Tau is the Greek letter T or τ in lower case.

The symbol τ was used in mathematics to represent the golden ratio until the Greek letter Phi (Φ) gained prominance (after the first letter of Phidias, acclaimed sculptor of the Parthenon).

Tau is also known as the symbol representing the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its radius (equal to 2π).

Advocates for τ argue that radius is more fundamental to circles than diameter, and therefore, that τ (circumference divided by radius) is more fundamental than π (circumference divided by diameter). They think this makes formulas written in terms of τ express the mathematics more clearly than with π. -Source

Using τ instead of 2π makes a lot of sense to me:

• A circle is defined as all points in a plane a certain radius away from a center point.
• The unit circle has a radius of 1, not a diameter of 1.
• Angles measured in radians make more sense using τ rather than 2π because τ radians measures a full circle, so 1/4 circle is τ/4, 1/2 circle is τ/2 and so on.

However using τ is really a moot point because π already won the mindshare. However I find it interesting that Tau has been used to represent both the golden ratio (Φ) and the relationship of a circle to its radius (more commonly known as π).

I can think of one other symbol that encodes in its proportions both mathematical ideas: the Great Pyramid. Note that the proportions 4:π and Φ:1 are not taken at the same time but I’ve shown them together for simplicity, so read the left and right halves of the diagram separately.

“The Tau cross is also a symbol of the male or creative side of the deity, and is really a conventionalized form of the phallus.” -Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods by J.S. Ward

Crowley used an inverted Tau on the cover of his book Magick, which was “regarded in serious occult circles as a book of ultimate authority on sexual magic.” -Source

Seen right-side-up, the T is seen as the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.

The TAU cross is preserved to modern Masonry under the symbol of the T square. This appears to be the oldest form of the cross extant.” -The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall

There are several instances in the Bible of the Tau cross anticipating the Latin cross:

• The angel of death passed over the children of Israel who painted the Tau mark in goat’s or sheep’s blood above their doors to slay all Egyptian firstborn. This is better known as Passover. See Exodus 11:1 in the Brick Testament.
• The Tau mark was placed upon the foreheads of particular men to save them from being slain in yet another genocidal bloodbath depicted in Ezekiel 9 (unforunately this isn’t illustrated in Lego).
• The summit of Mt. Nebo in Jordan is the location of the Brazen Serpent Monument, featuring a snake wrapped around a Tau cross.

Image by Jerzy Strzelecki under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Mt. Nebo is where Moses saw the promised land of Israel (but wasn’t allowed to go there himself). You can see Jerusalem on a clear day from this monument.

Pope Benedict XVI visited the site on May 9, 2009, gave a speech, and looked out from the top of the mountain in the direction of Jerusalem. -Source

The fiery serpent comes from the Bible (Numbers 21:5-9):

• “And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
• And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
• Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
• And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
• And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.”

Check out this version illustrated with Lego. I like the Brick Testament because it consistently shows the character of this God. In this case God kills his chosen people with snakes because they complained about being hungry and thirsty. It’s easy to forget that and recall only that he healed those who didn’t complain with the Nehushtan as it is also known.

The 25th degree in Scottish Freemasonry is called is The Knight of the Brazen Serpent.

Here is a old masonic jewel that is probably from this degree.

Thanks to Rick for this image

The above image reminds one of the Rod of Asclepius. Here it is as the Star of Life, logo of the emergency medical services worldwide.

Also the emblem of the World Heath Organization underlines the fact that it is a specialized agency of the United Nations with its 33 sector grid laid over the world.

The symbol of a serpent climbing the pole is also a symbol of Kundalini, or life force rising up the spinal column.

These symbols all came from the Crux Ansata, better known as the Ankh. Think of it as a yoni on top of a lingam, or vesica piscis on top of a tau if you will. What better way to symbolize life then through sexual union? This has been pushed into the shadow in the last two thousand years in the West.

Thanks to reader Rick for pointing out that the Hindu Ardhanari is a composite androgynous form of the Hindu god Shiva and his consort Parvati: half male and half female, split down the middle. Note the Ankh is used here as a depiction of both male and female genitalia.

Image from Tantra: Cult of the Feminine by Andre van Lysebeth page 240

The Hindu androgyne reminds me of Baphomet whom the Templars revealed they worshipped under torture by the French Catholics in 1307.

Often mistaken for Satan, Baphomet represents the duality of male and female, as well as Heaven and Hell or night and day signified by the raising of one arm and the downward gesture of the other. -Source

I can’t help remember sex kitten Lady Gaga striking a similar pose in a Masonic Lodge (see Repeating Ones).

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Look closely: Gaga’s left breast (on our right) is pushed up and her right breast is flattened much like Ardhanari. Gaga as Baphomet.

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Andre van Lysebeth shows in Tantra that the Om glyph actually represents the sexual act (female on the left and male on the right in this case) with what looks to me like the sun and moon in the upper right:

Image from Tantra: Cult of the Feminine by Andre van Lysebeth page 170

The Ankh is similar to the concept of the Tao in Chinese philosophy and religion. Opposites coming together form a dynamic balance.

Thank you Ian le Cheminant for emailing me this vitally important concept:

I had always associated synchronicity with Carl Jung but recently rereading Lama Anagarika Govinda’s The Inner Structure of the I Ching I was reminded that as a mode of thinking it is profoundly Chinese. Govinda writes: “All our reasoning is based on the law of cause and effect operating as a sequence. The Chinese do not reason so much along this horizontal line from past, through present to future; they reason perpendicularly, from what is in one place now to what is in another place now. In other words, they do not ask why, or from what past causes, a certain set of things is happening now; they ask, ‘What is the meaning of these things happening at this moment?’ The word Tao is the answer to this question. The present situation within and around oneself is Tao, for the present moment is life. Our memory of the past is contained in it as well as the potentiality for the future.”

Squaring the circle also comes to mind as a larger resolution of opposites, in the case of heaven and earth.

Earth Sun Moon by Scott Onstott

Pi brings together the linear and the curved, the limited and the unlimited, the human and the divine.

The Sword and the Ring by Scott Onstott

Slight dyslexia is all you need to get from Angels to Angles. In many areas of mathematics angles are measured in radians rather than degrees. One radian is equal to about 57 degrees (57.2957795…).

360 degrees = 2π or 6.283185… radians. An angle of 1 radian results in an arc with a length equal to the radius of the circle.

Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. Three Taus therefore have a value of 3 x 19 = 57.

Triple Tau is an important Masonic symbol.

“This emblem, placed in the center of a Triangle and Circle – both emblems of Deity – constitutes the jewel of the Royal Arch as practiced in England, where it is so highly esteemed as to be called the “emblem of all emblems,” and “the grand emblem of Royal Arch Masonry.” -Source

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The Royal Arch Degree Jew-el has a Star of David composed of two interlocking triangles (male and female) and a triple Tau at the bottom. This reminds me of the phrase triple bottom line or Hermes Trismegistus.

This ancient Alchemical emblem found in the ruins of Pompei suggests that the Star of David is a metaphor for the sexual act, a fact covered up by the SATOR magic square (see Paternoster Squares).

Image from The Contiunuum Encyclopedia of Symbols by Udo Becker

Robert Fowler discovered a cipher in Shakespeare’s sonnets dedication poem that requires one understand the Royal Arch Degree jewel in order to decode it. It’s a fascinating intellectual journey that I won’t belabour in this post.

However I will mention the decoded message refers to eternal life and a diagram that appears to depict Orion, an obelisk, a pyramid, the Star of David, and rays of the Sun. It is becoming harder not to see that Francis Bacon was involved in writing the works of “William Shakespeare.”

Listen to Robert Newman on The Shakespeare Project.

The 33rd degree jewel depicts four Taus forming a Greek cross.

“The quadruple tau, moreover, being composed entirely of ‘right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars,’ contains within itself all the secret signs of Freemasonry, a fact which I am not permitted to further explain. It will, however, be apparent to every ‘bright mason,’ who can soon study them all out for himself.” -Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy by Robert Hewitt Brown

I’m not a mason but am bright enough to see at least on one level that the Quadruple Tau cross represents the great cross in the heavens as discussed in my Esoteric Astronomy video. The four beasts corresponding to the fixed signs in the aforementioned alchemical seal and Royal Arch degree jewel support this notion.

Here’s the Hindu version of the 33rd degree jewel: the Sri Yantra aka Sri Chakra. In addition to four taus, it features nine interlocking triangles, just as the 33rd degree jewel shows a nine pointed star and the brazen serpent jewel depicts a nine-pointed star.

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That brings me to a couple of very interesting buildings I’ve become aware of that I think encode the Quadruple Tau symbol. First up is Terrace on the Park at 52-11 111th Street in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY. Do you see the solar 52 weeks in a year encoded with all the ones? The building was contructed as a helipad for the 1964 World’s Fair, which I plan to post about another time. One can say it has a special connection with the sky.

Thanks to John Handrinos who lives nearby the park for pointing out many of its secrets in plain sight.

Here is the official video about what goes on inside Terrace on the Park. Lots of people getting married inside Terrace on the Park seems quite appropriate symbolically.

Finally my thanks to Grant Chamberlin who discovered something very interesting about the CitiGroup Center (aka 601 Lexington Ave) in Manhattan.

The square base reminds me of the Quadruple Tau even though it is not highlighted as such.

Grant noticed that there are 32 full panels across the top of the T plus 2 half panels, making a total of 33 panels on each side. Just a coincidence or the Tao of the Tau?

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I did a series of JCN matches today on my domain name and here is the synchronous full match (see English Gematria) that inspired this post:

The script of www.secretsinplainsight.com = The lies of Einstein’s theory of relativity

Two days ago on 22 Sep 11 (interesting date 11+11 Sep 11) scientists at CERN (see 666) announced that they have broken the speed of light.

Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.

“We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing,” he said. “We now want colleagues to check them independently.”

If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, which says that the speed of light is a “cosmic constant” and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.

That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works. -Source

Here’s a video describing the announcement:

This is game changing because it alters the way scientists must think about the universe. If it is possible to exceed the speed of light then who knows what else might be possible?

Actual UFO photo; image source

CERN is the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest, highest-energy, and most expensive scientific instrument ever built. They fired it up for the first time on 8 Aug 08 (8-8-8), the same day the Beijing Olympics started (yes at 8pm). Notice the 8-part symmetry of the LHC:

Incidentally this figure-8 crop circle appeared on that same day 8-8-8:

See here

Above ground at CERN there is a famous statue of Shiva:

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Fritjof Capra says: “The statue, symbolizing Shiva’s cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center’s long association with India.

In choosing the image of Shiva Nataraja, the Indian government acknowledged the profound significance of the metaphor of Shiva’s dance for the cosmic dance of subatomic particles, which is observed and analyzed by CERN’s physicists.” -Source

Also of interest is CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation:

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At 27 metres in height and 40 metres in diameter, it’s about the size of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. -CERN source

It’s funny that CERN should mention the Sistine chapel. Dan Brown made this link between CERN and the Vatican in Angels & Demons. Here is Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the Sistine chapel’s ceiling:

Dr. Frank Lynn Meshberger has discovered that Michelangelo encoded God inside the human brain in this fresco. -Source

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In addition Rafael Tamargo, M.D. discovered that Michelangelo depicted brain anatomy in the neck of God in another Sistine chapel fresco. He published this finding in the journal Neuroscience (May 2010).

“Michelangelo definitely knew how to depict necks — he knew anatomy so well,” says Rafael Tamargo, M.D., a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “That’s why it was such a mystery why this particular neck looked so odd.” -Source

What is the archangel Michael [through Michelangelo] telling us?

God is at the center of consciousness.

The hemisphere within a hemisphere design at CERN reminds me of Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Sphere within Sphere sculptures in the Vatican, the UN HQ, and other strategic locations.

The sphere within sphere also represents the hypersphere, or higher dimensional sphere.

Scientists at CERN are searching for the Higgs boson, also known as the God Particle but they haven’t found it yet. Here’s a simulated event featuring the appearance of a Higgs boson:

Are physicists bozos to be searching for this bozon? They have spent €7.5 billion (US$15 billion) trying to look into the mind of God. And scientists are the people least likely to believe in God even if they see evidence of him/her.

In any case the well funded physicists at CERN are accelerating particles at, near (and now above) the speed of light in giant underground rings. Here I’ve overlaid a map of the underworld of CERN in Google Earth:

I stretched a cord (shown in green above) from the center of the smaller ring at CERN and you’ll be amazed where it leads. Inspired by a post the brilliant Bert Janssen did back in 2008 I found something slightly different and perhaps even more interesting.

The next stop on this green line is the center of the historical core of Paris. The green line goes right through the center point of solar alignments I discussed in my Paris Part 1 video.

Just to give you some perspective, the green line originating at CERN is essentially parallel to the Eiffel Tower axis (white). The red line is the azimuth of summer solstice sunrise, the blue line is the obelisk marking winter solstice sunset, the yellow line marks equinoctial sunset, and the cyan line is due south to the Gates of Hell and entrance of the Paris catacombs.

The white axis makes a beeline to Danebury hill fort in the UK as mentioned in The Snowflake and the Flower, but I digress.

The final stop on the green line is the Cherhill obelisk sitting on top of Oldbury hill fort in the UK. This green alignment is absolutely precise. The distance from the center of the CERN ring to the Cherhill obelisk is exactly 443.00 nautical miles. If you allow a one unit grace (as is done in gematria) the distance resonates with 444. The London Eye is 444′ high.

As the name suggests Oldbury is as old as the stone age. The 125 foot obelisk is much more recent and was erected in 1845. Thanks to Tina Silver (who is the discoverer of the Temple of Woman) for taking a picture of it and sending it to me:

Image courtesy Tina Silver

The prophetic book Two-Thirds: A History of Our Galaxy by David Myers is one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read.

Two-thirds = 66.6666….%

The back cover says: “Two-Thirds is the key to understanding our history, and is, in fact, non-fiction.” It appears to be fiction but there is too much brilliance in the book for me to believe it is merely a flight of fancy. It seems to me to be channeled from a higher intelligence.

For example, Figure 111.1 in Two-Thirds depicts Oldbury and the Cherhill obelisk. It says the Cherhill obelisk represents the soul’s position within the brain, slightly to the right of the center. The Oldbury earthworks represents the two hemispheres of the brain.

Myers says “Part of the right side of the brain is missing as it is cut away by a steep embankment. Note also the location of the white horse on the adjacent hillside.”

Image courtesy MacFodder under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

Incidentally Myers claims there are three speeds of light:

“Solar system light speed is approximately 186,000 miles per second and extends well beyond the limits of the solar system.

Interstellar light speed is the speed of light between solar systems. Over 400,000 times faster than solar system light speed, interstellar light speed begins well beyond the limits of a solar system and extends well beyond the fringes of galaxies.

Intergalactic light speed is seven times faster than interstellar light speed. Intergalactic light speed is the speed of light in the physical universe well beyond the fringes of galaxies.” -Two-Thirds page 44

The practice of carving white horses in chalk upland areas in England is as old as the hills. The practice of cutting human hill figures is known as gigantotomy. The Cerne Abbas giant looks to me like a depiction of Orion (see Stars of Lower Manhattan). I bet you never thought you’d see this rude 55m giant in Google Earth:

Myers says the white horse is a symbol of the center of the galaxy. I find that intriguing and I’ve always remembered it. There is a white horse in the heavens, known as the Monoceros constellation. Its single horn points directly at the silver gate (see my Esoteric Astronomy video). The crossing of the milky way (blue line) and the ecliptic (red arc) happens at two points that the ancient Egyptians called the silver and golden gates.

Image courtesy of Stellarium open source software; constellation art by Jonathan Meuris

The soul passes through the silver gate at birth and the golden gate at death and continues on its journey to the center of the galaxy.

The Horsehead Nebula (discovered in 1888) is just below the star Alnitak in the Orion constellation. It is so called because the dark gas and dust literally looks like a horse’s head:

I find it particularly interesting that the Horsehead Nebula is designated Barnard 33.

We are in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way galaxy. Spurs suggest horses do they not?

The most famous white horse was of course Pegasus.

Image courtesy Radomil under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

Pegasus was sired by Poseidon and foaled by Medusa. In fact Pegasus is the god of horses, having created them out of waves. Poseidon’s trident reminds me of Shiva’s trident and the pair of tridents in the 9/11 Memorial museum pavilion (see Freedom Tower).

Pegasus was sacred to the Muses.

Minerva among the Muses by Hendrick van Balen the Elder (1620s)

The following crop circle appeared at the base of Cherhill on 17 July 99. Its nine triangles remind one of the nine Muses.

Incidentally I drew this crop circle and published it in my Crop Circle Coloring Book.

The word Muse is probably derived from the Indo-European root men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne, English “mind”, “mental” and “memory” and Sanskrit “mantra”. -Source

Mnemosyne is the mythological mother of the Muses and personification of memory.

Inside the human brain the hippocampus plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. -Source

The hippocampus looks like a seahorse:

Image courtesy Professor Laszlo Seress under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

Hippocampus means seahorse in Latin:

There are actually two seahorses near the center of the human brain, one on each side. -Source

Poseidon would ride seahorses wouldn’t he? Or don’t you remember? Gerald Santana found this case in point from the Apotheosis of George Washington under the Capitol Dome:

The band MUSE makes some very interesting music and I enjoy listening to them, although I’m never really sure where they stand. MUSE is rife with Masonic, Illuminati, and mind control symbolism. Benjamin Singleton feels the same way; read his Duality of Muse post.

One picture that stands out are the band members of MUSE in front of a white horse. This is certainly not accidental and I’m sure you’ll agree if you read Benjamin’s post.

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Everything in duality has two sides. If the white horse at the center of human memory can be conquered then the mind can be controlled:

And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. -Revelation 6:2

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Viktor Vasnetsov (1887)

We must conquer the conquerors by raising our consciousness to a higher level. Einstein didn’t get everything wrong, he had a brilliant mind:

‘Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.’ -Albert Einstein

If you recall my Foundation Stone post, the Cherhill obelisk is 33 degrees from the foundation stone at the center of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, underlining its incredible significance.

Find your center.

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