6.6.06

[WOLF]

I guess it would be a little ignorant to not acknowledge this day & its numerical ans spiritual importance....after all, numbers don't lie!

Here is a nice little article which sheds some LIGHT on the "Devil's number",
by Paraplethon, 2002.

Symbolism of the 666

Nigh on ten years ago, in the first issue of the thoroughly rough-as-guts underground magazine Eternal Damnation appeared an article by Angramain’Yo, of the Swedish Black Metal group Azubham Hanni, discussing briefly the meaning of the number 666 – proclaimed by St. John in Revelations as the ‘Number of the Beast’. While heading in the right direction, it could be greatly expanded on and taken a bit further.

Angramain’Yo points out many of the numerical synchronicities occurring within the 666: that adding all the numbers from 1 to 36 equals 666, 36 being of course 6 multiplied by 6. 66 itself is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 11, 11 being of significance as ‘Crowley mentions it is the number of all magick’. Further, Angramain’yo mentions 666 is the sum of the Greek letters in ‘To Mega Therion’ – The Great Beast, Crowley’s infamous voluntary appellation.

Continuing on we read the tentative interpretation of the 3 sixes in 666 as being as equilibrium; Angramain’Yo states “…… the two 6’s multiplied to 36 being equilibrated, resulting in the middle 6, thus 666.” The balancing, or function of equilibrium, the very character of the 3 just brought to our attention, is augmented by the fact that 6, 36, 66 and 666 are all triangular numbers, in a similar fashion to 4, 9, 16, 25 being known as square numbers.

The final piece of information we are given is that “……. The figure 6, which totally dominates the number 666, is also the number of the macrocosm, represented by the hexagram.” Of course the 6-pointed hexagram is not the only symbol of the macrocosmic created universe without, the 6 faced cube, the 2nd Platonic solid, is likewise a symbol of the existent 3-dimensional space surrounding us, designating as it does the 6 directions used to define our relative position in the macrocosmic world; up, down, left, right, forward, backward. This ‘greater world’, the macrocosm, without us that we operate within, has as a rather conspicuous constituent the element of carbon, seemingly ever-present in about everything we look at, so much so, the world as we know it has been referred to as a ‘carbon based world’. A quick glance at a periodic table of elements reveals carbon has 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons. Further emphasis in this direction is that by stacking 33 (which Peter Moon proclaims is ‘a master number in numerology …… ‘ though why-for, you’d best figure it out for yourself) tetrahedrons – the 1st Platonic solid, consisting of 4 sides being equilateral triangles – face to face, a helix is created. By then splicing this helix of tetrahedrons in half, imitating the double-helix of the DNA spiral, a total of 66.6 faces is given. An interesting aside, though by no means the whole box and dice.

The hexagram, scribed as 2 overlapping or interlocking triangles, symbolises a couple of other things as well as the above – bringing to mind a recently deceased Alchemist informing us that some, if not all, of the sculptures in stone carved into the very fabric of the great medieval cathedrals contain 7 levels of meaning….. worthwhile remembering. Firstly, the 2 triangles of the hexagram are the uniting of the esoteric forces, symbolised by the upward pointing triangle, and the exoteric forces – the downward pointing triangle. This unity of the eso- and the exo-teric forces is the ideal aspired to by such figures as the Pharaoh and the Fisher-King, extending into the modern era in the office of the Dalai Lama, both a leader in a Priestly guise and at a secular level. Those who attain such unity of realms said to more or less ‘gaze through the upper windows while keeping their feet on the ground’.

This ‘union of opposites’ within the hexagram is also sexually implicit; the upward pointing triangle being the lingam/phallus, the other triangle, the yoni/(referred to somewhat more poetically as the ‘Delta of Venus’ – for obvious reasons……), the Tantric – Sex Magic – union of which is the attainment of the enlightened state, known otherwise generally in the West as ‘Initiation’ and in the east among others,’Nirvana’. This the much neglected root of all esoteric/occult teachings, graphically portrayed on old Indian temples, in the figure of the Alchemist as a hermaphrodite, and within the well known Buddhist chant ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’, translated as “The Lingam is in the Yoni”, quite clear. Reference to this powerful sex magic is existent just about everywhere, the Sheela-na-gigs over the portals/doorways of (mainly) Irish churches are another example, it’s even found in the Jewish Torah/Christian Old Testament; Deuteronomy 23:1 for instance.

Another avenue in which the 666-Tantra connection can be found is the aforementioned personage of Aleister Crowley – the ‘Great Beast of Revelation 666’ himself, putting into perspective somewhat his infamous ribald sexual behaviour. A great focus of Crowley’s intention was his attempt, or his desire /his want to make this ‘grandest of love’ to a figure known as ‘Babalon’, sometimes referred to as the scarlet woman – recognized by some, among them Jack Parsons, as the great creative matrix of the universe. Babalon’s maternity, or at least her fecundity or femininity has a strong lunar connection, one reason for such would be the lunar cycle ruling/controlling/defining, like the tides, a woman’s menstrual cycle in peoples not afflicted by undue, or anomalous electro and magnetic radiation as we are in our technocratic 21st century societies. This Lunar Goddess Babalon, whose numerical equivalent is 369, finds her complementary partner in Sorath, the ‘demon’ of the Sun whose own numerical equivalent is 666. Crowley assuming the 666 and his work towards a union with Babalon is a perfect match – the Sun and the Moon conjoining, the unity of the virile and the fecund, of the positive and the negative …… This is the Alchemical Hermaphrodite, no less than the attainment of a state of consciousness where absolutely ‘all and everything’ is absolutely united as ‘One’, ‘Whole’, ‘Unity’ or ‘The Absolute’.

Such an incomprehensible concept as the above may seem, it is only thus while we enchain ourselves in the dimensions defined by the cube, the three of space and its ‘comrade-of-(our)chains’, the 4th dimension of physical existence, time. In the attempt to reach the above-mentioned unification of ‘All and Everything’, our familiar 4 dimensions are sometimes described as ‘Maya’, or the ‘world of illusion’. Science has come to similar conclusions both on the larger scale, the thoroughly macrocosmic realm of planets and suns, and at the atomic and sub-atomic level – thoroughly microcosmic. To paraphrase a famous one-time Swiss patent clerk: Matter, or mass BENDS space-time …… an example is the planet Mercury, being beyond the reach of Newtonian physics as the space it travels in is curved so severely by the Sun. at the atomic and sub-atomic level, the action of electrons about the atomic nucleus appears to deem the 4 dimensions null and void, research in this area resulting in quantum wave theory. The Austrian Physicist Fritjiof Capra’s book “The Tao of Physics” is a good overview of the path physics has blazed since Einstein.

The 666 and the search, or striving towards The Absolute is even intimated in the 1st of the Harry Potter books when the age of the Alchemist who manufactured the Philosophers Stone – Nicholas Flamel – of the title that is in the care of Professor Dumbledore, is given 665, and that his death will occur in the next year when aged 666. It is in the historical record, whenever Flamel performed his alchemical works he was always ‘assisted’ by his wife Peronelle – a solar/lunar union the like of Sorath and Babalon.

So Angramain’Yo was on the right, though rather than a balancing out, an equilibrium of sorts, the tantric implications take it much further – Nietzsche titled one of his works “BEYOND Good and Evil” for a reason …….

HORNS UP folks!

[parawolf]

1 year, 1 month and 14 days until my wedding day...

[LTDHO]

Did anyone miss it?

The world came to an end 2 hours ago!

Meh, the things people think. Why would Satan use mortals calender?

[SunDrifter]

at least 6 paragraphs too many.

I want my 6 minutes back from reading this tripe.

I may be 6% dumber for having read that.

[Dazza XLT]

There was a top website I found a while ago, had the complete list of every time a person said the world was going to end...Bloody big list too!!

[Bax]

Amazing how many ties you can relate back to a number if you really want too.

[gtfpv]

and i still cant pick the 6 lotto numbers . lots of formulas numbers and science combined with theory there . but still having trouble with the lotto.
why bother with such complicated maths . maths has to be proved before it can be applied . in other words practice creates fact then a theory is developed , then applied , then proven .
example the expansion of metals and alloys . heat applied to an alloy then measured per degree (temperature) then documented then tested with varied heat. then fact then calculatable theory developed and applied as scientific fact. all maths comnbined with science fact is worked out this way. a 66.6 sided cube . means nothing except 66.6 reflections.
on a differant note . i knew a bloke whos parents were very christian religious people . he was born on 06/06/1966 at 6.06 am. his mother was terrified . he never followed religion , like his parents . he enjoyed a joint ( which i dont approve of myself . but other than that is just an ordinary unknown . jeweler in cooper pedie.

[flappist]

No No NO, the number of the BEAST is 0217..............

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

on a differant note . i knew a bloke whos parents were very christian religious people . he was born on 06/06/1966 at 6.06 am. his mother was terrified . he never followed religion , like his parents . he enjoyed a joint ( which i dont approve of myself . but other than that is just an ordinary unknown . jeweler in cooper pedie.

Wow what are the odds of that happening aye?

[MRJUCY]

I heard on the radio this morning it's the lead singer/bassist of Slayer Tom Araya's 45th birthday today which would have meant he was born on 6.6.61 which seems appropriate. Happy birthday Tom :sm_headba

Another radio station was offering $1000 to the first person with a new born today who named their son Damian lol

[WOLF]

got a mate who bought a new ford escape a while ago, and it was an absolute lemon from day one...one of those cars that had everything go wrong with it, anyway he had f and traded it a year later.
He swears to this day that he was cursed because he had a number plate bearing the digits 666. I just laughed and reminded him that days after buying the car I did offer to take the plates of his hands..hehe
....needless to say, couldn't resist reminding him about this today :evilking:

[mcflux]

I think I passed my exam today which I thought I was doomed to fail...

Satan must have a special place for me :newangel:

Actually, I send Satan a wishlist every xmas. I got a lego set last year!

[LTDHO]

Originally Posted by Ghia5L

I think I passed my exam today which I thought I was doomed to fail...

Satan must have a special place for me :newangel:

Actually, I send Satan a wishlist every xmas. I got a lego set last year!

Ha ha, good one.

Santa - Satan = Same person...

[BPXR6T]

A guy a work is chronically religous. He has pictures of the virgin mary on his work desk, goes to church a couple of times a week, and prays three times a day. I think its a p1sser as the last three digits of the number plate he was allocated are 666.

On a side note I was supposed to be attending a 666 party tonight. But my body has decided to do a poor imitation of the excorcist. Argh!!!!!

[Whitey-AMG]

666 is what the new FORD Falcon GT V8 needs to be.......... :the_finge

6 litre V8
6 litres per 100k consumption
60 K price tag or lower.


666 The number of the NEW GT

[HLC]

the real number of the beast is 616.




anyway its INTERNATIONAL SLAYER DAY! so go put some Slayer on your stereo and drink lots of beer and break stuff.

[HLC]

Satanists, apocalypse watchers and heavy metal guitarists may have to adjust their demonic numerology after a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.

A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.

Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil's prime number.

"This is a very nice piece to find," Dr. Aitken said. "Scholars have argued for a long time over this, and it now seems that 616 was the original number of the beast."

The tiny fragment of 1,500-year-old papyrus is written in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, and contains a key passage from the Book of Revelation.

Where more conventional versions of the Bible give 666 as the "number of the beast," or the sign of the anti-Christ whose coming is predicted in the book's apocalyptic verses, the older version uses the Greek letters signifying 616.

"This is very early confirmation of that number, earlier than any other text we've found of that passage," Dr. Aitken said. "It's probably about 100 years before any other version."

The fragment was part of a hoard of previously illegible manuscripts discovered in an ancient garbage dump outside the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Although the papyrus was first excavated in 1895, it was badly discoloured and damaged. Classics scholars at Oxford University were only recently able to read it using new advanced imaging techniques.

Elijah Dann, a professor of philosophy and religion at the University of Toronto, said the new number is unlikely to make a dent in the popularity of 666.

"Otherwise, a lot of sermons would have to be changed and a lot of movies rewritten," he said with a laugh. "There's always someone with an active imagination who can put another interpretation on it.

"It just shows you that when you study something as cryptic and mystic as the Book of Revelation there's an almost unlimited number of interpretations."

The book is thought to have been written by the disciple John and according to the King James Bible, the traditional translation of the passage reads: "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."

But Dr. Aitken said that translation was drawn from much later versions of the New Testament than the fragment found in Oxyrhynchus. "When we're talking about the early biblical texts, we're always talking about copies and they are copies made, at best, 150 to 200 years after [the original] was written," she said.

"They can have mistakes in the copying, changes for political or theological reasons ... it's like a detective story piecing it all together."

Dr. Aitken said, however, that scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone's name, she said.

"It's a number puzzle -- the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero."

Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. "It's a very political document," Dr. Aitken said. "It's a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but it's written in coded language and riddles."

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134

[OED666]

my username changed!!!

[Bucket]

I think my Brain Cells ran screaming from the building after reading that.

[HOON69]

meh in less then 24hours it'll mean nothing again :

[Feathers]

I managed to get through the first 2 1/2 paragraphs, but I just couldn't bring myself to continue.

*Wanders off to listen to HIM's "Your Sweet 666"*

[FordFan86]

You're all wrong, the number 42 shall be feared from now on.

[loxxr6]

I heard on the radio this morning it's the lead singer/bassist of Slayer Tom Araya's 45th birthday today which would have meant he was born on 6.6.61 which seems appropriate. Happy birthday Tom

Slayer rock. Dammit when's your new album Tom ???

Santa - Satan = Same person...

I reckon. They both wear red. You never see them at the same time. Santa is an anagram of Satan. I think you're onto something.

[347_XR8]

I knew I had to inslave man-kind today for the Master. Oh well, i'll do it another time....lol!!!!

[Dauphin]

Is there anything about 1:56 AM on this day? At 1:56 AM my bedside table just fell and smashed onto its side for no apparent reason. It woke me up and scared the crap out of me. I've had it for about 5 years. All the crap that was on and in it fell onto the floor.

The beast......

[MRJUCY]

Originally Posted by loxxr6

Slayer rock. Dammit when's your new album Tom ???
.

In the works at the moment they're releasing an EP teaser today in the States in celebration of 6.6.06 & putting a new song on the website to listen to.

[Walkinshaw]

Originally Posted by FordFan86

You're all wrong, the number 42 shall be feared from now on.

HAHAAHAHA.!

GOLD Jerry, GOLD

[WOLF]

Originally Posted by MRJUCY

In the works at the moment they're releasing an EP teaser today in the States in celebration of 6.6.06 & putting a new song on the website to listen to.

Does anyone really want new Slayer songs??? I mean seriously, whatever they come up with this time will certainly pale in comparrison to the killer material they forged in early/mid 80's!....I'm sure there is an old saying that goes.....out with the new, in wiith the old! (or something like that.. :thebirds: )

[HLC]

Originally Posted by loxxr6

Slayer rock. Dammit when's your new album Tom ???

was supposed to be released today. but got delayed cause i think Tom had to have surgery. (dont quote me on that) so they released an EP today with 1 new song on it.


i think the album is due on the 7th of July.

this is the artwork for the album: http://images.warner.de/images-artis...27/1149435.jpg

source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...wsitemID=53134

[HLC]

by the way, with all this Slayer talk...

By fluke, they released their most recent album "God hates us all" on the 11th of September 2001. that is 9/11.

crazy :|