Kingfisher2926
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My fellow skeptics,
I would like to introduce to you a topic that will not be familiar – completely new territory. It is, in effect, the World’s most ancient wordsearch puzzle, and I call it the Genesis Seal. What I am looking for is some well thought-through, rational feedback (though I expect some smart-Alec will throw scorn on even that prospect).
This puzzle takes several forms, the first of which can be seen as an 8x8 grid in the illustration, below. The grid is populated with the first 64 Hebrew letters from the start of Genesis, which is all of the first verse and just the first 36 letters of Genesis 1:2. All those letters are entered into the grid in proper sequence, following the converging path shown by heavier internal borders. The sequence starts in the right-hand (or ‘E’) corner, proceeding upwards and to the left initially. It is clear, therefore, that I am not employing any sleight of hand. In fact, one of the reasons this possibility commended itself is that Genesis 1:1 consists of 28 letters (the precise size of the grid’s perimeter), with word breaks after 14, 21 and 28 letters. The perimeter is, of course, formed from four blocks, each of 7 consecutive letters.
Before I launch into a review of the ‘emergent’ content of the Genesis Seal, I should like to justify an unusual characteristic of the text in this grid. Those of you who are familiar with Modern Hebrew text will know that out of the 22 Hebrew letters there are five in particular that are written with an alternative shape when they occur at the end of a word. In the context of the Genesis Seal grid, those letters retain their initial/medial forms since, in principle, any letter in the grid may participate in any position in an emergent word.
Here is the G1 view of the Genesis Seal, with particular words and letters highlighted:
And here are some of the immediate reasons for supposing the text of Genesis 1:1-2 was composed to exhibit hidden inner structure:
1. All 9 copies of the letter vav (blue backgrounds) are confined to the lower half of the grid, against odds of 164:1.
2. Five of those letters have assembled into an unlikely ‘Y’ configuration, precisely on the grid’s vertical axis of bi-lateral symmetry. This would greatly extend the (im)probability of 164:1, though by just how much I cannot guess.
3. The surprising first new literary product of this grid, shown as letters on golden backgrounds, is the word betzer (gold), where the final two letters of the last word of Gen 1:1 meet the first letter of the verse.
4. With the addition of the very next letter, the unlikely second product is aur (light), shown with letters in yellow octagonal frames. Since this is also in the Eastern corner, it combines with ‘gold’ to create a golden sunrise. And both those words have their origin in the six-letter first word that means ‘In the beginning’.
5. Ultimately, against odds of about 25:1, there is a second emergent copy of light, this one ascending where the first is descending.
6. Even stranger, the three letters of the source text squeezed between the middle letters of the two emergent lights, spell choshek (darkness). This comes directly from the text: And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
My own judgment is that the effects described here are unlikely to have arisen by accident. Any way I look at it, the Genesis Seal refuses to yield to the skeptic outlook. Where possible, I have calculated the odds against chance alone being the explanation. Using the rules of probability, the odds against Item 1 and Item 5 both being accidental should be the product of the two separate fractions (ie 164 x 25 = 4100:1). Whatever odds are applicable in the case of items 2, 3 and 6 would also have to be multiplied to determine the overall probability.
These effects are just the first signs of what appears to be a very cleverly contrived artefact. I can promise there is a lot more to follow in the same vein. And although I am interested to hear any considered first responses you may have, I must stress that the Genesis Seal is a more highly-coherent structure than is evident from Figure 1. Therefore, a proper assessment of its nature is not yet possible. If you care to offer an immediate response, please bear in mind that the source text for the Genesis Seal has been known for many centuries, and that the way it is re-structured in Figure 1 obeys an easy to follow, intuitive procedure. The procedure is even self-fulfilling, in the positive sense that the text of Genesis 1:1-3 provides several step-by-step hints.
It goes without saying that I hope to hear responses to the effect that the Genesis Seal trumps all previous candidates for ‘supernatural’ design within the Bible.
I would like to introduce to you a topic that will not be familiar – completely new territory. It is, in effect, the World’s most ancient wordsearch puzzle, and I call it the Genesis Seal. What I am looking for is some well thought-through, rational feedback (though I expect some smart-Alec will throw scorn on even that prospect).
This puzzle takes several forms, the first of which can be seen as an 8x8 grid in the illustration, below. The grid is populated with the first 64 Hebrew letters from the start of Genesis, which is all of the first verse and just the first 36 letters of Genesis 1:2. All those letters are entered into the grid in proper sequence, following the converging path shown by heavier internal borders. The sequence starts in the right-hand (or ‘E’) corner, proceeding upwards and to the left initially. It is clear, therefore, that I am not employing any sleight of hand. In fact, one of the reasons this possibility commended itself is that Genesis 1:1 consists of 28 letters (the precise size of the grid’s perimeter), with word breaks after 14, 21 and 28 letters. The perimeter is, of course, formed from four blocks, each of 7 consecutive letters.
Before I launch into a review of the ‘emergent’ content of the Genesis Seal, I should like to justify an unusual characteristic of the text in this grid. Those of you who are familiar with Modern Hebrew text will know that out of the 22 Hebrew letters there are five in particular that are written with an alternative shape when they occur at the end of a word. In the context of the Genesis Seal grid, those letters retain their initial/medial forms since, in principle, any letter in the grid may participate in any position in an emergent word.
Here is the G1 view of the Genesis Seal, with particular words and letters highlighted:
And here are some of the immediate reasons for supposing the text of Genesis 1:1-2 was composed to exhibit hidden inner structure:
1. All 9 copies of the letter vav (blue backgrounds) are confined to the lower half of the grid, against odds of 164:1.
2. Five of those letters have assembled into an unlikely ‘Y’ configuration, precisely on the grid’s vertical axis of bi-lateral symmetry. This would greatly extend the (im)probability of 164:1, though by just how much I cannot guess.
3. The surprising first new literary product of this grid, shown as letters on golden backgrounds, is the word betzer (gold), where the final two letters of the last word of Gen 1:1 meet the first letter of the verse.
4. With the addition of the very next letter, the unlikely second product is aur (light), shown with letters in yellow octagonal frames. Since this is also in the Eastern corner, it combines with ‘gold’ to create a golden sunrise. And both those words have their origin in the six-letter first word that means ‘In the beginning’.
5. Ultimately, against odds of about 25:1, there is a second emergent copy of light, this one ascending where the first is descending.
6. Even stranger, the three letters of the source text squeezed between the middle letters of the two emergent lights, spell choshek (darkness). This comes directly from the text: And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
My own judgment is that the effects described here are unlikely to have arisen by accident. Any way I look at it, the Genesis Seal refuses to yield to the skeptic outlook. Where possible, I have calculated the odds against chance alone being the explanation. Using the rules of probability, the odds against Item 1 and Item 5 both being accidental should be the product of the two separate fractions (ie 164 x 25 = 4100:1). Whatever odds are applicable in the case of items 2, 3 and 6 would also have to be multiplied to determine the overall probability.
These effects are just the first signs of what appears to be a very cleverly contrived artefact. I can promise there is a lot more to follow in the same vein. And although I am interested to hear any considered first responses you may have, I must stress that the Genesis Seal is a more highly-coherent structure than is evident from Figure 1. Therefore, a proper assessment of its nature is not yet possible. If you care to offer an immediate response, please bear in mind that the source text for the Genesis Seal has been known for many centuries, and that the way it is re-structured in Figure 1 obeys an easy to follow, intuitive procedure. The procedure is even self-fulfilling, in the positive sense that the text of Genesis 1:1-3 provides several step-by-step hints.
It goes without saying that I hope to hear responses to the effect that the Genesis Seal trumps all previous candidates for ‘supernatural’ design within the Bible.
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