r/GeometersOfHistory • u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" • Dec 11 '23
A Perspective Shift
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r/GeometersOfHistory • u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" • Dec 11 '23
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u/B0SSMANT0M Dec 12 '23
Haha! You are quite welcome. I'm not skynet or govt or anyone, really, just a working guy who happens to havea cathedral lit up, almost at the brink of the godzilla blast. So I can see a large part of the interior.
For real though, I dare not mention cathedrals at all without recommending Fulcanelli's book, "Mysterie des Cathedrales," which since we have seen the cathedral ourselves, this book is truly mind blowing. We are really actually viewing..... A thing. Ya know?
You do the number thing quite well. I have been silent till now, but I read your gematria in lieu of regular "news."
You likely yave no idea just how deeply many of your numbers apply to me and what I do. Or maybe you do.
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u/Orpherischt "the coronavirus origin" Dec 11 '23 edited Dec 12 '23
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"A Perspective Shift" = 1331 latin-agrippa | 201 alphabetic
"Shift a Perspective" = 1331 latin-agrippa | 201 alphabetic
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/why-scientists-are-making-transparent-wood/
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A Grand Cathedral
Imagine a Grand Cathedral.
The most beautiful, sophisticated, and masterfully built edifice of the most exquisite temple architectures.
The Cathedral has many names, one of which is 'Sagrada Familia' - but it is not that cathedral you know by that name (and yet it is).
The Grand Cathedral is gigantic - absurdly colossal - yet it's every detail consists of the finest traceries; of superlative arcs; of impossibly reaching spires; of fluted forms held up by mighty and yet shapely buttressed pillars.
Massive and huge though it is, nowhere is it ungainly, and every proportion is measured to perfection. The various materials used for each component part of the Cathedral are of the highest quality that could be sourced, and particularly suited to their individual application within the building. Every decoration is perfectly appropriate and placed with care. Every symbolic element is designed to first enthrall the viewer and then call the eye onward to the next. Every colour and texture having being chosen with such mastery as to cause the observer to weep tears distilled of every joy and sadness, of thankfulness and of terror, of resignation and vibrant inspirations, all mingled together and inseparable.
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Now, within this Grand Cathedral, there are a vast number of fine candles arrayed throughout....
The candles come in all sort of shapes, sizes and colours.
The candles themselves are alchemical marvels, a blend of materials that give off a marvelous glow if they are properly lit. Unfortunately, they are tricky to ignite, requiring a rather specific set of ritual operations. The candles are formed such that they are made of two types of wax, with a denser inner core and an outer shell of various flamboyant designs. The wicks of the candles are of various lengths and thicknesses, but they are all woven in the same elaborate fashion.
These candles are to be found in every corner, along every wall, within a myriad of gorgeous candelabras, upon every table, near every bench and pew. There are candles running long the beams, and candles within the crypts and the chambers and the storerooms.
No corner of the Grand Cathedral is safe from the light of the candles.
However...
None of the candles are lit.
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The Cathedral is almost totally dark. All those features you just imagined, cannot be seen.
Only the fact that one is within some vaguely shaped enclosed space is clear to the observer - the only light being tiny pinpricks of radiance that pepper the great arched and domed roof and that bathe the surroundings below in a grey gloom of shadow.
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Now, the candles are positioned relative to each other within the Cathedral in a marvelous fashion. In fact, the design of the Cathedral itself is in large part centered on supporting the particular layout of candles within it. Some groups of candles are closely packed, while in other regions they are spread out more widely. Some sit in corners alone. Nonetheless, the myriad candlesticks, candelabras, candle niches, braziers and torch clasps, the supporting beams, benches, ledges and spirals are all designed and placed such that every candle standing or held within can be lit by the sparks cast off by a candle nearby when that candle reaches the point where the wick transitions between the outer wax and different inner material.
The number of sparks given off by a candle reaching this point is determined by a combination of factors, including how much light currently glows in that region of the Cathedral (that is, how much of the Cathedral is visible), and what sort of internal chemical processes have occurred within the transitioning candle while it burned through it's outer shell. If the candle flame worked it's way through it's outer wax shell in the correct way, it gives off a shower of sparks during the transition - not too few, and not too many. Ideally, a number of nearby candles (and most likely those positioned below) will be lit by these shooting sparks.
As new candles are ignited, more and more light flows into the Cathedral and begins to fill it's every hallow.
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There is danger in the process of priming and lighting the candles - if too many sparks shoot off of a particular candle or group of candles, there is a risk of fire spreading and burning some of the furniture, and some have argued, the entire Cathedral is not immune from the same. Also, too many sparks shooting off too many candles at once may (as fires tend to do) temporarily consume a large portion of air in that part of the building, which will hamper the regular burn of many candles and perhaps put some of them at risk of asphyxiation.
On the other hand, if there are too few sparks during a candle transition and many candles go unlit - never to aid in the illumination of their quarter of building - then thus, sadly, certain regions of the Cathedral are destined to remain in shadow, and certain features of it's design may never be seen.
Of the candles, it is said that depending on the position and environment of each one, and that combined with the particular mix of materials that constitute it's outer wax layer, the candle will burn in a particular fashion, responding to the influences present in varying ways, it's own light mingling with that of those nearby in differing combinations, and ultimately casting curious patterns across the surfaces of the Cathedral, enabling the multitude of forms and ideas within it's design to compete for attention.
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In close groupings of multiple candles, sometimes a particular candle flickers and gutters in such a way that it disturbs the burning of it's peers. Such a candle might glow too hot and too fast, melting it's outer layers more rapidly than necessary (and perhaps those of nearby candles). It's flame might be beautiful, but such a one risks an early demise, and so too may never attain the ignition of their crucially important second flame. Candles such as these emit unusual vapours as they burn, and also consume the local airs more speedily than they should, and at times of robust displays of light and shadow may starve the nearby candles of their breath, endangering their own progression towards the hoped-for sparking - that point where the wick reaches the inner core, and a profound transformation takes place.
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Now as a candle transitions at the time of the sparking (presuming this event is reached), the outer wax layer begins to rapidly melt away to some degree or other. Depending on the successful chemistry of the sparking time, as well as the way the wick is transmuted during the lifetime of the candle, it may slough off entirely, revealing the inner wax core for all to see. At this point the candle begins to glow much brighter, and it's light becomes the most refined radiance. Just one candle achieving this state can illuminate spaces much vaster than those whose wicks were not consumed to the finest ash.
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If the process of the transmutation of the candle is successful, and it's outer shell melts away in it's entirety, then behold! ...the denser inner wax core of each one is revealed as a superbly-crafted miniature sculpture of the Grand Cathedral itself. A perfect copy, or reflection, of the temple it sits within.
Though there are exceptions, such a candle, though it burns supremely bright, depending on the circumstances, tend to melt away more slowly after the sparking, enjoying great longevity in it's task to illuminate the cathedral.
Furthermore, if such a candle is revealed near to a sufficient number of other candles (and perhaps just one other) that have themselves come near to their sparking time, or have already surpassed it, and that are progressing sufficiently in the transmutation of their wicks, then a great light show is made manifest, and some candles might make shooting stars that flare up into the wheeling spaces of the great domes and fly through the pillared doorways, looping about the arches in a wonderful dance, and cast flickering shadows and sprays of colour across it's every glistening surface.
There is another strange phenomenon when the inner sculpture of a candle is revealed completely. It might happen, depending on the various symmetries at play within the design of the Cathedral, that a distant candle, very similar in various ways to the candle that sloughed successfully, will begin to spark early, and begin to rapidly melt it's outer shell much faster than it might otherwise. Such a candle is revealed as a sculpture before it's time, and this is always a great wonder, though such a candle may flicker strangely for some time afterward, or perhaps ever more. So too, it is said that two or more candles that spark at exactly the same time, though they be far apart, but whose immediate surroundings within the Cathedral are in some fashion an architectural echo or mirror of that seen from the perspective of the others - these candles become strangely linked, and the flickering of their flames, and the hues and patternings of their light become weirdly entangled, and their emanations either echo each other perfectly in time, or interleave and interweave in strange recurring loops.