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This AlphaZodiac memory palace that I am seeing everywhere right now is me putting my pattern on top of existing text. I think I’m inducing synesthesia in myself by deeply focusing on a pattern and looking for it everywhere. I’m no doctor but it seems like that is what I’ve done to myself.
Certainly fascinating and on a different topic I’m beginning to wonder if all the fire damage in the book of Isaiah is past damage; not future damage.
I come from a Lutheran background and my Christian upbringing has told me that all the fire-damage talked about in Isaiah is a future damage that will occur on the last day. But I think all these mud flood ancient architecture Tartaria researchers are pulling up evidence that God sent that fire in the past in a way we can’t even begin to imagine. Realm-wide.
Like when God gets angry, he makes deserts as big as continents. …or as big as Navada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and most of California combined. …and pretty much all of the holy land. Did you know there are active volcanoes over there?
It seems to me the volcanoes in or southeast of the holyland could be the burning cindars of cities God said in Isaiah would never stop burning once he set them afire. …and the modern day Moab… who would flee to that hell hole to escape famine? I think the Moab Ruth knew is way different from any Moab we’ve ever known for the last 2 Millennia, perhaps, or longer. I know you also don’t like the timelines that we have been given.
When is the book of Isaiah?
Just the next wild theory I’m working on. Have peace and God bless.
I went through an experience in the last 90 days to two months that has absolutely made me more connected or more aware of my connection to the Creator and to the created universe.
I don’t know how it works but it seems like if I pet the universe much like petting a cat, the universe will respond as a cat responds.
Petting can mean putting my intention and love into the universe but most importantly it means playing with the universe and being thankful that I’m in this place playing here.
It’s like the universe likes to be played with and it will respond if you write rules for it to respond inside of. Allegedly. Seemingly. I pet universe.
I have noticed that all the constellations have two things in common. Each is drawn as a unique combination of circles and sticks. They have a section that is curved and either open or closed (like an O or a C) along with straight “antennas” or “conduits” or “cutters” (like I and T).
The most basic interpretation of these two basic elements is that the curve is the feminine vessel or pregnant belly and the conduit is the masculine “cutter” to open the vessel and fill it with seed.
What is so interesting is that the Latin letters also have as their base structure this same binary: circles and sticks. Nearly every Latin letter can be divided into it’s feminine and masculine parts quite easily.
All the above observations connect very interestingly to Ehrard Landmann’s observations of the word “ID” showing up all over Egyptian as well as Mayan hieroglyphs. See this paper by him:
http://elifonaot.q32.de/cms/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdf_en:20160322_the_riddle_of_the_sphinx.pdf
ID is a half circle or a dome and a stick–a pregnant belly and a fallus.
I don’t yet know what to make of all this. I have been on my own journey looking at the base symbols within letters–or the “pictograms” within the “hieroglyphs” of the Latin language.
And I can’t dismiss the obvious either, that when one draws with a tool, one can only ever draw either a straight line or a curved line.
Meaning, attributing masculine to the straight lines and feminine to the curved lines in the constellations, the Latin alphabet, the ancient Phoenician, Egyptian, Mayan, etc, may be a straw too far. I do not yet know, but I am cautious of the fact as I do my own research.
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I have found that all languages pun. They sound the same and mean the same.
To say languages have different or unique origins, or no connection to other languages, seems to be outdated nonsense thinking in the dark. …thinking that came from the Enlightenment where people tried (among other things) to erase the Bible’s historicity simply by denying it.
But evidence suggests the Tower of Babel to be historical in ways that are still obvious despite all the eraser of languages and speech and history done in the past.
From my own thoughts:
F is 1
1 is “[F]irst and is [F]ruitful and in earliest manuscripts is drawn like a single pillar [vav in Hebrew]. He is the master in the Zen Master/Student relationship. Therefore 1, like F, is the master.
E is 2
2 is the [E]dified student. Turn the E 90 degrees to the left and you see two hands up in the air with a neck [& head] in between. In the earliest drawing of E, there is a circle attached to the center spoke. E is the student who responds best to the master and is therefore necessary to the master (the F leaning on his 1 pillar/staff).
In Zen Kaons, the sound of one hand clapping is a lonely teacher with no student. The edified or praised student is a blessed gift, and is therefore the number 2. In number theory, every number after 1 is simply 1 proving itself. 2 is the first chance 1 gets to prove himself. By doubling himself, the 1 gets feedback.
D is 3
3 is for [D]oing and the first thing God did after blowing away the waters to make dry land was build the [D]ome above us, which is just a D turn 90 degrees to the left [all letters seem to have meanings in their rotations btw, and the rotations sort of kind of follow the Sun’s rotation through the ecliptic of the zodiac in the sky].
Notice how three looks like two smaller domes also needing a rotation of 90 degrees to the left. 3 is fractal. We repeat God’s work when we work. wash rinse threepeat.
G is 4
4 is a [G]oad, which is the stick a lazy master uses to poke lazy slaves, animals, and sons to get them to go to work. Notice how the 4 looks like a pointy stick, or even a knife, or a sword. 4 gets others to work for him. [in Vox Day’s Social Sexual Hierarchy the 4 and the G are the Gamma Male, the liar and manipulator who thinks he is the secret king but is not.
In Zen Koan style, the Gamma can indeed be the secret king he always thought himself to be, but only if he gives up his entire kingdom, down to the last grain of sand.]
B is 5
B is for [B]reathing and [B]uilding. It is the lungs of Taurus in the sky upside down [as A is Taurus’ head, upside down].
Taurus is a bull standing before the Gemini Altar [vie ein kue von eines neus tur–German–like a cow before a new gate–new–as in this gate belonging to the butcher] and this cow is about to be sacrificed. For this reason he breaths, and his only option other than sacrifice is to turn around and [BUILD!].
Owen Benjamin, the Big Bear in the sky, who is Building Beartaria, is absolutely a B–He screams and builds!!! and B is two lungs rotated 90 degrees to the right. In this breathing state he has no choice but to sacrifice himself or build, and 5 in Pythagorean theorem plays important roles in making triangles for building stuff. Also, notice how if you draw a 5 tightly and connect the bottom bits, you get a b which is now missing it’s head–like a bull with his head cut off curled up fetal position on his god&@%!#$@% in-knees before the Gemini altar in the sky.
A is 6
A is the number of Man 666, translated AAA!!! It is the SCREEEEAAAAM!!! A is the bull’s head and horns rotated upside down and they have touched the fire of Gemini’s altar (see 7–the ZZZAAAP!). A knows God. Man knows God. 6 is the number of knowing God. 6 looking at himself in a fun house mirror is a lowercase a.
Z is 7
7 is the [Z]AP!!! in the sky, the bolt of lightning, the proof of the framework–WE ARE NOT ALONE!! WE ARE NOT ALL POWERFUL!!–the zap of 7 in heaven eleven tells me there is a power greater than me who is before me, and I am not Him. 7 and Z look exactly alike.
H is 8
8 is the [H]earth, and the [H]eart, and the home, and it is shaped like a double helix for a reason. It is also DNA, and and the two snakes of the caduseus, and is the stones of the altar of Gemini. 7 is the fire. 8 is the stones.
It is also the Gate. In earliest drawing an H is three conjoined horizontal boxes. H and 8 are the home and heart, the resting place of heaven [but don’t rest long anywhere].
I is 9
9 is [I]nfluence. Turn the 9 90 degrees to the right and doesn’t it look like a hand with one finger beckoning you to come hither? 9 is purfume and the first hint of summer and flowers in the air [and while Vox Day has not made a Female Social Sexual Hegemony, 9 would be the leader of that hegemony–which is the 17 other letters up to 24 minus the 7 males/planets/adders… [females mix what the males add–the male Pisces is next to Pegasus–the BIGGEST gravy ladle dipper in the sky, hidden under the skin of a horse.
Ursa Major and Minor are much smaller by comparison in the sky. They are the feminine gravy ladles [next to Virgo] used to mix the stars in they sky, whereas Pisces has a big honkin’ shovel for his ladle! He uses it to shovel the milky way into the sky, and the lady Virgo uses her two smaller gravy ladles to mix and mix and mix. Nothing must ever remain still!
I can go up to 23 with meanings and 24 simply means “Input” or “Frequency” or ‘Sound’, but so far those are my thoughts on 1 through 9. This is based on fascinating research and very little care for being right or wrong.
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Why left to right or right to left?
If you face the north star, you will notice that all the stars rotate East to West, or right to left. Brian R. Pellar (see also)suggests that alphabets that are written right to left (Hebrew, Phoenician, etc) follow the movement of the stars in the sky. This is because it seems most alphabets are based on the constellations.
For example, if you split the twelve zodiacal signs in half and assign one letter per half, you get 24 letters, and most alphabets have around that many letters (A and B are Taurus, D and G and Pisces, etc & allegedly). So basically right to left writing styles mimic the stars.
Nearly all other alphabet writing systems that go from left to right are doing so purely for convenience sake. This method is least likely to cause the majority of right handers to smudge ink.
And regarding dyslexia, we live in an inverted world. It’s entirely possible that dyslexics are the only ones experiencing reality in the correct direction. For example, all of us left-to-right readers have to invert our thinking when we go back to nature and look at the stars.
ON LANGUAGE
Just as inverting our understanding of the fear of death gains wisdom about people’s fear of life, so also does inverting Derrida’s thinking on language. Instead of thinking of language as the thing that sets us free to think, think of language as a shackle to thought. For example, language enslaves our observations to other people’s labels. Consider Terrance McKenna’s baby-sees-a-bird example:
Terence: Well, for example (the example I always use), the child lying in a crib with an open window—a pre-verbal or nearly pre-verbal child—and a hummingbird flies through the room.
It’s a psychedelic miracle, it’s absolutely stunning. The boundaries of that experience are completely undefined.
But then the mother or the nanny walks into the room and says, “Oh! It’s a bird, baby. Bird.”
The miracle immediately collapses down into a hard little tile, and by the time a person is six years old, reality has been entirely replaced by a mosaic of defined and very non-numinous meaning.
And so people are then imprisoned in this language. And they will remain so imprisoned until the yawning grave, unless they are put in touch with the transhistorical wisdom of the body. And that means psychedelics.
By the way, this idea that reality is made of language is actually the standard position in structural linguistics. This is not a radical position, this is dull-as-dog-shit orthodoxy for those people.
I once forgot the word “elephant” for three days and it didn’t stop me from thinking.
I could picture in my mind the large gray animal with a trunk, but I could not for the life of me think of what to call it.
I knew that at any time I could ask anyone in the room, “Hey, what’s the name of that huge animal with the trunk up front and gray all over?” and any one of them would have said, “Elephant.”
But I was too embarrassed to ask (this happened when I was very young) and at the same time I didn’t want to ask because I was fascinated by the fact that I had forgotten a word!
It was like I fell back into a way of thinking before labels, as Terrance talks about above. Anyways three days past and I screamed out loud, “Elephant!!” because I had remembered, and immediately I realized the magic of not knowing had gone away for good. Remembering was a let down.
One type of Buddhist meditation is to sit and listen without labeling anything you hear.
Imagine hearing a bird and not having words for it.
Don’t we describe beauty as beyond words and wonderment as beyond words? We can find ourselves in situations where words do not work any more to describe what we are thinking. For example we can have an experience that feels infinite and we start thinking about infinity but as soon as we shackle those thoughts to a word like ‘infinite’, we have made the infinite finite by using a finite word for it.
Another way to experience thinking without language is to invert the Buddhist way listed above by labeling everything you hear, but with fake labels (this activity will keep your normal thinking brain too busy to use it’s normal labels on everything).
For example, set the rule for yourself that every time you hear a bird chirp, it’s actually the sound of two gold coins clinking together and it’s telling you that riches are nearby.
Set the rule for yourself that every time you hear a car engine drive past, the car is telling you about an ocean it drove past once and thought it would wave while it waves.
Set the rule that a honking car horn is a man pleading his case before a judge, and the squeaks of car breaks are the voice of God.
Then sit outside, listen, and incorrectly label everything.
You can experience a version of thinking without other people’s labels when doing so.
Tay in da waaaaayy!!
Or for example, have you ever noticed that people always tend to say the same &@%! things over an over again?
You can listen to people without listening to any of their words.
You can listen to their sounds instead–as if they were honking geese who made roughly 19 phonetic sounds mixed together with their lips and spits and grunts. Then label their individual sounds with nonsense labels.
Make them all imperative command statements.
When they make make an MMMM sound they are telling you to “multiply & mix” and when they make the SSSS sound they are telling you to “saturate & sing”.
In this way you can listen to people prater on for hours about the same &@%! thing as the last person that prattled on, and you don’t have to listen to their thoughts at all while at the same time doing all sorts of interesting thinking of your own.
It’s sort of like removing the instructions to the flower from a bee’z buzz and enjoying only the buzz.
But every now an then, we want to know where the flower is.
So we watch the human buzz and dance with their verbal and non verbal languages, and we avoid all the details they are sharing about how uncomfortable they are and how afraid of life they are, and simply hear them say, “You go left after the 7-11 to get to the library.”
And we thank the human for putting instructions into their grunts and licks and smacks.
Instructions we know because we have shackled our minds to a method called language–a tool used in communication among people–a very powerful tool–but if you ever have a thought that no human has ever thought before, and you want to tell another human about it, be ready to enslave your new thought to the old thoughts of another.
That’s just what language is. It’s a lasso, like the tongue, and like the chains on the slaves in Plato’s cave.
Remember the parable of the house swept clean of a demon. Because the owner’s left the house empty, seven more demons moved in.
In cognitive behavioral therapy, they instruct us to visualize a red octagon stop sign in order to stop negative thinking. What they also say that many people forget is that you can’t just stop negative thinking–you have to fill the gap. Replace your negative thoughts with positive ones. Be robotic about it until you form a new habit.
Also, Martin Luther, when tempted by the devil, would lift his leg and fart in the direction he felt the devil to be attacking. Weird stuff those reformers did. But it works. Mock the devil and he will flee.
When you feel bombarded, laugh and say, “is that all you got??” Most demons hate that. They bombard you because they want you to feel bombarded. Demons are too lazy to be more complicated than that. Refuse to feel bombarded. Feel gratitude instead.
Taaaaay in duh waaaaay!
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LKing wrote, “The old world was unified in there understanding of the symbols, and personifications of the one reality.”
The Bible teaches in Psalm 104 that the heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim the work of his hands and day after day they pour forth speech and night after night they declare knowledge and I think that people were more capable of hearing these words in the past and we have hidden them from ourselves today with lies and paperwork that we have believed by relying more on the paperwork held sacred in churches and in governments than on God’s nature and creation that he put us in. As Crrrow says, nature does not lie, yet we have been sold a bill of goods where we think we need paperwork to know the truth like a Bible for ex. The Bible very beautifully speaks truth but it is not necessary if you open your heart to nature.
That verse in the Psalms was told to me as a child to be from the only true God who only ever wrote one book called The Bible but it is just one true book and the Bible does speak truth as it does in this psalm but that truth can also be found in other places as you are talking about. The one world axis upon which everything turns is real, and every nation and people whose hearts are open to see it have seen it. And God loves to Open hearts to see, that were once blind. Meaning, even if these nations didn’t want to know God, God showed himself to them anyways. The Bible says that too, I think in Isaiah where God says, “I showed myself to Nations who did not even want to know me.”
I am beginning to wonder if all models are allegorical and therefore true by accident. The model in the Bible that I have found when I went into the scriptures to look for our cosmology is that we do not live on a globe but in the middle layer of a seven layer cake with cherry on top and bottom.
The cherries are the fire.
The fire of heaven and the fire of hell, and the middle layer is the element of Earth where we live and above and below is a layer of air and above and below that is a layer of water.
The Bible says the middle layer of Earth has a circle inscribed upon it and pillars below it through the air into the waters below and the banshees scream in the air and that’s what we call hell but deeper than that is the Cherry at the bottom of the cake which is the fire.
The Bible says that above the earth layer with the circle on it where we live is the layer of air that we breathe and above that is the layer of water that is space–so called.
The Stars seemingly are portals into the fire layer above the water and that is how we see the fires above the waters. Each star is like a glitter sprinkle on top this 7 layered cake we cake babies are in, and they shine at you a little bit of the fires of the cherry on top. That at least is the model of our cosmology that is in the Bible with 200 verses to back it up and there’s nothing that says it’s a globe at all in that book.
Nor does any of the Bible say that we live in a “cake”. The cake is a lie. The cake is aloha. The cake is a beautiful analogy that speaks the truth. the cake is a model.
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The Memory Palace as a Divining Tool
The memory palace, or method of loci, is traditionally understood as a technique for remembering. It allows one to store vast amounts of information by mentally placing it within an imagined architectural space, a palace, a path, a series of rooms, or landmarks. These places serve as containers, and through repeated journeys, the memory becomes fixed and recallable.
I first came across the idea of a memory palace when I was looking into the original meanings of each of the original Phoenician letters (A=oxhead, B=house, etc). I read Brian R. Pellar’s papers, which show that the 22-letter alphabet lines up with the zodiac, two letters per constellation, skipping Aquarius, the god-boat which carries the other constellations through the waters of heaven. What is compelling about Pellar’s model is that in the alphabet, Pisces, Aries, and Taurus are in a loop which reverses them together as one group. Gemini is not rotated, and all the other constellations of Cancer through Capricorn are each rotated individually. These rotations create loops in an imaginary alphabet that create rooms in a memory palace. 7 individually rotated rooms for Cancer through Capricorn. Three rooms that rotate together, one that does not, and another sign of the 12 that is the silent underlying waters.
Pellar also shows how the 22 Phoenician letters fit snuggly into an ancient Chinese lunar zodiac of the 28 mansions of the moon, each mansion is marked on the zodiac with it’s own sign or letter. This lunar zodiac contains two letters for Aquarius, and two letters for every other sign, as it takes the moon about two days to pass through a sign, and also a sign from the inner 10 constellations not on the ecliptic to mark each of the four colures, or seasons, of the year. 22+2+4=28 mansions of the moon.
As I reconstructed Pellar’s theories in my mind, I built a memory palace that lined up with so many ancient symbols from Pythagoras onward that it blew my mind. Pellar shows in his papers how the alphabet lines up with the stars. But it also lines up with the circle of fifths. Pellar shows how the alphabet encodes Pi structurally, but it also encodes the Fine Number Construct in it’s structure. It uses the planets as seven hands on a celestial clock who act as the actors on a stage whose bones are the stars. It was a memory palace whose positions lines up with the stars and the planets danced as you fed it memories and the planets would encode my memories into the stars with their dancing through the stars.
the alphabet’s connection to the Circle of Fifths is structural. I compared the shape of the alphabet as it is wrapped around the stars to other known shapes and saw that it lined up perfectly with the structure of the Circle of Fithfs in music theory. The 5+7=12 structure of the circle of fifths.
It was odd to me that a memory palace should reveal information to me.
The Fine Number Construct is 1 over 137. The Alphazodiac is an esoteric inversion of this fraction, a mirror image of it. Instead of having 1`over 137, the alhpazodiac has one constellation that is UNDER the eleven others, who are grouped as 1 constellation (Gemini) that does not move, 3 (Pisces, Aries, Taurus) that rotate together, and 7 (Cancer through Capricorn) that rotate individually. 1 under 1 3 7. Interesting synchronicity.
There are ways in which this memory palace can be manipulated like the “linguistic faberge eggs” Terrance Mkenna says the machine elves revealed to him on DMT trips. McKenna described experiences under the influence of DMT where he encountered self-transforming, hyperdimensional entities that communicated in a language of visual poetry—a kind of linguistic light-show.
By writing the 22 letters of the alphabet on the points of a stack of 4 triangles for the four elements and 3 squares for the three forces, in a stack 3 4 3 4 3 4 3 and then connect it telemeric ends as in a toroid to make the order 3 3 4 3 4 3 4, and then rolling out the points of this stack of triangles and squares into clay, like an old cylinder seal, the points in the clay, when reversed as in a mirror, will write out the four letters of the tetragrammaton, one letter per season of the year.
And yet, this arrangement is not sacred, as in, just because it writes the name of God doesn’t mean it is the only arrangement the letters can fit. This stack of 3 3 4 3 4 3 4 is one viewpoint of the Faberge egg. Writing all 28 letters onto the corners of a stack 7 squares 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 reveals the connection of the planets to music and the days of the week.
So the alphabet memory palace can be rotated and manipulated to reveal new information, like DMT elves would rotate glowing basketball shaped orbs at Mkenna to reveal puns to him that showed how language is like a three-dimensional, glowing, morphing geometric structures that embodies layered meanings.
Mkenna said things like:
“They speak in a visible language. They use sound to make objects—linguistic objects—jokes, puns, visual metaphors that unfold in front of you.”
“They are made of intentionality. They are made of language. They are, in fact, the language. They come bounding out of the space and they offer you these linguistic Fabergé eggs that are like visual puns.”
And so, when I was merely looking into the original meanings of the letters, I stumbled upon an ancient memory palace of the sky encoded in the alphabet. Not only could it hold all my memories, but it could also speak back to me things I didn’t know. It blew my mind like I was a monkey looking at a space tablet. It turns out the sky’s arch-of-type is the ark of archetype. Cool!
Now, it has been well known that a memory palace can be used not only for recollection but also for divination because the zodiac wheel used in horoscopes and other divinatory practices is a memory palace. A diviner is one who practices the art of accessing hidden knowledge, symbolic insight, or revelation from a symbolic structure.
In geometric terms, the alphabet becomes a “Library of Babel”. This is a library that contains every book that can be written, and for this reason, contains a lot of books that are full of undecodable strings of letters that make no sense in any known language. That is the cure of having an infinite number of books in one library.
The alphabet is lined up with the stars and wrapped in structured loops of letters creating a symbolic structure that can encode all information and thus also reveal all information, through lumashi, or divine revelation of puns from the stars. The puns come to the reader like ghosts in the library of Babel pointing you to books that contain readable information.
Memory and Revelation
Memory and divination are often considered opposites. Memory retrieves what was once known; divination seeks what is not yet known. But both share a common structure: they rely on symbols, internal imagery, and a process of navigation through mental space. Just as one “walks” through a memory palace to retrieve encoded information, so too can one journey through a palace to receive symbolic impressions, synchronicities, or revelations.
The Sumerians had a word for such revelation: lumashi. It referred to the arrangement of stars and signs in the sky, used by priests and astronomer-diviners to interpret the will of the gods. The sky was their memory palace, and the constellations were loci filled not with facts, but with archetypal meaning. When an unusual alignment occurred, it was read as a sign, a moment of insight. A lumashi.
Similarly, in a symbolic memory palace, one can embed mythic symbols, letters, constellations, deities, or planetary powers. The structure becomes not just a cognitive map, but a symbolic cosmos. A personal sky. Walking through it becomes a kind of inner astrology walk.
In the Alpha Zodiac, the letters of the alphabet are mapped onto the zodiac and used as both a memory device and symbolic structure. In this model, each letter represents a sign, a place, a principle.
One example: N and M (nun & mem) are the two letters for Virgo in the sky. The letter Nun is associated with water, fish, fall, serpent and is linked with Mem (water, womb, depth). In Psalm 145, an acrostic poem, the verse corresponding to Nun is mysteriously absent. The ancient rabbis explained this absence by quoting Amos 5:2: “Fallen is the virgin Israel.”
The virgin (Virgo) has fallen. The serpent (Nun) has disappeared into the waters (Mem). The seed star of Virgo, Spica, is lost. In this absence lies a story: a fall from grace, a hidden truth. And in the Alpha Zodiac, that gap can become a place of revelation.
By standing in your memory palace at the room or locus of Virgo, and contemplating the missing letter, you do not just recall a fact. You enter a myth. You receive a symbolic charge. You may see images, patterns, or sudden intuitive insights—what Jung might call active imagination, or what the ancients might call an oracle.
When you construct a memory palace of symbolic content, you create a field for synchronicity. The mind will begin to reflect, project, and connect beyond the merely rational. A question asked within the palace is answered not with logic, but with symbolic resonance. A particular image may shine brighter. A long-forgotten association may surface. An unexpected pattern may emerge.
This is not hallucination. It is structured intuition.
The palace becomes an interface—a divinatory engine. You place your attention on a locus, and it speaks back. It is not random; it is structured by the logic of memory, symbol, and correspondence. As in Tarot, astrology, or the I Ching, the structure is what enables the insight.
One Palace, Many Worlds
A key insight is that all memory can be stored in one palace because the palace is infinitely expandable. Likewise, all symbols can be revealed from one palace because the symbols are fractal, interconnected, and alive. Whether you are recalling the periodic table or seeking an omen, the same architecture can serve.
In this way, the memory palace becomes not just a personal tool, but a ritual space. It is a theater of consciousness where memory, imagination, and revelation meet. You can encode your learning there. You can explore your dreams there. You can pose questions to the unknown there.
And it seems as though our alphabet encodes this most ancient and sacred of memory palaces, based on the stars and planets, which mirrors us so well, for as above so below, that it can hold all our memories and tell us all that can be known as well.
The memory palace is a tool of vast power. When used for recollection, it strengthens the mind. When opened to divination, it becomes a mirror of the cosmos.
Through symbolic navigation, active imagination, and the conscious use of archetypal structures, the palace transforms into a space where memory and prophecy meet. It becomes a modern lumashi, a constellation of meanings inside the mind revealed by the stars.
Many people say that the meaning of every letter would take a library to write. Now that we can see that the order of the letters is connected to order of the stars, we can draw inferences from position to retell a story. I am looking for left over patterns in the order of the bookshelves of an ancient memory palace to see if the order tells us what books were once in them.
Here’s an image of what I imagine when I put the thing back together.
Both and more. The modern Hebrew script is a stylized version of the 22 letter Phoenician alphabet which comes from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet of shapes that seem to come from a combination of Egyptian hieroglyphs and astrology. The Modern Hebrew Script lines up with the stars because its predecessor alphabet also did. The same can be said of the Ugaritic alphabet, which is another early alphabet based on the Phoenician.
Search “Brian R. Pellar” at http://www.sino-platonic.org and read his papers on the Origins of the Alphabet. Those images come from his papers on this topic. And many people have been looking into it, in fact, this very topic of connecting the Hebrew/Phoenician to the ancient Chinese Lunar Zodiac was first proposed in 1923, so this idea has recently celebrated it’s 100th birthday!
The Ancients Tell Us the Alphabet Came from the Stars
In the Praeparatio Evangelica, Eusebius quotes Philo of Byblos, who cites the Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon. Sanchuniathon writes of a figure named Taautus, also known as Thoth to the Egyptians and Hermes to the Greeks. He is credited with the invention of writing.
“Tauthus imitated the features of the gods who were his companions, Kronos and Dagon, and the rest, and gave form to the sacred characters of the letters.”
The shapes of the letters, according to this account, were modeled on the features of the gods.
Elsewhere in the same text, Eusebius quotes Diodorus Siculus, who explains that the gods of Egypt (Osiris, Isis, and others) were understood originally as the sun, the moon, and the stars:
“They supposed that the sun and moon were two eternal and primal gods… Isis, being interpreted, means ‘ancient,’ the name having been given to the Moon… these deities they suppose to regulate the whole world.”
He adds that:
“Their first philosophers knew no other gods than the sun, the moon… and regarded them as the sources of sustenance.”
Philo also notes that Dagon, one of the gods whose features were imitated in the alphabet, means “grain.” He is later associated with the goddess Nisaba, the Mesopotamian deity of both grain and writing. Her name also simply means “grain.”
Kronos, another of Taautus’ companions, is linked to time, harvest, and the sickle. The Greek Kronia festival, honoring him, was celebrated at harvest time. He is the one who castrates his father Uranus in myth, a symbolic reaping.
Brian Pellar, in Sino-Platonic Papers 341, points out that these three: Thoth, Kronos, and Dagon together form a triad of writing, time, and wheat. He aligns this with the structure of the Phoenician alphabet, which he argues encodes the zodiac and the cycle of wheat. He shows how the twenty-two letters correspond to the stars, the signs, and the agricultural stages of Emmer wheat, from the sprouting head in Aries to the harvest in Leo.
Meanwhile, Plato records a different kind of testimony about Thoth. In the Phaedrus, Thoth presents writing to the Egyptian king Thamus as a gift to memory. But Thamus replies:
“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it… They will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.”
Writing was understood as a transfer of memory from the inner world to the outer, from the mind to the page.
The alphabet is said to be based on the forms of the gods. It is an old memory palace of the Temple of the God’s in Heaven, the 12 God’s of the Zodiac, now written on paper.
The gods are described as the visible lights of the heavens — stars, planets, sun, and moon.
These same gods are tied to agriculture, time, and harvest.
The invention of the alphabet is both a profoundly useful tool and a movement from embodied memory to external form. Carl Jung LOVED this very moment of transmutation from spirit to form and writes a lot about it.
One could say we cast spells with our words not just because our letters are based on the names of the gods, but also because the very act of spelling is the sacred act of taking ideas out of the etheric realms and bringing them into this shared physical space.
Here is an interesting quote from the 1867 book, “Hebrew Primitif” which states the alphabet is the zodiac.
“The Hebrew letters are the ciphers or signs of the zodiac, from which the words of the Hebrew language itself are formed; the consonants are the letters or ciphers which assemble around the vowels to form the words, just as the constellations assemble around the Sun, image of the Divinity, and compose the community of stars over which it presides. The constellations of the Zodiac formed the twelve great gods of Graeco-Roman antiquity, corresponding to the twelve stations of the Sun, and these constellations were distinguished by the letters from Aleph to Thau; attributes or energies of the same divinity, they are so to speak the pearls which have formed the necklace of the Zodiac, and the vowels corresponding to the seven planets which surround the Sun are the voices which give sound or color to the consonants; they form the word, and the word is the Divinity itself. The priests of Abydos would recite the mystic hymn of the seven vowels, or the name of Jehovah which unites them.”