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Stretching the Cord
- September 22nd, 2011
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Stretching the Cord was one of the most important elements of the ancient Egyptian foundation ritual which was closely associated with the goddess Seshet, Mistress of the House of Architects.
The cord in question is the mason´s line which was used to measure out the dimensions of the building and align the building with the stars or points of the compass.
Image courtesy Jeff Dahl under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
The word “sesheta” means hidden things, mysteries, secrets, so the implication is that the Pharaoh is being given access to the power of those mysteries through Goddess Seshet. The papyrus plant, her symbol, resembles a seven-pointed star. Pharaoh Tuthmosis III called her she of seven points. -Source
I can think of another she of seven points:
Inspired by Seshet and the indefatigable Mark Gray, he and I stretched the cord, which in this age is the Ruler tool in Google Earth.
The distance from the Statue of Liberty’s torch to the Tridents inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavillion is 12,000 feet exactly. That’s an astoundingly round number.
I wrote about the Tridents in my Freedom Tower and Stars of Lower Manhattan posts. They are located at 40.711536°N,-74.013001°W.
Adding these numbers we get -33.3 and change.
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The distance from the Tridents to The Sphere (or more officially the Great Spherical Caryatid sculpture) is 33,333 inches. The Sphere used to be right where the Tridents now emerge from the underworld.
Mike Montesano pointed out that the Lucky Sixes discussed in my 11-11 post could be seen as 33-33; because three dots form each row:
Consider the strange attractor at the end of time (but not the world): 12-21-12.
Adding horizontally we have 3-3-3.
We are on a roll. When you roll the dice 90 degrees they read as 11:11:
The distance from the Tridents to the rondpoint in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine measures 11,111 meters.
Located between W 110th and 113th streets the interior area of the Cathedral is 121,000 square feet. 11 x 11 = 121.
This unfinished building has been claimed as being the world’s largest cathedral. It is realistic to maintain such high aspirations when your sources of funding include tycoons like JP Morgan and prominent figures like the Grand Master of the Masons of the state of New York. The completion of the cathedral was such a prized accomplishment for the Freemasons that it was featured on the front page of “Masonic World” of March 1925. -Source
On the western facade of the building, stonemasons have sculpted numerous scenes that seem oddly out of place for a Cathedral. The most striking one is the chilling depiction of the destruction of New York city and its landmarks. -Source
The cathedral has a freestanding masonry triangle above its western entrance…
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…which reminds me of the all seeing eye within the triangle. Two other thin structures like this spring to mind. The mysterious pyramid in Blagnac, France which is full of secrets in plain sight that you can read about here…
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…and Project Triangle in Paris., a 200m high illuminated triangle that is the first structure to penetrate the 37m height restrictions that have been in place for 30 years. Read about it here. Project Triangle is slated to be completed in 2014.
Image copyright Herzog & de Meuron
Another geodetic point is obviously Cleopatra’s Needle just outside the Met. The freemasons funded the expedition that moved this obelisk from Egypt to NYC that I discussed in my New York videos.
Don’t let the name Cleopatra fool you, the obelisk is obviously a phallic symbol.
Mark Gray discovered something that blew my mind (again). The distance from Cleopatra’s Needle to the Alma Mater sculpture at Columbia University is exactly 3141 meters. Pi is 3.141…
Alma Mater is Latin for kindly mother. Here is her sculpture. The male-female symbolism is quite typical with obelisks but the female half of the polarity is usually expressed by fountains.
The kindly mother’s face reminds me of the Statue of Liberty (SOL). The Ring of Power videos make a compelling case that the SOL was modeled after Selene, daughter of Cleopatra.
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There is indeed an owl hidden in the folds of Alma Mater’s cloak, and college superstition has it that the first member of the incoming class to find the owl will become class valedictorian. When Columbia was all-male, the legend used to go that any Columbia student who found the owl on his first try would marry a girl from Barnard. -Source
The owl of course is a symbol of Minerva and the owl sees quite clearly in the dark. Do you see the owl in the landscaping surrounding this building?
The Bohemian Club has a logo featuring an owl and this plaque is on their headquarters at 624 Taylor Street in San Francisco:
Mark stretched one final cord that is definitely worth bringing to your attention. The distance from Cleopatra’s Needle to 3 World Financial Center is 333,000 inches. Notice how the cord is oriented in line with the orientation of 3 WFC, as if the building was designed to point at Cleopatra’s Needle.
3 WFC is the same building which contains the exquisite Eleven Tears 9/11 memorial that I discussed in my 11-11 post.
The Sun’s mass is 333,000 x Earth’s mass. -Source
This is where I really wonder. Some of these revelations smack of conspiracy. But people are almost never this brilliant, especially over multiple generations, all the while keeping silent about masterworks of measure.
All of the cords stretched in this post are of relatively recent buildings constructed in the last 200 years. If you recall my post on the Foundation Stone, I stretched a cord from the stone at the heart of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem to Glastonbury Tor in the UK and it measures 33.3 degrees.
These points were surveyed thousands years ago. But who the surveyor was isn’t known. It seems to me that to produce such accuracy one would need incredible knowledge of the stars …or a starship.
Seshet’s origins involve the stars and ancient Egyptian astronomy. Here are a Pharaoh’s words inscribed on the Temple of Horus at Edfu:
I have grasped the stake…I take the measuring cord in the company of Seshet. I consider the progressive movements of the stars. My eye is fixed upon the Bull’s Thigh [Ursa Major]. I count off time…and establish the corners of the Temple’.
Spell 10 of the Coffin Texts states “Seshet opens the door of heaven for you.” She has opened it for me and I see indescribable beauty through the portal.
