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250 whose sides are 471, the diameter of a circle 1,480 in circumference. The number 1,885 is also the sum of the diagonals of a square whose sides are 666. According to Vitruvius, Hellen and Orseis reigned over Achaia, 613, and Peloponnesos, 913, both names yielding mystical numbers already discussed. The name Hellen and that of his wife Orseis, are numerically equal to 711, or 2 more than the side of a square whose diagonals measure 2,004; while 588 + 1,174 = 1,762, or the circumference of a circle 532 in diameter. Now the length of a vesica 532 broad is 921, the value of the name Κανών (Canon).

The invention of the Ionic column is ascribed by Vitruvius to the Asiatic colony of 13 cities, founded by Ion, 860, the son of Xouthos, 709, and Chreousa, 796. When the Ionians were about to build a temple to Artemis and "seeking a new proportion, they used the female figure as the standard." Modern philologists have frequently derived the word Ionic from the Oriental Yoni, whose symbol is the vesica. The Ionic was the most ancient form of Greek philosophy, and was introduced by Thales, celebrated for his observations of the Lesser Bear, Κυνόσουρα, 1,311. By Gematria, Cynosoura is equivalent to Tetragammaton, and she is the feminine of the two. A rhombus—the Ionic symbol—which is 1,311 long, is 756 broad, and this is the height of a cross whose extreme measure is 1,080, the number of miles in the moon's radius, and the numerical value of τὸ Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον, the Holy Ghost of the Christians. By adding colel to 248, the value of the name of the first Ionic philosopher, we get 249, and 294$1/7$ × 9$1/4$ = 2,368. Again the sum of the numbers of the