18 April 1992       ~~~        21 June 2001

The Great Goddess of the Black Earth, Star of the Sea

Metahermeneutics I+N The Midnight Sky

SRI AUROBINDO, "Out of the voiceless mystery of the past", from Savitri.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) wrote: "G-d is length, width, height and depth." Number is of central importance in Jewish mysticism. The Book of Wisdom (11:21) affirms that G-d has "ordained all things by measure, number, weight." An inscription over the entrance to the Temple at Delphi remined everybody that "number [in other words, rhythm, resonance, proportion, ordered vibration, and a lively sense of the unique actuality of each transitory moment] is the Law of the Universe." "Inducing transformation by a mutant pulsation of vital dynamic radiating energy."

Psalm 81:1-3.    

“Wisdom is brilliant, she never fades. By those who love her, she is readily seen, by those who seek her, she is readily found. She anticipates those who desire her by making herself known first… For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, incisive, unsullied, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, shrewd, irresistible, beneficent, friendly to human beings, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed, almighty, all-surveying, penetrating all intelligent, pure and most subtle spirits… Although she is alone, she can do everything; herself unchanging, she renews the world… She is indeed more splendid than the Sun, she outshines all the constellations; compared with light, she takes first place, for light must yield to night, but against Wisdom evil cannot prevail. She deploys her strength from one end of the Earth to the other, ordering all things for good… Blessed is anyone who meditates on wisdom and reasons with intelligence, who studies her ways in his heart and ponders her secrets." (Ws 6:12-14; 7:22-23.27-30;8:1; Si 14:20-21.)

Dom Henry Wansbrough, a monk of Ampleforth and general editor of The New Jerusalem Bible, states in his foreword that "the translation has been made directly from the Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic," and that "accuracy of translation has been a prime consideration," although"the widespread liturgical use of this version has been taken into account." He claims, indeed, that "paraphrase has been avoided more rigorously than in the first edition." (op.cit., London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1985, p.v.)

The New Jerusalem Bible's English rendering (p.802) of Job 38:31 reads: "Can you fasten the harness of the Pleiades, or untie Orion's bands?"

This differs somewhat from the King James' version, allegedly an "exact Translation" "out of the Original Sacred Tongues": "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?" (The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible, 5th improved edition, 1988, p.619. Notes 2663 & 2777 in this "improved" edition simply state that the constellation of Orion and the star-group, the Pleiades are also named in Job 9:9 and Amos 5:8.)

However, a note appended to The New Jerusalem Bible's 'translation' of Job 9:9 ("He has made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the Mansions of the South.") provides an alternative listing from the Greek, viz., "the Pleiades, Venus, Arcturus and the Mansions of the South," and comments: "That these are the constellations referred to is not certain." (pp.766-7.) For Amos 5:8-9a it offers: "He it is who makes the Pleiades and Orion, who turns shadow dark as death into morning and day to darkest night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the surface of the land. Yahweh is his name." (p.1530.)

"Way back in time, before writing was even invented, it was measures and counting that provided the armature, the frame on which the rich texture of real myth was to grow."

G. De Santillana & H. Von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill.    

3² + 4² = 5²

9 + 16 = 25

This is important.

3² × 4² × 5² = 60²

9 × 16 × 25 = 3,600

60 seconds make 1 minute.
60 minutes make 1 degree.
60 minutes make 1 hour.
360 degrees complete 1 circle.
3,600 seconds make 1 hour.

0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 = 36

_{0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 +20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 = 300}

36 and 300 are important numbers.

36 = 3 × 12 = 4 × 9 = 2² × 3²

300 = 25 × 12 = 3 × 4 × 5²

These other numbers are closely connected.

12 = 2² × 3 = 3 × 4
24 = 2³ × 3 = 3 × 8
72 = 2³ × 3² = 8 × 9
360 = 10 × 36 = 5 × 72 = 2³ × 3² × 5

Also, because 5 = 2 + 3, as far as the individual figures go:
2 and ³, and 3 and ², and 5 seem somehow connected.

In Ancient Egypt and in Ancient Babylon all these numbers were studied very carefully.

There are also a few other numbers they mention a lot:
2,160 = 30 × 72 = 15 × 144
108 = 36 + 72
54 = 108 ÷ 2
4,320 = 2,160 × 2 = 30 × 144 = 15 × 288
25,920 = 72 × 360 = 12 × 2,160

Ancient Babylonian writings very often mention another number:

195,955,200,000,000

195,955,200,000,000 = 128 × 2,187 × 7 × 100,000,000

128 × 2,187 × 7 × 100,000,000 = 2⁷ × 3⁷ × 7 × 10⁸

2⁷ × 3⁷ × 7 × 10⁸ = 2¹⁵ × 3⁷ × 5⁸ × 7

195,955,200,000,000 can also, without remainder, be divided by each and every one of the other numbers here mentioned.

Zecharia Sitchin believes that the original reading of Genesis 1:1 is very slightly but most significantly different from that given in all known versions of the Hebrew-Christian Bible; it runs: “Ab-reshit bara Elohim et Ha'Shamaim v'et Ha'Aretz”. This may be translated: “The Father-of-Beginning created the Gods, the Heavens, and the Earth.” (Divine Encounters, New York, Avon Books, 1996, p.376.)

^{Wisdom 11:20}    

Unless you have already read Peter Plichta's original German text published in 1995 by Albert Langen Georg Müller Verlag in der F. A. Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, München, its English translation, God's Secret Formula - Deciphering the Riddle of the Universe and the Prime Number Code (ISBN 1-86204-014-1: Element Books, Shaftesbury, U.K. - Rockport, U.S.A. - Milton, Australia, 1997) certainly deserves your priority attention.

For "infinite" on p. 81, line 3, read "finite". On p. 117, line 3, replace "25" by "29". Replace the second "81" on line 2 in p. 124 by "1". Insert "~" immediately after the "E²" at the beginning of the formula just before the last two lines of p.129. Read "or nothing" instead of "of nothing" in line 14 on p.166. Replace "fully-tanked" by "full-tanked" in the fourth line of the fifth paragraph on p. 204.

I hope that our specification of these few blemishes in the English-language edition of Doctor Plichta's book will not lead any of his readers to overlook his important, biblically supported statement on p. 165: "This augurs a revolution for our primary schools. Nothing less than the atomic model and the chemical elements themselves will in future be their godfathers when children develop a relationship to numbers. Our children have the opportunity of being the first generation to be able to fully appreciate the meaning in at least one Bible quotation - 'But THOU hast arranged all things by measure and number and weight.' (Wisdom 11:20)"

In autumn 1994 Doctors Peter Pichta & Klaus Kunkel registered patents for "a radically novel type of rocket engine" and for "a rocket long-distance aircraft" capable of flying more than 30 miles high at speeds of 3,000-5,000 m.p.h. (p. 208). This is a book to read again and again.

According to Plichta: “The infinite numbers by virtue of their prime number structure contain not only a numeric æsthetic, but are also the key to the material world and a medium of information to infinity.”

"Electrons and protons… did not emerge from some other particles at some time in the past but instead exist because of the nature of infinity." (p. 130).

His "scientific research constitutes the first fundamental statement ever made on our concept of the physical world: everything before Plichta - from Newton to Einstein - has only been theory.”

Take this for starters:

“The third law of thermodynamics says that at the lowest possible temperature of -273.2°C, or absolute zero, no more movement of atoms takes place… The experiments of Gay-Lussac proved that gases expand and contract by 1/273.2 of their volume for every degree of heating or cooling… The time the Moon requires for its orbit of the Earth is one sidereal month or 27.32 days… The length of an Earth-year measures approximately 365.25 days. Because we count 365 days for 3 years, we have to count 366 days for 1 year. This natural 3 + 1 law is not affected by the fact that every 400 years a further day must be added… 1/27.32 = 0.03660… and 1/366 = 0.002732… The acceleration of the Moon in its path around the Earth is measured as 0.273 x cm/s² and the Moon radius measures 0.272 Earth radii… The acceleration of the Earth and the Moon behave reciprocally as the squares of the radii of the orbits of Earth and Moon… What is the relationship between the mass of the Moon and that of the Earth?… The ratio is 1:81.”

According to Plichta: "The Prime Number Cross is... not a human invention. It is in fact a model of the construction plan with which infinity was made finite in the structure of atoms... G-d arranged the world simply...All higher mathematics with its enormous variety and complexity must actually be nothing less than a veneer over the prime numbers... Three-dimensional gas-filled space is a reciprocal numerical space... a geometric realization of the reversal of four-dimensional, empty, infinite space as ordered by prime numbers." (pp. 174-5, 185.)

In Dark Moon - Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers (London: Aulis Publishers, 1999, pp. 428-9 & 443) Mary Bennett & David S. Percy tell us:

"The barcycentre, or actual centre of gravity of the Earth/Moon system, lies off-centre within the Earth, approximately 2,918 miles/4,700 kms from the Earth's centre. This produces an effect known as 'off-centre rotation'.… The Moon's diameter is 27.27% the size of the Earth. It circles the Earth at an average speed of 22,289 miles per hour in an elliptical orbit and is 'tugged' at by the gravitational fields of both the Earth and the Sun. The Moon revolves around the Earth in the same direction as Earth's revolution around the Sun (west-east or anticlockwise) and also spins around its own axis within exactly the same time-frame of 27.3 days."
Moreover, "when a tetrahedron is inscribed by a sphere, the distance between the base of the tetrahedron and the base of the sphere is 2/3rds of the radius of the sphere. The base of a circumscribed tetrahedron always sits at 19.47° latitude north or south."

"There have been numerous American space-driven series on the UK networks… each conveying a different message about ET and all reflecting paranoia as to the viability of communication with any other race of self-aware life - unless one has a defensive weapon, or a whole space fleet near at hand… Much of the unrest on this planet… stems in fact from populations who are tired of being cheated, lied to and treated as unworthy of consideration by their own leaders…" (Ibid., pp. 453-4.)

I believe this is all important.

As Bonnie Gaunt reminds us: “There is a Hebrew word that embodies not only the concept of beginning, but it also includes the idea of that which has no beginning - eternity. The word is kedem. It adds to 144. Although kedem is used as a root for beginning, or origin, it strangely carries the thought of no beginning nor ending - eternal, everlasting. The meaning of the word is best represented by a circle, which, of course, has no beginning nor ending point. The word circle, in Hebrew, multiplies to 144.” (Beginnings - The Sacred Design,510 Golf Avenue, Jackson, Michigan, 1995, p.172.)

No doubt there is already at least one internet chat-room in which these and other issues can be more fully explored than is otherwise currently possible without our meeting face to face...

The Royal Institute         Treasury of Books

Mary communicated her first message to Ida Peerdeman in Amsterdam on 25 March 1945; on 15 August 1950, in her twenty-third apparition and according to Ida's report:"… Next She lets me see a 1 and a 2 and a 3. After that I see a book. A hand is laid on it. The Lady says again, 'Look to your laws' and She seems to stretch Something ever longer and wider…" Was Mary anticipating the publication of Peter Plichta's The Prime Number Cross which Professor Rupert Lay SJ would praise so highly on 18 April 1994?

According to Father Rupert Lay, S.J.: Mr Plichta's earlier and more technically written books are fascinating to read... their contents are faultless from a mathematical point of view”

The 1996 edition of the Annuario Pontificio (Città del Vaticano, p.1738) identifies His Excellency Professor Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer, Professor of Physics in the Technical University of Münich as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Although he was, no doubt 'deservedly', elevated to this honour on 10 April 1970 and awarded a Nobel Prize in 1971, in Doctor Peter Plichta's God's Secret Formula - Deciphering the Riddle of the Universe and the Prime Number Code (Element, 1997: pp.146-8), the author, after quoting an earlier Nobel Prize-winner, Professor Johannes Stark's forecast that, although quantum mechanics would be, despite continuing opposition to it from a small number of physicists passionate for truth, successfully developed into a seemingly impregnable citadel, modern physics would eventually and inevitably collapse like a house of cards, simply because it is wrong, and after also quoting another Nobel Prize-winner, Professor E. O. Fischer, as congratulating him for demonstrating that fact and explaining mathematically why nothing that happens in the atomic nuclei ever has anything to do with chance, revealingly reports that Professor Mössbauer, when informed by Professor Fischer that, if Doctor Plichta's findings were confirmed, quantum mechanics would turn out to have been no more than a figment of the imagination, Mössbauer angrily refused even to consider this possibility at all! So much for a 'scientific' commitment to Truth, whenever it clashes with 'truth'!

Bad faith is not all that uncommon, and not only because of our individual proneness to what the phenomenologist, Paul Ricœur, called rassentiment - a general reluctance to acknowledge that any other person can actually be in any significant respect better than “I” conceive myself to be! (For helpful accounts of both individual and group bias cf: B. Lonergan, Insight - a study of human understanding, London: Longmans, 1957; posthumous critical edition, University of Toronto Press, 1992, chapters 6-7.)

In complete good faith Anne Baring recently Leonard Shlain's The Alphabet versus the Goddess - Male Words and Female Images (Allen Lane - The Penguin Press, 1998) as "a Supernova of a book... that will enthrall, enlighten and heal."

Although Shlain refers to divergent archaeological theories as "competitive plausibilities", we believe it may sometimes prove much more fruitful to interpret the contents both of this website and of Doctor Peter Plichta's epoch-making books mentioned above as complementary sources of nourishment and not simply as a remedial antidote. Incidentally, we hope you won't be put off by any of Peter's seemingly harsh remarks about his identical twin-brother, Paul; he's simply leaving it up to his readers to "twig" that it is Paul's invsisible psychic presence in especially challenging situations that empowers Peter to achieve what otherwise might appear humanly impossible...

All the foregoing is much better contextualised if one makes a careful study, too, of Giorgio de Santillana's & Hertha von Dechend's Hamlet's Mill (Boston, David R. Godine, 1977), especially pages 49, 140, 268-71, 310-11 and 323.