The Mystical Number 432 ( thanks Veg)

...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.