As originally enumerated, WD Gann's "The Tunnel Thru the Air" has 36 enumerated chapters. And as students of this mysterious book will quickly point out, the 34th chapter titled "Robert Gordon's Seven Days" is incorrectly shown as "Chapter XXXIX." Oh really? Perhaps there's a hidden enumeration, to which I alluded in the previous essay, in which "Chapter XXXIX" is the only properly numbered chapter. In my experience, Mr. Gann does not make such a mistake without it being a clue (or is it "clew," which is context for another essay) for something.
In the previous essay I offered the 4.0 revision of the WD Gann "Map of Time" which is subdivided by logical sections of the book. The cover is a page, the inside title page is a section, the copyright page is a section, the dedication page is a section and the Foreword pages (2) is a section. That's 5 sections before Chapter I. If you re-enumerate Chapter I as Chapter VI you'll find the final chapter currently numbered Chapter XXXVI becomes Chapter XXXXI. And you'll find the flap of TTTTA, as a section itself, become Chapters XXXXII. [You can download the MOT file, find my errors, do your own research, replicate my work or refute it at the above link. Feel free to post errors in the comments section below so we can consider and benefit.]
A couple thoughts on what Mr. Gann might be suggesting if he had intended a re-enumeration of chapters. I don't think it too much of a stretch to consider Chapter XXXIX as proof that Mr. Gann did intend such a re-enumeration....but that's me.
First thought; forty-two chapters or one quarter of the MOT period of 168 years which, in turn, is one fifteenth of the Biblical Great Week of 2520 years (according to Thomas Troward and "Biblical Prophecy....", 1914). TTTTA, as I have enumerated every line in the MOT, is 15341 lines long which is 42 years X 365.242. So, the enumeration of 42 chapters, perhaps, suggests the number of years as well. And, by applying the concept of doubling and re doubling on page 45 (as in the angle Mr. Gann so promoted as dividing time and space into equal quantities) be get from 42 to 168 years.
Second thought; might the re-numbering of chapters say something in and of itself? Let's look at two of the most important chapters of the book...two that notably contained a chapter subtitle; Chapter VII or "Future Cycles" and Chapter XXXIX "Robert Gordon's Seven Days." Take each separately.
Chapter VII becomes Chapter XII or 7 becomes 12. Wow, what I can make of that. 7 and 12 are the reductions of two great philosopher stone numbers on which I've written extensively, John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica number 252 (or 1/10th of the Biblical Great Week.....) and the sacred number 432, otherwise recognizable as the number of pages in TTTTA when counting the cover, rear flap and all blank pages. And the ratio of 12 /7 has ancient meaning as well. But to digress into the mystery of number is premature...its an endless past time I have found. Perhaps, the renumbering of 7 to 12 is just a method that Mr. Gann uses to tell us that this chapter is of great importance.
Similarly, Chapter XXXIX becomes, well, Chapter XXXIX, because it is the only properly numbered chapter in TTTTA under my line of reasoning in this essay. In the next to the last paragraph of the Foreword to TTTTA, Mr. Gann tells us point blank that "Robert Gordon's Seven Days" contains meaning which once realized by the reader enables him to overcome his greatest enemy, "Death," and to understand "why Jesus rose on the third day and rested on the seventh day." (Hmmm, Jesus did the first of those things but, who rested on the seventh?) Now that's some gravitas.
I think the numbering of Chapter XXXIX is just another "clew" to indicate a correct direction in research. But before I close this "chapter" I'll toot my own horn with a comment that is sure to raise the hackles of venerable WD Gann researchers not given such a honor. What do we find spelled by an acrostic word in the Chapter VII renumbered Chapter XII?
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In the previous essay I offered the 4.0 revision of the WD Gann "Map of Time" which is subdivided by logical sections of the book. The cover is a page, the inside title page is a section, the copyright page is a section, the dedication page is a section and the Foreword pages (2) is a section. That's 5 sections before Chapter I. If you re-enumerate Chapter I as Chapter VI you'll find the final chapter currently numbered Chapter XXXVI becomes Chapter XXXXI. And you'll find the flap of TTTTA, as a section itself, become Chapters XXXXII. [You can download the MOT file, find my errors, do your own research, replicate my work or refute it at the above link. Feel free to post errors in the comments section below so we can consider and benefit.]
A couple thoughts on what Mr. Gann might be suggesting if he had intended a re-enumeration of chapters. I don't think it too much of a stretch to consider Chapter XXXIX as proof that Mr. Gann did intend such a re-enumeration....but that's me.
First thought; forty-two chapters or one quarter of the MOT period of 168 years which, in turn, is one fifteenth of the Biblical Great Week of 2520 years (according to Thomas Troward and "Biblical Prophecy....", 1914). TTTTA, as I have enumerated every line in the MOT, is 15341 lines long which is 42 years X 365.242. So, the enumeration of 42 chapters, perhaps, suggests the number of years as well. And, by applying the concept of doubling and re doubling on page 45 (as in the angle Mr. Gann so promoted as dividing time and space into equal quantities) be get from 42 to 168 years.
Second thought; might the re-numbering of chapters say something in and of itself? Let's look at two of the most important chapters of the book...two that notably contained a chapter subtitle; Chapter VII or "Future Cycles" and Chapter XXXIX "Robert Gordon's Seven Days." Take each separately.
Chapter VII becomes Chapter XII or 7 becomes 12. Wow, what I can make of that. 7 and 12 are the reductions of two great philosopher stone numbers on which I've written extensively, John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica number 252 (or 1/10th of the Biblical Great Week.....) and the sacred number 432, otherwise recognizable as the number of pages in TTTTA when counting the cover, rear flap and all blank pages. And the ratio of 12 /7 has ancient meaning as well. But to digress into the mystery of number is premature...its an endless past time I have found. Perhaps, the renumbering of 7 to 12 is just a method that Mr. Gann uses to tell us that this chapter is of great importance.
Similarly, Chapter XXXIX becomes, well, Chapter XXXIX, because it is the only properly numbered chapter in TTTTA under my line of reasoning in this essay. In the next to the last paragraph of the Foreword to TTTTA, Mr. Gann tells us point blank that "Robert Gordon's Seven Days" contains meaning which once realized by the reader enables him to overcome his greatest enemy, "Death," and to understand "why Jesus rose on the third day and rested on the seventh day." (Hmmm, Jesus did the first of those things but, who rested on the seventh?) Now that's some gravitas.
I think the numbering of Chapter XXXIX is just another "clew" to indicate a correct direction in research. But before I close this "chapter" I'll toot my own horn with a comment that is sure to raise the hackles of venerable WD Gann researchers not given such a honor. What do we find spelled by an acrostic word in the Chapter VII renumbered Chapter XII?
We find "Jim" or my high school name a friend used to call me to infer a feminine bias to my character (which was wholly inappropriate and incorrect as I consider myself quite 'alpha') "Jimi." Associated with that word is a telestic word "ENS" I've identified as "Earthquake Notification Service." Hmmm, some flashback to an excessive concern on my part? Or a prediction of my faux pas? Or maybe.....
And what do we find spelled as an acrostic/telestic zig zag word at the beginning of Chapter XXXIX?
We find "Ross." This time the nearest word spelled is "law." Yes, I believe there is mathematic law spelled out in the resolution of the "Robert Gordon's Seven Days" enigmas and I've done a lot to consider the mathematic relations of space and time in that chapter in many essays I wrote several months ago. I revisit them from time to time as I have ideas about their application.
But "ENS" and "Law" are not why I've reprised the above words. Rather, its just to tweak a nipple of one who'd say "Jimmy, you've really lost it now." Let them, uncomfortably, say "It's just coincidence." And wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. Sweet dreams. Didn't Mycroft and Sherlock have a saying about coincidence; that the Lord was seldom so lazy.
About my name being there. I get down when I am wrong so I'm down a lot. In this project I reach dead ends, make errors and am wrong a lot. I'd previously found the "Jimi" more than a year ago and it was partly the substance of the "7th prophecy of WD Gann." I had not found the zig zag "Ross" you see above. In the wake of the great error I made about February 23/24, 2016 (which I was thankfully and blessedly wrong) I was down on my ability to read Mr. Gann's intent. And that's when I found that zig zag word "Ross." Perhaps something of a needed inspiration?
Next up, I'll ponder a "clew." You might search TTTTA for that word.
This is fun..... sometimes..... when you aren't busy being wrong about what Mr. Gann may have said,
Jim Ross