This blog I’m exploring a few numbers in Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code, my book, I Found All the Parts, and another
fascinating novel I devoured several years ago, The EzekielCode.
Numbers became a big deal for me on my journey with rock
music. Shortly after my awakening, the number “four” camped out in my brain
with a lawn chair. The words “archetype” and “everyone” also did the cha cha in
my skull for many months, but I had no idea at the time why I was hearing this stuff. Since they were like annoying neighbors who frequently visited me on a
daily basis to borrow some sugar, I knew the words were important clues on my
journey. But why would a number be significant?
Numerology, the system, tradition
or belief
in a mystical
or esoteric
relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things, goes way back.
Pythagoras, the dude who gave us the Pythagorean Theorem, was into the
spirituality of numbers big time. Every number resonates at a unique frequency.
Kind of like music. Just as the note middle “C” vibrates at the frequency of
256 cycles per second, the numbers 1-9 are also believed to resonate to
different energies and therefore offer insight into ourselves and our world.
In The Davinci Code,
smart and handsome Professor Langdon illustrates how the five sided pentagram,
or pentacle symbol, is considered both divine and magical by many cultures. That’s
because if you draw a pentagram, the lines divide themselves into segments
according to the Divine Proportion. PHI =
1.618.
Phi is s a symbol of beauty and perfection and connected
with nature, the goddess, and the sacred feminine.
My journey as a woman with rock music helped me get in touch
with the sacred feminine through various avenues, but especially via numbers. I
began to see the correlations between music, numbers and sacred geometry in
spectacular ways. The Divine Proportion, or 1.618, is everywhere in nature and
even in different proportions of the human body.
Phi is closely related to the Fibonacci series. In the 12th century, Leonardo Fibonacci discovered a simple numerical series that is the foundation for an incredible mathematical relationship behind phi. Starting with 0 and 1, each new number in the series is simply the sum of the two before it.
0,
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, . . .
The ratio of each successive pair of
numbers in the series approximates phi (1.618. . .) , as 5 divided by 3 is
1.666..., and 8 divided by 5 is 1.60. After the 40th number in the series, the
ratio is accurate to 15 decimal places. 1.618033988749895
. . .
Since my book delves into alchemy, codes, symbols and the
Rosicrucian Dr. Robert Fludd, I wondered if 1.618 might be a code for me. Think,
think, think. Aha! Take the decimal away
from 1.618 and you get the year 1618. In 1618 Fludd wrote De Musica Mundana
(Mundane Music) which described his theories of music, including his
mundane (also known as "divine" or "celestial") monochord. And look. God is tuning the chord so it
sounds nice for us.
What’s interesting is that Fludd’s image is all about
proportion and illustrates the mathematical
properties of musical pitch. In music, the 5th note of a
scale (for example G in a C scale, also called a fifth) creates 2:3 ratio or
.666. Therefore, as noted above, if you play a fifth, such as C and G together,
it is considered the musical representation of Phi and sounds very harmonious
sound to our ears.
Gary Val Tenuta explores Phi and the Divine Proportion in The Ezekiel Code as well. Tenuta calls his form of numerology, whereby
each letter represents a number; 1 = A, 2 =B, so on up to Z=26, cryptonumerology.
On his website, he writes that the term "crypto" relates to the idea
of secret writing, ciphers, and codes. Therefore, any word or group of words
has a numerical value (by tallying the numbers associated with the letters in
the word or group of words). This is important since some consider that numbers
not only have quantitative values, but qualitative values as well. “In this
sense” say Tenuta, “one might think of numbers as being resonant symbols
reflecting archetypal concepts residing in what the Swiss psychologist, Carl
Jung, called the collective unconscious.”
Aha! Numbers are archetypal! That must be why I kept hearing
“archetype” and the number “four” after my awakening. Getting back to PHI and the Divine
Proportion, The Ezekiel Code offers
numbers and musical references up the yin/yang. For instance, THE GOLDEN MEAN
SPIRAL = 198 = THE MUSICAL SCALE OF GOD and PHI SPIRAL = 108 = GEOMETRY. THE MUSICAL PHI = 144. THE DIVINE PROPORTION = 252 = CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS = ALCHEMICAL TRANSMUTATION. In
case you didn’t notice, all of these numbers add up to 18 or 9 (18 or 1+8=9).
Many of the hidden messages in The Ezekiel
Code total 9. Tenuta believes 9 represents “synchronicity.”