Back in 2012 I wrote a post on Burning Man, a post-modern pilgrimage where 50,000 people converge on Black Rock City in the Nevada desert every summer. This cathartic festival culminates in the ritual burning of a giant man in effigy.

Julius Caesar wrote in his Commentary on the Gallic War that the Gauls sacrificed men by burning them inside wicker effigies but it appears that this might have been disinformation designed to demonize the druids.

Black Rock City is the name of the temporary encampment recreated every year in the Nevada desert. Designed by a now-deceased architect, Black Rock City occupies 66.6% of a circle inscribed within a pentagon. Kevin McMahon realized that the azimuth from the center to one of the points is 333.3° true north. I bring this up now because the axis of Black Rock City points to Santiago de Compostela, a traditional pilgrimage site in northwestern Spain.

Legend holds that St. James’s remains were carried by boat from Jerusalem to Galicia Spain where he was buried in what is now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The Way of St. James, or the Camino as is is known in Spanish, was one of the most important Christian pilgrimages during medieval times, together with pilgrimages to Rome and Jerusalem.

Counter to what you might expect, the number of pilgrims is growing today. Over 200,000 people made the walk last year. Shirley Maclaine chronicled her transformative physical and spiritual journey in her book The Camino.

People going on the Camino come from all over the world but I wondered if there is a symbolic start point for this pilgrimage?

The axis of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain points directly to the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi, Italy. I wrote about St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), founder of his namesake Franciscan order, in Secrets of San Francisco.

Francis was a wealthy young man when he had an ecstatic vision of nature mysticism.

After going on a pilgrimage to Rome, Francis gave up his riches and possessions and begged with the beggars outside the doors of St. Peter’s. While homeless he had another vision where Jesus said to him three times, “Go and repair my house that is falling into ruin.” He returned to Assisi and circa 1211 rebuilt the tiny Porziuncola, a stone chapel that he lived outside of in a primitive hut. Francis later founded the Order of Poor Clares for women and became known as the patron saint of animals and the environment.

Francis died in his hut, not fifteen yards from the chapel, at sunset on Saturday, 3 October 1226. Shortly after 1290 the tiny stone chapel became entirely inadequate to accommodate the throngs of pilgrims visiting the site. The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels was built around the Porziuncola to protect it and control the flow of pilgrims.

I took a pilgrimage there with my family (see Trip to Italy and France) and my wife was affected by its palpable sense of sacredness.

The prayer of Saint Francis, whether or not it was really written by him, affects me emotionally. It is a work of goodness and humility and thus resonates with St. Francis.

Make me an instrument of peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, harmony;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi himself completed the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. The distance from the rond-point of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela to the Round Fountain in the Tuileries Gardens of Paris is 666.66 miles. Urban Asplund discovered this geo-metric gem.

Note the orbs in the photo inside the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, possibly attesting to the sacredness of that space.

Asplund notes that the distance from the same Round Fountain in the Tuileries to Bugarach Peak overlooking Rennes le Chateau is 666.66 km. Furthermore it is due south. Bugarach Peak is located at 42°51’52.30″N, 2°22’45.21″E.

Bugarach Peak has been a New Age pilgrimage site since the 1960s.

For decades, there has been a belief that Pic de Bugarach, which, at 1,230 metres, is the highest in the Corbières mountain range, possesses an eerie power. Often called the “upside-down mountain” – geologists think that it exploded after its formation and the top landed the wrong way up – it is thought to have inspired Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Since the 1960s, it has attracted New Agers, who insist that it emits special magnetic waves.

Further, rumours persist that the country’s late president François Mitterrand was transported by helicopter onto the peak, while the Nazis, and later, Israel’s Mossad, performed mysterious digs there. Now the nearby village is awash with New Agers, who have boosted the local economy, though their naked group climbs up to the peak have raised concerns as well as eyebrows. -Source

The distance from Cleopatra’s Needle in New York City to Bugarach Peak is 3303.33 Nautical Miles.

Twenty kilometers east of Paris is a commune in the historic province of Brie called Champs-sur-Marne. In 2005, a new rond-point was built in the Pyramid district (so-called because of a housing complex of the same name built in the 70s) featuring a scale model of the three pyramids of Giza, complete with Sphinx. The Nile is represented by purple flowers. The distance from the center of this rond-point to the purple peak of Bugarach is 666066 meters. Wikipedia lists the population density of Champs-sur-Marne as 3333 persons per square kilometer. I can’t believe it, but there it is!

The distance from the Round Fountain to the Luxor Obelisk in La Place de la Concorde is 666 meters.

The distance from the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile to the Louvre Pyramid is 3333 meters.

This post picks up where my last post left off when I was talking about the Devil at the center of Rockefeller Plaza. I trust you know this quote:

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. -Revelation 13:18

A score is twenty so the number of the beast is 666.

Right across the street from Rockefeller Center in NYC is 666 Fifth Avenue:

Image courtesy Americasroof under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

666 Fifth Ave was built by the Tishman family in 1957. There is an Isamu Noguchi sculpture in the lobby called Landscape of the Cloud.

In 1989 Ronald and Nancy Reagan retired to 666 St. Cloud Road in the Bel-Air district of Los Angeles. Nancy had the street number changed to 668. Ronald Wilson Reagan has 6 letters in each of the 3 names, making 666 by concatenation.

Here’s another interesting bible quote that resonates with the above cloud imagery. It’s also significant as the only mention of Lucifer in the bible:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. -Isaiah 14:12-14

Chad Stuemke’s brilliant analysis of the city of Detroit reveals that Isamu Noguchi’s fountain at the center of Hart Plaza is read literally as a stargate.

Noguchi also rang some designer bells for me because he is most famous for this table:

Only now do I understand the Noguchi table is a masterful design expressing as above, so below.

Tishman Realty eventually sold 666 Fifth Ave (which has the 6/5 thing going for it too) to Sumitomo, bought it back, and sold it again (now as Tishman Speyer Properties) for $1.8 billion in 2006.

$1.8 billion is the highest price ever paid for an individual building in Manhattan. -Source

The deal turned heads since the building at 483 ft is not even on the list of tallest buildings in New York City. However it is considered a trophy building because of its location on Fifth Avenue across from Rockefeller Center. -Source

In the year 2000 Jerry Speyer (a close friend of David Rockefeller), of Tishman Speyer Properties bought 14 buildings in Rockefeller Center from Mitsubishi for $1.85 billion.

That was quite a deal compared to the price of 666 Fifth Avenue. Think about that. 14 buildings and 8 million square feet of prime Manhattan real estate for the price of this rather unassuming “trophy.”

666 Fifth Avenue used to have three 6’s displayed at the top of the building and its penthouse was occupied by the Top of the Sixes restaurant (long gone now). Today the building has the Citgroup logo on its top as Citigroup is the building’s largest tenant.

Image courtesy David Shankbone under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.

Traveling from sea to shining sea, the number 666 reminds me of 666 Filbert Street, the address of the Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco which is known as “The Italian Cathedral of the West.”

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Incidentally Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio posed for photographs on the steps of this church after their civil ceremony in 1954. DiMaggio was married to his first wife inside this church but because he divorced his first wife but didn’t get an annulment he wasn’t allowed inside with Marilyn. -Source

666 Filbert is featured on the front page of the Transamerica Pyramid’s website (probably for several reasons). I have a lot to say about the Transamerica Pyramid in my San Francisco episode.

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Speaking of pyramids, I analyzed the structure of the Louvre Pyramid in my Paris Part 1 video and discovered it has 666 symbolic rhombi in its design (not panes of glass as is commonly and incorrectly reported).

Louvre Pyramid

The Washington Monument is 6666″ in height and 666″ x 666″ at the base. Really.

Frank Albo discovered that not only is the Manitoba Legislative Building a replica of Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem but its central space measures 66.6 feet x 66.6 feet. I discuss this building in my Jerusalem Part 2 video.

Inside the Manitoba Legislative Building’s “cleansing room” measuring 66.6′ x 66.6′

This talk of Solomon’s temple and 666 reminds me of another bible quote:

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold. -1 Kings 10:14

King Solomon with the Temple plans

Solomon (or Sol-Amun) received 666 talents of gold each year. A talent weighs 60 pounds so I just did the math and in today’s gold prices, Solomon raked in approximately $1.11 billion.

Independent researchers have valued the current assets of the Rockefeller family as high as $110 billion. -Source

There are those pesky repeating ones again. The universe is clearly playing games with me, as in 110-111.

Speaking of games, J.K. Rowling plays many games and encodes many secrets in her books. I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to my son a few months ago.

ISBN 155192398X

In Chapter 13 (of course) Hermione pulls out a book she “got from the library weeks ago for some light reading” to discover that Nicolas Flamel was the creator of the philosopher’s stone which can transform lead into gold and keep one alive forever. And…

“Flamel celebrated his six hundred and sixty-fifth birthday last year.” -Hermione

What age will that make him this year…anyone?

I should do another post on Harry Potter because there is so much to comment on but for now just consider his lightning scar…could it be “the mark of the beast”? Food for thought.

In reality, the birthplace of Nicolas Flamel was La Pontoise, France. -Source

Cergy-Pontoise is a new town built in the 1960’s consisting of 12 communes built next to the original settlement of La Pontoise.

Cergy-Pontoise has an area of 77.7 square kilometers. -Source

The place is loaded with secrets in plain sight and deserves it own post (or even a book), but I’ll really have to restrain myself and just point out a few things that relate to the current post.

Cergy was officially laid out with a Major Axis and a Minor Axis (this is even shown in the town’s signage). The point where the axes meet is called the Place of the columns Hubert Renaud which was designed by the famous architect Ricardo Bofill.

“Its origin is a tower, known as the “Tour Belvédère”, which is a phenomenal structure, rising to a height of 36 metres. Originally, the now square tower – with sides of 3.6 metres each – was going to be circular. It sits in the centre of a semi-circle of buildings, and at the centre of a ring of 360 paving stones, each 36 centimetres big. At its foot, the axis commences, cutting its way through an opening between the two semi-circular buildings, the passage having a width of 3.6 metres. The number 36 is obviously key in the overall design.” -Philip Coppens’ article “Mitterrand’s Great – Unknown – Work“

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The ancient Egyptians recognized 36 constellations. They divided the year into 36 decans, or 10 day weeks, plus a festival of 5 or 6 days at the end of the year, recalling 6/5. The French tried to bring back this method of reckoning time with the French Republican Calendar but it didn’t survive when the political pendulum swung back the other way.

Denderah Zodiac, now suspended in the Louvre

The sum of the numbers 1 through 36 is…wait for it…666.

The highest number on a roulette wheel is 36. This gives new meaning to gambling when you understand the numerology doesn’t it?

“The urge to gamble is so universal, and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.” -Heywood Broun

Image courtesy Toni Lozano under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

As I mentioned in my Red Ice interview, Cergy’s major axis points to the French Pentagon. What I didn’t tell you is that Cergy’s minor axis points to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, 810 miles from the North Pole. This seems a bit overkill when we already have local community seed savers unless someone (maybe from the French Pentagon?) is planning for a global disaster. Chilling plans.

Svalbad Seed Vault main entrance – image courtesy of Mari Tefre

I feel that 666 is somehow related to all nine repeating series of 3 digits such as the 77.7 square kilometers of Cergy-Pontoise, the London Eye’s 444′ height or the fact that 555′ = 6660″. Recall from my videos and posts that the Millennium Tower in Portsmouth, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the Washington Monument in DC all use this latter measure in their designs.

In Babylonian sexagesimal (base 60) 111 = 666 in base 10.

This reminds me of the magic square of the Sun. Every row and column adds up to 111. I mentioned this in my Esoteric Astronomy video by the way. Everything is so interconnected.

Computing the total of the rows or columns leads to 666. Speaking of computation, the original Apple-1 computer sold for a very interesting price:

Wozniak is said to have chosen the price $666 and Jobs appended 66 cents to the total making it the digits entirely repetitive. Both have denied any significance to the price however. I beg to differ.

Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO yesterday, 24 Aug 11.

His resignation letter suggests that his liver transplant hasn’t worked out. Jobs’ synchromystic resonance with Prometheus (who had his liver eaten out) is undeniable. See my Ellipses post for more on Prometheus and this god’s correlations with Lucifer.

15 years ago Jobs returned to the nearly bankrupt company he founded to transform the decaying Apple into the world’s most valuable company. Did Jobs as high priest in the Cult of Mac sell his soul to the devil?

Who gave Eve the Apple that she took a bite out of (Apple Computer’s corporate logo)? How better to represent the light bearer than with a rainbow (Apple’s old logo from the 80s-90s)? The logo in the 1976 advertisement above features Isaac Newton sitting under the tree that dropped the famous apple on his head. Newton is said to have been enlightened by this event which occurred in the year 1666.

Newton was the first to split light into a rainbow using a prism and there is so much more to Newton than scientists would have you believe as I mention in my Stonehenge episode, and later in this post.

Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple Computer is a sworn member of the Scottish Rite freemasons. Wozniak describes his impetus for joining the Freemasons as being able to spend more time with his wife at the time, Alice. Alice belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star, [which allows female members and is] associated with the Masons. -Source

Here is the General Grand Chapter logo of the Order of the Eastern Star:

If you look closely you can see the word F-A-T-A-L along the inner pentagonal edges. This reminds me of the archetype of the femme fatale.

Salome by Franz von Stuck

The inverted pentagram design reminds me of the broken inverted pentagram in the streets over the White House…

…and the Devil Tarot card:

The World Wide Web that I’m presently looking at with an Apple computer was invented at CERN. The English letter W is equivalent to the Hebrew letter Waw:

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So www is equivalent to 666 in terms of gematria and position within the Hebrew alphabet. Makes you think twice about www.domain.com.

Whose domain is the world wide web?

The name Cergy is the mirror of Ygrec. The French call the letter Y “y-grec”, meaning the Greek or Pythagorean Y which symbolizes the choice between good or evil. Note how the Phoenician equivalent of waw is a Y.

The CERN logo also seems to suggest 666 doesn’t it. Are you freaked out yet? There’s much more to CERN that I’ll post about later. Dan Brown tuned into this too in Angels & Demons.

Among other things, scientists at CERN are working on anti-gravity.

In the January 5, 2007 issue of Science (page 74), the report “Atom Interferometer Measurement of the Newtonian Constant of Gravity” (J. B. Fixler, G. T. Foster, J. M. McGuirk, and M. A. Kasevich) describes a new more accurate measurement of Newton’s gravitational constant.

According to the abstract: “Here, we report a value of G = 6.693 × 10^−11 cubic meters per kilogram second squared, with a standard error of the mean of ±0.027 × 10^−11.”

G = 6.666 x 10^-11 cubic meters per kilogram second squared is within the tolerance of error. Perhaps this is the true value of Newton’s gravitational constant?

I think Newton would be pleased with the latest scientific results. Newton couldn’t calculate G precisely due to the state of science in his day. The first test to determine G was conducted by Cavendish 111 years after Newton’s Principia was published.

Recall from my Great Pyramid video that Newton was both an alchemist and Grandmaster of the Priory of Sion who invented the first temperature scale that went from 0 to 33 degrees. Perhaps Newton’s G is the another meaning to the iconic freemasonic symbol? The Scottish freemasons do have 33 degrees after all.

Speaking of Sion, the Pope’s claim to authority literally comes from the Donation of Constantine, a Roman imperial decree by which the emperor Constantine supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope.

During the Middle Ages, the document was often cited in support of the Roman Church’s claims to spiritual and earthly authority.

Donation of Constantine

This document was exposed as a forgery in the 15th century. In the Donation, the Pope is referred to as VICARIVS FILII DEI meaning “substitute in the place of the son, God” [or sun-god more likely].

If you add all the roman numerals I+V+X+L+C+D except for M, (1+5+10+50+100+500) they add up to 666. If you add the M the sum is 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London.

The phrase VICARIVS FILII DEI adds up to 666 if you drop its non-numerical letters F-A-R-S-E (112+53+501= 666).

I couldn’t make up a better farce than this true fact.

Here’s another spell for you – FOX NEWS

F is the 6th letter of the alphabet.

O is the 15th letter; 1 + 5 = 6

X is the 24th letter; 2 + 4 = 6

By concatenation FOX = 666.

N-E-W-S is north, east, west, and south.

In this secret way Fox News spreads the power of 666 to the four corners of the Earth.

Black Sun by Scott Onstott. See more of my digital art here.

The magick of the Thelema philosophy was mystically revealed to Aleister Crowley who received a magickal transmission that became The Book of the Law after discovering Stele 666 in the Boulak Museum in Cairo -Source

Stanley Kubrick died on March 7, 1999, exactly 666 days from 2001. He was most famous for his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick died just 4 days after completing Eyes Wide Shut and many believe he was ritually murdered.

Note the octagon with yellow astronaut as solar symbol resonating with the magic square of the Sun.

Image from 2001 A Space Odyssey

Prince William will likely use William V as his regnal name when he is crowned the next King of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth of nations. Source

If you split the W into two Vs the following anagram emerges:

Code cracked by Kal Dani

Here’s an interesting mythos:

“The telephone number president Nixon called to talk to Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, during the lunar landing of Apollo 11, was 666-6666.” -Source

With all the shenanigans Never A Straight Answer (NASA) is up to, this myth might be a truth.

The sum of the heights of the buildings in the reconstructed World Trade Center in lower Manhattan is 6660 feet.

Numbers are neither evil nor good, it’s what people do with them that matters.

The number of prime numbers up to 666 is 121, which is the square of 11, which is the number of prime numbers up to 36. And the sum of the numbers 1-36 is 666.

There’s also an interesting exact relationship between 666 and Phi:

-2 sin 666° = Phi

153 and 666 are both triangular numbers. 153 is the number of fishes in the biblical net, the number of rhombi on each face of the Louvre pyramid, and the Square Root of 153 is the number of moons in a year. I discussed these things in my Stonehenge and Paris videos.

“Many of us humans, especially Christians, believe that Lucifer is the cause of all evil and darkness that has ever transpired on this planet. We call what Lucifer did a rebellion, projecting an image that Lucifer is somehow going against the universal cosmic plan. But unity consciousness sees Lucifer’s work in a slightly different light. His work is not known as a rebellion, but as the Lucifer experiment.

Why would it be called an experiment? Because that is exactly what it is, a test to see if certain parameters of life will work. Life is an experiment!

The instructions from God at the beginning of the Lucifer experiment were for all humans to have free will. But what does free will mean? Does it not mean all possibilities, both good and evil? Does it not mean we would be allowed to do anything we wanted, with the idea, from a biblical point of view, that we would learn discrimination for the good?

Life was given the ability to do anything it wanted, all possibilities; it was given free will. Therefore, how could free will exist unless consciousness created the format for this way of being? And who creates consciousness? The one and only God. Lucifer did not create free will, but it was through his actions and decisions that free will became a reality. It was God who created Lucifer so free will would exist.” (pp 411-412)

Secrets are encoded in plain sight because of the law of free will. As silence equals consent in the law, if you are not conscious of these secrets then the elite have your consent to do any manner of evil.

I do not give my consent to these things and welcome you to wake up and withdraw your consent to be ruled by secrecy. When more people awaken we can actually do something about it. Isn’t it about TIME?

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The train station at the end of Cergy’s minor axis features Europe’s largest clock (shown above). Tick, tick, tick, ring. Wake up!

This just in…

Carbon-12 is one of the most plentiful elements in the universe. It has 6 electrons, 6 protons, and 6 neutrons (6-6-6). Here is a fascinating video on the subject:

http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/2011/08/13/666/