I.  Calendars:  Chronological, Astronomical and Synchronic Orders of Time

“The superior person sets the calendar in order and makes the seasons clear”
I Ching, hexagram 49, Revolution

By common consent, a calendar is a system for reckoning time. Virtually all current time reckoning systems take account only of chronological or, better put, astronomical time - the movement of the earth in relation to celestial bodies, the sun, moon, planets, stars and constellations. This is a purely third dimensional, physical consideration of time. The law of time affirms a higher order of time - the synchronic order. This is the time of the fourth dimension, which includes the chronological but enfolds it in a higher mental and mathematical order of reality. According to the law of time, what you don’t know about the calendar you are using could kill you. Operating by purely third dimensional chrono-astronomical timing standards without knowledge of the synchronic order of fourth dimensional time, subjects humanity to a partial and one-sided view of reality which is hazardous to the planet and jeopardizes the future existence of the human species as well as all of life on earth.

To correct this situation a radical solution is required - a new calendar embedded in the synchronic order revealed by the discovery of the law of time. This is the significance of the thirteen moon calendar - it epitomizes the incorporation of the chronological order of time into the synchronic order, and hence provides the vehicle for humanity to escape its otherwise certain plunge into disaster within the next decade. When in the pursuit of truth, a dogma is encountered it must be challenged and abolished. Such a dogma is the calendar in use as the world standard, the Gregorian calendar. That this calendar, originally a system of thought peculiar to one people or religion, should dominate all the peoples and even life of the planet makes it a subject of planetary anthropology.

To change how people think you must take a profoundly simple and universal element of  everyday life and in which all everyday thinking is rooted and change it so radically, that how people think will itself be dramatically changed. This is the meaning of the replacement of the Gregorian calendar by the Thirteen Moon calendar. The calendar change is necessary because as the pragmatic application of the discovery of the law of time, it brings into focus the essence of this discovery: time is a frequency, the frequency of synchronization. If a calendar does not increase synchronization, it is not performing its highest function. This is the fundamental critique of the Gregorian calendar - and of all concepts of time based solely on physical, third-dimensional astronomical measurements. This discovery is so new and startling that it affects all human thought and is a matter to which all belief systems, religions and methods of science must take cognizance.

The discovery that time is a frequency mathematically expressed as the ratio 13:20 requires a profound reorganization of all thought about time and the consequent reorganization of human society as a planetary organism. As the unified field theory of time, the discovery of the law of time calls for the human synchronization in time predicated on the establishment of the Thirteen Moon calendar as the global civil standard replacing the current erroneous timing standard, the Gregorian. This is a matter taken with the utmost seriousness, since it is also recognized that all belief systems are locked up or embedded in the calendars or time reckoning systems used by a people.

But what does this staggeringly astronomical figure mean, and of what value is it?

In profound contrast to this obsessive reductionism in which there is no place for spirit, mind or consciousness, fourth-dimensional radial mathematics represents a mental order greater than and encompassing the astronomical order of the third dimensional universe. According to the law of time, in time reckoning, consideration should be given to systems of the harmonic order of synchronic time which proceed from the radial mathematical order of the higher mind. The higher mind represents the evolved state of mind toward which evolution on Earth tends, but has not yet attained. As long as the human concept of time is governed by the obsessive pursuit of the impossible to attain perfection of astronomical time, this pursuit and the civilization which it propels are doomed to failure. What is known as history is embedded in this pursuit of fixing astronomical time, which has culminated in the dogma of the Gregorian calendar and the micro atomic measure of the cessium clock. When did this pursuit begin and why did it come to dominate the human species and to what effect?

All the values, customs and norms of a nation, a culture, a civilization are embedded in the calendar it uses. The Gregorian calendar, the current global civil standard - indeed, the foundation in time of globalization - is the calendar of the Caesars, of the Roman Empire, of the Catholic Church and the Vatican. To change this calendar is to change history itself. Can it be done? The League of Nations attempted this in the 1930s, but failed. The United Nations tabled this effort in 1956. Since the United Nations adjourned the matter of calendar reform indefinitely, the Earth’s population has more than doubled, that is, it has increased by more than 3.2 billion people, a factor that is still out of control, and which may actually have much to do with the fact that humanity is actually in a fog about time.

The reasons for wanting to replace or at least reform the Gregorian calendar are no less valid  today. It is not a standard of measure. It lacks logic and reason. It numbs and befuddles the mind when trying to make calculations by it. It is shrouded in an arcane and medieval obscuritanism. The net effect of the use of this calendar is to perpetuate a fundamental level of mental confusion and ignorance concerning the actual nature of time itself - an ignorance that is hardened into dogma by the unwillingness of habit to consider any other possibility, and to even accept the entire system as second nature. The argument that it is the most accurate and scientific measure of the solar orbit of the Earth is irrelevant in relation to its effect on the mind and its numbing power as the dogma of a conquering people. Indeed, the solar measure of 365. 241299 days per year has nothing intrinsically to do with “30 days hath September, etc. ...” and vice versa. In fact, the measure of the Earth’s orbit is one matter; the purpose of calendars and time reckoning as factors of synchronization is a wholly other matter. But then, since the very nature of a culture or a civilization is determined by the calendar it keeps, the use of a deformed standard can only inhibit and skew even the questions one asks about time.

The failure of calendar reform by 1961, the year of the Vatican II Council, only promoted an increasingly complacent acceptance, however cleverly disguised, of a millennial dogma, the Gregorian calendar. In the conclusion to the “last word” on the subject, Calendar:  Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year, David Duncan summarizes, “We take in stride a calendar (the Gregorian) that is flawed but endures, largely because it works just fine for most of us, and it is what we are used to.” (1998, p.300). Because something is flawed does not make it correct, nor is it all objective to accept something because we are used to it. In fact this attitude is anything but scientific. Rather, it is the basis of nothing more than a self-fulfilling dogma. And yet the civilization that bases itself on this aberrant timing measure prides itself as being the most scientific in all of history.

Due to this flawed time sensibility, it may be concluded that humankind today is little capable of moral reason or logic, which itself is a result of, or at least strongly reinforced, by habituation to a timing standard that is irrational and illogical. Anytime we “overlook” or “dismiss” a fault due to habit, or simply because we are accustomed to the use, say, of an instrument, even if that instrument is demonstrated to be flawed and irregular, is evidence of a moral laziness which will eventually contaminate the entire consciousness which accepts and accommodates itself to the flaw. The exercise of truth is a moral prerogative. The fact of the matter is that the Gregorian calendar is a hodgepodge of flaws and accretions rationalized into systematic formulizations that have no basis in reality. The celebration of Easter is a case in point.

Easter is the celebration of the day Christ was resurrected from the dead. It may be assumed by logic that this occurred on one and only one particular day, just as the celebration of his birth on Christmas Day. However, by the time the Christian religion had become an established force within the Roman Empire, no one knew precisely what day the Resurrection had been. The Council of Nicea, convened by Constantine in AD 325, called for a debate on the matter in which various theories were presented. The debate was concluded with the victory of one conjectural system over the other. The winning system stated that Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, except when the full moon was on a Sunday, in which case it would be celebrated on the following Sunday, and this so that it would not be celebrated on the same day as Jewish Passover.

Over the centuries this conjectural theory regarding the date of Christ’s resurrection, was buttressed with a system of elaborate calculations for predicting when Easter would occur. These calculations were all made with regard to establishing an alignment of the synodic lunar cycle of 29.5306 days, resulting in a lunar year of 354.3672 days, with the solar year of 365.241299 days!! The fact that the system that was being fortified with such elaborate mathematical calculations did not lessen in any way the fact that the system was originally - and still is - a mere conjectural speculation of a highly clever but relative nature. Thoroughly embedded into the Julian-Gregorian calendar, the system of determinging Easter is inseparable from the Gregorian calendar itself, and is one of the chief reasons for the resistance to its reform. The entire system of this calendar, inherited without question from the Caesars of the Roman empire, is a actually nothing more than a form of self-perpetuation of a priestly hierachy that includes in its support a host of bankers, industrialists and scientists and the elaborate social system that is under their control - global civilization itself. Take away the calendar and the entire structure loses its basis and foundation.

The dogma of the Gregorian calendar is built on the doctrine of inexorability. Any change or accretion is accepted as being unalterable and inexorable once it has been introduced into the system. The names of the months, the numbering of their days, the names of the days of the week, Easter, epacts, Anno Domini, leap year, and dominical letters all describe the history of these accretions evolved into an elaborately obscure and arcane system known as the Julian-Gregorian calendar. The fiendish search to reconcile its irregular measure into a system which accommodates the seemingly irreconcilable lengths of the lunar year and the solar year, generated the scientific and industrial revolutions. The same attitude and doctrine of inexorability which characterize the evolution of the Gregorian calendar characterizes as well, the growth and nature of the technological civilization which this calendar spawned. The desire to improve upon a proven imperfection is the very basis of technological progress, which then accepts every preceding level of tecnological advance as an irreversible given. You cannot turn back the clock is the self-fulfilling dogma of the clock-invented machine, while the invention of the clock itself was the result of the obsession of monks living by the illogical standard of the Julian calendar.

This resulting consciousness or mental state rooted in the Gregorian calendar and the clock is defined by the law of Time as the 12:60 timing frequency. It is this frequency, driven by the ever-losing entropic pursuit to pin down and define astronomical time, that is the blind spot of the human race as it ponders how to maintain its life style while depleting the Earth’s natural resources and further contaminating its environment.

"If the Julian/Gregorian calendar was to be offered as a new device for measuring time, we, with our present knowledge and state of living, would reject it as something utterly impracticable, lacking in harmony and order, unbalanced and irregular, too clumsy a calendar to make calculations by, while the various sections are not comparable."
- (B. Richmond, Time Measurements and Calendar Construction, Leiden, 1956, pp. 70-71)

A science or any scientist that unquestioningly follows the Gregorian calendar is, in reality, not worthy of the name. What is science? A concern for logic and precision of measure, we might answer, as well as standards of measure which utilize uniform units of measure in accord with what is being measured.  Yes, the year is calculated as being 365.241299 days in length, but if the annual standard of measure that is used is irregular and unscientific, then it avails nothing, and indeed deforms the mind leading it down byways that may only end in self-destruction. Indeed, the pursuit of a true and accurate year in itself may be an illusory pursuit, blinding us to the actual nature of time, and leading us away from a genuine understanding of ourselves, our role and purpose on this earth.

To change and replace the calendar with the thirteen moon standard is to return us to our original purpose, leading us back to pathways of natural health. According to the law of time, the damage already inflicted in the time humanity last hesitated and lost the chance to alter its timing frequency, 40 years ago, has been incalculable. The final opportunity to change the calendar and the timing frequency is now upon us. Because of this we must be very clear and unshakable in our understanding and determination to expose and eliminate the current civil calendar for once and for all. Even David Duncan’s unabashedly apologist pro-Gregorian book, Calendar, concludes with its time line on the date 2012, “Current Mayan great cycle will end.” But will we also end?  By 2012, it will be too late to change, that is why the Campaign for the New Time sets as its goal a planetary year of trial of the new time, 2004-2005.

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