Voice of the "Turtle" a Sacred Song

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.

The central number Five tells us that our world is based on a continuum built on five dimensions and if we divide a circle by the five- the pentagram we get five 72 degree segments and the golden mean proportion(Fibonacci) becomes visible. This is a spatial proportion found only in living organisms. Living organisms reveal that our world is built on time, space(matter) and soul(beingness), one dimension of time, three dimensions of space, and one dimension of soul which equals the Five. In the ancient Hebrew this five also means the Chumash=Torah and the five soul roots human beings may connect with.
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.

Baruch HaShem!