As you may have read in a prior paper, or likely heard me expound at length in any venue, I postulate that communication interpenetrates the method of communication in a complex non-linear way and at it’s root communication is an expression of the manifestation into the observable space of the One Thing. This posterior expression of underlying Awareness moves through, interpenetrates, all aspects of all communication media or method. If have not heard of this idea anywhere before; you can be the judge if this idea has validity.
In the late 13th century Rabbi Bachya Ben Asher found a code hidden in the book of Genesis. He read 4 letters, skipped 42, read another 4 letters, and so on. When ran together the letters are a passage about the formation of the moon, and with gematria shows a lunar month as being 29.530594 days. In 1996 NASA by satellite calculated it at 29.530588, the difference being about 5 seconds.
This research was picked up by HMD Weissmandel in the 1940’s who coined the term for this kind of code Equidistant Letter Sequence ELS.
While a basic skip code would have the entire text all on one line in a sense, another permutation on the idea is to lay the text out in rows of equal numbers of characters and look for skip sequences vertically, horizontally, diagonally, forward and backwards.
Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific steganographic method using computers became widespread in 1994 when Doron Witztum (physicist), Eliyahu Rips (a group theorist) and Yoav Rosenberg (a computer programmer) published a paper, "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis", in the scientific journal Statistical Science. The paper, which was presented by the journal as a "challenging puzzle", presented what appeared to be strong statistical evidence that biographical information about 34 famous rabbis was encoded in the text of the Book of Genesis, centuries before those rabbis lived.
The Rabbis names were each crossed with dates and other details about each of the men.
They looked for these same rabbis names in other significant texts like War and Peace in which had been found some faintly encoded information, but none of these names were to be found anywhere except in Genesis. In total 166 famous rabbis names have been found in Genesis.
Dr. Eliyahu Rips said that “the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the torah codes exist and are not a mere coincidence.”
In 1997, when Dr. Harold Gans, a senior cryptological mathmentician for the FBI and the NSA heard about it he set out to discredit the bible codes and created his own computer program to independently check, and he too found these same rabbis names and dates, but he also found their places of birth and death.
Brendan McKay of the Computer Science Department of the Australian National University, in conjunction with Dror Bar-Natan, Maya Bar-Hillel and Gil Kalai of the Jerusalem Hebrew University, wrote an article which appeared in the September 1999 Statistical Science entitled "Solving the Bible Code." The article refuted the original 1995 paper claiming that the method used to establish statistical significance was flawed.
McKay also demonstrated that any large block of text will yield ELS codes with seemingly meaningful bunches of words. In the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea signed in 1982, he searched for words after making the text more hebrew-like (removing the vowels). In it he found the code:
Hear all the law of the sea
as well as:
NATO need an agreement on the sea
The probabilities of finding them in the document he estimated as 95 out of a million and 21 out of a million respectively.
While the three authors were working on their paper, Michael Drosnin, a former reporter with the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, became interested in encrypted messages in the bible. He interviewed and spent time with Rips, then started using similar methods to search through the Bible for word sequences that might be used to predict future events. His most famous find was a prediction" of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin which he located in 1994. Drosnin warned Israeli officials, but he was off a year; Rabin was assassinated in 1995.
His work was largely discredited for his assumption that Genesis could be used to make predictions, but he was recognized for finding many statistically significant things from history encoded in the bible.
I wonder if there is naturally occurring interpenetration of communication in any significant writing that was enhanced with what I call a spiritual technology in the creation of Genesis. When we look at other advanced hidden text works like Shakespeare’s Sonnets, it may be that they also employed a variation of this technology.
Similarly lets look at speech: David John Oates is credited with discovering that when we are speaking forwards, every few sentences we say something in reverse that is consistent with the truth of what is being said forwards. By recording someone speaking and then playing it in reverse, specifically when little mistakes or hiccups of forward speech occur, one can make out messages, sometimes quite clear. A famous one is when Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the moon and misspoke. He said “this is one small step for man”, instead of one small step for “a” man. In reverse he says quite clearly “man will space walk”. Which, since reverse speech speaks to the truth of the subject, it is a curious statement if he was in fact already space walking, but that’s a separate subject.
Similarly are the so-called Spirit Boxes. Spirit Boxes are made to tune in to all the radio stations at once, creating a sound like white noise, but containing all the frequencies of speech. Spirits, or ghosts, supposedly can then pick out little bits of vocalizations from the mix in order to communicate, and the recordings of these communications in many cases certainly seem legit. Whether they are actually spirits or a mechanism beyond our current understanding, I think it is an example of how a significant amount of communication data can be viewed through different angles in a hologram-like way and thereby observe further levels of communication or information.
Another mode of communication is art. We certainly know of many famous paintings in history that demonstrate complex geometries and hidden messages, but I don’t know how we could tell if unintended hidden geometry or messages occur when painting in a normal fashion.
Another potential communication media might be music. Music does involve complex mathematics and geometry, much more so with the previous civilization’s use of the 432 hz scale that Verdi and Mozart used. But again, I don’t know how we could look at a “normal” composer’s music and identify accidental musical complexities that might represent naturally occurring hidden communications.
But nonetheless, the evidence from written text and speech does suggest that there is a naturally occurring phenomena involving the interpenetration of communication, and I suspect that some ancient documents employed a technology to enhance this phenomena.
If that were so, what would the nature of this technology be? Where does the naturally occurring aspect of this phenomena come from? What is it’s root? How does it function?
Ultimately at the very root of all existence we know that there is the One Thing, or to use religious sounding language: God’s eternal presence. In Masonry, it is the Great Architect of the Universe. That from which the observable space springs. That One Thing which is awareness itself and has the capacity to express all that has ever existed and all that ever will exist, in an ever occurring now moment. It stands to reason that this ineffable root aspect of all we observe can express itself both forwards and backwards in speech or written words. Or I suspect in music too, but in such a complex way it may never be recognized.
I propose that this “interpenetration of communication with further levels of information” is a naturally occurring thing that has not yet been recognized. I further wonder if whoever wrote the original Torah, and specifically the first four books, knew all about it and utilized a technology to enhance and employ this naturally occurring phenomena. A spiritual technology perhaps. A technology employed at the level of a God.
As a curious postscript, a year or more ago when I began this research there was a lot of information both supporting and detracting from the ideas of reverse speech and hidden bible codes. Today the search engines only provide me with articles debunking both ideas as sudoscience. My research does not lead me to believe that narrative, and it is concerning that the internet is no longer the repository of all ideas in equal amounts.
Michael McKeown
http://www.torahcode.net/first_els/first_els.shtml
