Sacred Number and the History of Civilisation

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A few weeks back, the frustration of calculating musical tones, based upon limiting whole numbers (see my  Precessional Time book, chapter 3) using the methods developed in Sumaria, Egypt (predynastic and dynastic), Babylon, Israel and Greece, finally got the better of me and I thought a web page could do the job. I am hosting the result on the www.matrixofcreation.co.uk website.

Moses at 120, dying at the heighth of his powers, alone on the twin peaks of Mount Mashu), looking over the Jordan at the Holy Land he was forbid to enter. (120 does NOT double naturally into calendar values. Other Bible stories are veiled right here.) I cannot disguise my senile affection for ancient metaphor, whimsy, and divine comedy.

Ernest McClain, 7th November 2011

To those new to Ernest McClain, his work The Myth of Invariance, was one of the seminal works of anyone in my generation and before, in that he opened up a world of meaning obtained through a genuine Pythagorean vision of how number operates in the domain of harmony. This world of harmony is defined in a quite extraordinary and specific way and we, as human beings, can receive it through our mind and senses. It relates to the unusual fact that whilst all notes that are doubled have a perfect consonance, through the number two, a whole world is opened up within what we call octaves that define intervals that are harmonious through the use of only two other prime numbers, three and five. Thus music, that is so effective upon the human heart builds a world of meaning, through understanding harmony as generated through numeric transitions, within music.

In 2008 I prepared a summary of Ernest McClain's statements about Agni because in the midst of the perfect symmetry of musical harmony lies something new born to the world, opposite its beginnings and endings, this for my friend Anthony Blake in our attempt to study the origin of creativity within the existing world. It appears that something important comes into being at the centre of this issue of harmony, just as we come into existence in the middle of the universe, as conscious beings, conscious of our incompletion.

It occured to me to include this in an email to Ernest and, all in, he has said in reply "I can't imagine anyone improving on your few pages" and "Put it out now on your own website stamped with my approval". Please enjoy this transmission from the centre of the octave:

What Ernest McClain says about Agni in The Myth of Invariance

Visit Ernest McClain website: Musical Adventures in Ancient Mythology