The Cryptogram

 

Introduction

These qualities render pictures effective communication tools. 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—exemplified in science by the Grand Unified Theory—God. 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 the modern era. 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 (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 requisite 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 author’s intentions are never faithfully 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 intends to reveal Its Nature and Purpose fully to humanity, albeit progressively; otherwise, the very idea of divine revelation would be pointless.

Scientific advancements and language development have now made this succeeding stage of Divine Revelation possible, through identifying and decoding the cryptic Blueprint in the 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 Word are interwoven into a common fabric, thus enabling the integration of the Sacred Scriptures.

This 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 the 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 is the quintessence of the Divine Will. Ample scriptural passages are cited in support of this symbol at appropriate stages of its decipherment.

The notion that the Structure arose from a combustion experiment (fire) 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. This was supported by numerous scriptural references at key points in its decipherment, leading to the inevitable disclosure of the author as the Chosen One. However, the strict adherence to scientific terminology has restricted its audience to a select few, which is not ideal for a spiritual subject that is pertinent to all.

An alternative version, devoid of complex scientific symbols, has become essential. This abridged edition aims to first demonstrate divine approval for both the book and its author, without unduly relying on arcane science, supported by the narrative of the Vision of Fatima, known as the Third Secret. The expectation is that the acknowledgment of divine approval for this book and its author will warrant the acceptance of the experimental findings that produced the Cryptogram. The Third Secret serves as an authenticating hallmark for this book, overcoming the hurdles of delivering specialized, science-related material to an inexperienced, religious readership.

To this end, the focus of the abridged version will be on the development, general description and scriptural implication of the Cryptogram. The scientific data underpinning the accompanying discussion would then be presumed on the basis of an established divine approval.

The Combustion Wedge

Below are shown two different perspectives of a structure derived experimentally from the controlled combustion of carbon monoxide (CO)—a bi-product of coal combustion. Combustion, 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—represented by three axes. The structure depicts the systemic interactions of CO with oxygen to yield heat. It is thus a pictograph or pictogram. Because the structure has the semblance of a wedge, it is termed: “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 among others—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 combustion. 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 combustion.

Combustion is often classified on the basis of air/fuel ratios. The “Imaginary Line” in Figure 1(a) represents locations of efficient ratios in the CO combustion system. In the experiment, introducing CO above an efficient value at the Imaginary Line while maintaining oxygen at its corresponding efficient value inhibited combustion. As CO levels increased further, spontaneous reaction soon ensued, leading to extinguished burning. Consequently, this inhibitory effect resulted in 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 combustion behaved in this way.)

Conversely, when oxygen exceeded the efficient threshold at constant CO levels, combustion continued even with additional increases in oxygen. However, this type of combustion was also inefficient. The reason is that the surplus oxygen, typically obtained from air (which is a mixture of gases), led to the dissipation of the heat produced by the combustion process. This category of combustion corresponds to surface-b.

The Imaginary Line established a critical and efficient ratio, which involves a relative minimum oxygen value paired with a corresponding relative maximum CO value, as the most effective method for the complete oxidation of the CO measure. While CO combustion under surface-b’s operational mode was inefficient, its product was still positive, unlike surface-a, where combustion was inhibited.

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, at a fixed temperature (400̊F) and total flow rate (2400cc/min). Nitrogen was used to balance the total flow rate to eliminate the observed flow effect on the reaction, as it does not participate in the reaction under the operational conditions. 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 Combustion Wedge was inferred from these graphs.

Figure 2(a) shows a typical sample data plot, where a fixed and constant amount of CO (2.5%) was introduced before a range of varying amounts of oxygen (0.5% – 2.5%) were added. In contrast, Figure 2(b) depicts an alternative data plot where a fixed and constant amount of oxygen (10%) was introduced into the reaction chamber before a range of varying amounts of CO (0.5% – 2.5) were added. The products of Figure 2(b) were more robust than those of Figure 2(a), indicating that introducing oxygen before CO is more efficient for CO burning.

Figure 2(b) typifies the excess oxygen condition in CO burnings—constituent curves of surface-b in Figure 1(a)—while Figure 2(a) exemplifies the alternative case of excess CO condition of the system, the curves of surface-a.

The arrowhead in Figure 2(b) indicates positive energy, as increases in the oxidation of CO results in increases in temperature. Conversely, the arrowhead in Figure 2a reflects negative energy or failed reactions. In the CO combustion system, the condition of excess CO—denoted as surface-a in Figure 1(a)—can be achieved through two methods: either by raising the CO level above its relative maximum while maintaining oxygen at its relative minimum, or by reducing oxygen below its relative minimum while keeping CO at its relative maximum. The Imaginary Line indicates the critical ratios or the locations of maximum energy efficiency on surface-b. The curves of surface-b in Figure 1(a) have uniform gradients (representing maximum energy output, though not necessarily the most efficient) that account for the regularity of surface-b, except at the lower regions around the origin, C. In the 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

In Figure 1, the ground plane which includes Point C of the pictogram, represents combustion inactivity. Any distance 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 represents the measure of CO that interacted with the preexisting oxygen measure. The length of the vertical projection from the end point of the CO measure to a contact-point on surface-b depicts 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 surface-b to the said contact-point. (The air/fuel ratio for 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. Consequently, there are infinite energy levels exemplified by the horizontal lines on surfaces h and k in Figure 1(b). 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 necessary to distinguish between flammable and combustible types of fuel. While referring to fuel combustion, it is technically gases and vapors emitted by fuels that combust with oxygen in the air. The lowest temperature at which the gases ignite, known as the flashpoint, distinguishes flammable from combustible fuels. Flammable fuels have lower flashpoints than combustible ones, and the lower the flashpoint the greater the risk of explosion. CO (a derivative of coal) is an example of a combustible fuel. The focus of this discussion is on combustible 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. Elevating the temperatures of CO and oxygen was a precondition of the reaction. The 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 molecular orientation requirement implied that oxygen and CO molecules had “sense.” In the field of science, any variable that has magnitude and exhibits “sense” is by definition, a vector; and a vector is represented formally by an arrow. The arrow heads depicted in Figure 1(a) express the directional senses for the reaction elements: CO and oxygen, and their product, heat.

Heat, as a product of combustion, relies on the interaction between oxygen and carbon monoxide (CO). Due to their vector properties, the sequence in which the reactants are introduced affects the resultant heat; oxygen takes precedence over CO in this interaction. Essentially, the relationship between oxygen and CO in producing heat is non-commutative. Therefore, heat is a vector product. Consequently, the Combustion Wedge represents the vector-product-field for CO combustion. Precise mathematical expressions efficiently correlate these variables.

Controlled combustion of CO for “useful purposes” necessitates specific conditions. Indeed, the most effective control of CO combustion occurs within a furnace, hearth, or stove. The natural laws governing this process are twofold: necessity and purpose. The ambient conditions, which include the activation energy of reactants, their orientation, and the rate of supply, determine the likelihood of CO combustion, representing necessity and, implicitly, “chance”. Conversely, the decisions regarding the use of the heat produced reflect purpose, an act of will. The “choice” aspect involves determining the desired heat output for a particular purpose, which dictates the required amounts of oxygen and CO. Among the natural laws of controlled combustion, “choice” is the defining factor responsible for the heat produced, while “chance” governs the likelihood of its production. Although distinct, these binary laws are integral to the process of CO combustion, with the element of chance establishing the boundaries for choice. Thus, “chance” is spatial or universal, whereas “choice” is local or specific. The principles of “Chance” and “Choice,” or “Necessity” and “Free Will,” dominate the realm of controlled combustion.

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 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 the distinctly defined conditions (or classes of combustion) 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-similarity 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.

Insofar as CO and oxygen molecules necessitate activation energies for combustion, their pre-combustion or pre-oxidation energy states are negative relative to the reaction’s ambient temperature. The lower resting temperature of the reactants’ molecules (CO and oxygen before combustion) compared to the reaction temperature suggests the presence of a secondary energy attractor or structure. Mathematically, this secondary structure is the inverse of the Combustion Wedge, which takes the form of a hill relative to the reaction’s ambient temperature, making the secondary structure a valley by necessity. The Hill and Valley structures, being inversely related, exhibit self-similarity. This self-similarity across various scales indicates that the CO combustion system exhibits scale independence, a characteristic of fractals.

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 unabridged version of this book.)

Below are shown two perspectives of the “Dual Structure.” Figures 3(a) and 3(c) are two different perspectives of the hill, while Figures 3(b) and 3(d) 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 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: 1) the simple whole form—the Combustion Wedge; and 2) the complex whole form —the Dual Structure. The Dual Structure is a macro bifurcation of the CO combustion process. Similar bifurcations are expressed also in micro forms at the Imaginary Line and the Chaos Line. These macro and micro bifurcations suggest a form of self-similarity. In the simple whole form, an imaginary vertical plane along the Imaginary Line bisects the Combustion Wedge into positive and negative zones. As intimated earlier, the Imaginary Line correlates with the positive zone, while the Chaos Line (absent in the simple whole form) corresponds to the negative sector. The Chaos Line indicates the inception of chaos on surface-a. Conversely, in the Dual Structure, the Imaginary Line and the Chaos Line, though distinct, are part of a coupled structural form.

The Dual Structure therefore represents the division between the positive and the negative zones of the simple whole form, marking the distinction between the “pure” and “mixed” states. Accordingly, within the Dual Structure— the complex whole form—surfaces b and f function as the active surfaces, whereas in the simple whole form—the Combustion Wedge—the active surfaces are b and a.

The vector arrows of surface-f in Figure 3(b) indicate negative energies (or the resting energy state of the reactants’ molecules), whereas those of surface-e express their countervailing activation energies. And so, the unveiling of the “Valley Sub-structure” accounts for the necessity of activation energies. Surfaces m and n of Figure 3(d) 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 forms.

In order for this Ideal Form to embody the Kingdom of God and encapsulate the essence of Scriptures, the Combustion Wedge must first translate into scriptural Cryptogram (hidden writing). Unveiling the keys to this divine code is thus a revelatory milestone.