nogael. In the Liturgical Year, it would correspond to the period of the Assumption and Pentecost, if this year could be regulated by the Sun’s entry into the Signs.

O, V — 6

THE PLANETARY LETTER OF JESUS

Sh — 300

This letter is the planetary counterpart of the zodiacal Ph. It is specific to the Name of Jesus as the first is to the Name of the Word. Both are a trigone, which indicates they relate to the fundamental Trinity and Triangle and that they must occupy the position where I have let them arrange themselves autologically.

But beyond its zodiacal counterpart, the planetary letter bears a bisector determining the plumb line and North-South axis of the World. It thus represents the defined Act, of which its zodiacal counterpart is the Power; its number is 300.

The numbers of the archeometric letters contain so many important mysteries that they alone would require volumes. To illustrate this with an example concerning Astronomy alone, we shall take the two letters of the Word and of Jesus: Ph = 80, Sh = 300. Total 380.

The physical Year of the present Earth is now calculated in mean time 365d 6h 9′ 10″ 7‴. Here we speak of the sidereal Year of the Sun. The shorter tropical year is 365d 5h 48′ 47″.

The Archeometer will prove to us that the Year of 365d 25/100 was perfectly known to the Adamic and antediluvian patriarchal University, to which we attribute our morphological letters.

Take, for example, a Cycle of 19 years, widely used since ancient times. We adopt it here because it aligns with the 19 letters we have employed: 12 as zodiacal and 7 as planetary.

In 19 years, the year of 365d 25 yields 6,939d 75. Now, 14 harmonic years of 360d, plus 5 of 380, give:

The slight discrepancy between 6,939d 75 and 6,940d might indicate the diminution of the solar year glimpsed by Bailly. At the same time, it would allow astronomers to determine the date of the antediluvian Year upon which the Archeometer was constituted in the positions where we present it.

Archeometer: 6,940 / 19 = 365d 6h 18′ 51″ 34‴

Current sidereal Year 365d 6h 9′ 10″ 7‴, meaning our year would be shorter by 9′ 41″ 27‴. But the anomalistic solar year, the time taken by the sun departing from perihelion to return to it, is calculated by modern astronomers as 365d 6h 13′ 34″ 09‴. If our calculations are correct, the difference would thus be 4′ 57″ 25‴. There are many other things to ponder in the number 380, that is, Ph = 80 + Sh = 300.

Multiplying these two numbers together yields the harmonic cycle

of 24,000 years from all the ancient Asian Universities. This cycle would thus pertain not only to the precession of the equinoxes measured musically, but also to a relation of Saturn in conjunction with the Sun in the 15^th degree of Capricorn, a cosmic relation I find no trace of in modern Astronomy.

There were other numbers besides harmonic numbers used to measure the Great Year. For example, the Van of the ancient Tatar Universities, 180; multiplied by the square of 12, 144, the operation yields 25,920, one of the modern figures; the other is 26,000.

It remains for us to state here the reason that determined us to place the starting point of the Year at Christmas and the Winter solstice, and to position the planets at the 15^th degree of their diurnal and nocturnal houses.

The oldest Greek calendar, which certainly came from Asia via the Phoenicians, places the cardinal points of Heaven at the 15^th degree of the Constellations.

The Winter Solstice is at the 15^th degree of Capricorn, the Summer Solstice at the 15^th degree of Cancer, the Spring Equinox at the midpoint of Aries, the Autumn Equinox at the midpoint of Libra. (Achilles Tatius, chap. xxiii. Eudoxus, Hipparchus, etc.)…

The ancient Swedes began their solar year at the Winter solstice, as did the Chinese. Among the Hindus, it corresponds to the festival of Krishna.

Now, the sun at the 15^th degree of Capricorn only marked the beginning of the astronomical Year in 1353 BC. It is inadmissible that the Archeometer was invented at that time when, on the contrary, we find all science and all archeometric data in disarray everywhere. If this more-than-human instrument of the synthesis of universal organicities and harmonics linked to the Creative Word was ever revealed to mankind in its integrity, we must turn the Wheel of the Great Year at least once.

If fixed at 24,000 years, we must count 24.000+1.353=25.353 BC, or 28,606 today.

If fixed at 25,920 years, we must count: 25.920+1.353=27.273 BC, or 30,526 today.

Finally, if fixed at 26,000 years, we must count: 26.000+1.353=27.353 BC, or 30,606 today.

Let us return to the letter Sh. It thus corresponds to the Royal Power of the Son. Its Color is the photogenic ray, that of the Fiat Lux, yellow; its nocturnal sign, Capricorn; its planet, Saturn; its Angel, Zaphkiel; its Intelligence, Agiel; its Spirit, Sabbathiel. B-flat is its note, string, and mode.

In the liturgical year, it corresponds to Christmas, and in the Astronomical, to December 24-25.

Sh — 300

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS TWO BY TWO

THE PLANETARY LETTER WITH ZODIACAL LETTERS TWO BY TWO

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS THREE BY THREE

THE PLANETARY LETTER WITH ZODIACAL LETTERS THREE BY THREE

THE PLANETARY LETTER WITH ZODIACAL LETTERS FOUR BY FOUR

Archeometric references of Catholic Feasts and Astronomical Dates

The Twelve Zodiacal Letters of the Adamic Alphabet.

Plate 19.

TRIANGLE OF MARY

TRIGONE OF THE LIVING WATERS, OF THE ORIGIN AND OF THE TEMPORAL EMANATION OF BEINGS

Its apex is at the Summer Solstice

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LETTERS

M, Ma, Me — 40.

This letter, the first of the southern solstitial Trigone, that of the Living Waters, is the Royal letter of lunarized alphabetic Systems and, consequently, de-Archeometerized. It no longer responds to the Ya, to the I, which commands the Word; but to the Me, to the Self, which turns inward upon itself.

It corresponds neither to the divine Principle nor to divine Biology, where all life dwells within for Eternity; but to the natural Origin and to the embryogenic Physiology of the World, from which all existence emanates temporally.

The Vedic-Brahmanic systems and all those derived from them are governed by this letter. It no longer responds to the Wisdom of God, in whom every thought is a living being; but to human mentality, in which every conception is abstract. — It is the Pallas of the Orphic system, the Minerva, the feminine Manu of the Etruscan system.

The three characters of the Adamic Language
Ma Ri Hà.

Its number is 40, its color sea-green, its zodiacal sign Scorpio, its complementary constellation the Dragon of the celestial Waters. Its Angel is Zarakiel.

Its planet is diurnal Mars, whose Angel is dual: Kamael, the physical Love of the Species presiding over generation; Samael presiding over the Mortality that results from it. Graphiel is its Intelligence, Modiniel its planetary Spirit. (Note. — We record these names borrowed by Jewish Kabbalists from the Chaldeans, and we in no way vouch for their archeometric accuracy.)

Its note is D.

In the liturgical Year, it corresponds to the time of All Saints’ Day and the celebration of disembodied Souls; in the astral Year, to October 21.

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS ONE BY ONE

M, Ma, Me — 40

• Ma — Time, Measure, the Sea, reflected Light, Reflection, Death, Water… Sanskrit.
• Mâ. — Negation… —
• — — To measure, to distribute, to give, to shape, to produce, to resonate, to resound… —
• Ma. — Water, All or Nothing… Arabic.
• — — The embryogenic Power, development in Time and Space. — This same letter also expresses possibility, interrogation… Hebrew.
• aM. — To adore, to emerge from oneself; amata, Time, Illness, Death conceived as mutation; amati, Time, the Year, Appearance, the Exterior of things, the Outside… Sanskrit.
• — — The receptive, plastic, and formative Power, the temporal Origin, antithesis of the eternal Principle… Hebrew.
• — — Maternity, the Matrix^[*], the Power of Emanation… Arabic.

R, Ra, Re — 200:

This letter is the second of the Triangle of the Living Waters. Its number is 200; its color is orange, composed half of yellow, half of red; its zodiacal sign Pisces; its Angel Borhiel; its planet is nocturnal Jupiter, whose Angel is Zadkiel, the Intelligence Sophiel, the planetary Spirit Zadkiel, according to the Chaldeans and Jewish Kabbalists.

Its note is C.

In the liturgical Year, it corresponds to the Purification and the Ashes; in the astral Year, to February 21.

H, Ha, He — 8

This letter is the third of the Trigone of the Living Waters. It occupies the depth of these Waters, at the Southern Solstice which ends the hot Year and begins the cold Year of ancient cosmogonies. Its number is 8, its color violet, its zodiacal sign Cancer, its Angel is Mouziel; its planet is, in the World of Glory, the letter B; in the astral World, the Moon, whose Angel is Gabriel, the Intelligence Elimiel, the planetary Spirit Lemanael, according to the Chaldeans and Jewish Kabbalists.

Cancer was called in the ancient Mysteries, the Gate of Men. — Its note is A.

Its correspondence, in the liturgical Year, would be Corpus Christi, and, in the astral Year, June 21.

THE PLANETARY LETTER B ALONE AND COMBINED WITH THE ZODIACAL LETTERS

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS TWO BY TWO

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS THREE BY THREE

THE PLANETARY LETTER WITH ZODIACAL LETTERS FOUR BY FOUR

Abraham is, like Brahma, the Patriarch of Limbo and Nirvana, that is to say, of the embryogenic triangle of the Living Waters. — The Brahmins say: to be extinguished in Brahma, as the Hebrews say: to fall asleep in the bosom of Abraham, that is to say, to return to Limbo.

It may be well to add here that, according to the Gospel, Abraham did not die, which confirms the archeometric and cosmological significance of this androgonic Patriarch.

TRIANGLE OF THE HOLY ANGELS

TRIGONE OF THE ETHER

Its apex is at the Autumnal Equinox and at the sign of Libra

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LETTERS

L. — 30

This letter, the first of the Trigone of the Western or Autumnal Equinox — that of the Angels and of the Ether — presides over what the ancient Mysteries of the Patriarchs called the Council and Tribunal of the Angels.

It traverses the middle of the Space between the M and the I. Hence the name that the 1 ^st Zoroaster gives to his celestial power: Mitra. — Tra derives from the Sanskrit, Tri to traverse. — The meaning of this Power’s name is thus: that which traverses the M and the I: MI-Tra.

All cults derived from the more or less altered remnants of ancient Wisdom contain, among their arcana, that of the judgment of the Tribunal of Angels: Egypt, Chaldea, etc.

Reviving the Orphic tradition, Aeschylus composed a tragedy on this judgment entitled: The Weighing of Souls.

The number of this letter is 30; its color emerald green; its zodiacal sign,

Triangle of the Holy Angels.

Libra; its Planet, nocturnal Venus, the veiled Mercy; its Archangel, Michael; its note F-sharp.

In the liturgical Year, it corresponds to the time of the Holy Archangels and Angels.

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS ONE BY ONE

L. — 30

K. — 100

Za. — 7

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS ONE BY ONE

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS TWO BY TWO

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS THREE BY THREE

The ancient priests called the Ether: the Chariot or the Throne of God. The word Delegation of Sovereignty suits the pronoun, lieutenant of the Name; the Ether, bond between the World of Glory and the forces of the astral World; the living Power of the Ether, whose Archangel, Chief of the Angels, Saint Michael, indicates yet another delegation, that of the Word: MICHAEL, Reflection of God.

Plate 49.

TRIANGLE OF THE LAMB OR THE RAM

TRIGONE OF THE LIFE-GIVING FIRE

Its apex is at the Spring Equinox and at the sign of Aries

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LETTERS

He — 5

This letter, the first of the eastern Trigone of Spring — that of the Angels like its counterpart, but of the Angels of the Creator Fire is a divine one — like the I the Ph, the Sh and the O.

It belongs to the Name of the Father, and by its analogue, corresponds to the Sign of Cancer; it also enters into the composition of the Name of the Holy Spirit, ROuah-ALaHIM.

This sign: the soft H, is added to most important hieroglyphs to make them operative or to establish correspondence between the physical World and that of Glory.

But it is unnecessary to unveil this Mystery further.

This letter is a vital animator. Its number is 5, its color reddish-orange, its sign the

Triangle of the Lamb and the Ram.

Ram or the Lamb Throne of the Sun, its Planet nocturnal Mars or the Centurion.

Its Angel is Kamael. D-sharp is its note, its string and its mode. In the liturgical Year, it corresponds to the time of Easter.

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS ONE BY ONE

He — 5

W, Ou — 70

T — 9

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS TWO BY TWO

THE ZODIACAL LETTERS THREE BY THREE