In the beginning of this video on the Fibonacci series, there is one glaring mistake; an example of a lack of ancient knowledge. The video begins with zero and not with one. This mistake turns a radical non-dualistic reality into one of dualism. However, outside of this mistake, the video is visually stunning and informative.
Moreover, this mistake is found in other articles explaining the Fibonacci number series. This problem of beginning with zero is also to be found within the modern tarot. As it evolved, the twenty-two cards of the Tarot’s Major Arcana incorporated the magical numbering process of the Hebrew alphabet. Beginning with Aleph (1) the Magician and completing with Tav (400) the twenty-second card—the World. Contrary to this numbering system, most present day tarot systems utilize zero as their beginning card and call the zero card—the Fool. In these systems the last card the World is number twenty-one, not twenty-two.[i] This is one of the indications that this numbering placement is incorrect.[ii]
Sacred Science
There is a little known fact that, at one time, the mystical science of numbers began with one, not with zero. This was an acknowledgement of the scientific theology that all came and comes from One. Sacred geometry has always believed in the metaphysical philosophy of the unity and the inexplicable oneness of existence. While the ancients began with one, present day mathematics and geometry begin with zero.
Using zero, not one, as a foundational point is a flaw of earthquake proportions. The reason being, that the utilization of zero results in a dualistic reality of life. Used as a mathematical truth, it perpetrates a cultural and societal reality of dualism, which only further separates humanity from humanity and from humanity’s terrestrial and celestial nature.
“Unity is a philosophic concept and a mystic experience expressible mathematically. The Western mentality, however, withdrew its discipline of acknowledging a supra-rational, unknowable mystery as its first principle. Our present thought is based on the following numerical and logical sequence: -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5….
“With zero in the center, there is a quantitative expansion 1, 2, 3 … and our sense of balance requires having -1, -2, -3 … on the other side, giving a series of non-existent abstractions (negative quantities) which demand an absurd logic. The system has a break-point, zero, disconnecting the continuum and dissociating the positive numbers from the negative balancing series. In the ancient Egyptian numerical progression, beginning with one rather than zero, all the elements are natural and real: 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All the elements flow out from the central unity in accordance with the law of inversion or reciprocity.”[iii]
The Egyptians’ felt that “zero represents a nothingness, an absence, and implies that something does not exist and for the Egyptians everything is—even Chaos, the negation, is.”[iv] In other words, “the great Unity, the number One is the totality of all existence; all things are One in essence, and love is the cohesive force that makes possible the recognition of all the parts.”[v]
[i] I’ll explain in a future post.
[ii] The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty-two in number, are cosmic hieroglyphs of great spiritual significance and power…. The Hebrew letters are used for numbers in this way: Aleph to Yod, the first ten letters, are written to signify the numbers 1 to 10. From Kaph, the eleventh letter, the numeration is by tens; instead of being written for the number 11, Kaph or K is written for 20. The letters follow in order from Kaph (K) to Koph or Quoph (Q), signifying the numbers from 20 to 100. The remaining three letters, like Quoph, are written for hundreds: R for 200, S for 300, and T for 400.
[iii] http://members.aol.com/areoasis/Reviews/sacred-geometry.html
[iv] Athon Veggi and Alison Davidson, The Book of Doors, 13.
[v] Ibid., 11.