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"The Earth is my Ark!"©© Jim Bowles
Guest article by Jim Bowles, author of "The Gods, Gemini, and the Great Pyramid."
We are obsessed with the need to separate Church and State, Religion from Science, and Faith from Enterprise, telling ourselves that they are separate and discrete. But in the ancient world the blend of science and divinity was complete and the Cultural elements of each were inseparable one from the other. It's in our refusal to accept this in our own culture, that we haven't the means to understand it in theirs. "The Earth is my Ark," is an attempt to re-introduce the "Culture of Science" and the "Culture of Divinity" as one Establishment. The Poem follows the narrative of Noah's Ark as told in Chapter Six of GENESIS from the Old Testament. Everything is verifiable, and I hope you are as Pleasantly Surprised as I was, when you see that the Ark is actually the Earth, and that the story purpose is intent on passing down certain Truths. One of these is the mathematical constant Pi ( ), the knowledge of which we have steadfastly denied the Ancients. It is given to us (poetically) to the fifth decimal place _ 3.14162. You'll Smile when you see how the association, using the Sacred number "Ten" (10), emerged as a link between Procreation and Mathematical Science! In the matter of Procreation, " .. the (1) is for the him and the (0) is for her!" Similarly, the dimensions God gave Noah for the Ark, [300 Cubits long with a breath of 50 and a depth of 30] artfully gives us the Circumference of the Earth as 300 Cubits, the Depth of the Earth's mantle, expressed as the ratio [30/50 ths], and it gives us the Radius of the core as the remaining [20/50 ths]. We have only to fill in our knowledge of the diameter of the Earth to learn its dimensional proportions. There is purposeful humor in God's instruction to Noah for making the Ark. It was to have three stories with a "window." The genuine intent, as all ancient scripts are written in metaphor, was not a boat-house with first, second and third floors, but rather, Noah was to construct the Earth with an Iron Core, an Outer Mantle, and an Atmospheric "Window," through which man could survey the heavens. My favorite parts of the Poem, should I have favorite parts, are these, Firstly, we discover the possibility that the pyramids of Giza may, in part, be a reflection of Noah's Earthly Ark, and Secondly, that the opening passage of GENESIS, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," |
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