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Part 2: The Theme of 'Death and 'Imbalance':
The Dance of Death
5. The many references to 23.5º - too many to be a coincidence.
This information has surely been encoded and right under the noses of those in the Catholic Church who had commissioned the painting.
(You can click on painting to go back to normal view, or read on)
Note that only the limbs of the dead are angled at 23.5 degrees.
Again, my interpretation, based on a lot more evidence which I have found and yet to present, is that like the artist who painted this picture and who appears to have encoded this information, it was believed by the 'initiates' that the tilt of the earth isn't natural, nor is it an ideal situation.
Indeed it is a fact that the early Greek philosophers considered the tilt of the earth to be an unnatural and “irregular condition” and not something that had been set in motion since the beginning of creation.
As the example above shows, it appears that the people who have been placing these references to the angle of 23.5º in many different sources throughout history, are also telling us that the tilt is associated with 'death' - and perhaps because "they" believed that the tilt of the earth reflects an imbalance in the system and also within man's consciousness.
From my research into these references and the cross-referencing of significant data relating to them, I'm compelled to look into the possibility that long ago something dramatic happened to the earth which caused it to tilt from an upright position - almost causing the death of the human race and everything on the earth.
Man then fell into the cycles of time and the initiate knows that cycles mean 'entrapment' for the soul which is trying to escape these repeating cycles and patterns.
If the earth did not tilt from an upright position, then to explain these references, it appears that such a scenario was nevertheless believed by many to have happened, or perhaps the vertical position of the earth was, and possibly still is an 'ideal' that exists in the mind of man and largely based on 'upright' spiritual ideas and concepts that are shamanic in origin. I cannot stress this enough.
Note again the reference to 52º created by the posts of the canopy in which the Preacher is sitting - being the same angle as the inclined sides of the Great Pyramid.
I would like to thank Don Barone for bringing my attention to this painting.
Staying with the theme of 'Death' and 'Imbalance', here's another painting from the same period which even contains a set of 'balance scales' and of course the same angles . . .
. . . an almost encoded diagram of the earth and precession - if that's what it is.
On the left is another version of one of the details in the same painting.
Like the version above, we can see that this dead person is carrying a long object - perhaps a piece of masonry. In the painting above, this appears to be a wooden beam or coffin. The angle of this object in the painting above is not 23.5º. However in the version on the left, the long object that the dead person is carrying (as if it is his burden to do so), is now exactly 23.5º.
The limbs are 23.5º and also 52º - the same angle as the inclined sides of the Great Pyramid.
We also see the angle of 38º here, but again this is the inverted angle of 52º - i.e., 90 - 52 = 38. And there are more examples like this throughout the whole painting which was originally 30 metres long.
Could the angle of 52º have some other significance than bringing attention to the Great Pyramid via its sloping sides which are the same angle? After all, how could the Medieval artist have known this?
This is a question I have asked myself again and again, but as we will see there are other reasons to suggest that the Great Pyramid is what these angles are pointing at, and again, the 'initiates' who have been encoding this information for thousands of years could have been privy to knowledge and data that had been preserved and passed onto them and despite what had been rediscovered by ordinary learned men and scholars only a few hundred years ago.
6. Detail from Lubeck's The Dance of Death
7. Der Hemeliker Apenbaringe, The Four Apocalyptic Horsemen.
Cologne Bible. Printed by Bartholomäus von Uncle 1479.
8. The encoded 23.5 degree angles in the painting
The borders of the painting give the impression that the painting is not straight or square, but this is how it was painted.
As we can see, although we have here the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, there appears to be another meaning here associated with the tilt of the earth's axis and also precession. The handle of the metal-spiked-flail held by the demon (1) is 23.5º .
The balance scales (2) are tipped at 23.5º - knocked off balance by the head of the horse seated by the Grim Reaper.
This suggests that the earth is out of balance. We are being told that the tilt of 23.5º is associated with 'imbalance' and also discord, death, destruction and negative forces - hence the reason why 'Death' is being unleashed here - the Grim Reaper leading the demons and "dogs of hell" against the upright inhabitants of the earth. We also see the slain below being devoured and trampled on.
If we follow this second 23.5º line we find that it ends in the top right-hand corner of the painting (4).
The Ecliptic Plane or perhaps the Ecliptic Pole, which is set at zero and which the celestial pole of the earth would be aligned with if upright, is referenced by the straight arrow (3) about to be fired by the archer on the horse, who is defending the people.
We see Angels in the sky, who appear to be on the side of man. The angel on the right is about to place a laurel reef on the head of the archer who is shooting straight and true at zero.
What we see here is provided by the handle of the flail and the balance scales which are both set at 23.5º . The straight arrow completes the picture following through where both the 23.5º lines intersect.
Has this been deliberately encoded? Is it the result of some unconscious design or is it a coincidence? You decide.
