Festina lente: make haste slowly

My hunger to decipher messages intrinsic in the English language is driven by a mysterious force. An increase in physical hunger is driven by the hormone ghrelin. Leptin causes hunger suppression. My drive to understand the letters that make up words is less understood. Letters make up words that are symbols that can evoke positive and negative implications. Words feed my need to use imagination to interpret meanings of facts and myths that resonate on multiscale levels.

Let us ‘Festina lente’, which means to make haste slowly. To master something difficult, haste makes waste. The oxymoron was issued by the Emperors Augustus and Titus, the Medici’s and the Onslow’s. The Onslow’s, whose name means the enthusiast or the zealous one’s hill, were nobles taught by the ancilla, a female slave. I have assumed the role of a slave to my curiosity and am ready to climb a hill, also known as a Tor.

Truth depends on the power of recursions. Each storyteller delivers information to the audience so that they can make their choice based on associations.

TOR is a code for thermal optical reflectance, that translates data transmission over the wave. The Trusted Operating Root of The Onion Relay arranges layers of meaning follow a Term of Reference that requires use of Traditional Owned Resources. These facilitate finding a Time Out Room to refresh thoughts before preparing the Transcript of the Record that moves past political leaders through Tactile Object Recognition. A Tactical Operational Requirement must illustrate the method of tracing the map that can be followed by those who know contemplation, such as the Third Order Regulars, known as the St. Clares.

St. Clare, an Augustine nun, lived 1268-1308. Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 AD, was trained by a Persian sect of astronomers, the Manichees, whose belief was based on celestial concepts of light and dark in cosmology. Augustine's translation of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans merged Greek and Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. His logic implied that “because Adam sinned, and Adam is the origin of man, all humans carry the sin." Some scholars think that the idea of original sin was mistranslated so that anything physical was considered sinful. This leads to suffering and makes redemption an impossibility.

St Augustine said, “Sonus verororun nostrum aures percutit magister intus est… when a teacher speaks of divine then, as the sound of the words strike our ears it is no longer mere words but God himself who enters.”

St. Francis followed the principles of Augustine. St. Clare, the daughter of a Roman noble of Assisi, was a follower of St. Francis and started the order ‘The Poor Clares’ known as the Poor Ladies who followed the first laws of St. Francis: obedience, chastity and poverty.

The Clares, a female order akin to the Franciscan gentlemen of the road (who begged for food) had distributed food since the time of Emperor Constantine. They lived in Rome on rue Formosa whose name was changed by Pope Gregory XII to Panisperna, meaning bread and ham. Pope Gregory XII, in 1582 also implemented changes to the calendar previously changed by the Emperor Augustus, who reigned after Julius Caesar. Augustus’ erected a giant sundial known in Latin as Horologium Augusti in Rome.

The Gregorian calendar reforms accommodate the timing of solstices and equinoxes. It was implemented short years after Copernicus theorized the earth rotated around the sun. Copernicus lived in Rome. His work was ultimately banned.

St. Francis’s, a follower of Augustine, wrote Canticle of Brother Sun, “Laudato si’ mi’ Signore, Praise be to you, my Lord.” It honors the sun, moon, stars, wind, water, fire, and earth as well as all creatures, including humans, who are part of a unified creation of nature that connects to the divine.

Clare followed St. Francis. She challenged the invading army of Frederick ll by carrying a monstrance or pys that holds the sunburst images found on the Stele of the Chaldees who honored the Babylonian sun god Shamash.

The grail like chalice, that holds the consecrated host when displayed for veneration, also often contains the letters SFS.

Photo of a Monstrance in the Vatican Museum From the book "The New Illustrated Great Controversy"

According to some source, each letter is a symbol for the number 6.

The magic Sun square has every row, column, and diagonal sums to 111, equaling a total of 666.

When turned, it forms the solar cross or sun wheel that represents the four seasons, the equinoxes and solstices and the cycle of death and rebirth.

One story of how the numbers 666, became associated with the antichrist and evil, comes from St. Jerome or Girolamo, that comes from the name Hieronymi meaning, the holy name, often a doctor of the church. St. Jerome, a hermit, in seclusion from society, lived according to the rule of St. Augustine. In Jerome’s translations of the bible, Lucifer, the light bringer of enlightenment, became a fallen angel aligned with sin and the devil, a reptilian dragon, Lilith and Satan. This happened after Augustine opposed Bishop Lucifer, an emissary of the Pope, who argued on behalf of St. Athanasius —the bishop of Alexandria - that Jesus was not the divine son of God. Hence Lucifer arose.

By the mid 1600's a French theologian, Ludovico Sinistrari, associated the demon watchers with Venus, and the horned goddess and virgin mother cults of Astarte, Isis, Freya of the Norse, the Hindu Indrani, Celtic Danu, Io, Diana and others. The orbit of Venus was devilish to understand. Galileo had earlier shown that Venus circles the Sun, not the Earth and punished for such a statement. The Lucifer effect, represents how a thought, presented to society, is misinterpreted when applied to a context in which societal changes are open to imagination.

On August 10, the Clares celebrate the Feast of St. Lawrence, who oversaw church financial distribution to the poor and was martyred for his courage to place the needs of the poor above the rich. St. Lawrence followed the teachings of St. John, who holds a snake in the chalice, which legend says contained poisoned wine that John blessed and made the poison leave.

St. Lawrence, St. Francis, St. Clare

In Ancient Greece there were two contradictory classes of snakes, the beneficent and healing agathodaemon and the demonic, evil cacodaemon. The snake now waves beyond the easily seen physical examples. Cartier named the serpentine river, the St. Lawrence. The twisting serpent is seen in bacterial eukaryotic DNA that are embedded in mitochondrial DNA, and genes. The snake also enters into the quantum level of myths through the waves and particles in physics.

St. Augustine said, “it is better to persevere in love than being puffed up with knowledge.” The Panisperna boys, Ettore Majorana and Fermi worked in the physics institute neighboring the St. Clares. They described a parametrically excited Majorana particle, that is its own particle and antiparticle, and does not annihilate itself. The Marjorana is a quasiparticle that essentially "remembers" the former position, a property that could be used to encode data at the quantum level.

The full Sturgeon moon occurs on the 9th of August, in the constellation Aquarius. The two planets, Venus and Jupiter conjoin for a summer kiss, at just a degree apart to the east before sunrise on August 11 and 12.

The Perseid meteor showers, called the tears of St. Lawrence, that peak from August 11-13, will be less visible.

August 15 celebrates the feast of the assumption of Mary into heaven. Mary, the redesigned goddess Isis, is represented by Sirius. Sirius will be visible in the morning sky, marking the beginning of the "Dog Days" of summer. In ancient times, this event was associated with the annual flooding of the Nile at the hottest part of summer. The rising of Sirius is also associated with the peak of the Great Plague of London in 1665. The Black death, a bubonic plague caused by rodents carrying fleas carrying the bacterium Yersinia pestis was also identified in the mid1300’s and named the Great Mortality.

Venus, the star of Isis, will shine overhead, glowing brightly a the source of the light cone that forms a V rising diagonally marking the central band of the Milky Way Galaxy. The word gala came from the Greek word for the mother’s milk.

As you feel the warm glow of the sun high in the August sky consider translating August as ‘Au’, the symbol for gold and ‘gust’ a wind. During the day, the winds sing and the wheat dances in the fields, as the sunflowers bow to the sun. If you sit outside during the evening, perhaps you will see the tears of Saint Lawrence fall as the Perseids pass, and you will appreciate the treasure of thousands of years of multi-scaled wisdom that are reflected in myths and facts.