...The number of the years it takes
for the spring equinox to pass
through all the signs of the zodiac is
called "the procession of the
equinoxes".It takes about 25,920
years to complete the cycle of the
zodiac.Divide 25,920 years by 60 and
you get 432.
Some years ago a friend gave me a
book,Cooper's Aerobics,that told
how many laps a day a man would
have to swim in order to stay
healthy.A footnote read :"A man in
perfect physical shape,at rest,has a
heartbeat of about one beat per
second."At sixty seconds to a
minute,and sixty minutes to
an hour,in one day of twenty-four
hours the heart beats 86,400
times.Divided by two it is
43,200.The hearbeat matches the
beat of the universe;they are the
same.That coincidence of rhythm
was the point of the old cosmic
mythologies.The later envisioned
this microcosam,or little
cosmos,and the the macrocosam,or
the big cosmos,as resonating to the
same beat.When a person tells the
doctor "I've got a fever,"the doctor
takes his pulse to find out if it
registers in harmony with the
43,200 beats--that is,to find out if
the person is in tune with nature.
These numbers,anchored in the
Sumerian discovery that the order
of the
universe can be discovered
mathematically,are almost
everywhere.In the Hindu sacred
epics,the numer of years calculated
to the present cycle of time,the Kali
Yuga as it is known,is 432,000,the
number of the "great
cycle" [mahayuga] being 4,320,000.
In the Icelandic Eddas,one reads of
the 540 doors in Othin's [Wotan's]
hall,through which at the current
cycle of time,800 divine warriors
would pass to battle the antigods in
the "Day of the Wolf" to mutual
annihilation.Multiplying 540 by 80
equals 432,000.
An early Babylonian
account,translated into Greek by a
Babylonian priest named Berossos
in 280 B.C.,tells us that 432,000
years passed between the time of
the of the rise of the city Kish and
the mythological flood [the biblical
story derives from this earlier
source].In a famous paper on "Dates
in Genesis", the Jewish
Assyriologist Julius Oppert,in
1877,showed that the in the 1,656
years from the creation to the
Flood,86,400 weeks passed.Divided
by two,that again produces 43,200.
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