Apocalypse Unsealed: chapter 15
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Chapter Fifteen
HIS NAME REVEALED
1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and
marvelous, seven angels having the seven last
plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with
fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the
beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and
over the number of his name, stand on the sea of
glass, having the harps of God.
The seven angels symbolize trials and punishments from heaven.
The sea of glass is the Ocean of Truth._/1 It is mingled with
fire to symbolize the wrath and indignation of God.
Verse 2 extols those who have overcome the false doctrine of the
Umayyad and 'Abbasid dynasties (the beast and his image), have
not falsely assumed the name (mark) of Muslim, and have rejected
the blasphemous deception of wrongly-guided Caliphs (number of
his name).
Baha'u'llah, speaking to His persecutors in the Muslim world
said, "Thou hast known how grievously the Prophets of God, His
Messengers and Chosen Ones, have been afflicted. Meditate a
while on the motive and reason which have been responsible for
such a persecution. At no time, in no Dispensation, have the
Prophets of God escaped the blasphemy of their enemies, the
cruelty of their oppressors, the denunciation of the learned of
their age, who appeared in the guise of uprightness and piety.
Day and night they passed through such agonies as none can
measure, except the knowledge of the one true God, exalted by His
glory... Consider this wronged one. Though the clearest
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proofs attest the truth of His Cause; though the prophecies He,
in an unmistakable language, hath made have been fulfilled ... He
hath rained upon men the showers of His manifold and
Divinely-inspired knowledge; yet, behold hos this generation hath
rejected His authority, and rebelled against Him!"_/2
Christians are not excluded from His denunciations. In a Tablet
to the rulers of Christendom He said, "O kings of Christendom!
Heard ye not the saying of Jesus, the Spirit of God, ... 'When
He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you unto all
truth.' And yet, behold how, when He did bring the truth, ye
refused to turn your faces towards Him, and persisted in
disporting yourselves with your pastimes and fancies."_/3
3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of
God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and
marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and
true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
4 Who shall not fear thee, O lord, and glorify thy
name? for thou only art holy: for all nations
shall come and worship before thee; for thy
judgements are made manifest.
The song of Moses and the Lamb is the eternal Message, renewed
and readorned in every Dispensation. Speaking of the Word of
God, Baha'u'llah says, "In the days of Moses it was the
Pentateuch; in the days of Jesus, the Gospel; in the days of
Muhammad, the Messenger of God, the Qur'an; in this day, the
Bayan (Book of the Bab [literally, "Exposition"]); and in the
Dispensation of Him Whom God will make manifest (Baha'u'llah),
His own Book--the Book unto which all the Books of former
Dispensations must needs be referred, the Book that standeth
amongst them all transcendent and supreme."_/4
5 And after that I looked, and behold, the temple of
the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was
opened:
6 And the seven angels came out of the temple,
having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white
linen
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and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven
angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God,
who liveth for ever and ever.
The temple of the testimony is the Revelation of God descended
upon man in the Temple of the Manifestation. "These Tabernacles
of Holiness, these Primal Mirrors which reflect the light of
unfading glory, are but expressions of Him Who is the Invisible
of the Invisibles."--Baha'u'llah_/5 Elsewhere, Baha'u'llah asks
of God, "Aid me, O my Lord, to surrender myself wholly to Thy
Will, and to arise and serve Thee, for I cherish this earthly
life for no other purpose than to compass the Tabernacle of Thy
Revelation and the Seat of Thy Glory."_/6
8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the
glory of God, and from his power; and no man was
able to enter in to the temple, till the seven
plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
In _The Book of Certitude_*, *_The Book of Certitude_,
Baha'u'llah explains: "The p. 76.
symbolic term 'smoke' denotes
grave dissensions, the abrogation and demolition of recognized
standards, and the utter destruction of their narrow-minded
exponents."
In this verse the name of Baha'u'llah, the Glory of God, is
revealed for the first time in the Apocalypse._/10 The verse
also reveals that no man's testimony will be complete until the
seven last plagues are finished.
Glory of God oðá Tovéîov has a literal value of 1389 and an
archetypal value of 3. The name Baha'u'llah, by the abjad <7,
10> has a literal value of 75, which also has an archetypal value
of 3. The word Glory oðá <7, 8> has a literal value of 135 and
an archetypal value of 9, identical to the literal value of Baha'
in the abjad._/9
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Notes to Chapter Fifteen
1. See Revelations 4:6.
2. _Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah_, pp. 57, 58; Luke
17:22-25.
3. _Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah_, p. 246. See
Luke 17:25; John 16:12-15; Matthew 23:29-39; Acts 7:51-53.
4. _Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah_, p. 270.
5. Ibid., p. 47.
6. Ibid., p. 311.
7. See Part One, Note 20.
8. The Greek word oðá is translated as Glory in English
translations of the New Testament. In the Persian translation of
the New Testament, oðá has been translated into the word Jalal,
another form of the word "Glory." The inevitable ambiguity that
accompanies translation would permit oðá to be read as either
Baha' or Jalal. There are similar difficulties in translating
from Hebrew into Greek. V. O. Goldberg (Reference 4, p. 19)
explains that oðá is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew _Kabod_,
which can designate a primary materialization (i.e., a
"Manifestation") of the Divine Essence. For example, in Exodus
33:18, Moses desires to see the _Kabod_ of Yahwah. (See also
Psalm 73:24; Ref. 4, p. 79.)
The correspondences are not exhausted. The number 135 equals
3x45, 9x15, and 801-666. The number 3 is sacred to many Faiths
while 45 is the triangular value of 9 [9?=45]. The number 15 is
the triangular value of 5 [5?]. (See Part One, Note 17.)
The numerals 1, 3, 5 are used in John 21:11 where "Simon Peter
went up and drew the net to land full of great fishes, one
hundred fifty and three." (153 is the triangular value of 17
[17?]. The fact that the exact number of fishes was specified
has puzzled many biblical scholars and commentators. It is
interesting that _The Hidden Words_ of Baha'u'llah is composed of
153 stanzas. (_The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah, p. ii. This
precious work has been identified with the "Hidden Book of
Fatima." Ibid, p. i.)
A summary of these and other correspondences is given in the
following Table:
LITERAL ARCHETYPAL TRIANGULAR
EXPRESSION VALUE VALUE COMPONENTS VALUE [n?]
Glory of God 1389 3
(Greek)
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LITERAL ARCHETYPAL TRIANGULAR
EXPRESSION VALUE VALUE COMPONENTS VALUE [n?]
Baha'u'llah 75 3 5x15
(Arabic)
Glory, "Kabod" 135 9 801-666
(Greek) 801+666-1332
9x15
3x45
Baha' 9 9 3x3 45
(Arabic) 26 (by
"klima")
Alpha (and) Omega 1332 9 2x666
á^íá + ê 36x37
Alpha (and) Omega 801 9
á + ê
Bab 5 5 15
(Arabic)
Adam 45 9 5x9
(Various) 36+9
Eve 15 6 5x3
(Various) 6+9
New Name 432 9 6x72
(Greek) 1332-900
Jerusalem 864 9 6x144
(Greek)
The Caliph 666 9 18x37
(Greek, possib.)
The Glory of God 1746 9 1080+666
of Israel (Greek)
A grain of mustard 1746 9 1080+666
seed (Greek)
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LITERAL ARCHETYPAL TRIANGULAR
EXPRESSION VALUE VALUE COMPONENTS VALUE [n?]
(Yang, sun, etc.) (666) 9
(Yin, moon, etc.) (1080) 9 3x360
(Fishes in the net) (153) 9
(Stanzas in _The (153) 9
Hidden Words_)
Baha'u'llah 144 9 See "numbers"
(Greek, possib.) below.
Nine 111 3 3x37
(Greek)
Jesus 888 6 24x37
(Greek)
Christ 1480 4 40x37
(Greek)
Jesus Christ 2368 1 64x37
YHWH 26 8 72 (by
(Jehovah, Hebrew) "klima")
Messiah 358 7
(Hebrew)
"Shiloh Come" 358 7
(Hebrew)
IN THE MAGIC SQUARE OF THE SUN (Figure 22)
Sum of center square 2x37
Sum of middle square 6x37
Sum of outer square 10x37
Sum of any four symmetrical numbers 2x37
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Sum of any row, column, or diagonal 3x37
Sum of all numbers 18x37
ARCHETYPAL TRIANGULAR
NUMBERS: VALUE COMPONENTS VALUE [n?]
1 1 1
2 2 3
3 3 6
4 4 10
5 5 15
6 6 21
7 7 4+3 28
8 8 36
9 9 3x3 45
6+3
666-801+144
10 1 55
11 2 66
12 3 3x4 78
17 8 9+8 153
36 9 6x6 666
16+20
15+21
72 9 2x36 2,628
6x12
1332-1260
144 9 6x24 10,440
36+308
135+9
2x72
55+89
78+66
666 9 360x(3 1/2) 794,430
30x42
7x180
9x140
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144 is the eleventh member of the Fibonacci series (1,2,3,5,8,
13,21,34,55,89,144,...) in which each term is the sum of the two
previous terms. The ratio of any two consecutive terms in the
series approximates the Golden Number 1.61803..., the
approximation becoming more precise the higher the order of the
terms. Thus 89/55 equals 1.61818.... Certain living organisms,
art, and ancient megalithic structures embody Fibonacci numbers.
For example, in the Great Pyramid of Giza, the ratio of the slope
height (apothem) to its half base is 89.55. The pharonic
Egyptians considered the Golden Number to be a symbol of the
creative function, that is, the _Logos_ or "Word." See Reference
6, p. 190ff; Reference 29; John 1:1; 144 is found in [Revelation]
verses 7:4; 14:1, 3, and 21:17.
Multiplying the Fibonacci series by 9 results in another
Fibonacci type sequence containing several sacred numbers
(9,18,45,72,801), that is, (9,18,27,45,72,117,189,306,495,801,
1296,...). The numbers (18,72,666,1080,1746) are contained in
another Fibonacci type sequence, the first nine members being
(18,72,90,162,252,414,666,1080,1746).
The ratio 1080/666 equals 1.622, a good approximation of the
Golden Number 1.618. It follows that 1746/1080 also approximates
the Golden Number and that 1746/666 approximates its square
(1.618)ý. For a summary of some of the more interesting
properties of the Golden Number, see References 44 & 61.
The numbers 666 and 1080 may carry other secrets. Using these
numbers as the sides of a right triangle, as was the penchant
among the ancient Egyptians, we obtain an hypoteneuse equal to
1269, the date of the third woe. <9: 12 #1> The triangle is
geometrically similar to that of the half-face of the Great
Pyramid. Figure 24 shows some of the possible meanings of this
particular triangle.
1260 is, of course, the date of the second woe, mentioned in
Revelations 11:2, 11:3, 11:9, 11:11, 12:6, 12:14, and 13:5 and in
Daniel 12:7.
In the Pythagorean system of number symbolism, 36 symbolizes the
union of the male and female powers of nature, being the sum of
16 and 20. The number 16 is the sum of the first four odd (male)
numbers (1+3+5+7), while 20 is the sum of the first four even
(female) numbers (2+4+6+8). Plato considered 36 to be the number
of the World Soul.
72 is the value of YHWH by "klima," a kind of mystical number
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.
.
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[approximation] .
. .
.
1269, Qi, Horus . . 1080, Yin, Isis
.
. .
.
. .
.
.............
666, Yang,
Osiris
A MYSTIC TRIANGLE
Figure 24
expansion (Reference 4, pp. 55, 60) and corresponds to a highly
sacred Name of God. See also Chapter 7, Note 10. Twenty-six,
the literal value of YHWH, is also the value of Baha by klima.
Perfect squares of whole numbers, e.g., 9, 36, 144 are always
composed of the sum of two triangular numbers. Thus 9 = 6+3,
36 = 21+15, 144 = 78+66.
111 is the literal value of the word "nine" 'îNNîá and is also
the sum of the numbers of any row, column or diagonal in the
magic square of the sun.
Multiples of 37 generate the triads. That is, 7x37 equals 333,
etc..
The numbers (72, 90, 108, 135, 144) are represented as least-
integer string length ratios in the basic Hindu-Greek musical
sacle (Ref. 57):
Length Ratios: 72 80 90 96 108 120 135 144
D c b-flat A G f e-flat D
The tones e-flat (135) and b-flat (90) form a Perfect Fifth.
Least-integer string length ratios 432 and 864 bound the ancient
Greek Phrygian mode, later adapted as the "Modus Primus" by
Christian orthodoxy:
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Length Ratios: 432 486 512 576 648 729 768 864
D C B A G F E D
2160, the number of years in a Platonic month, is an unusually
prolific number. Besides having an archetypal value of 9, it is
divisible by one-half the numbers from 1 to 26. Some interesting
divisors of 2160 are:
1080x2 144x15 36x60
432x5 135x16 2x2x2x2x3x3x3x5 (cf. Ref. 46, p. 33ff)
360x6 72x30 1335xè
1335 is the date of the "blissful consummation" in the prophecy
of Daniel. (See Appendix B.) 2160 equals the product of 1335
and the Golden Number è (1.618).
A rctangular prism with sides 666, 1080, and 1746 had a diagonal
of, very nearly, 2160. That is,
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û 666ý + 1080ý + 1746ý ÷ 2160.
10. The names and titles of the Prophets are often revealing.
Baha'u'llah was the title bestowed upon Husayn-'Ali by the Bab.
Thus Baha'u'llah is analogous to the title "Christos" appended to
the name Jesus. Husayn-'Ali, the name bestowed upon Baha'u'llah
at birth, literally means "The Good, The Exalted." Jesus means
"Help of Jehovah." Muhammad means "Praised." Sidharta, the
given name of Gautama Buddha, means literally "The Righteous
One."