Turtle Talks Torah, the Song of Songs and Fibonacci

      A most basic understanding in the teachings of the mekubalim(kabbalists) of old is that the world is manifested from the Hebrew letters. These letters are said to make up NUMBER-time and sequence; SHAPE- matter and space; and STORY- they have soul or being-they speak. This is all spoken of in the opening verses of the Sepher Yetzirah- the primer of these teachings along with the Holy Torah herself. So this is an intrinsic knowledge that being or soul is as primary and original as space and time. Life in physical forms as organisms may seem to have evolved just lately in the cosmogony of the universe. However the source and substance of soul is as original as time and matter. In the last post it was explained how the three circuits (gilgalim) or towers are represented as the top three scutes on the turtle shell which are directly connected to the three ways that the Earth globe turns. These manifest our experience of the world. The wheel of the ten omakim-depths(sephirot) develop out of the three turnings. All of this is also directly connected to the three ‘sepharim”- the three functions of the Hebrew letters as mentioned in the Sepher Yetzirah- time(number)-space(shape) and soul-story.

     Since the turtle is a living organism their shells( many turtle species have the same pattern) also express the Fibonacci series and the golden ratio which is only found expressed in living organisms. For those who understand multi-dimensional- 5-D theory you will know that this mathematical ratio, the Golden mean , also called the divine proportion, is the signature so to speak of the divine soul realm(5-D) interfaced with time/space 4-D. This is why the Sepher Yetzirah insists that the omakim/sephirot are “ten and not nine, ten and not eleven”. . :

      From Chapter one(verse 3&4) Sepher Yetzirah: "The ineffable Sephiroth are Ten, as are the Numbers; and as there are in man five fingers over against five, so over them is established a covenant of strength, by word of mouth, and by the circumcision of the flesh. 4. Ten is the number of the ineffable Sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. Understand this wisdom, and be wise by the perception. Search out concerning it, restore the Word to its creator, and replace Creator who formed it upon the micono(seat/throne)". 

Wheel of ten-two pentagrams interlaced in living flower expresses Golden ratio

Wheel of the ten sephirot whirling out of Source to manifest our world

So the ten and not nine, ten and not eleven is because only a wheel or circle of Ten(as a multiple of five), not a nine pointed star or an eleven pointed star, will express the divine proportion, the Golden mean (see photos). The Fibonacci series is another expression of the Golden ratio as easily seen in the spiral of the seashell(see image)

Turtle Carapace expresses Golden ratio

and pine cone and the human ear.

Spiral seashell expresses Golden Ratio

In the last post it was mentioned that the wheel of the ten sephirot/depths as seen in the wheel of TEN from Luriannic Kabbalah(see image above right) is a wheel of origin but it is still always present and attainable. In a sense this new world we are moving into is beginning to connect to this wheel as a tikkun or repair to the imbalanced qualities that we have worked to re-balance within the lineage streams(religions) around the globe for so many millennia.

     The turtle also explains how we get the sacred Shemamphorash, the seventy-two names from the three verses in the parsha Beshalach in the Torah. The third and bottom wheel of scutes on the turtle shell, the carapace,count twenty-four which when multiplied by the three circuits/gilgulim or top three scutes on the turtle shell we get 3X24=72. We can see from this how the seventy-two names also encode the Golden mean within their number. The image of the decagon (see image below) shows how the 72 degree angles appear which also hints at the seventy-two names connection here. The circle around a pentagram that also expresses the golden mean divides the 360 degrees into five sections of seventy-two degrees each.

Decagon expresses Golden ration and the "72"

When we look at the Fibonacci series of numbers we may see the seventy-two  again. Here we find the thirteenth number(when we include zero) in the series being “144” which is just a multiple(twice) the seventy-two. Here is the beginning of the series: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144,…..

We do not usually get too into the numbers here on this blog but this is really a quite essential part of the math to master to really understand the depth of these teachings of the mekubalim/kabbalists.

Pentagram shows the Fibonacci spiral toward center

Mayan Cave ceremony

Mayan Cave Ceremony

     The covenant of Abraham and Sarah  at EIGHT days is connected both to the Fibonacci series and golden ratio as well as the octave of music. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144,….. EIGHT is the SEVENTH number in the Fibonacci series when including the zero.It is precisely a divine kind of prayer-form music to connect humanity to a collective soul depth that will make a real Peace possible in our Temple Earth. In fact this kind of naming covenant or ceremonial prayer form was known at a certain level to the Native American priests as we can see from this cave painting from the August,1981 issue of National Geographic(image right). These same Mayan priests(cave image from the 700's ce)  were waiting for a bearded white priestly people to arrive here in America. The book of the Mayan priest Chilam Balaam says for the people to look for these priestly men who will come to America. “from page 168 “The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel”, Univ. of Oklahoma Press: “Our elder brother comes, oh men of Tantum. Receive your guests, the bearded men, the men of the east, the bearers of the sign of God,lord.” If you look at this image of a Mayan priest in the center, he is letting blood from his foreskin with either a flint or sea anemone spine. You will figure from this what the (secret)“sign of God" is that they mention. On the upper part of the painting you will see him cross-legged in front of a spiral CONCH SHELL(at genital level) which explains that they were also applying a Fibonacci rhythm to their ceremonies. This was part of a secret priesthood of the good reformer to these people, named Quetzalcoatl/Kulkukan. He ended human sacrifice and replaced it with a non-lethal form of blood offering. This was hidden for centuries. As the lakota say, mitakyue Oyasin-We are all related!

In the next post we will explain how all this is connected to the holiest of all the ketubim/writings, The Shir HaShirim or Song of Songs: . 

ו  שִׂימֵנִי כַחוֹתָם עַל-לִבֶּךָ, כַּחוֹתָם עַל-זְרוֹעֶךָ--כִּי-עַזָּה כַמָּוֶת אַהֲבָה, קָשָׁה כִשְׁאוֹל קִנְאָה:  רְשָׁפֶיהָ--רִשְׁפֵּי, אֵשׁ שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה.	6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as Sheol; the flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of YAH.