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I came across this interesting article on Carroll and his connections to Guildford. He seemed to work his own experiences into Through the Looking Glass judging by the article: Lewis Carroll in Guildford
It appears that Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson became the model for the White Knight and his sons were the models for Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Moreover, Carroll seems to have become firm friends with Queen Victoria's youngest son Prince Leopold, which gave him an entree to royal circles. Hence, we seem to be looking at a man who rather than being just a humble Oxford don and clergyman moved in the most exalted circles of his time. As the article states:
It helps to see Dodgson in his Surrey setting. He was not, after all, simply an eccentric Oxford don with his head in the clouds. In real life, family responsibilities demanded that he set at least one foot on the solid ground of home-counties' England. In his writing, too, he not only played games with his child readers, but gave plenty of scope to scholars who see dark undertows of reality beneath his phantasmagoric narratives and weird characters. Of course, all the truly great classics of children's literature can be read on different levels. Yet there is another twist to Dodgson's tale. By mixing "stuff and nonsense" in such an unpredictable way, he inspired new generations of writers as well as readers, setting the scene for the stream-of-consciousness techniques, surrealism and absurdism of the next century. The history of the modern novel might have been very different without the input of his extraordinarily inventive mind.
The highlighted statement above reminds me somewhat of what the C's once said here:
Q: The other night you said something about what I had found as being one leg of the table. How many legs does the table have?
A: Search for answer. When found in literature, profound meanings enclose compartment.
Is this mention of tables and literature a possible reference to Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatters Tea-Party I wonder, which, of course, took place at a table? Quoting from Melanie Bayley's article Algebra in Wonderland, which I posted as an attachment to an earlier post, she had his to say about the Mad Tea-Party, with my comments inserted in red in parentheses:
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare champion the mathematics of William Rowan Hamilton, one of the great innovators in Victorian algebra [who invented 'quaternions' as used by James Clerk Maxwell in his original 24 equations for the laws of electromagnetism]. Hamilton decided that manipulations of numbers like adding and subtracting should be thought of as steps in what he called “pure time.” This was a Kantian notion that had more to do with sequence than with real time, and it seems to have captivated Dodgson. In the title of Chapter 7, “A Mad Tea-Party,” we should read tea-party as t-party, with “t” being the mathematical symbol for time.It appears that Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson became the model for the White Knight and his sons were the models for Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Moreover, Carroll seems to have become firm friends with Queen Victoria's youngest son Prince Leopold, which gave him an entree to royal circles. Hence, we seem to be looking at a man who rather than being just a humble Oxford don and clergyman moved in the most exalted circles of his time. As the article states:
It helps to see Dodgson in his Surrey setting. He was not, after all, simply an eccentric Oxford don with his head in the clouds. In real life, family responsibilities demanded that he set at least one foot on the solid ground of home-counties' England. In his writing, too, he not only played games with his child readers, but gave plenty of scope to scholars who see dark undertows of reality beneath his phantasmagoric narratives and weird characters. Of course, all the truly great classics of children's literature can be read on different levels. Yet there is another twist to Dodgson's tale. By mixing "stuff and nonsense" in such an unpredictable way, he inspired new generations of writers as well as readers, setting the scene for the stream-of-consciousness techniques, surrealism and absurdism of the next century. The history of the modern novel might have been very different without the input of his extraordinarily inventive mind.
The highlighted statement above reminds me somewhat of what the C's once said here:
Q: The other night you said something about what I had found as being one leg of the table. How many legs does the table have?
A: Search for answer. When found in literature, profound meanings enclose compartment.
Is this mention of tables and literature a possible reference to Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatters Tea-Party I wonder, which, of course, took place at a table? Quoting from Melanie Bayley's article Algebra in Wonderland, which I posted as an attachment to an earlier post, she had his to say about the Mad Tea-Party, with my comments inserted in red in parentheses:
Dodgson has the Hatter, the Hare and the Dormouse stuck going round and round the tea table to reflect the way in which Hamilton used what he called quaternions a number system based on four terms. In the 1860s, quaternions were hailed as the last great step in calculating motion. Even Dodgson may have considered them an ingenious tool for advanced mathematicians, though he would have thought them maddeningly confusing for the likes of Alice (and perhaps for many of his math students).
At the mad tea party, time is the absent fourth presence at the table. The Hatter tells Alice that he quarrelled with Time last March, and now “he won’t do a thing I ask.” So the Hatter, the Hare and the Dormouse (the third “term”) are forced to rotate forever in a plane around the tea table.
When Alice leaves the tea partiers, they are trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot so they can exist as an independent pair of numbers, complex, still mad, but at least free to leave the party.
This image of the Mad Hatter, the Hare and the Dormouse being forced to rotate forever in a plane around the tea table evokes the ancient symbolism of The Three Hares rotating around a common plane or axis (see below), which may represent our 3D reality. The symbol appears in sacred sites located in East Asia, the Middle East and Europe, including churches in Devon, England where it is called the 'Tinners' Rabbits. It has different meanings in different cultures. The symbol of the three hares has a threefold rotational symmetry. Each of the ears is shared by two hares, so that only three ears are shown.
Is is also reflected in the triskelion flag of the Isle of Man located just off the west coast of England:
However, the triskelion is in fact a very ancient symbol, which seems to have originated in the Neolithic age and can be found inscribed in stone at Neolithic sites all over Europe including Newgrange in Ireland:
Today it is often used as a neo-pagan symbol or as a representation of the Triple Goddess. However, my suspicion is that it is a symbol hiding a deeper scientific meaning that would have been known to the ancients but became blurred and distorted over time leading to it becoming a religious, occultic or spiritual symbol. Thus today it is often associated with concepts of movement, progress, and cycles. In some traditions, it represents the past, present, and future; in others, it symbolises life, death, and rebirth. The three spirals can also represent different trinities like mind, body, spirit or earth, water, sky.
The triskelion symbol was ubiquitous throughout Celtic society, appearing on many of their artifacts, such as on ceremonial gold cups, everyday pottery, clothing, coinage, weaponry, shields, religious items and carved into stone monuments (see below).
The word "Triskelion" itself is derived from the Greek words “tri” meaning three and “skelos” meaning leg or branch. The Triskelion symbolised the importance that the Celtic culture placed on the number three. Curiously, the great Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla was passionate about the significance of the number three and believed that it held the secret of all creation. For example, he would always walk around a building three timed before entering it. Then there is the C's with their Law of Three and what they once said to Laura about the numbers 1, 2 and 3 (the first three prime numbers), which echoes Tesla's conviction and brings us neatly back to wonderland again:
Q: (A) 1 2 3 are the first three prime numbers... Is is also reflected in the triskelion flag of the Isle of Man located just off the west coast of England:
However, the triskelion is in fact a very ancient symbol, which seems to have originated in the Neolithic age and can be found inscribed in stone at Neolithic sites all over Europe including Newgrange in Ireland:
Today it is often used as a neo-pagan symbol or as a representation of the Triple Goddess. However, my suspicion is that it is a symbol hiding a deeper scientific meaning that would have been known to the ancients but became blurred and distorted over time leading to it becoming a religious, occultic or spiritual symbol. Thus today it is often associated with concepts of movement, progress, and cycles. In some traditions, it represents the past, present, and future; in others, it symbolises life, death, and rebirth. The three spirals can also represent different trinities like mind, body, spirit or earth, water, sky.
The triskelion symbol was ubiquitous throughout Celtic society, appearing on many of their artifacts, such as on ceremonial gold cups, everyday pottery, clothing, coinage, weaponry, shields, religious items and carved into stone monuments (see below).
The word "Triskelion" itself is derived from the Greek words “tri” meaning three and “skelos” meaning leg or branch. The Triskelion symbolised the importance that the Celtic culture placed on the number three. Curiously, the great Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla was passionate about the significance of the number three and believed that it held the secret of all creation. For example, he would always walk around a building three timed before entering it. Then there is the C's with their Law of Three and what they once said to Laura about the numbers 1, 2 and 3 (the first three prime numbers), which echoes Tesla's conviction and brings us neatly back to wonderland again:
A: Yes, thank you Arkadiusz!!!! Laura is dancing around in wonderland, meanwhile all of creation, of existence, is contained in 1, 2, 3!!! Look for this when you are trying to find the keys to the hidden secrets of all existence... They dwell within. 11, 22, 33, 1/2, 1/3, 1, 2, 3, 121, 11, 111, 222, 333, and so on! Get it?!?!
Q: When you say that the secrets of all existence dwell within 1 2 3 or variations thereof, what kind of secrets are we talking about here?
A: All.
Q: Well, name two at the top of the list just so I know where we are going here?
A: You can do that!
Q: Are we talking about secrets of physics?
A: Yes.
And the Greek definition of "Triskelion" meaning three legs brings us back to the question the C's posed when they said:
Q: The other night you said something about what I had found as being one leg of the table. How many legs does the table have?
A: Search for answer. When found in literature, profound meanings enclose compartment.
If the compartment the C's are speaking of is the "three hares" or the triskelion as depicted in Carroll's Mad Hatter's Tea Party, then it suggests the answer to Laura's question is three legs.
For more see: Triskelion - Wikipedia
It is very likely that Lewis Carroll may have known of the true significance of the triskelion and employed it in Alice in Wonderland in allegorical form by having the Mad Hatter, the Hare and the Dormouse being forced to chase each other forever in a plane around the tea table. As a member of the Orphic Circle, which was led by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton who many consider to have been the leading English Rosicrucian of his day, it is likely that Carroll had access to a rich store of Rosicrucian esoteric information.
To reinforce the potential significance of the triskelion, it has also appeared in crop circles, which the C's said were the work of 6th Density:
Session 2 November 1994:For more see: Triskelion - Wikipedia
It is very likely that Lewis Carroll may have known of the true significance of the triskelion and employed it in Alice in Wonderland in allegorical form by having the Mad Hatter, the Hare and the Dormouse being forced to chase each other forever in a plane around the tea table. As a member of the Orphic Circle, which was led by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton who many consider to have been the leading English Rosicrucian of his day, it is likely that Carroll had access to a rich store of Rosicrucian esoteric information.
To reinforce the potential significance of the triskelion, it has also appeared in crop circles, which the C's said were the work of 6th Density:
Q: (L) Who or what group is responsible for crop circles?
A: Us. You bet.
Q: (L) What is the purpose of the crop circles?
A: Messages to world. All
Session 30 November 1996:
A: Was there, will be again. You wanna know all there is to know about time, quantum reality, etcetera? Then it is time for you, and especially Arkadiusz, to study all that you can about the "crop circles," and closely network with those studying them directly.
Q: (L) Why crop circles?
A: The answers to all the questions are, or will be there.
Q: (L) You said that crop circles represented thoughts from 6th density. What does this mean?
A: We are compiling an almanac as well as a manual for the entire Terran population there. The reason we are doing this, is that there are millions who want to know the answers on the eve of the Grand Cycle Transformation. However, there are precious few that have chosen to try this form of communication, thus opening up a conduit.
Q: (L) Well, how many people are going to be able to understand?
A: But it would not be in form with Prime Level 7 Directive to limit entirely the availability of supreme knowledge!!!
Q: (L) So you are trying to put the entire story out there for all the world to see?
A: Not "trying," we are, my dear.
Q: (L) Okay, crop circles are a language, so to speak. Are they in some way related to mathematics?
A: Mathematics is the one and only true universal language.
Finally, they once posed the question in the Session 14 December 1996::
A: Yes, now check out those crop circles photos... any prime number combos there?
[....]
Q: (T) OK now, and then, outside of that are smaller spheres, each one connected one to the next, in a line. We're looking at prime numbers here. What are we looking at? We've got a central one, six outer: large, six outside of that: smaller, six outside of that: tiny... Could, and I'm just thinking off the top of my head here, nothing cast in concrete, is this a representation of... a sphere, getting smaller and smaller... going that way. Or, coming in, this way. Or that way and this way. Like the infinity mirrors...
A: If you three-dimensionalize.
Q: (L) It would be circles, like balls, like spheres. (T) Ohhh, it's an axis, an x-y-z axis! A three-dimensional axis. Three-dimensionally, it would be like this [Holds up hand, forefinger pointed up, thumb pointed to himself, third finger at the horizontal] Larger, smaller, smaller... A three-dimensional axis. Are we going somewhere with this, or am I out in left field again?
A: Yes.
Q: (T) I'm going somewhere with this?
A: Yes.
Q: (T) Ahhhh, I now see this as a three-dimensional object as opposed to a flat circle.
A: Do that to the others too.
Well, the triskelion crop circle shown above with its three intertwined legs arguably represents the first three prime numbers, which are 1, 2 and 3. So what would happen if we three-dimensionalise the triskelion crop circle (which you will note also contains the ying-yang symbol within each leg representing balance) as the C's suggest?
The C's also once said to Laura: "A: Ever feel as if you are dancing around in circles?"
When Laura followed up on their comment in the session that occurred a week later, the C's said:
Q: In response to your remark from last week, 'ever feel that you are dancing around in circles?' Mike wanted to know if this was a reference to crop circles?
A: No, not directly!
Perhaps their reference above to Laura "dancing around in circles" could have been be an indirect reference to the Mad Hatter, the Hare and the Dormouse dancing around the table in circles and the triskelion crop circle, which reflects the image of the three hares.
One could even say that Carroll himself metaphorically danced around in circles bearing in mind that Emma Hardinge Britten, the esoteric Alice and trance medium of the Orphic Circle, who Madam Blavatsky (who established the Theosophist movement) once described as the most gifted psychic or medium she had ever encountered, was a professional actress and dancer.
Anyway, I am happy for the scientists among you to comment on the triskelion and the mad Hatter's Tea-Party and what you think the imagery may be conveying from a scientific point of view.
One could even say that Carroll himself metaphorically danced around in circles bearing in mind that Emma Hardinge Britten, the esoteric Alice and trance medium of the Orphic Circle, who Madam Blavatsky (who established the Theosophist movement) once described as the most gifted psychic or medium she had ever encountered, was a professional actress and dancer.
Anyway, I am happy for the scientists among you to comment on the triskelion and the mad Hatter's Tea-Party and what you think the imagery may be conveying from a scientific point of view.
