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"Text: (1)  THE CHAPTER OF HAVING EXISTENCE NIGH UNTO RA. 1"


And I say, 'On every road
                    "and among (11) these millions of years is Ra the lord,
                    "and his path is in the fire; and they go round about
                    "behind him, and they go round about behind him

Cassell's English Dictionary 1974

planet  (plan et) [O.F. planete, late L. planeta, Gr. planetes, from planum , to lead astray, planathai, to wander], n.
A heavenly body revolving round the sun, either as a primary planet in a nearly cir-cular orbit or as a secondary planet or satellite revolving round a primary; (Ancient Astron) one of the major planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars Jupi-ter Saturn together with the sun and moon, dis-tinguished from other heavenly bodies as having an apparent motion of its own.
 

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"Going outwards from the Sun, the first half dozen planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn."
 

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" The earth makes a complete circuit around its own axis once every twenty-four hours and has an equatorial circumference of 24,902.45 miles..." "...Viewed from outer space, looking down on the North Pole, the direction of rotation is anti-clockwise,       While spinning daily on its own axis, the earth also orbits the sun (again in an anti-clockwise direction) on a path which is slightly elliptical rather than completely circular. It pursues this orbit at truly breakneck speed, travelling as far along it in an hour - 66, 600 miles - ..."
"...To bring the calculations down in scale, this means we are hurtling through space..." "...at the rate of 18..5 miles every second."

Page 252  2 + 5 + 2 = 9

"The plane of the earth's orbit projected outwards to form a great circle in the celestial sphere, is known as the ecliptic. Ringed around the ecliptic, in a starry belt that extends approximately 7º north and south are the twelve constellations of the Zodiac: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius Sagittarius, Capricor-nus, Aquarius and Pisces. These constellations are irregular in size, shape and distribution. Nevertheless (and one assumes by chance!) their spacing around the rim of the ecliptic is sufficiently even to bestow a sense of cosmic order upon the diurnal risings and settings of the sun"
 
The scribe watched as the Zed Aliz Zed took the smile that had been raised by the words "and one assumes by chance" and cast it against the rock that it be broken into a shattering of Nine hundred and Ninety Nine shards of lightnings fall.
 

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Page 58  "Views as to the beginning of things lie almost beyond scientific argument. We cannot give scientific reasons why the world should have been created one way rather than another. But I suppose that we all have an aesthetic feeling in the matter. The solar system must have started somehow, and I do not know why it should not have been started by projecting nine  planets in orbits going in the same direction round the sun"
 
                  Oh the so, oh so delightful, monstrous, wonderous beauty of it all, said Zed Ali Zed, lost for words.
 

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"We now know the solar system to consist of nine planets. Closest to the Sun is Mercury,..." "...Next is Venus..."
"...Beyond the Earth is its outer neighbour Mars.
"...These four are often called the terrestrial planets, for they are all rocky globes like the earth and presumably are experiencing the same basic life-history..." "... But the case is quite different with the next four, the 'giant planets': Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune..."

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"...Marking the perimeter of the solar system is the ninth planet, Pluto,..."
 
Sun + Mercury + Venus         EARTH            Mars + Jupiter + Saturn + Uranus  +  Neptune + Pluto  
   3     +     7      +      5                                          4     +     7     +      6     +      6       +        7      +    5
                15                                                                                                    35
                                              15 + 35
                                                  50 + Earth = 55 Now add to reduce said Zed Aliz  5 + 5 =10  I + 0 = 1
 
Sun + Mercury + Venus + Earth  MOON   Mars + Jupiter + Saturn + Uranus  +  Neptune + Pluto  
   3     +     7      +      5     +    5                         4    +     7     +      6     +      6       +        7      +    5
                         20                                                                                    35 

                                                      20 + 35
                                                          55 + Moon = 59  5 + 9 = 14  1 + 4 = 5
 
Sun + Mercury + Venus  EARTH      Moon + Mars + Jupiter + Saturn + Uranus  +  Neptune + Pluto  
   3     +     7      +      5                         4    +    4     +     7     +      6     +      6       +        7      +    5
                15                                                                                           39
                                               15 + 39 = 54 5 + 4 = 9
 
SUN   Mercury + Venus   EARTH  MOON     Mars + Jupiter + Saturn + Uranus  +  Neptune + Pluto  
               7      +      5                                          4    +     7     +      6     +      6       +        7      +    5
 

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"SOMEONE ONCE put forward an attractive though unlikely theory. Throughout our annual revolution around the Sun there is one point perpetually hidden from our eyes. This point is the opposite part of the earth's orbit, which is always hidden by the Sun.1 Could there not be another planet there, essentially similar to our own but always invisible?
      "If a space probe today sent back evidence that such a world existed it would cause not much more sensation than Sir William Herschel's discovery of a new planet, Uranus, in 1781."

Page 133   1 x 3 x 3 = 9   1 + 3 + 3 = 7

"HERSCHEL MAY have been the first to identify Uranus, but he was certainly not the first to detect it. It had been charted no less than 19 times beforehand, but always passed for an ordinary star;"  
 
The scribe being required to write NINETEEN did so, also recording  that page 133 contained in total 33 lines of script of one kind or another.
 

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"Neptune..."  "...The eighth planet from the Sun..." discovered in 1846 by J. G. Galle, after its position had been predicted mathematically by J.C.*Adams and U.J. J. * Le Verrier."
 

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"IN MANY ways the story of the detection of Pluto is the same as that of Neptune, though with a twist in its tail. Two mathe-maticians, this time both American, predicted the region of the sky where it was eventually found. The astronomers were Lowell, of Martian fame, and W. H. Pickering..."  

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"...But Planet P refused to show up, and the search was called off. For a time the problem was in abeyance, until in 1928 the restless Pickering announced fresh results and urged another search. This was carried out, fittingly enough at Lowell's own observatory, and on March 13^th, 1930, the discovery of the faint, slow-moving planet by a now eminent astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh, was announced. By a curious coincidence it was 149 years to the day, since Herschel had discovered Uranus.1..."
"1 Moreover it was within 15º of the discovery-position of Uranus."
 

Page 14 " In order to fix in our minds the vastness of the system that we shall have to consider, I will give you a celestial multiplication table."  We start with a star as the unit most familiar to us, a globe comparable to the sun.

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"Our absolute isolation in space is brought home best by imagining everything in terms of a small-scale model. Shrink-ing the Sun to the size of an orange reduces the Earth to a grain of sand circling about 25 feet away. Pluto is a much smaller grain of sand about 300yards away. But we should have to walk 1,400 miles before finding the nearest star -
another orange. It is clear that on the stellar scale the solar system is an extremely compact unit, so compact as to be utterly insignificant. This blow to our pride is but one of the many we have received since the discovery of the telescope.
     The sun is a star - a quite ordinary star - and it is just one of perhaps 100,000,000,000 stars that collectively make up the local system or galaxy, usually referred to simply as the Galaxy. Galaxies are very common in space, for they are the units of the universe in the same way as atoms are the units of matter. Wherever we look we see galaxies, and the number detectable with the largest telescopes runs into the thousand million.        All the individual stars visible in the night sky belong to the Galaxy, for the other galaxies, even though they contain millions of stars, are so distant that they appear merely as dim blurs of light. Over the whole sky the naked eye can see per- 6,000 stars, while a large telescope will count several million. This is considerably less than the population estimate because certain vast tracts of interstellar space are filled with tenuous obscuring matter - dust or gas, or both - which blocks out the light from more distant regions. In some ways this is fortunate, for recent studies with radio telescopes have suggested that some parts, especially near the centre of the Galaxy, would light up the sky more effectively than the full moon!
     The gap of 4  1/3 light-years between the Sun and its neigh-bour is a reasonable average of interstellar distances, and it turns out that the Galaxy's population is grouped in a colossal spiral system about 80,000 light-years across, At the centre is a relatively dense nucleus with a diameter of perhaps 20,000 light-years, and from this trail the immense spiral arms. These arms are slowly rotating, like some ponderous catherine wheel: in the region of the sun, far out on one of the arms, it takes over 200,000,000 years to achieve one revolution. In addition to this general spin all the stars have random motions of their own, but they are so far apart that the likelihood of the sun for instance, colliding with or even passing near another star is vanishingly small. For on the scale model orange-sized stars are separated by well over a thousand miles."
 
Page 63                                                                   The Planets
 

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"...Berosus, the Chaldean historian, astronomer and seer of the third century BC, who made a deep study of the omens he believed would presage the final destruction of the world. He concluded, 'I Berosus, interpreter of Bellus, affirm that all the earth inherits will be consigned to flame when the five planets assemble in Cancer, so arranged in one row that a straight line may pass through their spheres.' 9
        A conjunction of five planets that can be expected to have profound gravitational effects will take place on 5 May in the year 2000 when Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Mercury and Mars will align with earth on the other side of the sun, setting up a sort of cosmic tug-of-war. 10 Let us also note that modern astrologers who have charted the Mayan date 

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for the end of the fifth sun calculate that there will be a most peculiar arrangement of planets at that time, indeed an arrangement so peculiar that 'it can only occur once in 45,200 years .  .  . From this extraordinary pattern we might well expect an extraordinary effect.'11
        No one in his or her right mind would rush to accept such a proposition. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that multiple influen-ces, many of which we do not fully understand, appear to be at work within our solar system."
 
Then to the scribes amazing sense of wonder the Zed Aliz Zed said  Sir Don Bradman had an average score as a batsman in test cricket of  99.9.
Being out without score, in his last test match, when needing only four runs to achieve a century average.
 
After a pause for rest, and now, unable to see the trees for the  would you believe it leaves well alone. The Alizzed led the scribe and fitting shadows, safely onwards, and  upwards, t'wards yon glorious far yonder Rainbow Bridge, one giant fairy step at a nine.
 
Everybody still got that thread said Zed Aliz. Everybody still got that thread echoed the shadows.
Everybody still got that thread writ the scribe.
 
Nine to move on then said Zed Aliz, seeking the understanding, of an understanding scribe.
 

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           "The last romance of Science, the most daring it has ever tried to pen, is the Story of the Ascent of Man."

                                                                            THE ASCENT OF MAN
J. Bronowski 1973

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" Knowledge makes prodigious journeys, and what seems to us a leap in time often turns out to be a long progression from place to place, from one city to another."
"...As one example among many, the mathematics of Pythagoras has not come to us directly. It fired the imagination of the Greeks, but the place where it was formed into an orderly system was the Nile city, Alexandria. The man who made the system, and made it famous was Euclid, who probably took it to Alexandria around 300 BC.
       Euclid evidently belonged to the pythagorean tradition. When a listener asked him what was the practical use of some theorem, Euclid is reported to have said contemptuously to his slave, 'He wants to profit from learning give him a penny'.
The reproof was probably adapted from a motto of the Pythagorean brotherhood, which translates roughly as 'A diagram and a step, not a diagram and a penny'-



                                              'a step' being a step in knowledge or what I have called the Ascent of Man.



   The impact of Euclid as a model of mathematical reasoning was immense and lasting. His book Elements of Geometry was trans- lated and copied more than any other book exept the Bible right  

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into modern times..."
   "... The other science practised in Alexandria in the centuries around the birth of Christ was astronomy. Again, we can catch the drift of history in the undertow of legend: when the Bible says that three wise men followed a star to Bethlehem, there sounds in the story the echo of an age when wise men are starg-azer The secret of the heavens that wise men looked for in antiquity was read by a Greek called Claudius Ptolemy, working in Alexandria about AD 150. His work came to Europe in Arabic texts, for the original Greek manuscript editions were largely lost, some in the pillage of the great library of Alexandria by Christian zealots in AD 389, others in the wars and invasions that swept the  Eastern Mediterranean throughout the Dark Ages.
    The model of the heavens that Ptolemy constructed is wonder fully complex, but it begins from a simple analogy. The moon revolves around the earth, obviously; and it seemed just as obvious to Ptolemy that the sun and planets do the same.
( The ancients thought of the moon and the sun as planets) The Greeks had believed that the perfect form of motion is a circle, and so Ptolemy made the planets run on circles running in their turn on other circles. To us that scheme of cycles and epicycles seems both simple-minded and artificial. Yet in fact the system was a beautiful and a workable invention, and an article of faith for Arabs and Christians right through the Middle Ages It lasted for fourteen hundred years, which is a great deal longer than any more recent scientific theory can be expected to survive without radical change."

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"The symbolic year of destiny was just ahead, 1543. In that year, three books were published that changed the mind of Europe: the anatomical drawings of Andreas Vesalius; the first translation of the Greek mathematics and physics of Archimedes; and the book by Nicholas Copernicus, The Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs, which put the sun at the centre of heaven and created what is now called the scientific Revolution."
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