EarthHeart: New Emerald Tablets of THOTH- Origin of Meaning, Sacred Geometry and Spiritual Physics- Classic Illustrated from Dan Winter goldenmean.info
Daniel Winter is a genius, but he doesn’t know how to write. So to really appreciate his gems you must go digging. You must also be chill about his manner of presenting information - one passage scientific and technical; another esoteric, from a free-flowing mind that isn’t afraid to contemplate or connect as many places as his imagination takes him.
It’s his ability to connect those two because of his depth of perception, his genius, that makes him stand out. And perhaps because few mainstream scientists would bother. You can tell he didn’t write this book as a solo endeavor, but partly at the urging of friends and colleagues and most likely with a great deal of their help - “You have to make this more widely available and by the way, can you simplify it a bit so we understand it?” Many charts are wretched, the formatting funky. Yet, parts of this book fired my imagination like no other.
The introduction positions Daniel Winter thusly: “Daniel Winter might best be described as a Gnostic philosopher. I can see him holding his own with Dee and Agrippa, Valentinius and Apollonius. It is Dan’s experience of gnosis that informs his understanding. and this makes him somewhat unique among scientists. Dan stands squarely in the tradition of the medieval alchemists who refused to separate out mind from matter, meaning from experience.”
That is key - he doesn’t separate science from spirit.
One chapter in the realm of inspiration for me was his translation of the Gnostic “Emerald Tablet of Hermes” into technical science. I knew the precepts of The Emerald Tablet so his reinterpretation into scientific terms helped me see their commonality.
Original “1) Truth: (certain and truly without doubt) That which is Below is like that which is Above, and what is Above is like what is Below, in order that there might be the miracle of Unity. 2) Just as all things proceed from Unity by the mediation of Unity, so also is the Universe created from unity by adaptation and combination. 3) Its father is the sun and its mother the moon. The wind has borne it in its body. Its nurse is the Earth. 4) It is the father of every miraculous work in creation. 5) Its power is perfect if it is converted into earth. 6) Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, softly and with great care. 7) It rises from the earth to the heavens, and comes down again from heaven to earth, and thus acquires the power of the realities above and the realities below. In this way you will acquire the glory of the whole world, and all darkness will leave you. 8) This is the force of all forces; it conquers everything subtle and penetrates every thing solid. 9) Thus is the microcosmos created according to the prototype of the macrocosmos. 10) From this, and in this way, marvelous applications are made. 11) For this reason I am called Hermes Trismegistos, for I possess the three parts of wisdom of the whole world. 12) Perfect is what I have said of the work of the (golden) sun.
Translation “1. The universe is made of one substance. The compressibility of this universal medium stores form and memory in wave shape. Einstein’s famous equation E=MC2 shows that energy and mass are the same thing, in different forms. 2. The universe has one wave shape, the sine wave. This principle of frequency signatures called “Fourier” means that even the most complex shape is a simple sum of sine waves of different lengths. 3. The universe can be described as a geometry of pressure. Geometry produces symmetry, which allows waves proceeding from opposite directions to meet each other and stand (to phase and phase-lock.) Standing waves give the illusion of stability, segregation of momentum, and make possible the birth of matter. Pressure occurs where waves meet. Ratio is sacred; scale is profane. If the geometry of replication is embraced in a seed of any scale, it is ratio that has the power. Size is unimportant where information is concerned, since information can travel to any scale via the wave guide, and be manifested. The universe is a hologram; even the tiniest part contains information about the whole. 4. Focus is the only medium that creates, in a universe made of waves. Focus creates a pathway, or gravity, for waves to meet. According to the “Attractor” theory in mathematics, focus converges the harmonics (waves which fit into each other) into nests which stand, called matter. 5. Shape is the only thing the universe has to conserve. Naming, and memory, ring out only from differences in shape, not substance. 6. The only way to conserve shape along a path is to maintain the ratio of length, area and volume (a nest of ratios.) 7. The best pathway to maintain a nest of ratios is the golden mean (Phi). Phi squared and Phi cubed are represented by the ratcheted dodecahedron. This pathway enables information (shape) to be moved without loss of momentum (mind). The closer a material comes to forming this shape and path, the greater its conductivity. Think of superconductivity that is super-coherence of resonance or wave shape. 8. Coherence at any level is coherence at every level. An orderly relation between wave lengths establishes a connection between frequencies and fields, which cannot persist unless it resonates to ALL frequencies and fields. This harmonic cascade (Jacob’s Ladder) establishes the connectedness called holography, and also ecstasy. 9. DNA is a four-dimensional dodecahedron, in the sense that adding one spin to three dimensions adds a harmonic and a nest for memory. (The pressure envelopes of the little bubbles of light which make up the matter of the gene are enfolded or enveloped with another harmonic, with each successive axis of spin, or symmetry.) The DNA double-helix keeps a set of wavelengths evenly spaced on a path through time and space, thus conserving the wave shape. 10. Light, when folded back on itself, comes to know itself. The spiral-within-a-spiral-within-a-spiral creates genetic material at all levels. Light causes an extra axis of spin, which superimposes a harmonic of frequencies upon a nest of frequencies in an envelope of pressure we call light as matter. This creates extra mind, because the universal mind meets itself at every wave intersection. So the denser the intersections, or nodes, the greater the self-knowingness, or sense of identity. Thus identity in the cell (immunity) and coherence are the same thing, metabolically and emotionally.”
A book to slow down with, not because of lushness of the prose, but of the mind.