The magic square of nine numbers is an ancient blueprint used in many
diverse cultures since antiquity. It is called Al-Jabr's box in the
Arabic, the kamea of Shabbatai/Saturn in Hebrew and Lo Shu's turtle
square from China. In the Chinese version one can see from the picture
that there are forty-four dots arrayed around the central forty-fifth.
Centrality is an essential component of most of the ancient geocentric
worldviews at the root of our present wisdom lineages called religions.
There are resonances with the number values of this little box of nine
numbers and the structure of our society. The pure number aspect gives
us insight into a wisdom deeper than interpretations based on
cultural-linguistic paradigms. In the ancient cultures this grid
resonated with the quality called wisdom and the justice related to the
aged wisdom. In the Hebrew tradition the numbers are letters and so the
values of the columns resonate with certain words in the Torah. We can
easily see the relationship to what represents "Justice" in our country
in the form of the Supreme court. This box was related by some of the ancients
to the slow moving planet of "justice" who judges on life and truth,
Saturn, called Shabbatai in Hebrew.. There are nine individual small boxes as there are nine judges
on the court circled about a central "chief". There are eight columns,
rows and diagonals as there are eight columns facing the front of the
supreme court building. There are three kinds of columns-vertical,horizontal and diagonal that relate to the three branches of the US government. These also relate to the three "realms" of the mekubalim(kabbalists)-Shanah/time, Olam/world(space) and Nephesh/soul that our universe is built upon. These are sometimes called number/counting(time),letter/matter(space) and Speech/soul(being). There also are nine black-robed lords of the
underworld in the ancient meso-american cosmology and our government has
some parallels in the structure of the Native American worldview. The
prophet of the Cheyenne Indian tribe called Sweet Medicine was given his
wisdom tradition many centuries ago in a cave surrounded by forty-four divine beings
called "Peace Chiefs" or thunders. Their tribe has a peace council to
this very day made up of forty-four. There is a teaching that can be
just based on this little number box and a great Hebrew sage uses it to
delve into the profound secrets of the Torah.
For Americans at this place in time, space and soul this all teaches us that our forty-fourth Presidential Chief whose name is Hebrew for lighningbolt is a pillar for true justice taking root in our world. The critical decisions of the nine judges resting on the American court show us that the qualities of resonance found in the turtle square of the ancient Chinese sage are becoming physically manifest in our world. We are entering an epoch of Justice made manifest.
