Cryptograms as the Underlying Formation of Philosophy
Manley P. Hall wrote in Secret Teaching of All Ages regarding the "Cryptogram as a Factor in Symbolic Philosophy",
If the art of deciphering cryptograms could be made popular, it would result in the discovery of much hitherto unsuspected wisdom possessed by both ancient and mediæval philosophers. It would prove that many apparently verbose and rambling authors were wordy for the sake of concealing words. Ciphers are hidden in the most subtle manner: they may be concealed in the watermark of the paper upon which a book is printed; they may be bound into the covers of ancient books; they may be hidden under imperfect pagination; they may be extracted from the first letters of words or the first words of sentences; they may be artfully concealed in mathematical equations or in apparently unintelligible characters; they may be extracted from the jargon of clowns or revealed by heat as having been written in sympathetic ink; they may be word ciphers, letter ciphers, or apparently ambiguous statements whose meaning could be understood only by repeated careful readings; they may he discovered in the elaborately illuminated initial letters of early books or they may be revealed by a process of counting words or letters. If those interested in Freemasonic research would give serious consideration to this subject, they might find in books and manuscripts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the information necessary to bridge the gap in Masonic history that now exists between the Mysteries of the ancient world and the Craft Masonry of the last three centuries.
With reverence the wise pierce the veil and with clearer vision contemplate the reality; but the ignorant, unable to distinguish between the false and the true, behold a universe of symbols. It may well be said of Nature--the Great Mother--that she is ever tracing strange characters upon the surface of things, but only to her eldest and wisest sons as a reward for their faith and devotion does she reveal the cryptic alphabet which is the key to the import of these tracings. -emphasis mine
This above statement can be found to be linked into the Osirian/Isisian Mystery traditions via Plutarch, who says in On Isis and Osiris,
For Isis is a Greek word, and so also is Typhon, her enemy, who is conceited, as his name implies, because of his ignorance and self-deception. He tears to pieces and scatters to the winds the sacred writings, which the goddess collects and puts together and gives into the keeping of those that are initiated into the holy rites, since this consecration, by a strict regimen and by abstinence from many kinds of food and from the lusts of the flesh, curtails licentiousness and the love of pleasure, and induces a habit of patient submission to the stern and rigorous services in shrines, the end and aim of which is the knowledge of Him who is the First, the Lord of All, the Ideal One. Him does the god urge us to seek, since He is near her and with her and in close communion. The name of her shrine also clearly promises knowledge and p11comprehension of reality; for it is named Iseion,8 to indicate that we shall comprehend reality if in a reasonable and devout frame of mind we pass within the portals of her shrines.
That Manley P. Hall references "...but only to her eldest and wisest sons as a reward for their faith and devotion does she reveal the cryptic alphabet which is the key to the import of these tracings.", can too be seen as a direct parallel in Plutarch, who says that Typhon "scatters to the winds the sacred writings, which the goddess collects and puts together and gives into the keeping of those that are initiated into the holy ritessince this consecration, by a strict regimen and by abstinence from many kinds of food and from the lusts of the flesh, curtails licentiousness and the love of pleasure, and induces a habit of patient submission to the stern and rigorous services in shrines..."
Each speaks about an initiated elite that is possessing of certain keys, wherein the primary key is clearly said to be a "cryptic alphabet". In Plutarch, the "cryptic alphabet" is simply inferred, for Plutarch deals with "the letters" as "gods", hence when he refers to "gods", it is clear he is speaking about "letters". In "On the Letter E at Delphi", from Moralia V, Plutarch says of the Letter E, "That the god is no less a philosopher than a prophet, Ammonius proved to the satisfaction of all by adducing his titles one by one,..."
And if you are still not convinced that "the Mysteries" are revolving around the eluecidation of the inherent philosophy within a "cryptic Alphabet", there is this regarding the "acroamatic cipher", as spoken by Manley P. Hall, "The creation myths of the world are acroamatic cryptograms, and the deities of the various pantheons are only cryptic characters which, if properly understood, become the constituents of a divine alphabet. The initiated few comprehend the true nature of this alphabet, but the uninitiated many worship the letters of it as gods."
The Alphabet is the Code of ISIS, wherein ISIS is a cipher for SPEECH.
ISIS = 9+19+9+19 = 56 = 19+16+5+5+3+8 = SPEECH
Yet so, too, do the glyphs of the Astrological signs make up its own "divine Alphabet" to be worshipped, even as the inherent designs remain for the safe keeping of the Initiated few. Venus and Mars are examples that can be readily revealed.
Venus and Mars as Acroamatic Cryptograms
Venus and Mars present a clear example of a situation wherein the "wise" may "penetrate the veil", while the "ignorant" are confronted with a "universe of symbols". In effect, the eleucidation of the symbols for Venus and Mars provides for a clear example of how various glyphs/letters are fabricated upon larger philosophical truths.
To begin, do not be intimidated if you have never heard of any of this written in any book. Since the transference of the inherent nature of the symbols in done through an acroamatic channel, meaning through an oral explanation within controlled channels in the Initiatory (Illuminatus) systems, it stands to reason that in general, one should not expect the that the clear manner of the constructing the glyphs would be found to be committed to writing and so would not be available in any book. You can infer that knowledge is tucked away in this story of Jesus, who is removed from birth and taught from birth into the Mysteries.
This account inProtevangelion, Infancy I, Chapter XX, suggests of the hidden nature of letters wherein it is said of Jesus,
"So they brought him (Jesus) to that master; who, as soon as he saw him, wrote out an alphabet for him. And he bade him say Aleph; and when he had said Aleph, the master bade him to pronounce Beth.
Then the Lord Jesus said to him, Tell me first the meaning of the letter Aleph, and then I will pronounce Beth.
And when the master threatened to whip him, the Lord Jesus explained to him the meaning of the letters Aleph and Beth;
Also which were the straight figures of the letters, which the oblique, and what letters had double figures; which had points, and which had none; why one letter went before another; and many other things he began to tell him, and explain, of which the master had never heard, nor read in a book."
Needless to say, there is a whole hidden body of knowledge, both surface, and subsurface, regarding all the letters and astrological signs. Following revealins the nature of Venus and Mars.
Basic Occult Constructs in Venus
VENUS maintains a precise timing code as to its name. Being the second planet from the Sun, it maintains its relationship to B in that B is the profile of a pregnant woman, or in mythological particulars (acroamatic ciphering), the Goddess Isis pregnant with the baby Horus. It's secondary relationship in the Isisian Codes is that of "R", wherein when a woman's water "BR-ACHES", or breaks, the linkage of BR is manifest as in BRth, BRn, BRed, BReed, BRing, BRought, BReast, etc.
As an astronomic phenomena, the planet VENUS maintains a synodic orbit of 225 days, hence the Letters V as placed at position 22 and the E as placed at position 5 encodes the actual synodic orbit of 225 days around the Sun/
V=22
E=5
NUS = SUN
VE = 225 around the NUS (SUN)
It characteristics are that the planet is enclosed within a blanket of CLOUDS, wherein the word CLOUD serves as an anagrammic code for OCCULT, and so VENUS serves as a perfect example in "nature" of a condition to represent the attributes of the Mysteries.
OCULT = CLOUT = CLOUD - (for a comprehensive example of letter transpositions, see the blog entry "Superman and the Relationship of N to TEN (10)".
There is much more you can glean from any research into the properties of "the Goddess Isis", but the above serves as simple examples.
Basic Occult Signatures to the God of Mars
In the Illuminatus System, letters often act as whole words. This technique is oft noted as "notariqon", but the actual system was highly developed in Heliopolitan Druidism, from which much of the current Illuminatus System is derived. In the case of the word "C", this can act as both "see" and "sea", as in 93 = IC = I see. In the case of the Letter R, it can have a value of "R = are" and be "pre=positioned", as in a "pre-positioned" phrase.
In the case of MARS, we can see that we have a sequence of M ARE S, wherein the gematria can be established into the larger system via summative coding.
M = 13 = 1+2+3+...13 = 91
S = 19 = 1+2+3+...19 = 190
What you will see is that M and S are sharing palindromic coding in that each can be viewed as being both 19 and 91, hence M's are S's.
Other observations shows that MARS is the 4th planet from the Sun, and so can be related back to the Letter D, which is as the Sun coming up on the HORIZON. The planet is the "RED" planet, which is linked to the element FE at 26, or the Chemical Element number for IRON, from which the "red sun" derives its color. Too, much can be gleaned from researching into the properties of MARS, such that it exists in a "perpetual state of drought", in that it has no water, etc.
All of these are used to fuse together the larger the Construct.
The Spoken Word as the Sword
Joseph Hall, in critiquing Sir Francis Bacon, wrote a poem criticising the usage of compounding of words (taking two words to make one), wherein he says,
"He knows the grace of that new elegance
which sweet Philsides [Phillip Sidney] fetch of late from France,
That well beseem his high-style Arcady (Arcadia)
Tho others mar it with much liberty
in epithets to join two words in one".
In the case of cryptograms in words, we then must take into account the compounding of words, such as "to get her" to create "together", or "no thing" to create "nothing", but we also must be cognizant of the use of singular letters to represent whole words, as in the letter C used for both "see" and "sea". An example of this is too intimated in Shakespeare, "Hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
And from the cross-row plucks the letter G."
- Richard III, I, 1.
The "alphabet" was known as "the cross-row".
"Like all of the great poets and dramatists of the time, Shakespeare learned his basic reading and writing skills from an ABC, or horn-book. Robert Speaight in his book, Shakespeare: The Man and His Achievement, describes this book as
a primer framed in wood and covered with a thin plate of transparent horn. It included the alphabet in small letters and in capitals, with combinations of the five vowels with b, c, and d, and the Lord's Prayer in English. The first of these alphabets, which ended with the abbreviation for 'and', began with the mark of the cross. Hence the alphabet was known as 'Christ cross row' -- the cross-row of Richard III, I, i, 55. A short catechism was often included in the ABC book (the 'absey book' of King John, I, i, 196). (10)"
Hence as one must "hearken after prophecies and dreams" and "pluck the letter G", a more pragmatic way of viewing this is that if you are to seek after the hidden cryptogram within, as the naming of things was oft done through astral channels, it too might be necessary to remove a single letter, solve for the letter, and then place the sequence back into its constructed channels.
In the case of the word SWORD, we have to include all the "energetical channels", meaning established Occult and esoteric symbolism, before a full understanding of the meaning (hearkening after prophecies and dreams) can be fully established.
The primary symbol of "swords" is that it is one of the four primary suits of the TAROT, comprised of Pentacles, Wands, Cups, and Swords. Each of these suits is then fused to larger archetypical codes that then link back to astrologic or "deity" attributes. In the case of the SWORDS, the sign is associated with the Air and to all things related to thought and words and communication. In this way, the suit is associated directly to Isis, even as it is oft associated traditionally to Hera with Isis associated to "earth".
As AIR is associated with SPEECH and THOUGHT, the SWORD would need to be broken down into its S-WORD, for the WORD is PI is the ALPHABET. Thus the S, as being associated with AIR and COMMUNICATION AND SPEECH, becomes associated with the SPOKEN WORD TRADITONS (again linking back to ISIS) as the Veil covering the Eyes of in the "two of swords" hints of the Scales of Liberty equally.
Now that we have connected the dots, we can "hearken after prophecies and dreams" (solve for the cryptogram) and bring out the code of SWORD.
SWORD = SPOKEN WORD = SPOKE and WORD
Now we begin to link back all the symbols. The Spoke is the radius of a circle. Hence the Sword is as the radius of a circle equally. When we speak, and we have finished, then we have "spoken", or we "have spoke". The "spoke" of speaking is linked to the "spoke" of the wheel" which is linked to the SWORD via the "spoken word". However, the archetype is that the SPOKE is the radius, and so what is "the Word" but the CIRCLE or PI?
So the code is simple.
SWORD = SPOKEN WORD = SPOKE and the WORD
The "SWORD" contains both the idea of a RADIUS (and an implied diameter), and with it, the "omnific Word, or Pi." Hence, the SPOKEN WORD contains the whole of the esoteric code.
Ingeniously crafted and hidden away from view.
Integrating the SPOKEN WORD into VENUS and MARS
Now consider the "letters" of "Venus" and "Mars" in light of the Acroamatic Cipher. In the case of MARS, Mars is regarded as "the god of War" and so is linked back to Seth. When we consider the "birth of Seth", we read the following:
"On the third day Typhon was born, but not in due season or manner, but with a blow he broke through his mother's side and leapt forth." That is all we are told. That is all we needed to be told. The third day we can equate to the SEA and C as Typhon, and if he was born with a "blow from his mother's side", what this is describing in an acroamatic fashion is the very sign for the "god of Mars".The "sword" is piercing with a blow through "his mother's side".
This is key. For we then must link the story of "Jesus" to the "Father". John 19:33-34 But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead already, so they didn't break his legs. One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out.
What is wrong with the picture? "Blood and water" is the sign of giving BIRTH, and so the acroamatic cipher of Jesus is symbolic of "the Goddess" at time of giving birth, and so this statement is an acroamatic cipher for VENUS!What is being born with a blow from the mother's side is "MARS" and when the side is pierced and "blood and water came out", such is describing "VENUS".
The operative element is "the Sword". The Spoke and the Word. The Diameter as inferred by a radius and Pi as the WORD or circumference of the wheel.
From here, one can peer into the mysteries further to reveal more of the construct and the letters upon which this story is further constructed.
