"Squares are to circles as Miss Sarai 18 when she did wed her Abram 20 on Procrustes' bed, and 19 parted between each head; so Sarah when 90 to Abraham when 100, and so 18 squared in 324, a square to circle 18 × 20 = 360, a square to circle 400, a square to circle 444, or half Jesous 888 in half the Yankee era 1776; which 888 is sustained by the early Fathers and Blondel on the Sibyls. It is a square to triangle Sherwood's no-variation circle 666 in the sequel. But 19 squared is 361 between 360 and 362, each of which multiply by the Sun's magic compass 36, Franklin's magic circle of circles 360 × 36 considered.
"Squares are to circles as 18 to 20, or 18 squared in 324 to 18 × 20 = 360. But more exactly as 17 to 19, or 324 to 362 × 36, or half 26064. As 9 to 10, so square 234000 to circle 26000.
POSITIVES. MEANS. NEGATIVES. 20736 23328 25920 20736 23400 26064 4)20736 23422 26108 ——— ——— ——— A.M. 5855 this year 1851. "Squares are to circles as 17 to 19, or 23360 to 26108. The sequel's 5832 and 5840 are quadrants of 23328 and 23360.
"18 cubed is 5832, the world's age in 1828, 5840 its age in the Halley comet year 1836, 5878 its age the next transit of Venus in 1874, but 5870 is its age in the prophet's year 1866.
POSITIVES. MEANS. NEGATIVES. { 5832
58405855
58555870
5878over X.
under X.} 1828 A.D. 1851 now! 1874 over X. 1836 A.D. 1851 now! 1866 under X. "100 times the Saros 18 = 18-1/2 = 19 in 1800 last year's 1850, 1900 for new moons.
"If 360 degrees, each 18, in Guy's 6480, evidently 360 × 18-1/2 in the adorable 6660, or ten no-variation circles, each 36 × 18-1/2 = 666, like ten Chaldee solar cycles, each 600 in our great theme, 6000, the second advent date of Messiah, as explained by Barnabas, Chap. xiii in the Apocryphal New Testament, 600 and 666 being square and circle, like 5994 and 6660. Therefore 5995 sum the Arabic 28, or Persic 32, or Turkish 33 letters.
"But as 9 to 10, so square 1665 of the Latin IVXLCDM = 1666 to circle last year's 1850—12 such signs are as much 19980 and 22200, whose quadrants are 4995 and 5550, as 12 signs, each the Halley comet year 1836, are 5508 Olympiads, the Greek Church claiming this era 5508 for Christ.
"But though the ecliptic angle has decreased only 40 × 40 in 1600 during 43 × 43 = 1849, say 1850 from the birth of Christ, and double that since the creation; yet 1600 and Yankee era 1776 being square and circle like 9 and 10—place 32 for a round of the seasons in a compass of 32 points, or shrine them in 32 chessmen, like 1600 and 1600 in each of 16 pieces; then shall 32 times Sherwood's no-variation circle 666, meaning 666 rounds of the seasons, each 32, be 12 signs, each 1776, or 24 degrees in the ecliptic angle, each Jesous 888, in circle 21312 to square 19200, or 12 signs each 1600, that the quadrants of square 19200 and circle 21312 may be the Cherubim of Glory 4800 and 5328; which explains ten Great Paschal cycles each 532, a square to circle 665 of the Beast's number 666. Because, like 3, 4, 5, in my Urim and Thummim's 12 jewels, are
TRIANGLES. SQUARES. CIRCLES. 3600 4800 6000 3990 5320 6650 "Because 3990 of the Latin Church's era 4000 for Christ, is doubled in the Julian period 7980.
"Every knight of the queen of night may know that each of 9 columns in the Moon's magic compass for 9 squared in 81, sums 369, and that 370 are between it and 371, while 19 times 18-1/2 approach 351, when 19 squared are 361 in
POSITIVES. MEANS. NEGATIVES. 350 360 370 351 361 371 369 370 371 "The Saros 18 times 369 in 6642 of the above 6650; but 18 × 370 = 6660, or 360 times 18-1/2.
"1800 and proemptosis 2400 are half this Seraphim 3600 and Cherubim 4800: but 7 × 7 × 49 × 49 = 2401 in 4802.
5328 5320 4802 4810 —— —— 10130 10130 "All that Homer's Iliad ever meant, was this: 10 years as degrees on Ahaz's dial between the positive 4790, mean 4800, negative 4810: If the Septuagints' 72 times 90 in 360 × 18 = 6480, equally 72 times 24 and 66 degrees in 12 cubed and 4752."
| POSITIVES. | MEANS. | NEGATIVES. | ||
| 20736 | 23328 | 25920 | ||
| 20736 | 23400 | 26064 | ||
| 4)20736 | 23422 | 26108 | ||
| ——— | ——— | ——— | ||
| A.M. 5855 | this year | 1851. | ||
| POSITIVES. | MEANS. | NEGATIVES. | |||||
| { | 5832 5840 | 5855 5855 | 5870 5878 | over X. under X. | } | ||
| 1828 | A.D. | 1851 | now! | 1874 | over X. | ||
| 1836 | A.D. | 1851 | now! | 1866 | under X. |
| TRIANGLES. | SQUARES. | CIRCLES. | ||
| 3600 | 4800 | 6000 | ||
| 3990 | 5320 | 6650 |
| POSITIVES. | MEANS. | NEGATIVES. | ||
| 350 | 360 | 370 | ||
| 351 | 361 | 371 | ||
| 369 | 370 | 371 |
| 5328 | 5320 | |
| 4802 | 4810 | |
| —— | —— | |
| 10130 | 10130 |
Now it is about enough to make one crazy to read this over; and yet it is impossible not to see, as it is impossible not to laugh at the transient glimpses of scattered knowledge which the singular ollapodrida contains.
"If you regard, Mr. Editor, the following," says a city friend, "as worthy a place in your 'Drawer,' you are perfectly welcome to it. It was an actual occurrence, and its authenticity is beyond a question:
"Many years ago, when sloops were substituted for steamboats on the Hudson River, a celebrated Divine was on his way to hold forth to the inhabitants of a certain village, not many miles from New York. One of his fellow-passengers who was an unsophisticated countryman, to make himself appear 'large' in the eyes of the passengers, entered into a conversation with the learned Doctor of Divinity. After several ordinary remarks, and introducing himself as one of the congregation, to whom he (the doctor) would expound the Word on the morrow, the following conversation took place: