The Cryptogram
From Genesis to Revelation, a mystical object emerges as the central theme of Divine Revelation. Its structural features and attributes were described in different epochs, by different biblical personages. This Hidden Structure—a Cryptogram—was portrayed, variously, in Scriptures as a rock or a mountain and frequently associated with fire (combustion). In the Scriptures, the association of mountain with lawgiving, as in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, is neither coincidental nor circumstantial; it is 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.
That the Structure originated from an experiment in combustion (fire) is consistent with the significance Scripture attaches to fire. In the Scriptures:
- God is described as a Consuming Fire;
- God appeared to Moses in the form of Fire, both on the mountain and the burning bush
- Jesus indicated that He came to cast Fire upon the Earth;
- The Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles in the form of Fire;
- 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. Mount Zion represents the total system of Divine Justice. Accomplished with mathematical precision, and pictorial illustration, the revelation of this Structure signifies the ultimate codification of the Divine Law. It stands to reason that the spiritual which gave rise to the natural should be expressible with the same degree of mathematical precision to which science is accustomed.
The first edition of this Book revealed the three-dimensional picture of this Divine Emblem—a Pictogram—through a combustion experiment, replete with mathematical formulae.
Thus, the authentication of Scriptures no longer depends on blind faith, but on the systematic verification of this Structure with the testimonies of biblical personages who espied and described its features long before the dawn of science.
The Structure together with its mathematical functions were later determined to be a particular solution.
The Simple Whole and Complex Whole
An in-depth examination of the experimental data resulted in a general solution, giving rise to a dual Complex Structure: a mountain and a valley. Thus, the (carbon monoxide) combustion process is, now, expressed as a system of competing matrices of energy hills and valleys. (These results challenge some of the currently held notions in quantum mechanics; notably, the idea that there is a wave-function “collapse” or a “reduction” of the wave packet in the process of measurement.)
The spiritual meaning of the Hill–Mount Zion–was the focus of the first edition. In the second edition, the Valley—Death Valley—often identified in the Scriptures as a Pit or the Netherworld, was established as a complementary Spiritual Form (Psalms 23:4 and 28:1); these metaphysical structures depict two sets of multiverses and compose the Ultimate Reality.
While Mount Zion relates to Goodness, Death Valley pertains to Evil; together, they constitute the Complex Whole. Even so, each embodies the attributes of the other–a fractal feature. As determined from the combustion experiment, the Mountain is dominant over the Valley. And given the fractal properties of the Complex Whole, Mount Zion is, inherently, the Simple Whole Form; the Emblem of Ultimate Reality, and the exemplar of Occam’s razor; as evidenced by the pervasive reference to this Structure in the Scriptures.
Even so, the Complex Structure enabled a fuller discussion of the relative attributes of the Divine. It is useful for addressing some of the ambiguities in the Scriptures. For instance, the “Morning Star” is an appellation of the Exalted Christ (Rev. 22:16), yet it shares meaning with “Lucifer”, the Evil One, who is, nevertheless, the Prince of Darkness (Isa. 14:12; Lk. 10:18).
The dichotomy of the Ultimate Reality—the Good versus the Evil Spirit—is expressed by light in the Structures; however, it is realized differently in the Simple Whole as compared to the Complex Whole.
In the Simple Whole, the expression of schism—within the Ultimate Reality—is in the form of polarized light: with the “Morning Star” as Its positive component associated with Goodness, and “Lucifer” as Its negative counterpart connected with Evil. So, in this context, the “Morning Star” and “Lucifer” are, subtly, different in spite of their shared connotation.
But, in the Complex Whole, the difference is amplified to the unambiguous distinction between light and darkness, through the clear segregation of the qualities. And so, radiant atop Mount Zion is the Morning Star giving guidance to the faithful; while beneath Mount Zion, in the dark, lowest depths of Death Valley is Lucifer entrapping its victims. The former is the Cynosure of Divine Redemption, whereas the latter is a Pitfall for unwary pilgrims. In the Complex Whole, then, Mount Zion is that dominion of Ultimate Reality where Light reigns, and Death Valley is Its cosmic antipode, where Darkness rules: the Kingdom of the Exalted Christ versus that of Lucifer.
Theological and Philosophical Conundrums
By virtue of the Cryptogram, solutions are provided to these challenging theological and philosophical problems:
- If God is Wholly Good, Omnificent and Omnipotent, how is Evil to be accounted for?
- if God is, indeed, Three Persons in One, then how is humanity to conceive of It logically?
- God is generally acknowledged to be the Absolute Truth, but Absolute Truth as evident in nature, is characteristically binary: true and false, positive and negative, male and female, etc., How does this Dyadic attribute of Truth relate to God’s Tripartite and Unitary Nature?
- What is the prevailing system of Divine Justice–Determinism or Free Will? And what are its principles?
- Jesus testified that none is good but God alone, yet in another passage He said: “My Father and I are One.” Are these statements reconcilable? And how?
- What is one to make of Jesus’s statement that He came not to establish peace on Earth but division? Yet, according to the Scriptures, His Mission was to initiate God’s Kingdom on Earth, the Kingdom of Peace.
- Is grace exclusively a divine gift or a reward? if it is purely a gift, then why should one who is denied its benefits be judged unrighteous, if God is truly righteous?
- How is Paul’s teaching that one is saved by faith and not by the law to be reconciled with Jesus’s own teaching that He came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it?
- In the Scriptures, the term “Rock” is frequently used metaphorically for God. When Jesus renamed Simon as Peter, which means “rock,” was He implying or conferring divine attributes upon Peter? Should the subsequent statement Jesus made regarding Peter be taken literally? If not, what exactly was Jesus implying (Matt. 16:19)?
- From experience, “Uncertainty” pervades Nature. Thus, it is apt to speak in terms of the “probabilities” of events. How does this observation from Nature relate to the Divine? Is there an underlying Principle? What is it?
- According to the Scriptures: “God is Light”. But in Nature, light is known to be, at once, a wave and a particle. Is this physical feature also an attribute of God? If so, how does this attribute express itself in the spiritual domain?
These and other theological questions are definitively answered with scientific illustrations, using scriptural data