Zero is the beginning and end of all mathematics!

Submitted by Salah Ali (Norway), Sep 30, 2009 at 06:51

There is for example number 7, 12 and 19. I think the Traditional world is based on these three digits. In Islam they occupy both esoteric and hermaueutic functions. For example the days of the week are seven, planets are seven. The horoscope are 12, the months of the year are 12. 19 are the number of the phonemes constituting the Arabic Bimsmiallah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem. The number of angels in charge of torture in Hell are 19. 19 is the number of months in Baha'i religion.

I also like these three numbers. When I went through Shulgi crypt, the number of steps was 7. And 7 is very important to the Assyrians and Babylonian. I would have said number 3 is also important, but since it indicates trinity, I suspect its significance. Also it makes 13 with 10 which is quite unlucky number. kit Williams used numbers in his Find the Hare paintings. I was myself looking for that hare near Wudro Castle. I was about to unearth it but I mistook the spot near Queen Anne's cross. It was so fantastic to stay the night near the Palladian Bridge in Bath. Three horses used to gallop towards me and I had a strong feeling they were reincarnated lords who fought in the war of roses and who came to learn something of their future circle of incarnation. I was perching above the parlour of nothingness where I was flying for ten years until I became from nothingness in nothingness of nothingness.Then I perched me above the parlour of missingness and was lost and vanished in the missingness of missingness of the nothingness of nothingness of all missing.

Then I arrived at the parlour of the unity of God in the absence of beings from the creator and the absence of the creator from beings. I was the whole seven. And then I gathered all worships from beginnig to end put them in a pillow and placed them under my cheek and slept...But as I approached the Unity of God, i became a bird whose body is of uniquenessness and wings are of eternity...Flying still in the air of how-ness-ness for 20 years, then to an air similar to that for thousand times, and went on flying until I approached the parlour of absolute timelessness where I glanced and saw the tree of unity then I realized that all in all was a trick...If you read in Arabic texts of the mystics..You will solve the problems of knowledge of the Universe, being, etc. And the science you term mathmatics is nothing but the multiplication of zero...Not Zoro because Zoro uses hijab and covers his eyes. I wonder why the cows for example keep chewing in confidence. They came from dust like Adam. you came from dust like Adam..Then both of you: You and the Cow die and when you die you go to dust... Then isn't that like ZERO? I should suppose then that all mathmatics is not possible without the Arabic zero and since zero is nothingness, then the whole business of God is nothing. I wish you now decline of calling your superiors stupid. Everybody can insult at a distance... when the outcome is a little more than Zeeeeeero...

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