Revelation
4:1-5
| 1 | 1) Daphne ................... 2) Jennifer ................... 3) Cindy ...................... 4) Sybil ....................... 5) Prudence ................ 6) Vanessa ................. 7) Karen ..................... 8) Justine ................... 9) Diana ..................... 10) Joyce ..................... 11) Penelope ................ 12) Judith ..................... 13) Leah ....................... 14) Rachel .................... 43) The Israelite Church .... |
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| 2 | The above is a list of fourteen feminine names that correspond to a number system I've developed. It's a base fourteen system, meaning it repeats itself after every sequence of fourteen—i.e., 14, 28, 42, 56, etc.—with these numbers corresponding to the name Rachel. It's also a very intuitive system, and so corresponds to intuition itself, which can then be expressed in numeric terms. And, as it corresponds to a woman's intuition—or will—which, is what I intend to develop in this chapter—I've ascribed the feminine names. While they further expand on the elements of marriage in the last chapter. |
| 3 | The best way of viewing this is in terms of the musical scale. There are seven notes in the musical scale, which signify harmony, spiritual harmony, and many harmonic levels of notes above the original seven: with each level containing seven notes. When including the first note in the next level, each level is then called an octave, meaning "eight." Thus the first and eighth notes are the same, except the eighth note is at a higher pitch: i.e., do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. I've done something similar here, except I've extended the musical scale to fourteen notes, with one octave containing "fifteen notes." Perhaps you can now see the correlation between the numbers 7, 8 and 9, and the numbers 21, 22 and 23, as detailed in the last two chapters. |
| 4 | I might add that the first seven notes correspond more in terms of masculine development—more specific to The Church—and the next seven notes in terms of what is feminine and reciprocative: thus signifying completion in two successive levels. This is best illustrated in the way men and women speak, much in the same way, except women in a higher tone of voice. And so to each name I've ascribed a quality, in accord with the man/woman relationship. |
| 5 | Similarly there were the fourteen Athenian women, The Gerarai, who along with the Athenian Basilinna, or Queen of Athens, celebrated in the worship of Dionysus. Also known as the festivals of Anthesteria or, Festival of Flowers, they were held in honor of Dionysus and his new bride, the Basilinna, who thus becomes the 15th (i.e., head of the Gerarai or, one octave). There was also the chorus of sixteen women of Elis, who danced and invoked Dionysus as a bull. Which is significant, for I'd already developed the names and worked with both these numbers, "14 and 16," before drawing the correlation to the Gerarai and women of Elis. |
| 6 | Thus when multiplying 14 by 41 (i.e., Rachel x Leah) you come up with 574, as corresponds to Rachel: with "575" corresponding to the queen of Athens. And, since 14 signifies the system itself, and 41 is its reciprocal, I view both as unique, and only multiply them this way (i.e., Rachel and Leah were sisters and it initially gave me the idea). As for the result, 574, I had expressed as: The Five Earls of Roy, The Seven Principals of David, and Four Wives of Dennis (i.e., Israel had twelve sons and four wives). |
| 7a | To elaborate further, there were only five men to have a major impact in my life, and they all had the name Roy in common! (They also coincide with the six states of mind in chapter 1, and are described in chapter 6.) The Seven Davids, were either close acquaintances or people named David, of relative importance, though I reserved the number six for myself and the number eleven for Joseph Campbell (Joseph being the eleventh son of Israel). The Four Wives, correspond to a period when I thought I was going to marry four different women, over the course of a few months. |
| 7b | This happened in 1985, as I relate in part in Daphne, as well as in chapter 11 (my seventh and eighth residences), and I honestly believed it would happen. Of course it was all in my mind! But because these women represented something substantial, I still think of it this way. While to understand the myth, is to know there were four women closely associated with Dionysus, his mother and her three sisters. So in this respect the number four represents the woman's will (what I view as an unbridled horse), whereas Dionysus himself represents the fifth element, the husband (he who bridles the horse). |
| 8 | When adding these numbers, 5 + 7 + 4, you come up with sixteen: i.e., the sixteen women of Elis, and the bull. Which corresponds to Jennifer (2) and, to Taurus—The Bull, the second sign of the Zodiac. Thus it's significant that my mother's name is Elsie, which is similar to Elis (Elise?), and that Dionysus was equated with Zagreus (meaning "Zeus-like" or "great hunter"), who was portrayed as a newborn calf, born of his mother a cow. Remember Elsie, the Borden Cow? Similarly, my grandmother's name was Bessie—the cow—and my grandfather's name was Elmer—i.e., Elmer's Glue, by Borden! Which is why I've equated my mother with the man's will and, to the number two. |
| 9 | The number 14 also corresponds to Taurus, in that there are only twelve months in the zodiac (a base twelve system), and so the fourteenth month corresponds to the second sign (Taurus). And here, some material was presented to me on the 14th day of the 14th month, in 1988—on St. Valentine's Day. I was living at my sixteenth residence at the time (hence the numbers 14 and 16 again), when some young boys came upstairs and knocked on the door. But before I got there they ran away. I knew something was up so I intended to catch them the next time. Sure enough they knocked again, and I ran quickly to the door and swung it open. But there was no one there, except a copy of a magazine—of erotic nature—resting at the doorstep. Indeed, Cupid (Eros) had played his part on this day! |
| 10 | It was an older issue (January 1981), somewhat tame by today's standards, which gave me the inspiration for the fourteen names: The 14 Images of Kari. They were phenomenal pictures, like nothing I'd ever seen, clearly illustrating the man/woman relationship as it unfolded. And though they were of the same woman, each was so distinct as to depict a different woman: why I gave them different names. And this was before I knew of the fourteen Gerarai! While this woman's name, Kari, is nearly a cross between Karen and Ariadne—who, was the wife and beloved of Dionysus! And indeed both Karen and Ariadne have a similar meaning: "what is holy or pure." While in the myth, Dionysus rescues Ariadne from certain obscurity on a deserted island, even as I rescued Kari after she got trashed! |
| 11 | Hence it should soon become clear that these things haven't happened by chance, for they appear to have been preordained. As it begins to paint a picture, that gets more clear as you continue. Thus when I developed the names, it required little effort and all fell into place: while some pictures reminded me of people I already knew, others expressed a certain quality that I ascribed a name to, and others were names that just popped up and seemed suitable when I looked them up. So it's fairly obvious I've been working with my intuition here. |
| 12 | This was all brought home in January 1991 when I ran a personal ad in the newspaper for the first time. It was well after I developed the names, the year after I moved back from Grants Pass, Oregon to Santa Rosa, California (for the fourth time). When placing the ad, I was only half-serious when I said it would only mean something if I got a response from someone named Kari or, someone named Adrian (the closest to Ariadne), but not necessarily from both. I was thinking these of two because they signify the Gerarai as a whole, like the Queen of Athens. |
| 13 | I received four letters altogether (hence the number four again), and guess what? The first was from a person named Kerri, and the second was from a person named Adrienne! Which are nearly the same names! As I wasn't expecting this, least of all from both, I was perplexed, and wondered how I would decide between them. I got the opportunity to meet both women though, but nothing became of it? While another funny thing happened when I met Kerri. She decided where we would meet. Guess where? On Adrian Avenue! It was completely her idea. We met in front of the old Crown Market, which had since moved and become the 49er Pet Store (the number 49 corresponding to the name Dennis, as I relate in Karen and in chapter 8). Also, as her name was a little different, although it sounds the same, I had wondered about it. I then realized that by joining the names, you get Kerari which, if my pronunciation is correct, sounds very much like Gerarai! |
| 14 | So much for making the love connection. Even so, it all unfolded in a revelatory way, and I seemed to have a good idea about what I was doing. As for the other two letters, I didn't get a chance to meet the women, but the fourth letter was from a person named Judi, and it was equally interesting. The night before receiving it, I was staging a scenario in my mind using my visualization technique, something I had been practicing and allude to elsewhere. And for no apparent reason I felt inclined to address Humboldt State University of Arcata, California, and my stepmother, who was a professor there. Whereas I often address the first thing that comes to mind, but hadn't addressed this in months. (I refer to the experience that prompted this in the next chapter.) So I staged it before going to bed, and forgot about it shortly afterwards. |
| 15 | When I received Judi's letter the next day, it was all there. She had just graduated from Humboldt State and relocated to Sonoma County! (in Santa Rosa). Need I say more? She went on to say she was a Pisces, or fish person, and that she enjoyed water—in all its forms. Which is funny because this is what I ascribe to Judith (12) of Gerarai here: her correspondence to Pisces, the 12th sign. |
| 16 | And yet there's a couple of things that occurred several years later (1997-1999) that illustrates the Gerarai theme further, which are equally significant if not more so. And, as they occurred shortly before I finished the book (first fourteen chapters), they seem to coincide with my experience in chapter 12, which is similar and occurred shortly after I began. And indeed, much of the period in-between entails the search for Ariadne. Please see Princess Thianna and Julie Beloved in chapters 15 and 17. |
| 17 | Thus in the following pages, I give an account for each of the fourteen Gerarai. Which as you'll see, come together like adjectives, to combine and form symbols, and express the quality of things (as opposed to quantity). Similarly, this is how Swedenborg views numbers, as to their quality or spiritual sense. (He gives some detail in The Apocalypse Revealed—numbers 10, 287, 348, 738, 842, etc..) You'll also begin to see (more so in chapter 6), the inherent symmetry involved, which adds another dimension or corroboration to this. |
| 18 | "After this I looked, and, behold, a door was
opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it
were a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither .... And immediately
I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one
sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a
sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne ...
And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon
the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment
... And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices:
and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which
are the seven Spirits of God."
Revelation
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