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Dolf Boek
These words condemn all those meaningless phrases and expletives that border on profanity. They condemn the deceptive compliments, the evasion of truth, and flattering phrases, the exaggerations, the misrepresentations in [Religious] trade, that are current in society and in the business world." [Copyright Ellen G. White Publications, (1896) founding illuminati, 'The Spirituality of the Law, 'Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing', page 69]
A comment needs to be made, as to the purpose, function and differences between the traditional DAOIST/TORAH (Pythagorean) A-U-M worldview of the religious/political Mysteries associated to both the Tetragrammation of Number (Sephirot) obtained from yarrow sticks/stones {ie. According to Yang Hsiung's (53 BCE to 18 CE) tetragram system, each four-line glyph has 3 possibilities {ie. 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = #81} whose component parts are read from top to bottom, comprising either:
(3) an unbroken line correlated to YANG/FATHER {+ 0, 27, 54};
(9) a line broken once representing YIN/MOTHER {+ 0, 9, 18}; and
(27) a line broken twice symbolising ZHUN/SON {+ 0, 3, 6}
(81) as its culturing as that which organises {ie. within its sphere/ONE within FAMILY: + 0, 81, 9(9²+1)/2 = #369} the myriad of individual phenomena (WAN WU): + 1, 2, 3} = Tetragrammation hierarchy value."The Mystery gives birth to two divine images. The two divine images give birth to the spherical [universe]. The cosmic sphere gives birth to Three Models [of Heaven-Earth-Man]. The Three Models give birth to the Nine Positions. The Mystery in having the model 'One' {ie. YANG/FATHER {+ 0, 27 - Paradoxes of the Greatest Skill/ Function of Skill, 54 - Culturing Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition}} attains to Heaven. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has Heaven [in it].' The Mystery in having the model 'Two' {ie. YIN/MOTHER {+ 0, 9 - Inconstancy of Achievement/ Practising Placidity, 18 - Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity}} attains to Earth. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has Earth [in it]'. The Mystery in having the model 'Three' {ie. ZHUN/SON {+ 0, 3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet, 6 - Superiority of the Female/ Completion of Form}} attains to Man. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has Man [in it]'.
The sage investigates changes in the moon's appearance and location, as well as departures from its orbit {ie. The term TS'E NI means 'to lose the regular course' where for every 19 years there must be 7 intercalary months (Heaven's Compensation) and presumably may include irregularities such as eclipses:
"Heaven and Earth face each other. Sun and moon are in conjunction. Mountain and valley flow into one another. Light and heavy float on one another. Yin and Yang succeed one another. High and low rank do not defile one another."
}. He only finds a norm in the constant sequence of sun and moon, and in the order of male and female. He makes them the canonical model for all eternity. Therefore, the Mystery in grand fashion comprises Heaven's Origins, binding and securing it to what is to come.
The Mystery works with multiples of six and nine. The divining stalks use three times six (ie. 18). The Priniciples of Heaven and Earth uses two times nine (also = 18). The Mystery certainly does use eighteen as a base then! The Grand Accumulation Sum begins with 18 - 'Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity' divining stalks and ends with 54 - 'Culturing Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition'. If we add the numbers that correspond to the beginning and end of the stalks, 18 + 54 = #72 - 'Self-Love/ Holding Oneself Dear', we halve it to make the Grand Centre {= 36 - Natural Reversals/ 'Secret' Explanation; Tallying the vertical axis produces:
#1 - To Guide with Names/ Reason's Realisation,
Categorical Imperative: (#27 - Paradoxes of the Greatest Skill/ Function of Skill + #9 - Inconstancy of Achievement/ Practising Placidity + #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet + #2 - Contrast of Terms/ Self-Culture) = #41 - Playing with Reversal/ Sameness in Difference (Septet form 9(9²+1)/2 = #369 as Centre = 13 to 17 September; with New Moon 18 September 2001 = 1 Tishri 5762 as 122J3W2D) ,
Categorical Imperative: (#54 - Culturing Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition + #18 - Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity + #6 - Superiority of the Female/ Completion of Form + #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet) = #81 - Making the Essence Clear/ Propounding the Essential
"Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus {He is saved; a deliverer; a saviour} said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
While the Pharisees {ie. within the contemporaneous Dead Sea Scrolls as Flattery Seekers} were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David {well beloved; dear}. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD-YHWH said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions." [Matthew 22:35-46] (KJV circa 1611 CE)}.
The 36 divining stalks of the Grand Centre are used to regulate the 729 Appraisals. Altogether [36 x 729 = 364 x 72 + 36 = ] 26,244 stalks make up the Grand Accumulation, with 72 stalks per day for the 364 1/2 days of the year. The Deficit Appraisal fills it out, so as to bring it into accord with the days of the year and the pitches and calendar in their course." ([#10])
Any disparity between commentators over whether Yin(g) = female as passive principle (EARTH) and Yang = male as active principle (HEAVEN) as conveyed by the Book of Changes (I-Ching) of 2800 BCE or Lao Tzu's (6th century BCE) Tao (the way) Te (of virtue) Ching (and causality), is perhaps due to the ambiguity as to whether the elements #1 and #2 follow the Pythagorean Number Symbolism, in that they are distinct from the meaning of number which assigned to odd number a male attribute (eg: the monad as Zeus) and even number a female attribute (eg: the duad as Hera) and gave them co-jointly a spermatic quality in the emulation of nature-PHUSIS {germination or expansion, natural reproduction}: "Men, why are you doing these things? {ie. In that they called Barnabas (the son of a prophet) Zeus/Jupiter and Paul (small; little) Mercury/Hermes and had sought to sacrifice to them} We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living-ZAO God-THEOS, who made the heaven-OURANOS {
(YANG/FATHER - Formula of Universal Law as Sovereignty: #1 - Nature contains Nature {#4 - Nature amended in its Nature}) says: "Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature."
}, and the earth-GE {
(YIN/MOTHER - Formula of Humanity as Head of State: #2 - Nature rejoices in its Nature {#5 - Act of Nature}) says: "Act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means."
}, and the sea {
(ZHUN/SON - Formula of Autonomy as Individual: #3 - Nature surmounts Nature {#6 - Form of Nature}) is a synthesis of the first two. It says that we should so act that we may think of ourselves as legislating universal laws through our maxims, in a possible Kingdom of Ends. We may think of ourselves as such autonomous legislators only insofar as we follow our own laws.
}, [and the fountains of waters {
(ONE - Formula of Progression: #4 - Nature amended in its Nature {#7 - Engendering Nature}) as a progressive adaptation within its sphere of operation.
} [Revelation 14:7]] and all things that are therein: Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways." [Acts 14:15-16]
} and the Tetragrammation formulation of the name YHWH {ie. 72J = 12 x 294 x 364 = 12 x 293 x 365.2425 = Tetragrammation on YHWH as 72} associated to the natural cycle of the four seasons as regime of governance. And how this relates to the alternate '#57 - Laissez Faire Politics/ Simplicity In Habits' perspective of the 'topical year' commencing New Years Day/Resolution 1 January as proposed by the Gregorian calendar reforms of 1582 CE and adopted throughout the British Empire in 1752 CE.
Rabbi Yaakov Feldman of Project Genesis suggests of Ramchal's (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto 1707-1746 CE) explanation, that it concerns a Categorical Imperative associated to the very start of creation. His explanation of the Kabbalistic terminology brings it all down to earth: "'All the sephira-levels that G-d created' that is, all the non-material building blocks that went into the creation of the world known as the sephirot (plural of sephira), 'were (originally) arranged in order, with one under the other'. In fact we learn that, 'everything's in place (ideally) when the more extraneous sephira-levels are below the more exalted ones and are subservient to them, which is how things will be in The World to Come.'
His point is that order and proper hierarchy are the ideal. It had been in place at the beginning and will be in place again in the end. 'But everything was damaged'-- everything suddenly changed for the worse -- 'when the 'husk' rebelled against its Master.'
The 'husk' is another name for the yetzer harah (which on both a personal level and a cosmic one is the resistance to G-dliness). It's referred to as a 'husk' or 'shell' because it comes about before the 'fruit' of G-dliness does [1 Corinthians 12:3-31], because it preserves the fruit (just as the yetzer harah preserves society, for without it there'd be no childbirth, civilization, etc.), and because like all husks and shells the yetzer harah is destined to be cast aside when it no longer serves its purpose (as we'll see).
For when the husk rebelled against G-d and thus removed itself from the natural order of things, it separated the Jewish Nation (represented by the last of the sephira-levels, which is nourished by the largesse of the lot of them) from G-d by virtue of the fact that things were no longer 'in place', as order and hierarchy are the ideal as we said, and 'the more extraneous levels' were no longer 'below the more exalted ones and ... subservient to them'.
Not only that but 'as soon as the husk took control of the sephira-levels the supernal light reversed itself', which is to say that G-d's presence hid itself, 'the sephirot were no longer joined together, the Divine Flow diminished, and the Jewish Nation's abilities weakened and lessened.'
And in fact that spiritual chaos and malnourishment is our situation in exile on an ethereal level." ([#11])
| Mercury as #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet | #8 | #9 | #8 | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 |
Thus in this example, the husk or the outer shell {Nature amended in its Nature {Engendering Nature}} as the New Year's formulation adopted as part of the Gregorian calendar reforms of 1582 CE as conveyed above [see right] might be considered at the personal level, the equivalent to our New Year's Resolution custom, whereby one might purge themselves of undesireable compulsions in much the same way as the 'yetzer harah that is destined to be cast aside when it no longer serves its purpose'. Or undertake some corrective and restorative action.
| CAUSE & EFFECT as #60 - Skill at Ruling/ How to Maintain One's Place | #8 | S | #11 | Q | P | O | Zhun 33CE |
M | L | K |
But there is also a cosmic kernel correspondence which proffers a resistance to Godliness and in point of fact rebels against God as MALAKOS [see right; Luke 7:24-28; Matthew 11:23-30; Damascus Document 8:3-12]: "While we pursue those government ministers asleep at the wheel of the ship of state, let's also castigate ourselves and remind ourselves that it is only a materialistic, utilitarian people which is collectively able to work the public conscience into such a state of submission so that the nation is able to trade successfully with a corrupt despot while convincing itself that necessary and justified sanctions are honoured and all is in readiness for war." ([#12])
It is this knowledge duality {eg: "Now when
Jesus was born in Bethlehem {House of Bread} of Judaea in the days of
Herod {son of a hero} the king, behold, there came wise men from the east
to Jerusalem {VISION OF PEACE: The Autonomous Nature as
Forma Corporis is the equivalent to the demiurge as supernatural animating agent
within the universe [Exodus 23:20-24; Acts 12:20-24] as the Shekinah [#11, #2, #37,
#47 * Ignorant Guides/ Viewing the Distant, #75 - The Destructiveness of Envy/
Harmed Through Greed, #28, #32, #81, #30]. And who was especially important
as having an associated equivalence to the Almighty [Genesis 17:1] as Shaddai
{Heb. Shin (#300) Daleth (#4) Yod (#10) = #314 % 81 = #71 as [#5, #21, #11,
#71 * Know-How as a Disease/ The Disease of Knowledge, #58 - Political Reversal/
Adaptation to Change, #24, #65, #34, #6]} being proposed by
Yang Hsiung's (53 [4] BCE - 18 CE) T'ai Hsuan Ching (Canon of Supreme Mystery on
Causality -- Natural Divination) is as follows:
a) Yang - #44 - Moderate Values/ Setting Up Precepts (May 26-31)
b) Yin - #50 - Fantasies of Avoiding Death/ Estimation of Life (Nov 28-Dec 2)
c) Zhun - #73 - Employing Deeming/ Daring to Act (Jan 16-20)
d) One - #15 - Mastering Guiding Discourse/ Revealers of Virtue (Dec 22-26)}, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. ... [W]hen Herod saw that he was deceived by the wise men, [being] exceedingly angry; he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah {exaltation of the Lord} the prophet, saying, 'A voice was heard in Ramah/Ram {elevated; sublime}, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel {sheep} weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they were no more.'" [Matthew 2:1-3]
} of what is both an ontological and cosmic realm which John Polkinghorne suggests within his Terry lectures, celebrating 300 years of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, is the basis of the definition of religious belief issued by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE, bringing into play the full resources of Greek philosophy in an effort to articulate orthodox understanding of the Status of Christ: "One and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, ... One and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognised in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation." ([#13])
As suggested within my 24 June - 20 July chapter titled, 'Course-TROCHOS of nature-GENESIS or world-KOSMOS of iniquity-ADIKIA?', the essence of orthodox asceticism is a convoluted process of detachment from reality, involving a paradoxical subordination of self to an inner perception or apparition of mind; {Gk. horama}, as self-grandising hallucinatory autosuggestion and deification in claimed unity with one's inner daemon. [#6, #69, #20, #70 * Difficulty in Knowing How/ Difficult to Understand, #70, #3, #69, #60, #14 - Kether (Crown)] Whereby the "heart has been purified of all thoughts; that his nous has been liberated from fantasy, logic and the passions and has returned to the heart and been united with it in the Holy Spirit".
Its monasticism proscribes, that the knowing of truth is attained by one whose nous is unified in his heart. In order to bring this about, the ascetic decides to live a reclusive and mystical life and feels a distaste for everything which disunites his nous. [#1, #5, #61, #81 * Making the Essence Clear/ Propounding the Essential, #5 - Natural Guidance/ The Function of Emptiness, #16, #31, #61, #15] - Chokmah (Wisdom)]
Man's soul is thought by the ascetic, to being tripartite. In other words it has three powers, the intelligent, the incensive and the appetitive. When the soul is ill, its three powers are also ill. Christ began his cure of the soul with the appetitive power. For desire unsatisfied fuels the incensive power, and then the intelligence too is ill. Therefore the incensive power of the soul cannot be cured before the appetitive power is cured, nor can the intelligence be cured until the other two powers have been cured. [#15, #7, #47, #67 * Three Treasures {kindness, frugality and no presumption that one is first among all under Heaven}, #71 - Know-How as a Disease/ The Disease of Knowledge, #11, #48, #51, #48 - Thrones (Saturn)] ([#14])
| GLOBAL ERA (Y6K) Intelligent Knowledge Spheres as Thinking Boeks |
#9 | #8 | #1 Sun |
#2 Mon |
#3 Tue |
#4 Wed |
#5 Thu |
#6 Fri |
#7 Sat | |
| Yang
#53 - Increasing Evidence/ Gaining Insight |
#1 | #59 | #60 | #67 | #66 | #65 | #64 | #63 | #62 | #61 |
| Yin #36 - Natural Reversals/ 'Secret' Explanation |
#2 | #50 | #51 | #58 | #57 | #56 | #55 | #54 | #53 | #52 |
| MENTALISM / Zhun / Saturn as #35 - Great Guiding Signs?/ Virtue of Benevolence | #3 | #41 | #42 | #49 | #48 | #47 | #46 | #45 | #44 | #43 |
| CORRESPONDENCE / One / Jupiter as #73 - Employing Deeming/ Daring to Act | #4 | #32 | #33 | #40 | #39 | #38 | #37 | Yang | #35 | #34 |
| VIBRATION / Mars as #71 - Know-How as a Disease/ Disease of Knowledge | #5 | #23 | #24 | #31 | #30 | #29 | #28 | #27 | #26 | #25 |
| POLARITY / Sun as #60 - Skill at Ruling/ How to Maintain One's Place | #6 | #14 | #15 | #22 | #21 | #20 | #19 | #18 | #17 | #16 |
| RHYTHM / Venus as #49 - Sage's Constancy/ Trust in Virtue | #7 | #5 | #6 | #13 | #12 | #11 | #10 | #9 | #8 | #7 |
| CAUSE & EFFECT / Mercury as #26 - Ambiguous Reversals/ Virtue of Gravity | #8 | Yin |
#78 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 | #81 | #80 | #79 |
| GENDER / Lunar as #28 - Opposites and Primitivism/ Returning to Simplicity | #9 | #68 | #69 | #76 | #75 | #74 | #73 | #72 | #71 | Zhun |
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Endnotes:
[#10] - Copyright 1993 Michael Nylan, Translaton with Commentary of Yang Hsiung's (53 BCE-18 CE) 4 BCE (T'AI HSUAN CHING) 'Canon of Supreme Mystery on Causality -- Natural Divination' (HSUAN KAO) 'Revelation of the Mystery', p 461, 463
[#11] - Copyright © 2006 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman, Ramchal, 'The Great Redemption', 'Exile', Chapter 7, Project Genesis
[#12] - Jesuit priest, lawyer and academic Frank Brennan, annual Manning Clark lecture, 2 March 2006; source: The Australian 3 March 2006, Jill Rowbotham, 'Priest laments society's "moral lethargy"
[#13] - Polkinghorn, ibid p 30
[#14] -St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662 CE), Vladimir's Seminary Press, On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ, Ambiguum 7 Section I, p 53-54
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"Dolf Boek" <dolf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:...Thus if I may give an explanation of Religious belief at the time of acceptance of the Australian Constition of 1901: "Jesus proceeded to lay down a principle that would make oath taking needless. He teaches that the exact truth should be the law of speech. 'Let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.'These words condemn all those meaningless phrases and expletives that border on profanity. They condemn the deceptive compliments, the evasion of truth, and flattering phrases, the exaggerations, the misrepresentations in [Religious] trade, that are current in society and in the business world." [Copyright Ellen G. White Publications, (1896) founding illuminati, 'The Spirituality of the Law, 'Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing', page 69]
A comment needs to be made, as to the purpose, function and differences between the traditional DAOIST/TORAH (Pythagorean) A-U-M worldview of the religious/political Mysteries associated to both the Tetragrammation of Number (Sephirot) obtained from yarrow sticks/stones {ie. According to Yang Hsiung's (53 BCE to 18 CE) tetragram system, each four-line glyph has 3 possibilities {ie. 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = #81} whose component parts are read from top to bottom, comprising either:
(3) an unbroken line correlated to YANG/FATHER {+ 0, 27, 54};
(9) a line broken once representing YIN/MOTHER {+ 0, 9, 18}; and
(27) a line broken twice symbolising ZHUN/SON {+ 0, 3, 6}
(81) as its culturing as that which organises {ie. within its sphere/ONE within FAMILY: + 0, 81, 9(9²+1)/2 = #369} the myriad of individual phenomena (WAN WU): + 1, 2, 3} = Tetragrammation hierarchy value."The Mystery gives birth to two divine images. The two divine images give birth to the spherical [universe]. The cosmic sphere gives birth to Three Models [of Heaven-Earth-Man]. The Three Models give birth to the Nine Positions. The Mystery in having the model 'One' {ie. YANG/FATHER {+ 0, 27 - Paradoxes of the Greatest Skill/ Function of Skill, 54 - Culturing Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition}} attains to Heaven. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has Heaven [in it].' The Mystery in having the model 'Two' {ie. YIN/MOTHER {+ 0, 9 - Inconstancy of Achievement/ Practising Placidity, 18 - Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity}} attains to Earth. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has Earth [in it]'. The Mystery in having the model 'Three' {ie. ZHUN/SON {+ 0, 3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet, 6 - Superiority of the Female/ Completion of Form}} attains to Man. Therefore, we say of it that it 'has Man [in it]'.
The sage investigates changes in the moon's appearance and location, as well as departures from its orbit {ie. The term TS'E NI means 'to lose the regular course' where for every 19 years there must be 7 intercalary months (Heaven's Compensation) and presumably may include irregularities such as eclipses:
"Heaven and Earth face each other. Sun and moon are in conjunction. Mountain and valley flow into one another. Light and heavy float on one another. Yin and Yang succeed one another. High and low rank do not defile one another."
}. He only finds a norm in the constant sequence of sun and moon, and in the order of male and female. He makes them the canonical model for all eternity. Therefore, the Mystery in grand fashion comprises Heaven's Origins, binding and securing it to what is to come.
The Mystery works with multiples of six and nine. The divining stalks use three times six (ie. 18). The Priniciples of Heaven and Earth uses two times nine (also = 18). The Mystery certainly does use eighteen as a base then! The Grand Accumulation Sum begins with 18 - 'Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity' divining stalks and ends with 54 - 'Culturing Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition'. If we add the numbers that correspond to the beginning and end of the stalks, 18 + 54 = #72 - 'Self-Love/ Holding Oneself Dear', we halve it to make the Grand Centre {= 36 - Natural Reversals/ 'Secret' Explanation; Tallying the vertical axis produces:
#1 - To Guide with Names/ Reason's Realisation,
Categorical Imperative: (#27 - Paradoxes of the Greatest Skill/ Function of Skill + #9 - Inconstancy of Achievement/ Practising Placidity + #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet + #2 - Contrast of Terms/ Self-Culture) = #41 - Playing with Reversal/ Sameness in Difference (Septet form 9(9²+1)/2 = #369 as Centre = 13 to 17 September; with New Moon 18 September 2001 = 1 Tishri 5762 as 122J3W2D) ,
Categorical Imperative: (#54 - Culturing Perspectives/ Cultivation of Intuition + #18 - Origin of Ethical Concepts/ Palliation of Vulgarity + #6 - Superiority of the Female/ Completion of Form + #3 - Prescriptions for Politics/ Keeping the People Quiet) = #81 - Making the Essence Clear/ Propounding the Essential
It is these two imperatives, which both the Torah [Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18] and Jesus of Nazareth affirm are the essential substance of the Law and the Prophets: "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus {He is saved; a deliverer; a saviour} said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
While the Pharisees {ie. within the contemporaneous Dead Sea Scrolls as Flattery Seekers} were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David {well beloved; dear}. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD-YHWH said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions." [Matthew 22:35-46] (KJV circa 1611 CE)
Therefore, the following comment by Ivars Peterson of Science News fails to give adequate historical and theological references as to the sacred element within Howard Garns' present day popular "Sudoku Math Puzzle" and might in reality be understood as an attempt to provide a revisionistic view of history and ethical accountability. He suggests, that the "sudoku grid is a special case of a mathematical object called a Latin [or magic] square [x = n(n²+1)/2]. A Latin square consists of n sets of numbers from 1 to n arranged in a square pattern so that no row or column contains the same number twice. Latin squares go back to at least medieval times. Leonhard Euler (1707-1783 CE) a deeply religious Calvinist throughout his life, was the first exceptional mathematician to study magic squares systematically. He introduced a particular type of Latin square (a Graeco-Roman square) as a new kind of 'magic square.'" [Math Trek, Science News Online, 18 June 2005]
There is an interesting anecdote about Euler concerning the court of Catherine the Great and the visitation by the French philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784 CE). Who having little to no mathematical knowledge (like myself), was informed that someone had a mathematical proof of the existence of God. He asked to hear it. Euler then stepped forward and stated his popular identity formula: "Sir, eiπ + 1 = 0, hence God exists!" [ref: Wikipedia - where i is the imaginary unit and x a real number. Since cos π = -1 and sin π = 0 hence the equation] Diderot it is reported by some accounts, had no idea what Euler was talking about and returned to France following realising its intent as a cutting, dismissive jibe {ie. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom; to utter mocking words, scoff, jeer, to taunt, deride, flout, a sarcastic remark}. Similarly Jesus of Nazareth tells a woman within the temple confines, who is allegedly caught in the very act of adultery, to 'Go-poreuomai and sin-hamartano henceforth-meketi the more-epischuo'--That is: 'by your good works, you shall not return (to sin again).''' [John 8:11]}
[#13] - Copyright © 1998, John Polkinghorn, 'Does God Act in the Physical World', 'Belief in God in an Age of Science', p 30