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1The first is the Golden Age, which began with a most delightful climate, a gentle, fruitful, universal summer. This ancient seat of science was indeed divinely favored by the laws of Nature throughout long ages, and no wonder it was christened the Golden Age, which corresponds to Fire. But the Poles gradually moved on, though at no time during this age was the meridian altitude of the Sun, on the shortest day, less than 27 degrees; the latitude of the observatory. Then came the Silver Age, which corresponds to the element of Air. This period lasted for 540 Divine Years, and was a variable period. The summers were hot and the days long; the winters were cold and the days short, but the Sun was always visible above the horizon at noon on the shortest day, and the Tropics reached an angle of 63 degrees. Next in rotation we have the Copper Age, corresponding to the element of Water, which lasted for 360 Divine Years. It was indeed a dull, watery, lifeless period. A Tropical summer and an Arctic winter, the spring deluging the plains and lowlands with frightful floods, etc. The Tropics moved another 18 degrees nearer the Pole, and on the shortest day at noon the Sun never rose, but was 18 degrees below the horizon. As, however, 18 degrees is within the angle of twilight, they had no absolute darkness.
2Lastly comes the Iron Age, corresponding to the Earth; the Age of Horror, which lasted 180 Divine Years, and at noon on the shortest day the Sun was 27 degrees below the horizon, and never rose for weeks together in midwinter. It was cold, dark, frozen and death-like, and a period when the extremes of heat and cold waged incessant war, neither obtaining the victory. In closing this chapter, we will reproduce, for notice, that the Pole passed over 90 degrees, or one-fourth of the circle, in 1,800 Divine Years, or 648,000 common years. Therefore, it passed its complete orbit of 360 degrees in 7,200 Divine Years, or 2,592,000 iy Google 108 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT common years, from which take the Prajanatha Yug of 2,160,000 common years, and the remainder is the Cali Yug of 432,000 common years, or the Age of Heat. The Cali Yug is one-sixth of the polar orbit, and five Cali Yugs make the Prajanatha Yug. The 70 Elders initiated by Moses and Aaron were symbolical of the 72 Divine Years; that is, 70 Elders and Moses and Aaron, making the total 72, or the magic 9; which is the period of the Sun passing the 12 signs of the Zodiac, or 25,920 years. It states in the Holy Writ that they (the 70 Elders and Moses and Aaron) saw the God of Israel, which, of course, was the Sun; and the 72 Elders represented its Great Cycle, or 72 times 360 common years equals 25,920 years.
3A COMPARISON OF THE HARMONY OF ESOTERIC NUMBERS AND ESOTERIC CYCLES IN REFERENCE TO TIME AND MOTION The Earth’s Pole moves 1 degree in.7,200 common years And also moves once round in.7,200 Divine years The Sun moves thro’ space at rate of.108,000 Miles per hour In one hour the Earth, by its revolution on its axis, causes 15 degrees of the Zodiac to rise, culminate and set; while the Pole moves 15 degrees of its orbit in.108,000 common years The Earth, by its diurnal motion, causes the 360 degrees of the Zodiac to rise and set in 24 hours, and in this time the Sun travels thro’ space.2,592,000 Miles While a Polar Day of 360 degrees is.2,592,000 Years And the Sun moves round its orbit in.25,920 Years Note that the sum of the digits in each number is the magic 9 Did Good o e CHAPTER VI LA CLEF A Key to the Work of Abbot Trithemius, entitled— “The Secondaries, or Ruling Intelligences Who, After God, Actuate the Universe.” The periods of the ruling Principles, or Intelligences, and their order of succession in the government of the world is incorrectly stated by the Abbot Trithemius, although there is every reason to be¬ lieve that this wise and truly learned Abbot knew perfectly well what the true period and order of succession was.
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1The first is the Golden Age, which began with a most delightful climate, a gentle, fruitful, universal summer. This ancient seat of science was indeed divinely favored by the laws of Nature throughout long ages, and no wonder it was christened the Golden Age, which corresponds to Fire. But the Poles gradually moved on, though at no time during this age was the meridian altitude of the Sun, on the shortest day, less than 27 degrees; the latitude of the observatory. Then came the Silver Age, which corresponds to the element of Air. This period lasted for 540 Divine Years, and was a variable period. The summers were hot and the days long; the winters were cold and the days short, but the Sun was always visible above the horizon at noon on the shortest day, and the Tropics reached an angle of 63 degrees. Next in rotation we have the Copper Age, corresponding to the element of Water, which lasted for 360 Divine Years. It was indeed a dull, watery, lifeless period. A Tropical summer and an Arctic winter, the spring deluging the plains and lowlands with frightful floods, etc. The Tropics moved another 18 degrees nearer the Pole, and on the shortest day at noon the Sun never rose, but was 18 degrees below the horizon. As, however, 18 degrees is within the angle of twilight, they had no absolute darkness.
2Lastly comes the Iron Age, corresponding to the Earth; the Age of Horror, which lasted 180 Divine Years, and at noon on the shortest day the Sun was 27 degrees below the horizon, and never rose for weeks together in midwinter. It was cold, dark, frozen and death-like, and a period when the extremes of heat and cold waged incessant war, neither obtaining the victory. In closing this chapter, we will reproduce, for notice, that the Pole passed over 90 degrees, or one-fourth of the circle, in 1,800 Divine Years, or 648,000 common years. Therefore, it passed its complete orbit of 360 degrees in 7,200 Divine Years, or 2,592,000 iy Google 108 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT common years, from which take the Prajanatha Yug of 2,160,000 common years, and the remainder is the Cali Yug of 432,000 common years, or the Age of Heat. The Cali Yug is one-sixth of the polar orbit, and five Cali Yugs make the Prajanatha Yug. The 70 Elders initiated by Moses and Aaron were symbolical of the 72 Divine Years; that is, 70 Elders and Moses and Aaron, making the total 72, or the magic 9; which is the period of the Sun passing the 12 signs of the Zodiac, or 25,920 years. It states in the Holy Writ that they (the 70 Elders and Moses and Aaron) saw the God of Israel, which, of course, was the Sun; and the 72 Elders represented its Great Cycle, or 72 times 360 common years equals 25,920 years.
3A COMPARISON OF THE HARMONY OF ESOTERIC NUMBERS AND ESOTERIC CYCLES IN REFERENCE TO TIME AND MOTION The Earth’s Pole moves 1 degree in.7,200 common years And also moves once round in.7,200 Divine years The Sun moves thro’ space at rate of.108,000 Miles per hour In one hour the Earth, by its revolution on its axis, causes 15 degrees of the Zodiac to rise, culminate and set; while the Pole moves 15 degrees of its orbit in.108,000 common years The Earth, by its diurnal motion, causes the 360 degrees of the Zodiac to rise and set in 24 hours, and in this time the Sun travels thro’ space.2,592,000 Miles While a Polar Day of 360 degrees is.2,592,000 Years And the Sun moves round its orbit in.25,920 Years Note that the sum of the digits in each number is the magic 9 Did Good o e CHAPTER VI LA CLEF A Key to the Work of Abbot Trithemius, entitled— “The Secondaries, or Ruling Intelligences Who, After God, Actuate the Universe.” The periods of the ruling Principles, or Intelligences, and their order of succession in the government of the world is incorrectly stated by the Abbot Trithemius, although there is every reason to be¬ lieve that this wise and truly learned Abbot knew perfectly well what the true period and order of succession was.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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