In the traditional sciences, one of the leading and certainly reasonable theories concerning mass extinction, particularly that of the era of dinosaurs, which pre-dated, or perhaps cleared the way for own species arrival, was the impact of an enormous asteroid. In the terms of classical physics this should most certainly be considered, at least from an historical point of view, one of the largest releases of stored biological energy in living organisms to date. In this post, I am setting the stage for Part Three, so please have patience as it is a challenging concept as well as a challenge to condense a great deal of material into a reasonable length.
"And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.
And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon." -Revelation
In one manuscript, instead of Apollyon the text reads "Apollo," the Greek god of death and pestilence as well as of the sun, music, poetry, crops and herds, and medicine. But the name Apollo (Gk Apollon) was often linked in ancient Greek writings with the verb apollymi or apollyo, "destroy." From this time of Grotius, "Apollyon" has often been taken here to be a play on the name Apollo. The locust was an emblem of this god, who poisoned his victims, and the name "Apollyon" may be used allusively in Revelation to attack the pagan god and so indirectly the Roman emperor Domitian, who liked to be regarded as Apollo incarnate. Apollos' identification as the sun-god is universal among later writers...The attributes of Apollo are the bow and quiver, the cithara and plectrum, the snake, raven, shepherd's crook, tripod, and laurel. In art Apollo is represented more frequently than any other ancient deity...
Interestingly, here, once again the Sun as the primary member of the solar system is represented in the context of possibly...asteroids...and hence in a metaphor of the relationship as to the asteroid belt quite accurately portrays the sun in this relationship as " a king over them..."
An Equalibrium of The Fifty
Interestingly, we see another common arcaic significant number in this Christian text..which echoes Summerian and Greek texts about a certain number.50..which apparently tips the equation either toward destruction or toward continuation.
God informs Abraham that he plans to destroy the city of Sodom because of its gross immorality. Abraham pleads with God not to destroy Sodom, and God agrees that he would not destroy the city if there were 50 "righteous" people in it.
Interestingly, Gurdjieff mentions this same number very specifically in the context of 50 individuals who had reached a certain stage of evolution could quite effectively administrate the affais of this planet. He also shared essentially the same conceptual model of energetic concioussness as did Collin,however, and this is a critical assumption that is a key to the situation, is that this energy could be produced in such a quanity to, in effect, accelerate evolution itself, which, in his writings, was entirely an self directed by effort. In Summeria,The so-called Epic of Creation (or Enūma Eliš), which is an account that explains how and why the local city god Marduk of Babylon became the master of the universe, contains in its fifth and last tablet a scholarly and very speculative explication of the fifty names of Marduk. The fifty Sumerian names are taken apart into syllables and then each syllable is treated as a Sumerian word by itself which may then be translated into Akkadian. What seems most astounding in ancient Mesopotamia is the total fusion of what we separate into subjects: music, mathematics, art, science, religion, and poetic fantasy. Such a fusion has never been equaled except by Plato, who inherited its forms. Socrates' statement about the general principles of scientific studies in Plato's Republic, with the harmonical allegories that follow directly in books 8 and 9. The Mesopotamian prototypes to which they lead us fully justify Socrates' treatment of his own tale as an "ancient Muses' jest," inherited from a glorious, lost civilization. Scholars who have become too unmusical to understand mankind's share in divinity, as Plato feared might happen, still can lean on him for understanding, for all of his many writings about harmonics and music have survived. The fifty is also the standard number of an initiatory group as understood in ancient Greece whose Greek name is "agele". Is all of this coincidence? What in heavens name does this have to do with unidentified arial phenomenon? This will be covered and explored in Part Three.
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