Article By: Brendan Bombacci

The Egyptians related the course of cosmic chronology to physical structures by the passage of our Sun's motion through the sky (and by Earth's annual orbital spin).
Witnessing one whole degree of sky, with gnomonic and/or sextant (astrolabe) referencing and with tally marks, they were enabled to foster the origins of geometrical art, modern physics and biology, and various standards of weights and measures.
According to their observations of total solar standstills throughout any given year, 5 days (2 solstices of nearly 2.5-day-long/60-hour standstills each) were discounted from the apparent (synodic) orbit of 360 days.
This supplied the 360 degree compass system, and is conveniently a multiple to lowest common denominations of division by the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (six is a larger 3), (8 is a larger 4), and 9, which skips seven - leading us to better comprehension of the 7th day "rest" of the solar deity in universal (mathematical) creation, and the symbolic mystique of that scythe shaped figure 7 in early writing.

The geometrical correlations to this science rendered the common religious symmetries of the circle (one point or one whole), the vesica piscis (2 pointed fish or eye), the triangle (3 points either "upward" or "downward"), the cross (4 points or a tetrahedron - the original three dimensional platonic solid), the pentalpha (5 points representing the Golden Ratio or a pyramid), the Star of David (6 points or two equally inverted triangles), and the globally Gnostic octo-and-dodecahedral starbursts (8 and 12 points respectfully).

Masterfully utilizing astronomy for rational arithmetic, the precession of the equinoxes (wherein the night sky shifts completely over 25920 years) was fit into Egyptian geo-metrical divisions by according 72 subdivisions, in every single degree of a day's cycle, to obtain that large total number of the celestial Heavens.

The Hebrew named these astro-horological units "barleycorn," and later, "Helakim;" each unit lasted for 3.333 of today's seconds. Here is a fundamental example of an easily perfected scientific instrument to discover the speed of sound: being that shifts in visible light are transmitted almost instantaneously, one man can stand at a distance to another and shout at the same time he waves his hand, while the observing man calculates how long it takes for that shout to travel.

The observer could use a metronome constructed of a flow control screw-valve (which the Egyptians invented for irrigation, levitation, steam power, and transmission) which would tap a keg full of liquid set accurately to drip once per Helakim.
The result is that a numerically symbolic unit of length (distance) measure could be derived simply by the shouting man retreating from or advancing to the observer until they coordinate a particular distance of rope-knotted "degrees;" and, the speed of sound in air would then have a rational distance per Helakim associated to it.

The speed of sound is 1080 feet per second at freezing (0 degrees Celcius), and, this works out to be an auditory "speed" of 3600 feet per Helakim.
Being that one hour contains 3600 seconds, it could be easily postulated that the creation of the second hand was an action relative to this measure, originally manifested from close attention to the dance of stars and the Moon above.,br> In the Old Testament, the 1/8th-mile "furlong" (or agricultural furrow-long which later evolve into the 'acre') of 660-ft/ 440-modern-cubits was prominent in usage; it is also currently the "E" note, in Hertzian notation, of Western music (with 440 arguably the 'A' note).

Being that the angels of Biblical metaphor were equated with song and the Word of God, and that acoustical pressure is the only real difference between instantaneous light waves and slower material existence, the 'Word' truly did "part the waters" as the evolution of frequencies, and henceforth, elemental chemistry carried onward.
To really understand this separation of light and sound waves (and oneness of them all), and even of heavy material forms much more divided into unseen particle-waves, was quite the aim of many esoteric alchemical studies.
'Angel' is translatable to 'angle,' in terms of word meaning; representative of a being (a geometer) cognizant of the irrationality of light, and the opposed rationality of human-created number, weight, and measure, the word was synonymous with scholar, guardian, craftsman, teacher, visionary, and more.
Revelations 21:17 says "and he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel." The Royal Cubit has an interesting root of formulation in furlong numerals.

Divisible by 20, and also by 33 (an often-mentioned number in sacred geometry representing otherwise irrational and Holy or Masonic thirds in decimal systems), and, being a 5:4 ratio 'E' note musical product of the obscure and ancient solfeggio "Mi" note of 528hz, the furlong-number of 660 has many peculiar ties.


The number 660 is even an 11/6 ratio for the common cross-cultural (geomantic) number 360, which tells much allegory in and of itself, and can easily justify the conception of our musical frequency system as based on our annual orbit - hence the general keynote 360 Hz 'F' of ancient Greece and Asia.

Six multiplied by sixty, as well, equates to 360.

At 72 degrees Fahrenheit (termed as the perfect human comfort zone), a number once again associated to the 25920-year Precession of the Equinoxes and to the numerical Hebrew Gematria equivalent of "YHVH" ( the original spelling of Yahweh or Jesus), as well as symbolic of fifth-divisions of 360 degrees (the 72 degree separations of pentalpha points), the speed of sound is 1130.81 feet per second, because wave (sound) speed is dependent upon pressure/temperature in the medium.

This amount, divided by 660 segments (curiously), gives a length or distance which is equivalent to 20.56 inches of measure, per each 660th of the total distance; and physically, this is just under the length of Biblical Royal Cubit proportion.
The Cubit, too, was divided by 4 "palms" of 7 "fingers" each (much like the 4-week lunar 13 month calendar), and inasmuch, it is squarely affirmed that this product would be rounded up to Moses' proclaimed 20.6" unit in said system.

The fact that this particular measure can be fabricated from anywhere in the world by two people and some equipment to also derive this temperature measurement system of old, is of even further value.
To boot, it may be that the "comfort zone" 72-degree temperature returns to stasis near the spring equinox in Africa, further dedicating the "birth of the Sun God" to our instrumentation of rational measure in material life.
This might have led to the eventual popularization of the German "Fahrenheit" notation through the feverish and complete old-world dominations of Alexander the Great (an pre-Germanic Aryan and esteemed Grecian conqueror).

If the Royal Cubit came from calculations of geometrical distancing and sound, so did the inch. One other standard of Cubit division was by the "construction remen" standard of 20 notches (and its further 1/16th binary subdivisions named "Ro").
In this tradition was the Gizeh pyramid built up to a height of 320 Cubits (like the 320 Ro within a Cubit).

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