While thinking about this highly synchronistic number in the kitchen a couple days ago, I saw it on a digital clock (12:42pm). While walking down Britannica after purchasing a cup of Robin’s Donuts coffee, I saw an interesting house with 42 on it. These lucid connections between inner states and outer events surely mean something trans-mundane. They must have something to do with soul-recognition, with the Atman’s marriage to the inalienable Brahman, with strangeness to the nth power, and more, and more, and more.
I just picked up Drunvalo Melchizedek’s novel, “Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012,” from my bookshelf. In it he talks about the significance of numbers. He says, “Long ago, the angels taught me that when you see a triple number in the Reality, it has significance to what you are thinking and or the environment around you. It has to do with music and the fact that all notes in an octave separate themselves by eleven cycles per second. Therefore, the separations of each note to each other are 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66,77, 88 and 99 cycles per second or multiples of these numbers, which presents a perfectly harmonic tuning or moment in time, since the entire Reality was created through the harmonics of music.” In Melchizedek’s mystico-number schematic, 222 represents a new cycle and 444 represents a mystery school, or a teaching. When you put this sequence of numbers together in a certain way—444 conjoined to 222, or boil it down to 42—the sequence is emblematic of a lesson about a new cycle, a new way of being. Now, the pertinent question is: could this lesson be coming to us by the inhabitants of Jupiter?
Before we can answer such a question, I think we have to study the alchemical importance of Jupiter. We must understand where this planet fits into the galactic schema and the cosmogonies of yesteryear and today. An alchemical understanding will help us come to terms with the cosmic energies at work, and, more importantly, how they correspond and relate to our autonomous selves and the grand stage of the global mind.
In Julius Evola’s prodigious study of alchemy, “The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art,” one can learn about the planetary hierarchy and the role Jupiter plays in creating the philosophical gold. According to Evola, some of the ancient proponents of the royal art thought Jupiter (tin) proceeded Saturn (lead) in the hierarchy, and that it was a precursor to the “silvery light of the moon” or the albedo stage. Others placed the masculine, virile planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars) above the feminine, passive planets (Venus, Mercury, Moon) in an astrological schema that moves in a distinct spiral-formation towards the Sun, or the rubedo stage of alchemy. In this second hierarchical system, Jupiter capitulates to the power of Mars. In both hierarchies, Jupiter dominates the nature of Saturn.
Furthermore, Evola recognized in Jupiter the “vis agendi”—the external will of the individual. He also recognized in Jupiter a force that presides over the plant kingdom. Alongside Jupiter, Mars rules the animal kingdom and Saturn rules the mineral kingdom. These three planets “constitute the triad of the Uranian gods,” and the “cosmic avenues of perception.”
These two quotations courtesy of Julius Evola—a once powerful wordsmith, erudite, and mage—are worthy of some further inspection. The “Uranian gods” refers to the muse of astrology and astronomy, “Urania”. Mother of the musician Linus, transmitter of universal understanding and love, Urania holds a globe in her left hand and foretells the future by looking at patterns in the firmament. Urania also wears the stars on her clothing. Surely she must stroll down the avenues of the cosmic and perceive it in full. Like Jupiter, she must be jovial and enjoy the plenum of the vegetable world.
Urania. U-rain-in-ya. The rain, the grey skies within. Grey is the color of tin. Tin is Jupiter’s signature color.
Jupiter, in Roman mythology, is synonymous with Zeus in Greek mythology. He commandeers the sky and sonorous thunderclaps. Jupiter Fulgurator refers to his rulership over lightning, and Jupiter Caelestis refers to his rulership over the firmament. These are definitely two very interesting designations.
The astrological and alchemical sign for Jupiter—the sign that looks like 24 or 42 backwards—is actually emblematic of a lightning bolt. In the Eastern Tradition, the form of the fulgurous lightning bolt is also known as the “vajra”. According to Rene Guenon, “…the vajra symbolizes the masculine principle of manifestation, and thus lightning is associated with the idea of ‘divine paternity’…”. The vajra, like the cross or the swastika, has four sides. The four sides are tantamount to the four cardinal points or directions. The vajra is also composed of two arms that move in opposing directions. One arm moves from the north pole to south pole, and the other arm moves from east to west. These attributes of the vajra are harmoniously linked to the numbers 24 and/or 42, numbers that fall under the Jupiterian rubric.
Does all of this information stand for something significant regarding our relationship to Jupiter? I think it does. Furthermore, this information could be coming to us via some type of “astrological harmonics system,” where cosmic information, or information sent to us from another planet, is able to encode itself in the environment and even in our DNA. When we activate particular circuits within our beings, we are able to understand the harmonic tunings or harmonic figurations being used in each moment. The world reveals itself to be at one with the universal language, and we’re certainly co-creators of this universal language.
Namaste.
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