| II. Summary Critique of the Gregorian Calendar
with which Every Proponent of the Thirteen Moon Calendar
Should be Thoroughly Familiar
Not only is the idea of the calendar as an instrument
to determine a true and accurate year misleading, but
solely focusing on this purpose blinds us to any consideration
of time apart from duration or measurement of motion
in space. The law of time asserts that the actual nature
of time is synchronic; hence the purpose of calendars
is to synchronize us in time according to various cycles
whose harmonic numbers extend from and return us to
a higher mental order of reality. It is a fatal error
to dismiss a mathematics of harmonic perfection when
it is allied to the ordering and comprehension of cycles.
The pursuit of a true and accurate year totally subordinates
the cyclic nature of time to the ceaseless imperfection
and change which characterize the phenomenal world when
it is considered as the sole factor of existence. This
defines the thoroughly materialist world-view of the
12:60 consciousness.
To the end of preparing the ground for a proper consideration
of the law of time and the evolutionary necessity of
the synchronic order of time as the harmonic reorganizing
factor of humanity in its post-historic phase, it is
necessary to expunge from the mind the error known as
the Gregorian calendar. To demonstrate and expose the
illogical and irrational nature of the Gregorian calendar
as a standard of measure, the following seven points
are presented as a simple appeal to the intrinsic logic
and intelligence of any human being:
1. We require of a standard of measure that its units
of measure are regular and equal with one another. This
is not the case with the Gregorian calendar, whose base
unit of measure, the month, proceeds in an irregular
and uneven manner: 31 days, 28 days, 31 days, 30 days,
31 days, 30 days, 31 days, 31 days, 30 days, 31 days,
30 days, and 31 days. Why would anyone use a standard
of measure with irregular units? Do you know what results
when a crooked standard of measure is employed consistently
for millennia? It might be noted that at the time of
Augustus Caesar, August was called Sextile and had 30
days, while February then had 29 days. In order to honor
Augustus and make him the equal of Julius (July) which
had 31 days, the 29th day was taken from February and
added on to Sextile, whose name was then changed to
Augustus(August). By harmonic contrast, the Thirteen
Moon calendar is perpetual in that all of its units
of measure are equal - 28 days each.
2. The names of the months are as illogical as their
uneven numbering. January is derived from the God of
the doorway; February is an obscure word referring to
an animal divinatory rite; Mars refers to the planet
and the god of war; April and may refer to goddesses
of the spring; June to the wife of Jupiter; July and
August, are named after the two most prominent Roman
Emperors, Julius and Augustus Caesar. As for the remaining
months,September, the ninth month means seven, October,
the tenth month, means eight; November, the eleventh
month, means nine; and December, the twelfth month,
means ten. Of course, by being habituated to the crooked
standard of measure, it is easy to overlook and dismiss
as innocuous the irrational naming of the months. But
is it so innocuous? What do the names of these months
have to do with an order of time, or even a cosmology
or culture of time, which qualities a calendar might
pretend to assume? By blindly accepting this irrational
disorder of names, do we not predispose ourselves to
accept irrational disorder in common place things around
us, and even within the fabric of our society, seeking
but a superficial treatment of the symptoms while ignoring
the roots?
3. Leap year and leap day is the most highly touted
aspect of the Gregorian Calendar. Structurally, the
Gregorian calendar is indistinguishable from the Julian
calendar. The only thing that separates the Gregorian
from the Julian calendar is the correction of the leap
year day. Leap day is the extra day that accumulates
every four years due to the length of the year being
365.241299 days and not 365. It will be seen that the
fraction .241299 is not quite 1/4, which would be .25.
This, the Julian calendar did not take into account,
hence an “error” crept into the Julian calendar making
spring equinox on the calendar fall some ten days behind
the solar moment of spring equinox. Thus, in 1582, Pope
Gregory XIII “improved” on Julius Caesar’s calendar,
some 1627 years later, by adopting the rule that there
would be no extra day on centuries - 00 years- expect
on those which are multiples of four. Hence, there was
no leap day in the year 1900, but in the year 2000,
a multiple of four, there was.
What is not well known is that the Vatican does not
recognize the leap day in its ceremonial calendar. How
is that? In most countries of Latin derived languages,
leap day and leap year are referred to as “bisiesto,”
or bisextile day and bisextile year. If leap year is
every four years, why is it referred to by a word that
connotes six, “sextile?” On the official liturgical
Church calendar there is no February 29!!! Instead,
there are two February 24s, and the second February
24 is not counted. If there were to be an extra day
that was counted, then the system of fixed feast days
would be thrown off. Instead, February 24, Day of the
Feast of St. Matthew, is counted twice - or extended
to be 48 hours. And since, in the Church tradition derived
from the Romans, the days are counted from the first
of the next month, the first always being known as the
calends, the date, February 24, is technically referred
to as the sixth of the calends of March (February 24
= sixth calends of March, February 25 = fifth calends,
February 26 = fourth calends, February 27 = third calends,
February 28 = second calends, and March 1 = Calends
of March. For this reason, the leap year is known as
“bisiesto” because sixth calends of March is doubled,
“bi”! Not only is February 29 not recognized by the
official Church calendar of the Vatican, but it is also
not counted as a day in its liturgical calendar. February
29 only arose out of popular tradition in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. The nemesis of accounting
for the .241299 extra day per year reveals the fixation
of astronomical time in seeking a “true” year and detracts
from the possibility that the issue of an intercalary,
or extra, day can logically and synchronically be handled
in many other ways. In the end, it is the mystique surrounding
leap day that further contributes to the numbing of
the sensibility of time accumulated in the instrument
known as the Gregorian calendar, “the lttle grid of
boxes that rules so much of our lives.”
4. The word we use to describe the instrument for
measuring, or more appropriately, for providing the
measure of the Earth’s orbit around the sun, “calendar,”
is derived from the word “calends.” Calends was the
Latin name given by the Romans to the first day of every
month. What does it mean? Calends is the name of the
account book, the book of payments recording the monthly
debts and bills to be paid! No wonder we are ruled by
the philosophy “time is money!” This philosophy is rooted
in the very word we use to describe time reckoning,
calendar. A more accurate word for time reckoning might
be chronometer or even synchronometer. But perhaps the
word count is simpler. We might just say, for example,
Thirteen Moon-28 day perpetual count.
5. Dominical letters. Scarcely known to anyone but
Vatican insiders is the system of dominical letters
that is used to code the years according to the day
of the week on which the first Sunday of the year falls.
Since the week has seven days, there are seven and only
seven dominical letters. These are the letters a - g,
where a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4,. e= 5,. f = 6, and
g = 7. Hence, G-7(group of seven most industrial nations),
the name given by the CIA to the ruling oligarchy of
globalization, is totally rooted in the system of the
seven dominical letters, a - g, to which the Gregorian
calendar can be reduced. How it works: this year, 2001,
the first day of the year was on a Monday, hence, this
year, all Mondays are coded by the letter “a.” Counting
forward to the first Sunday, January 7, Sundays this
year are coded “g.” The letter of the year, which is
always a capital letter, is based on the lower case
letter that codes the first Sunday, Therefore, this
year, 2001, is coded capital letter ”G” - it is truly
a G-7 year! Not only that, but by this system of “G-7”
dominical letters, it can be demonstrated that every
Gregorian year repeats precisely every 28 years, where
the days of the week and the month repeat once again.
Hence, 2001 is a repeat of 1973. In any 28-year cycle,
there are always exactly seven leap years! Thus, the
key code numbers 28 and 7 of the law of time are hidden
in, and even govern the Gregorian calendar, whose secrets
lie concealed in the Vatican archives!
Expose these secrets and show that the true harmony
of time is contained in the 13:20 matrix of the Tzolkin,
which is perfectly coded by 28 and 7. Any set of four
tones, an occult quartet, radially opposite each other,
always add up to 28. There are 65 (x4) such sets which
constitute the Tzolkin, while seven is the key factor
holding the 13:20 matrix in place (13 + 7 = 20). But
where the Tzolkin is a harmony in which the law of time
is encoded, the Gregorian calendar is a disharmony,
nonetheless governed by the law of time. What the Vatican
attempted to destroy at the hands of Bishop de Landa
in 1562, is redeemed by the law of time. Free of the
obscuring, illogical irrationality of the inexact measure
of the Gregorian calendar, the actual truth of the synchronic
order of time may be discovered and revealed as the
13:20 mathematical code of the Tzolkin perfectly coordinated
with the Thirteen Moon 28-day count.
6. The Gregorian calendar makes day-date calculations
difficult. The twelve uneven months of the Gregorian
calendar operate by a sub-system of 52 seven-day weeks,
plus one day. Because of the irregularity of the numbering
of the months, and because there are 365 and not 364
days in a year, it is almost impossible to make easy
calculations month to month and year to year. For example,
today on the Gregorian calendar it is Friday, May 4,
2001. What day of the week will June 4 be? What day
of the week will July 4 be? There is an immediate mental
block - a numbing of the mind. You have to stop and
think about it. And in this numbing pause in which your
cognitive brain has to be engaged, you lose your telepathic
awareness, much as when you look at a clock to find
out “what time it is.” Why should it be this way? Who
benefits? The priests who know the tedious rules for
stating that if it is Friday and it is 2001, then it
is dominical “e,” and the bankers who gather interest
based on the confusion over the erratic disparity of
days every month. By contrast, on the perpetual Thirteen
Moon calendar, today is Spectral Moon Gamma 3 - and
everythird day of every moon is coded by Gamma. Once
the 28-day count is mastered, there is no need to engage
the cognitive brain to figure out what day of the week
Crystal Moon 3 or Cosmic Moon 3 will be - and so in
this way the mind is liberated into a telepathic knowing.
The system of the seven-day week was introduced into
the Julian calendar at the Council of Nicea, AD 325,
and was adopted from the Jewish calendar which derived
it from the Babylonians, for whom it is was an astrological-astronomical
construct. That the week came from the Babylonians dissolves
the argument used by the Vatican to counter the “day
out of time.” According to the Vatican, by disrupting
the succession of the seven-day week, it would disrupt
an order set in motion by God. The matter of the seven
and the 52 has a much deeper significance when understood
in the synchronic higher dimensional light of the law
of time. A count of 52 seven-day weeks makes perfect
sense if you have a count of thirteen 28-day months
(7 x 52 = 13 x 28). The observance of the day out of
time, the 365th day of the year produces a perfect and
perpetual harmony. Knowing this, to continue to insist
on 52 weeks while being unwilling to give up a twelve
month count that does not have a day out of time, is
to persist in an adherence to hopeless disharmony -
why do it?
7. What’s in a name? Think about it. What does it
mean to follow calendars called the Julian and the Gregorian?
A calendar is an instrument of control. The two most
significant calendar reforms in history were the Julian
calendar reform of 46-45 BC, and its successor, the
Gregorian, in AD 1582. Julius Caesar’s motives had everything
to do with his personal ambition and the conversion
of Rome from a republican to an imperial form of government.
Julius Caesar’s calendar assured it to be the basis
of imperial dominance (read
supporting document).The course of empire utilizing
the Julian, and later Gregorian calendars has prevailed
as the dominant force now inseparable from the course
of history itself. The 445-day year of confusion (46
BC) which attended Julius Caesar’s reform, was matched
by the second significant reform, the Gregorian, in
which ten days were “lost forever,” between October
4-15, 1582, so that the calendar could catch up with
the sun.
While European Catholic countries easily accepted the
reform, Protestant countries grudgingly acquiesced.
Throughout the Americas, however, the Julian-Gregorian
calendar was imposed as an instrument of power and symbol
of dominance on those people whom the Europeans had
conquered, including the high civilizations of the Maya,
Inca and Aztecs, all of whom, incidentally, used, among
others, a thirteen moon 28-day count. Like Julius Caesar,
for Pope Gregory XIII, the moment was ripe for a reform
that would communicate itself as a means of expressing
and extending power and control, but this time over
the entire globe. As the European dominance and control
spread around the planet, even nations with their own
established timing systems accepted, even nominally,
for the sake of “international policy,” the Gregorian
(Julian) calendar system for measuring the solar year.
From its roots in the imperial ego of Julius Caesar
to the timely “reform” of Pope Gregory XIII, it is not
surprising that this calendar, “despite its odd quirks
and the twists of history that produced it,”(Duncan,
p.289) has become the standard of global civilization.
For global civilization itself is the triumph of the
artificial over the natural world. Only a species whose
time sensibility had been captured by instruments of
artificial measure could have become so alienated as
to have produced the monstrous conundrum known as the
“fast world,” a civilization where money and technological
advance prevail over human sensibility and the natural
order. It is to the correction of this destructive momentum
that all efforts of calendar reform must now be directed.
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