222. We have to go to The White Goddess in order to search for answers. "In the context of Moses's blessing, Joseph 'with the horns of a rem' would naturally have been depicted in the two persons of his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, jointly called 'Joseph', as twin rems with only one horn apiece." (p. 256 → 4 * 64) RAM means Random Access Memory whereas ROM means Read Only Memory. In our modern world every effort is devoted to divide knowledge and to hide true meaning, in the name of efficiency. Anciently it was the opposite - each word was chosen with the utmost care in order to load it with plenty of meanings accessible to all. ... 'Most ingenious Thoth', said the god and king Thamus, 'one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.' Now that Plato's apprehensions have become fact, there is nothing left of the ancient knowledge except the relics, fragments and allusions that have survived the steep attrition of the ages ... REM means Rapid Eye Movement, and the word rem ought to allude to the Ram, where it could be disputed whether the First Point of Aries was a single horn or a pair. Al Sheratain (*27, 107) means a pair, is dual. And in contrast to the seasons of the solstices when the Sun showed very few if any signs of movement the equinoxes were the opposite.
It was Moses who taught that the Golden Era of the Bull now was in the past, and in order to prove it he had a pair of stone tablets, each carrying 5 rules, as if the year from now on should be regarded as a balanced pair (misseri).
As a further clue we should remember the longevity of Joseph: ... About Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus Periergetis that she gave orcales to Hercules and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a canonical number, the ideal age which every Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which, for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110 years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan lustra of five years each; and 110 years composed the 'cycle' taken over from the Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games. The secret sense of 22 - sacred numbers were never chosen haphazardly - is that it is the measure of the circumference of the circle when the diameter is 7. This proportion, now known as pi, is no longer a religious secret; and is used today only as a rule-of-thumb formula, the real mathematical value of pi being a decimal figure which nobody has yet been able work out because it goes on without ever ending, as 22 / 7 does, in a neat recurring sequence [3.142857142857 ...]. Seven lustra add up to thirty-five years, and thirty-five at Rome was the age at which a man was held to reach his prime and might be elected Consul ... 5 * 220 / 22 * 5 = 10.
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