From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #91 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, May 14 2002 Volume 07 : Number 091 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: (OT) my cat hates you website ["Sally Allan" ] Re: Alloy: (OT) my cat hates you website ["Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: (OT) my cat hates you website > http://www.mycathatesyou.com/ I couldn't sleep last night for trying to think up captions for my cats. Thanks for the link though - love the kitten at the start that looks like Sid Vicious. Could you or someone else with a hotlink to the Oracle please ask where we get that "One of our submarines" ep? Sally ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:49:51 -0000 From: Monya De Subject: Alloy: Re: [alloy-digest V7 #89] WHat what what what??? I GO TO UC-IRVINE!!! what is this fireside chat...i'm so glad I haven't missed it... monya LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:27:45 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: (OT) my cat hates you website I'm not sure if they update that site much. I submitted pictures of my cats (with really hateful expressions) a few months ago and they are still not on there. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Allan" To: Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 4:38 AM Subject: Re: Alloy: (OT) my cat hates you website > > > http://www.mycathatesyou.com/ > > I couldn't sleep last night for trying to think up captions for my cats. > Thanks for the link though - love the kitten at the start that looks like > Sid Vicious. > > Could you or someone else with a hotlink to the Oracle please ask where we > get that "One of our submarines" ep? > > Sally ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:47:58 -0500 From: William Steffey Subject: Alloy: MAY THE CUBE BE WITH YOU: part one Hello Alloy, Here's the first of three essays I penned for the original opening of the FES many moonbeams ago. I found the original rough draft and was able to shape it up into something that actually makes sense! I'll post each of the remaining two essays as soon as I can bring those up to contemporary standards... til then, thanks much, and enjoy! William - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. MAY THE CUBE BE WITH YOU the platonic solids The five platonic solids were held by the Greeks as sacred. Because crystals rose from the earth in these shapes, the ancients equated the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, cube, and the dodecahedron with varying levels of consciousness. While Plato is credited with the discovery of these 5 shapes, Archimedes is the father of a subsequent set of 13 shapes- most notable of these being the cuboctahedron. This shape looks like two pyramids bottom to bottom within a cube, in other words, the same crystal structure as a diamond. In the mystical interpretation of Hebrew scripture known as the Qabala, there exists a sort of consciousness map called the "Tree of Life." The flat, two-dimensional version might be familiar as a common layout of Tarot cards- but the more obscure four-dimensional Tree of Life is identical in form to the cuboctohedron. While mother nature uses the Platonic and Archimedean solids for molecular structures because they afford maximum strength via minimum material, humans (Greeks, Muslims, and crystal bearing newagers) hold these forms close because they are models of the universe. Or because they got them cheap on Venice Beach. The cube appears in religious symbolism frequently. At the center of Mecca, where only Muslims could pass, sits a six-sided building called the Kaaba. According to tradition, Abraham and Ishmael built the shrine to house a black stone which was handed down to Abraham from the archangel Gabriel. The Kaaba is the focal point on Earth at which Muslims everywhere turn during prayer. It is also the destination of the Hajj--the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all able Muslims at least once during their lifetimes. Sir Richard Burton (no, not the Actor) was a British explorer during the 1800's. Probably better known contemporarily for translating erotic manuals, Burton also wrote much about Islamic customs--and was even known to sport a disguise or two to gain entry to sacred lands such as Mecca. Was it within these hallowed city walls that Dickie Burton gained some kind of esoteric knowledge? Did his final curtain fall before he could spill the beans of Islam to the West? A century later, Einstein's work may have expressed the same cosmic tenets via the language of the physical sciences. In his most famous work he stated the relativity of space/time. With the EPR paper of 1935, he showed the plausibility of paradox and consequent acausal relationships- that sometimes two and two may indeed make five and a quarter. These ideas, fundamental to Quantum Physics, completely annihilate our previous conceptions of space and time. Einstein's worldview gives birth to a seemingly supernatural climate where the underpinnings of the Qabalist's Tree of Life and even H.G. Wells' Time Machine are not only possible--but immutable physical law. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #91 **************************