In the first decade of the 20th century G.I.
Gurdjieff went on a mystical journey where he met with a number of remarkable men.
At Mount Athos in Greece he was supposedly entrusted with the key to decoding ancient
Egyptian knowledge preserved by the Sufi Sarmoung Brotherhood.
The key he received is the enneagram and the means to decipher it.
"The enneagram is the fundamental hieroglyph of a universal language.
All knowledge can be included in the enneagram and with the help of the enneagram it can
be interpreted."
-G.I.
Gurdjieff Gurdjieff's philosophy was popularized by
his pupil Ouspensky and through him the enneagram found its way into modern psychology.
The Enneagram of Personality is a typology described by Riso and Hudson that's used in
business, psychotherapy, arts, education, and for spiritual development.
The Bahai faith correspondingly uses a nine pointed star as its symbol.
Bahai scripture specifies that every House of Worship must feature a nine sided great
room.
There is even a Christian connection.
In the ninth book of the New Testament St. Paul's wrote:
"The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control [9 items].
Against such things there is no law."
Galatians 5:22-23 Here's the traditional depiction of the Fruits
of the Holy Spirit shown with first letters in Latin.
It's another 9 pointed star.
With these things in mind, let's explore the sacred geometry of San Francisco.
Believe it or not, San Francisco is steeped in Egyptian symbolism.
The original Michael H. De Young museum that was built in 1894 had an Egyptian theme, complete
with an under-pyramid entrance that anticipated the recent addition to the Louvre.
The museum was unfortunately destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and the De Young museum
is presently in its third incarnation.
However, the two sphinxes that flanked the original museum's entrance are still there.
The Transamerica Pyramid is a landmark worldwide and is the most famous building in The City.
But the Transamerica pyramid neither houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation,
nor is it really a pyramid.
Does it remind you of an obelisk?
It's clearly not a true obelisk because it's not carved out of a single piece of granite
and the elevator core protrudes out of the sides of the structure, but we can see beyond
this modern necessity to perceive its symbolism.
The height of the 1972 structure is commonly cited as 853' but this figure doesn't include
the glass pyramidion cap and its mast.
Adding the additional 11 feet brings the total up to 864 feet, making this the tallest obelisk
in the world, far exceeding the Washington monument's 555'.
And 864 is a very interesting number indeed.
As you learned at Stonehenge, the sun's diameter happens to be 864,000 miles (99.9% accuracy).
In addition there are exactly 86,400 seconds in a day (24h x 60m x 60s).
By making the Transamerica Pyramid 864 feet high, the architect was clearly making it
a solar symbol.
The glass pyramidion cap contains a brilliant light that shines forth on July 4th.
In addition to it being US independence day, July 4th is also aphelion, the day the Earth
is the farthest from the Sun in its yearly cycle.
The Transamerica Pyramid occupies a privileged site in the streets of San Francisco.
It marks the endpoint of Columbus avenue which cuts across the street grid at a 40 degree
angle.
It's funny but I recognized the significance of this 40 degree angle immediately because
I had just been hired by an architect to make a 3d model of his nine-sided atrium.
This incredible synchronicity is what allowed me to make the next discovery.
When I overlaid a nine sided figure on the streets of SF, here is what I found.
The Transamerica Pyramid fits at this vertex, Columbus avenue runs along this edge, the
grid of streets matches this edge's 40 degree turn, and most significantly it appears that
Treasure Island was designed to fit this figure.
Treasure island was completed in 1937 in time for the Golden Gate International Exposition.
The US Navy controversially seized Treasure Island from the City of San Francisco during
WW2.
The Navy built the unusual star shaped barracks in the approximate location of the tower that
had been torn down after the Expo in '37.
The barracks also happen to be exactly at the midpoint of this edge of the diagram.
While I'm not certain what the Barracks symbolize, their shape and position does seem significant.
Masonic author Albert Churchward says the hieroglyph of the risen sun god Horus looks
like this.
Also six triangles in hieroglyphics means "land of the spirits".
In any case, the Navy base was recently decommissioned and Treasure Island is now open to the public.
I went there to find the barracks abandoned but the strange symbolism remains at least
for a little while longer.
There is currently a plan in the works to build a large mixed-use development on Treasure
Island.
The plan scheduled to be completed in 2022 calls for a 650 foot tall Sun Tower to be
constructed where the star shaped barracks are today.
Coincidentally, the single bus line that serves Treasure Island is Route 108.
Again in the Stonehenge segment you learned why 108 symbolises the Moon.
So in a few years you'll be able to ride the Moon bus to the Sun tower.
In the Great Pyramid segment we studied the Ennead, or pantheon of the 9 ancient Egyptian
gods worshipped at Heliopolis, the city of the Sun.
When we layer the Ennead over the 9 sided figure we see the correlation between the
solar Transamerica Pyramid and the phallic obelisk of Osiris.
When I turned on the terrain layer in Google Earth, telegraph hill poked up through the
ennead layer so I started researching Coit tower.
It was designed by Arthur Brown Jr. in 1933 after Brown designed 3 buildings in the Federal
triangle, which you'll remember figured prominently in the secret architecture of Washington DC.
The octagonal top of Coit Tower fits within the octagram star which you saw in Washington
DC Part 2 is a classic solar symbol.
Do you think this is coincidental?
There were 4 pairs of male and female gods in the oldest Egyptian creation myth which
predated the Ennead.
The Ogdoad as the 8 gods were known, was venerated in Hermopolis, the city of Hermes.
Hermes was his Greek name, Mercury was his Roman one, while both names echo Thoth, source
of the Egyptian wisdom.
All of these names supposedly reference the same immortal figure who dispensed wisdom
to humanity at different points in history.
The subtle arcs along the sides of the structure suggest the interlocking circles of the vesica
pisces which represents the female genitals.
Perhaps not surprisingly, and just like the Washington Monument, Coit tower symbolizes
the act of Coitus, or sacred union of Isis and Osiris.
Hancock and Bauval have well documented in their book Talisman how Thoth's knowledge
base was passed down through the Gnostics, Manichees, Bogomils, and Cathars; all were
ruthlessly wiped out by the Catholic church.
Any remaining followers were then completely annihilated by the Inquisition.
Thankfully the Popes weren't entirely successful in instituting a permanent dark age because
a century after the Inquisition, Cosimo de Medici recovered the Corpus Hermetica which
was written in the first century in Alexandria.
This older stream of Hermetic knowledge that escaped the burning of the Library of Alexandria
actually fueled the Italian renaissance and then went underground in secret societies
that persist to this day.
The Golden Gate is neither golden nor is it literally a gate; instead it's the red bridge
built the same year as Treasure Island.
Known throughout the world as an engineering marvel and symbol of San Francisco, it's also
represents the fulfillment of manifest destiny, the 19th century belief in the inexorable
expansion of the United States from sea to shining sea.
Here's a 19th century painting depicting the goddess Columbia leading settlers westward
in an allegorical representation of manifest destiny.
The golden gate is actually a concept from - you guessed it - ancient Egypt.
Are you seeing the pattern here?
They believed the golden gate was the threshold souls must pass after death on their way to
the Duat.
You might be interested they also spoke of a silver gate, guarded by Isis the great mother
of the Sun.
Souls passing through the silver gate on their journey from the divine source are incarnated
upon the earth.
I think Treasure Island represents the silver gate guarded by Isis.
Its 7 sides certainly have her number.
Perhaps the gift of incarnation itself is the treasure.
The soul journeys westward like the American settler and passes over Alcatraz, one of the
world's most famous prisons.
This fits with the Cathar belief that the body is the prison of the soul.
All the while angels - this is Angel Island - fly above in a higher dimension.
Angel Island is a State Park and has incomparable views of the Bay.
The adjacent peninsula is the town of Belvedere, one of the highest income places in the United
States.
There may be a few angel investors in Belvedere who take in the incredible scenery and its
symbolism.
After doing time upon the earth, the soul passes through the golden gate to meet its
destiny in the Duat.
Now we're way out there.
Let's fly back to Giza and get back down to Earth.