The Harmonic Origins of the World: Sacred Number at the Source of Creation

301 Pages·2018·22.05 MB·English

by  Richard Heath

To Ernest G. McClain Cryptographer to the Gods
(1918–2014)
THE
HARMONIC ORIGINS
OF THE
WORLD
“In this book the author reveals himself as the natural successor to
Ernest McClain. As McClain before him, Heath has realized the extent
to which the natural harmony of music binds into one the ‘within’ and
‘without’ of man’s world. He introduces us first to the observable
recurrence of numbers underlying ancient astronomical sightings and
then skilfully reveals the connection with the harmonic numbers of the
sexagesimal system discovered by the Sumerians and Babylonians.
Underpinning ideas with superb graphics and skilful numerical tables, he
shows the ancient scribes, priests and ‘gentlemen of leisure’ in the
Aristotelian sense, to be most subtle—in many cases far more so than we
who work so hard to understand them. The progression by which he
reveals his thesis is impressive.”
PETE DELLO, SINGER-SONGWRITER, COMPOSER, AND MUSICOLOGIST
Contents
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
Introduction. The Significance of Planetary Harmony
PART 1: RECOVERING LOST KNOWLEDGE
OF THE WORLD SOUL
Chapter 1. Climbing the Harmonic Mountain
THE CYCLICAL NATURE OF THE CELESTIAL WORLD
THE MOON AS A MEASURE OF ALL THINGS
HARMONIC TRANSFORMATION FOR MEGALITHIC ASTRONOMY
PRIMES AS DIMENSIONS WITHIN HARMONY
A NEW ANATOMY FOR HARMONY
THE BUILDING OF HOLY MOUNTAINS
Chapter 2. Heroic Gods of the Tritone
HARMONIC CALCULATION AS PYRAMIDAL MOUNTAINS
THE SUMERIAN REVOLUTION
A HARMONIC SPACE RACE
Chapter 3. YHWH Rejects the Gods
CREATION IN SEVEN DAYS
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
THE FLOOD
THE PATRIARCHS
EXODUS
Chapter 4. Plato’s Dilemma
LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS
HOMER IS DEAD, LONG LIVE SOCRATES!
ATHENA CAUSES ZEUS A HEADACHE
THE PYTHAGOREAN PLATO
POLITICAL ALLEGORIES
MARRIAGE AS AN ALLEGORY OF SPECIAL NUMBERS
THE HARMONY OF THE SPHERES
PART 2: A COSMICALLY CREATIVE
HARMONY
Chapter 5. The Quest for Apollo’s Lyre
THE MYSTERIES OF THE OCTAVE
PRACTICAL TUNING
NUMERICAL ORIGINS OF THE SEVEN MODES
THE CRACK IN THE WORLD EGG
PHYSICS OF THE WORLD SOUL
Chapter 6. Life on the Mountain
SYMMETRIES BY EAR AND BY NUMBER
SEVEN SCALES MARRY THE SEVEN TONES
THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE
PSYCHO-COSMOLOGICAL HARMONISM IN THE VEDAS
THE ANCIENT INDIAN SCALE
PART 3: THE WAR IN HEAVEN
Chapter 7. Gilgamesh Kills the Stone Men
CUTTING DOWN A MONSTER’S TREE
KILLING THE BULL OF HEAVEN
A SEARCH FOR RESURRECTION
OSIRIS AS RESURRECTED FERTILITY GOD
Chapter 8. Quetzalcoatl’s Brave New World
THE ORIGINS OF OLMEC ASTRO-HARMONISM
READING OLMEC HARMONISM
GOING BEYOND ADAM
OLMEC DISCOVERY OF THE ECLIPSE YEAR
THE OLMEC CITY OF TEOTIHUACAN
GEOMETRICAL DERIVATION OF THE TEOTIHUACAN MEASUREMENT UNIT
QUETZALCOATL’S CALLING CARD
THE KEY FEATURE OF OLMEC ART
EVOLVING THE NOTION OF SACRIFICE
Chapter 9. YHWH’s Matrix of Creation
CONNECTING HEAVEN AND EARTH
THE HEAVENLY CHOIR
NEW JERUSALEM
PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES
Chapter 10. The Abrahamic Incarnation
THE INCARNATION’S LOST SHEEP
ASTRONOMY INCARNATE
DISCOVERY OF URANUS
Postscript: Intelligent Star Systems
APPENDIX 1. Astronomical Periods and Their Matrix Equivalents
APPENDIX 2. Ancient Use of Tone Circles: Reunification of
Tuning by Number with Tuning by Ear through Reason and
Visual Symmetry
ADDENDUM: SHORT HISTORY OF THE “RUSTY COMPASS”
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
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Index