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RELACION DEL CUBO/METATRON CON EL NUMERO 19
Metatron's Cube
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Metatron's Cube is usually presented as thirteen circles and the lines that connect the middles of those. When you look at this image, the eye is first presented with hexagons and hexagrams; then with triangles and rectangles.
Note that the figure depicts the "six directions in space" (3 dark lines), and is essentially an expansion (by adding six circles) of the Star of David, located at the center. Note especially that the Star of David consists of seven points, although the center point is seldom emphasized. The Cube is a depiction of 12 around 1 like the disciples or the 12 tribes, the labors of Hercules and the zodiac signs.
The Cube is easier to see if we fill in six more circles. Note that adding the Pythagorean "Y" to the hexagon yields three rhombus, which is how we depict a 3D cube in two dimensional drawings. Studying this cube is a lesson in perspective drawing.
Overlapping the circles (so that the center of one is on the circumference of another) and making them opaque, yields this figure; the cube of three, composed of 27 spheres, 8 of which (2 cubed) are hidden, leaving 19 visible. This means that the cube of two is hidden with in the cube of three, just as the cube of 1 is hidden in the cube of 2. The cube of 4 conceals the cube of three.
Making the spheres transpart yields the figure known as "the flower of life", composed of vesicas. Note how you can see the "hidden" spheres, and how the center circle represents three different spheres; one at the front corner, one at the opposite corner and one in the middle of the cube.
The cube of 13 circles is an abbreviation of, or short-hand for, the cube with 27 spheres.
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Metatron's Cube
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Another thing that you notice is the nestedness of the hexagon/cubes. Here we see a tesseract, or the cube within a cube. The cube of four would show three nested cubes like this.
You also see other solid figures inside this image, all of the Platonic Solids as a matter of fact. Metatron's Cube serves as a drawing board for multiple symbolic figures.
The tetrahedron, 4 triangles faces.
The octahedron, eight triangle faces.
The Icosahedron, twenty triangle faces.
And the dodecahedron, twelve pentagonal faces.
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Metatron's Cube
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The most readily visible plane figures that you notice are triangles and hexagrams, the Star of David. Note how they are nested just like the cubes. If we keep the center point and the six outer points the same, while moving the inner ring of six points 30 degrees (to positions on the diagonals of the hexagram that are between the circles) we get an entirely different, well-known figure.
Compare to the Tetractys (below). See how the figure with the dots above is composed of two of these images on top of one another, which actually only adds three dots to the initial 10.
The arrangement of stars in the Great Seal is a compliment of Metatron's Cube. Note that this figure does not accomodate the three axiis of the "six directions in space". Note also the twin "Y" figures formed by the eagle.
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Metatron's Cube
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Focus your attention for a moment on the elements contained within the yellow triangle below. You can see the rectangle, the pentagon and the hexagon. That's 3, 4, 5 and 6 sided figures. We are reminded of a right triangle with short sides three and four units long, the hypotenuse of which is 5, and the area of which is 6.
The top corners of the pentagon, which appears artificial in relationship to the triangles and heaxgons at this point, are generated by extending the sides of the hexagon (below).
The overlap of the hexagon and pentagon above, generates a rhombus just like the overlapping circles of a vesica (below), which celebrates two other whole ratio triangles. The vesica begins with two circles drawn such that not only are they equal in diameter, but the center of each is on the circumference of the other, and it developes into the flower of life that we saw earlier.
The beauty of the vesica is that at this degree of overlap, all the lines depicted in red below are equal to the radius of these two circles. These five lines generate two equilateral triangles the sides of which have a 1:1:1 ratio. The twin circles symbolize equality but this triangle symbolizes identity. Like the 3-4-5 triangle, the equilateral triangle is easy to remember because all the angles are 60 degrees.
The chord of the circle that connects the intersection points (in blue above) splits two sixty degree corners in half, generating another whole ratio triangle, the 30-60-90 triangle. As you can see from the red lines, the short side of this triangle is half the hypotenuse, a 1:2 ratio. [A triangle with a 26+ degree acute angle has the short sides in a 1:2 ratio. This is the angle of the passages in the Great Pyramid.]
The overlap in this image of the cube produces the same 30-60-90 triangles as the vesica, but uses an overlapping pentagon and a hexagon. Note that the number 5 and the pentagon (or gram) signify the microcosm and the number 6 and the hexagon (or gram) represent the macrocosm.
This Escher print contains the same primal visual elements, the circle, the triangle, the rectangle, the pentagon and the hexagon; and illustrates the microcosm and the macrocosm. If you count the two halfs of the reptile stuck in the mat as one, you get seven of them; like 3,4,5,6,7.
Looking at this figure called the Tree of Life, we see the same elements; the triangle at the top, the rectangle around the central sphere, the pentagon below the triangle, and the hexagon of which the rectangle is a component. Note that this figure differs from the Kircher version of the tree, in that the top of this image is shaped like the letter "A", while the Kircher tree is H-shaped. Also, this tree features a pentagram, while Kircher's tree is composed only of heaxagons.
The 19 circle Cube accomodates both versions of the Tree of Life, but the 13 circle one does not. While the Norse Tree of Life, which features Nine Worlds, can be derived from the 13 circles by simply dropping the four on the corners of the rectangle, but keeping the two at the top and bottom, it was not so easy to make the 10 sphere tree fit.
The solution involved, splitting Daath (the black circle in the left hand figure) into spheres 2 and 3, and de-emphasing that sphere. Traditionally, Daath is not indicated on the tree, in order to preserve the notion of 10 spheres only. The Kircher tree (on the left) uses the centers of two of the circles in the 19 circle cube, while the other places these two on the triangle as indicated above.
As you can see only one of the forms actually looks like a tree, while the other looks like a ladder.
And only one form maps to a dodecahedron. Note that the corners of the pentagon (2 and 3) can be found by projecting the hexagon. The line from 3 to 4 runs straight across the position occupied by Daath, and is the same between 2 and 5.
Not only does the tree map to that, but so does the 13 circle cube, once again illustrating the notion of 12 around 1.
Recall that the TOL depicts the descent of the divine spark (soul) from the Throne of God (at 1) to the earth plane (at 10), via the stars (2) and the seven planetary spheres [3-9, this includes the sun (6) and moon (9)]. This arrangement puts the sun at the center of the Tree of Life, as it should be, with the outer planets (Saturn 3, Jupiter 4, and Mars 5) above or beyond the sun, and the inner planets (Venus 7 and Mercury 8, the moon and the earth) below the sun, indicating that whoever fashioned the tree knew a good bit about celestial mechanics.
Looking at the cube, we see that the sun at 6 occupies the "front" corner of that as well as on the dodecahedron, while the other 12 circles map to one of the 12 pentagonal faces of the dodecahedron. This means that the latter figure can be derived from the former by making 12 cuts.
The six outer circles correlate to six faces, three of which face toward us, like 10, and three of which face a way, like 1. Circles at three corners of the hexagon in the tree/cube (Daath, 7 and 8) correlate to faces on the "front side", while the other 3 (4,5 and 9; the ones located where three pentagonal faces come together), correlate to the three remaining faces on the "back side".
This mini-max of triangles and "Y" shapes is depicted in another Escher print.
While the A-shape tree resolves itself into Metatron's Cube and the dodecahedron, the H-shaped Kircher tree resolves itself into vesicas, and a double cube.
This version of the tree is derived directly from the "flower of life" image.
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Metatron's Cube
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Looking at the original DC planning map (from 1792), we see the clear depiction of a somewhat shortened pentagram (the southern point of which falls on the White House), with New Hampshire Avenue (in yellow, below right) passing through two of it's corners.
 
Playing connect the dots with the other side, and closing the base, produces an isosceles triangle that is shortened just like the pentagram, and which has base angles of 52 degrees, like the Great Pyramid. You may know about the Ellipse, the shortened circle, just south of the White House. These three shortened figures suggest that they were all part of a larger template that was itself shortened.
Looking a bit further, we can see that all the geometric elements of the tree/cube that were introduced before, are contained in the DC map with reduced height. All eleven points on the tree correlate to monuments in the map layout. The address for the National Archives Bldg, located at sphere number 7, is 700 Pennsylvania Avenue.
 
Not only is the A-shaped Tree of Life depicted on the axis of 16th Street, with the White House occupying sphere six, but 11 of the 13 circles in the original Metatron's Cube figue are marked by monuments in the map.
The Capitol Building marks the SE corner of the large rectangle, with Georgetown, at the opposite end of Penn Ave, marking the NW corner, reflecting the rivalry that existed between people who lived in those two areas in the late 18th Century. The NE corner is distinguished only by an intersection, while the SW corner is not marked at all.
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Metatron's Cube
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Here is a recent aerial photo to use for reference.
This image marks the major landmarks in the DC map layout.
In these images, it is easy to see both the pentagram and New Hampshire Avenue touching two points of that. The pentagram alone accounts for 6 of the eleven points of the Tree of Life; spheres 2-6, as well as Daath located at Scott Circle, north of the White House, where the diagonals of the pentagram cross. The other points are Logan Circle, DuPont Cr, Washington Cr, Mt Vernon Square, and the White House, all of which fall right where they need to be on the tree/cube.
Six of the points lie on or adjacent to the 16th Street axis, the House of the Temple at the top, on the east side of the street, Scott Circle where the diagonals of the pentagram cross, north of the White House, the White House, the Washington Monument which was located 371 feet east of the axis due to marshy ground at the axis, and the Jefferson Memorial, also on the axis.
That's all but two of eleven (including Daath) accounted for by the axis and the pentagram. The only ones missing at the Archives and the Medical Center.
Note how NH Ave (in yellow below) is directed at the Custis-Lee Mansion in Arlington, the location of the National Cemetery. [Robert E. Lee, who married a descendent of Mary Custis (George Washington's wife, who inherited the land), was the last private owner of the property.] As you can see, a line from that point back toward the city (in purple) passes through the Lincoln Memorial (circled in purple) and is directed to the Ellipse, south of the White House. This line is parallel to the other sets of purple lines that connect points on the pentagram.
The streets were numbered beginning at the Capitol Building (in the green rectangle), so the blue axiis at 8th Street, 16th Street, etc., effectively quarter the city east and west. Rememeber that the two versions of the cube have 13 and 19 circles, and note that Logan and DuPont Circles (at the top corners of the pentaram) are located on the 13th and 19th Street axiis (in orange below), half way between the blue axiis. 32nd Street is in Georgetown.
As noted above, the 16th Street axis, provides the location of six of spheres on the tree. In the image below we see the Scottish Rites House of the Temple (at the top) and the Jefferson Memorial (at the bottom) circled in blue. The White House is marked by a red square.
The National Archives Building (circled in blue) lies half way between the White House and the Capitol, where PA (in green) crosses the blue axis. The Navy Medical and Surgical Center is sligthly offset from the axis on the west side. Extending PA to the NW past the WH, locates the corner of the large rectangle opposite to the Capitol, at Georgetown where the avenue cross the blue axis there.
The reason that I have painted the Capitol and two of the streets a differnt color (green) will become apparent when you look at the following image which illustrates the fact that Penn Ave has been constructed in three different sections. In order for the avenue to run straight all the way from Georgetown to the East Branch, the CB would have been located to the south a bit.
The topographic image below shows us why the Capitol was located where it was. The spot on the blue axis that would have provided a straight avenue, was located on the side of a steep hill. The building was simply moved due north to the next best location on that line.
If you look at the pair of lines coming from the west side of the CB (segments of Penn and Maryland Ave's) you will see that they are symmetrical to one another. This means that both of these streets were shifted when the CB was displaced; which also relocated the Jeff Mml (circled in green) at the SW end of Maryland Ave.
This means that if the CB had been placed further south, Penn Avenue would have been straight (meaning a diff angle), which would have changed the angle of Maryland Ave, thereby relocating the Jeff Mml and the National Archives Bldg (in the green square) on PA between the CB and WH. If you go back a page and look at the hexagon in the map, you see that the bottom of that figure is distorted; and that is because the CB and Jeff Mml are displaced.
Moving the CB would also put it in the correct spot in relationship to the corners of the rectangle, which we see re-drawn (in purple) above. This shows the CB and Georgetown at two corners, and the opposite, un-marked corners, as well as Scott Circle in the pentagram in the middle of the top side of the rectangle, and the Wash Mmt, which would lie north of the bottom line of the new figure.
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