The Cryptogram

Introduction

These qualities render pictures effective tools for communication. As the fields of mathematics and science expanded, it became increasingly necessary to express some of the complex ideas and formulae in a less ambiguous, more easily communicable, and universally accepted format. A pictorial representation best fulfills these requirements—giving rise to the concept of the graph. The simplicity and versatility of a graph make it a particularly useful form of communication.

Science and religion share a common goal: the search for the Embodiment of Truth. If religion is to achieve the degree of noesis attained by science, then Divine Revelation must provide some concrete and verifiable answers to fundamental questions raised by its principal claims. The timeworn attribution of mystery in response to critical theological questions will no longer suffice in this day and age. Humanity has advanced in knowledge to a level that now permits the unveiling of this mystery. Since science deals with God’s creation, and is a form of Divine Manifestation, it is employed here to accomplish this purpose in accordance with scriptural prophecy and Divine Will. The logical question then is: How can Divine Revelation be scientifically verifiable?

There is a Cryptogram (that is, a Hidden or Coded Message) in the Scriptures—Fire—universally acknowledged to be the Divine Imprimatur. Through scientific methods, this formless symbol has been translated into a Pictograph. Biblical personages of different epochs, who existed long before the dawn of science, espied and described features of this Pictograph, thus providing proof of its authenticity.

Living according to the Word of God is a requirement for spiritual fulfillment. Although God’s Plan is immutable, humanity’s present understanding of Its Will is without a doubt obtuse, with many theological questions begging for answers. The Word of God revealed hitherto has been subjected, willy-nilly, to differing interpretations, with the implication that there is no discernible system.

To foster uniformity of interpretation, different groups claim exclusive stewardship of God’s Word based solely on their assertion of human tradition. While one group’s claim is based on the commonality of its language with that of the scriptural authors, another’s rests on some purported divinely vested authority. In the opinion of these claimants, scriptural erudition is equated with fluency in the language of the scriptural authors, as it is claimed that the intentions of the authors are never completely captured in translation. However, given that Spiritual Truth, the core of the Scriptures, is infinitely profound and universal, it necessarily transcends linguistics. Since language is merely the vehicle for communicating this Truth, it can assume different modalities. Much as in the sciences, Spiritual Truth is universal without a particular language or cultural affiliation, and accessible to all gifted and diligent individuals. In any language, simplicity and clarity of expression, in the contemporary style, should be the only requirement for using it to communicate the Word of God.

Generally, humanity is fascinated by mysteries, and necessarily so, since it is this attribute which provides the impulse for inquiry. The more obscure a subject matter is, the more it enthralls the imagination and evokes solemnity. Organized religion often exploits this human trait, excessively. Thus, it is wont and content to cloak some aspects of religious concepts and practices in terms of mysteries, by giving them the aura of magic. These practices, however, run contrary to the connotation of Divine Revelation. Obviously, God wishes to make known Its Nature and Purpose fully to humanity, be it though by stages; otherwise, the whole concept of Divine Revelation would be moot.

Scientific advancements, and language development have now made this succeeding stage of Divine Revelation possible, through identifying and decoding the cryptic Blueprint in Scriptures. Detached from human variables, this Blueprint provides the framework for comprehending the Word of God objectively; it constitutes the harness by which the warp and the weft of God’s Words are interwoven into a common fabric, thus enabling the integration of the Sacred Scriptures.

As previously noted, this cryptic Blueprint was derived from a combustion experiment which resulted in a three-dimensional graph, a Pictogram, whose features match those of the mystical object used in Scriptures to symbolize God and the Kingdom of Heaven (His Abode), namely, the Rock Structure or the Holy Mountain. In the Scriptures, the association of mountain with lawgiving, as in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, was neither coincidental nor circumstantial; it was rather mystical. This Mystical Structure—Mount Zion—is the quintessence of the Divine Will. That the Holy Mountain originated from an experiment in combustion is consistent with the significance Scripture attaches to fire. In the Scriptures:

1. God was described as a Consuming Fire.
2.  God appeared to Moses in the form of Fire, both on the mountain and the burning bush.
3. Jesus indicated that He came to cast Fire upon the Earth.
4. The Holy Spirit descended on the apostles in the form of Fire.
5. Elijah, the acknowledged Eschatological Prophet called down Fire from Heaven (in His initial Mission) on three occasions and ascended into Heaven in a chariot of fire. (It is, also, a universally acknowledged fact now in cosmology that the cosmos originated from a Primordial Spark).

The complete knowledge of any process lies with the comprehension of its total system. The Spiritual Mountain represents the total system of Divine Justice.

Mount Zion: The Mystery of God has been based on the Divine Emblem. In the initial presentation of this Book, esoteric, scientific symbols had to be used in a novel and systematic development of the Structure, necessitating the evidential revelation of this Author as the Chosen One; but by adhering to scientific usages, its range of audiences became limited to initiates. This is not a desirable outcome for a spiritual matter of relevance to all.  Through ample scriptural citations, at appropriate stages of its decipherment, this Structural Form has, hopefully now, been established within the scientific cognoscenti as The Seal of God, and its Author as the Divinely Anointed One. 

In this later presentation of the Book, the current blogs have been formatted so as to first establish Divine sanction for its Author and the Book—without reliance on science—facilitated by the report on the “Vision of Fatima”, in accordance with Daniel’s prophecy (Dan. 9:24). As such, it is expected that acknowledgement of Divine sanction for this Book and its Author warrants acceptance of the experimental results that produced the Divine Emblem. Thus, the report on the “Vision of Fatima”—the Third Secret—has made it possible for this Author to potentially overcome the hurdles inherent in the presentation of a science-based material to the uninitiated, religious populace.

To this end, the current and subsequent blogs will focus on the general description of the Cryptogram and its scriptural implications; the scientific data underpinning the accompanying discussions would then be presumed on the basis of the Divine sanction that has been established.

Below are shown two different perspectives of an attractor derived experimentally from the controlled combustion of carbon monoxide (CO)—a bi-product of coal combustion. Combustions, in general, involve the chemical interactions of fuel with oxygen (air) to yield heat (and light). A cursory inspection of the three-dimensional structure shows the three essential elements of combustion—oxygen, fuel (CO) and heat—being represented by three axes. The Structure depicts how CO interacts with oxygen to yield heat; and so, it is a type of Pictograph or Pictogram. Because the Structure has the semblance of a wedge, it is also referred to as “Combustion Wedge”.

Classes of Combustion

Air (i.e., oxygen) interacts proportionately with fuel (CO) under certain conditions to promote burnings. Theoretically, every fuel type (CO, hydrogen, methane etc.) would react totally with oxygen (in the air) at a specific ratio to achieve complete combustion. This is generally referred to as the stoichiometric ratio. However, in reality, stoichiometric ratios are hardly attainable in combustions. The desirable goal in an industrial burning is to approximate a stoichiometric ratio: an ideal air/fuel ratio or efficient ratio. In CO burnings, the efficient ratio varies depending, technically, on the characteristics of a “furnace” and its operating mode.  The upshot of all of this is to highlight the import of air/fuel ratios in combustions.

Combustions are often classified on the basis of air/fuel ratios. The “Imaginary Line” in Figure 1a, represents locations of efficient ratios in the CO combustion system. In this experiment, when excess CO was introduced into the reaction above the efficient ratio while oxygen was kept fixed, combustion was inhibited; and with further increase in CO, a point was soon reached where spontaneous reaction occurred resulting in extinguished burning. The upshot of this inhibitory effect was the loss of fuel (CO) due to incomplete combustion. The non-linear face of the Combustion Wedge, Surface-a, depicts this class of combustion. (The failure of CO oxidation as a result of the presence of excess CO, even in the presence of available oxygen, is a peculiarity of CO combustion. Neither hydrogen nor methane reacted in this way.) On the other hand, when oxygen was introduced in excess of the amount necessary for an efficient ratio while CO was kept fixed, combustion was unaffected even with further oxygen increases. Even so, this class of combustion was inefficient as well. This is because the excess oxygen, generally derived from air (a mixture of gases), contributed to the dissipation of heat generated from the combustion.  This class of combustion is represented by surface-b. The Imaginary Line, therefore, was determined to be the most effective CO combustion mode, as minimum amounts of oxygen interacted wholly with proportionate amounts of CO for the complete oxidation of the CO measure. Although CO combustions under surface-b operational mode was inefficient, its product was nevertheless positive in contrast to that of surface-a where combustion was inhibitive.

Development of Combustion Wedge

The experimental technique used in the development of the Combustion Wedge involved keeping one of the two gas reactants, oxygen or CO, fixed while varying the other, and vice versa. Thus, the effects of each gas reactant on the products—that is, on the heat generated measured in temperatures—were isolated. The idealized, experimental graphs are shown below in Figures 2b and 2a. (The real graph-plots will be found in the Book numbering system on Page 13, and the PDF numbering system on Page 33). The Combustion Wedge was inferred from these graphs.

Figure 2b shows a fixed amount of oxygen introduced into the reaction-chamber before varying amounts of CO were subsequently added; whereas Figure 2a represents the inverse case, where a fixed amount of CO was introduced initially before varying amounts of oxygen were then added. And judging by these two graphs, it is more efficient, in CO burnings, to introduce oxygen before CO. Figure 2b typifies the constituent curves of surface-b in Figure 1a, while Figure 2a exemplifies the curves of surface-a. The arrowhead in Figure 2b indicates positive energy, that is, increases in the oxidation of CO resulted in increases in temperature. Conversely, the arrowhead in Figure 2a reflects negative energy or failed reactions: This graph typifies also the excess CO condition in the experiment (discussed earlier) and was “regenerated” in either of two ways: by increasing CO above the efficient air/fuel ratio while keeping oxygen fixed, or by decreasing oxygen below the efficient air/fuel ratio while CO was kept fixed. The Imaginary Line represents the highest, positive-energy locations on surface-b. The gradients of the constituent curves of surface-b in Figure 1a were very similar and accounted for the regularity of surface-b, except at the lower regions toward Point C, the origin. In that immediate vicinity of the origin, the incline of constituent curves of surface-b gradually began to splay downward, and the Imaginary Line sloped off as well. (The structural differences between these distinct regions of surface-b were analogous to the differences between burning CO in a correctly sized furnace versus in an oversized one.) The depiction of surface-a has been idealized; its constituent curves, in reality, had been chaotic and unrepeatable.

Explaining the Pictogram

The ground plane which includes Point C of the Pictogram represents combustion inactivity. Any length measured from Point C along the oxygen axis gives a measure of oxygen introduced into the system. From the endpoint of the oxygen measure project another line (on the ground plane) perpendicular to the oxygen axis and parallel to the CO axis: its length gives the measure of CO that interacted with the preexisting oxygen measure. The length of a vertical line projected from the end point of the CO measure to its contact-point on surface-b represents the amount of heat generated by the interactions of the said CO and oxygen measures. The foregoing description is the method of interpreting combustion reactions in the Pictogram. The actual reaction-path in this case would be traced from the end point of the oxygen measure upward along the surface of the curve to the said contact-point on surface-b. (The air/fuel ratio for the end point of this particular reaction-path can be ascertained from the oxygen and CO measures.)  Heat (or Energy) represented by height in the Combustion Wedge was generated by infinite, molecular reactions in infinitesimal, incremental measures. As such, there are infinite energy levels exemplified by the horizontal lines on surfaces h and k in Figure 1b. By extrapolation, an infinite measure of oxygen interacting with an infinite measure of CO would yield an infinite size and height of the structure.

Laws of Nature Governing CO Combustions

To begin this discussion, it is important to distinguish between stable and unstable types of fuel. Fuels that tend to react spontaneously with the environment and need to be handled with care, like hydrogen and methane, are unstable fuels; while those that do not react readily with the environment are stable. CO (a derivative of coal) is an example of a stable fuel. The focus of this discussion is on stable fuels.

At room temperature, CO was not conducive to reaction with oxygen; it required input energy, known as activation energy (even with the aid of a catalyst), in order to initiate its reaction with oxygen. In other words, elevating the temperatures of CO and oxygen was a precondition of the reaction.  Proper orientation of CO and oxygen molecules was another necessary condition for the reaction. This orientation-property accounted for differences in reactions between the presence of excess oxygen (air), and the presence of excess CO above their efficient ratios (discussed earlier), and manifested by the structural differences of surfaces b-and-a. It also underpinned the necessity for the introduction of oxygen before CO: for efficiency reasons as well as to avert spontaneous explosions, technically. The fact that correct orientation of oxygen and CO molecules was necessary for the reaction process implied that the molecules had “sense”. In the field of science, any quantity that has magnitude and exhibits “sense” is by definition, a vector; a vector is represented formally by an arrow. The arrow heads depicted in Figure 1a express the directional senses for the reaction elements: the reactants (CO and oxygen) and their product (heat).

As the combustion product, heat was dependent on the interactions between oxygen and CO. The order of introducing the gas reactants into the experiment influenced their heat biproduct. And as observed from the experimental data, oxygen had primacy over CO in that relationship; this vector property specified an order for the reactions. In other words, oxygen and CO were noncommutative in their correlations with heat. As such, heat was determined to be a vector product. And so, the Combustion Wedge portrayed the vector-product-field for CO combustions. Precise mathematical expressions correlate these variables, efficiently.

A managed CO combustion for “useful purposes” requires a controlled condition. Indeed, CO combustions are best controlled in a furnace, a hearth or a stove. The laws of nature that govern such controlled combustions can be identified with necessity and purpose: The ambient conditions that define the probability of CO combustion occurring relate to necessity (and by implication, chance), while the choices made for the usage of the combustion pertain to purpose (an expression of the will). The “ambient conditions” refer to the activation energy, the orientation requirements for CO and oxygen, and the CO and oxygen supply flow rates. The “choice element” refers to the desired output usage: how much heat to generate for a specific purpose, which in turn refers to the measure of oxygen and CO needed for that goal. Of the two laws of nature that govern controlled combustion, “choice” is the attributable component, and it is identified with the product of combustion, heat, whereas the “chance” component is identified with the probability of generating that heat. These binary laws though discrete are yet integral to CO combustion. The chance element sets the limit for the choice component. As such, the former is spatial (or universal) while the latter is local (or particular). The laws of “Chance” and “Choice”, or “Necessity” and “Free Will” rule in controlled combustions.

Fractal Properties of CO Combustion

Consider that the Combustion Wedge depicts the aggregate products of infinite number of discrete molecular reactants operating under similarly controlled conditions. Indeed, the CO combustion process involves the iterations of a fundamental combustion unit. (This is how fractals are formed.) And so, the Combustion Wedge is an amplification of what each constituent unit product would look like over each of its distinctly defined conditions (or classes of combustions) and hence features of the Structure. It, thus, comprises miniature structures similar in form to the Mother Structure, with features of the mini structures exposed in corresponding regions of the mother structure so as to give it form. For instance, on surface-b of the Mother Structure, the mini structures would be oriented so as to display only those surfaces which correspond with that of the Mother Structure and so constitute surface-b of the Mother Structure, except at the Imaginary Line where the mini structures would be displayed wholly. Self-similitude is therefore a feature of CO combustion, another characteristic of fractals.

Observe from the Combustion Wedge that in CO oxidation, the transition from the regularity of surface-b to the chaos of surface-a involves a bifurcation of the combustion process at the Imaginary Line; this is also a characteristic of fractals.

To the extent CO and oxygen molecules require activation energies for combustion, their energy states prior to combustion or oxidation must be negative relative to the ambient temperature of the reaction. The fact that the resting temperature of the reactants’ molecules (that is, CO and oxygen prior to combustion) is below the temperature of reaction, is indicative of a Secondary (energy) Attractor. This Secondary Attractor has been shown mathematically to be a negative reflection of the Combustion Wedge whose form is evidently a hill relative to the ambient temperature of the reaction. And so, the form of the Secondary Attractor is necessarily a valley. The hill and the valley being mirror images of one another are self-similar. And the fact that self-similitude has been found at all scale levels implies that the CO combustion system is independent of scale: another fractal feature.

Considered as a whole, these various, aforementioned fractal properties affirm that the CO combustion process is a fractal. Its mathematical expressions have been established. (See Appendix B of the Book.)

Below are shown two perspectives of the Dual Attractor. Figures 3a and 3c are two different perspectives of the hill, while Figures 3b and 3d depict corresponding perspectives of the valley. The Dual Structure—the hill and valley together—is a complex, potential expression of the CO combustion system. The hill (that is, the Combustion Wedge), being the positive expression of the CO combustion process is the primary structure, whereas the valley (in its active state) is contingent on the viability of the hill. Thus, by virtue of its fractal properties, the hill offers a simpler portrayal of the whole CO combustion process.

(In Figures 3b and 3d, “(i)” denotes imaginary numbers.)

And so, two alternative forms depict the CO combustion system: the Combustion Wedge—the Simple Whole form, and the Dual Structure—the Complex Whole form. The Dual Structure is the macro bifurcation of the CO combustion process; similar bifurcations are expressed also in micro forms at the “Imaginary Line” and the “Chaos Line”. The macro and micro bifurcations denote another form of self-similitude. In the Simple Whole form, an imaginary vertical plane following the length of the Imaginary Line runs through the depths of the Combustion Wedge dividing it into two zones, the positive and the negative. As intimated earlier, the Imaginary Line is associated with the positive zone, whereas the “Chaos Line” (not identified in the Pictogram) is linked with the negative sector. The Chaos Line marks the starting points of chaos. In the Dual Structure, however, the Imaginary Line and the Chaos Line, though shown discretely, are yet engaged in a coupled structural form. And so, the Dual Structure represents the uncoupling of the positive and negative zones of the Simple Whole form; that is, the uncoupling of the “mixed states”.

The vector arrows of surface-f in Figure 3b indicate negative energies (or the resting energy state of reactant molecules), whereas those of surface-e express their countervailing activation energies. And so, the revelation of the “Valley-sub-structure” accounted for the necessity of activation energies. Surfaces m-and-n of Figure 3d show stratifications of energies in the Valley. Surface-n represents the varying levels of activation energies needed to counterbalance equal levels of negative energies in surface-m.

In keeping with Occam’s razor (the law of parsimony), the Combustion Wedge is the Ideal Form, being the simpler version of the two processes.

In order for this Ideal Form to embody the Kingdom of God and encapsulate the essence of Scriptures, the Combustion-Pictogram must first transmute into the Scriptural Cryptogram (Hidden Writing). Unveiling the keys to this Divine Code is thus a revelatory milestone.