Alpha and Omega, and the 144 or gross

 So, I was heading back down the track of my Fall 2019 words, and have been pulled back toward Orion again.  In this post we will still incorporate some words, but they will be from the Fall of 2022, instead.

Recently, William Tychonievich noted that I had written my post on Orion the same day that a magazine wrote an article involving Orion.  The magazine has an article for each day, with this article assigned to May 6 and 7.  Those dates, interestingly as well, are Monday and Tuesday... Moon-day and Twos-day or Tuis-day.

I had published my post on May 5, but at 11:03am, meaning that in Taiwan time it was 12:03am on May 6, so things ended up lining up to the day.  Lucky I didn't hit publish 4 minutes earlier...

William noted this, and would later write a seemingly unrelated post about Hesiod and Revelation.  He started reading Revelation on the same day that he noted the Orion sync (May 14).  This stood out to me because Revelation is the only book in the Bible where we get the name or title Alpha and Omega and in my post on Orion which William linked to, I suggested that Orion is the Being associated with Alpha and Omega:

What I will now suggest, and perhaps explore in a later post as part of my thoughts around Orion and the Being he represents, is that the name that this sign represents is likely THE NAME.   The name of redemption, specifically the redemption of the Eldar, who woke up seeing the promise of that sign in the sky.  It is both their beginning and it signified "the end", in that Menelmacar-Orion was a sign of the Final Battle at the end of days, and the ultimate victory of the Family of Light.

Alpha and Omega.  Beginning and End.

As a quick additional comment, William also followed up with the interesting insight that Hesiod, which he had also started reading, has to do with the Beginning, and Revelation deals with the End.  So this all seems to line up well thus far.

As a reminder, I have assumed that the character of Orion or Menelmakar is Eonwe-Faramir, who was also known as Urion, which is obviously very similar to Orion.

In Revelation, it is assumed that the Being speaking to John and referring to themselves as Alpha and Omega is Jesus.  I am going to go a little blasphemous here and suggest that this is not so, but at least my view will be consistent with what I have written earlier and with my guess as to the identity of Orion.

Rather than being Jesus (and again, this is the Bible, so I am not sure even how much of Revelation is trustworthy or worthwhile, if anything, but doesn't mean we can't use it), I think this is the Holy Ghost, speaking for and as Jesus.  In an earlier post on the Holy Ghost, I suggested that this Being will literally be sent in the name of Jesus, speaking and acting as if he were him.  I view the discourse in Revelation as an example of this.

Trying to demonstrate that, though, isn't the purpose of this post - I just think that is how it is, and it makes sense to me.

What I did want to mention, however, is the concept of the "144" and how this ties into Orion-Faramir and the End, as I am thinking through it.

I believe I've mentioned before that The Lord of the Rings actually starts with symbolism regarding the number 144.  At Bilbo' birthday/ farewell party (held on September 22), while the entire town was invited to the overall celebration, there was an invitation-only dinner party for 144 individuals comprising Bilbo and Frodo's extended family.  The party within the party.

Incidentally, this number, 144, would be the combined ages on that day of Bilbo and Frodo (Frodo had the same birthday).  Bilbo was 111 and Frodo 33, adding up to 144.

Bilbo referenced this in his speech, and referred to the combined group as a 'gross', which some attendees took as disrespectful, thinking that the only reason they had been invited was to fill up that number, "like goods in a package".

144 is also mentioned in Revelation, but with 1,000 after it.  The 144,000 Beings who will be 'sealed' from all the tribes of Israel, and then are listed as 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes.  My intent is not to necessarily adhere to whatever that is, but to merely mention this concept of 144 and Israel.  It is important for our story, I think.

In earlier posts, I've brought the Cuivienen, of the Awakening of the Elves.  There were 144 of them, ultimately divided into 3 main groups of families.  They would be ultimately invited back to Aman, where of those 144 who began the journey, roughly 2/3 accept the invitation (1/3 would not even start on the journey).  On the way, some of the shese would drop off, so that by then end fewer Elves actually reached Aman than those who did not.

Throughout this, the 144 remained as a symbolic number to represent the Eldar in total, as even by the time they were invited back, there were more Elves than that.  Numbers and divisions of 144 were meant to represent proportions of the total number, and not actual headcount, as far as I understand.

Now, recall that that the beginning, when these 144 Elves first woke up, it was Menelmacar or Orion that they first saw in the sky, among all of the stars and constellations that Varda set.  In this way, he was the "beginning" for them, and their fate and redemption from the very outset seems to be tied to that Being.

The number 144 would also show up in my words in October of 2022, along with a mention of Orion, I believe, by another name that we have covered on this blog.

Recall that there were a few other sporadic words from earlier in August, including my dream of the Honeycomb and the Sawtooth Stone.  It was quiet, or at least I don't have any notes I see, until October 10, which is strangely my wife's birthday, as I think about it right now.  Here is what I have from that morning:

October 10

Jan eh [Jah ni?] sola gross determino ascertain to come back 

Stone - there is so much hurray about Jesus Christ

Pas gar 96

Alight, so acknowledging I am not entirely sure what this means, lets dive in and connect this back to a few things.

I wrote Jan eh, sounding out what was spoken.  Afterward, I wondered if that actual word was Jah ni.  I think this is the case (though could be wrong), and if so, then we have a name that has been covered here before.

Jah-ni hah is a name found in Joseph Smith's Alphabet and Grammar of the Egyptian Language, and which in prior posts I have identified as the Holy Ghost-Faramir-Eonwe.  This also means we are referring to Orion, then, if my guess is correct.  Joseph Smith gives the following various translations for this Being (or title that a Being can hold):

One delegated from the highest source acting in or being clothed with the power of another; one sent from the Celestial Kingdom; one that with delegated and redeeming power, and second in authority; being a swift messenger going before, and having redeeming power, as second in authority: and stands next to or on the right hand of power

Again, this is consistent with the role of the Holy Ghost, to be sent in and act under the name of Jesus, and the servant that Jesus mentions to those at Bountiful in the Book of Mormon.

This is also consistent, then, with the rest of the words that follow from October 10.  

Sola gross determino I would translate as "only 144 to define/ mark/ conclude" (sola and determino seem to be Latin-based, and we have already covered gross above).  This would give us, then, 

Jah-ni hah only 144 to define/mark/conclude ascertain to come back

Does the "only" mean just 144, or does it mean only Jah-ni?  Probably both.  There are 144 to mark, and it is Jah-ni's responsibility alone to do so, perhaps.

Again, by Jah-ni, we are referring to Orion for our purposes (just as a reminder for how this ties in).

And 'ascertain' means to make certain - so perhaps it is his role to ensure they come back?  This would seem to coincide with Jesus' statements that Israel will be saved, and he will not lose any of his sheep.

The next line is interesting, and I am not sure if this just refers to the Sawtooth Stone or the Ithil Stone (the Stone Eowyn would have used to aggregate and compile currently 11 different accounts of Jesus).  But if I had to choose between the two, I think it must be Eowyn's stone, and she is referring to what she has already been able to compile, even without the addition of the Sawtooth Stone.  In other words, the Story she has pulled together is a good one, and it has a lot of 'hurray' about Jesus.

By the way, we will get back to some specific references where it appears that Eowyn is recounting her experiences in compiling this record when we return to the Fall 2019 stories.

This may, then, also give us a clue as to who is speaking, but it is hard to know.  If it is the Ithil Stone, and a reference to what is on it, then it could stand to reason that this is Eowyn speaking.  My current guess, but just a guess.

I think we have Elvish with the last phrase, pas gar 96.  I actually didn't even realize or notice that 96 was 2/3 of 144 until maybe a couple months ago.  I had been wondering what this number was.  I think, however, it refers to the proportion of the 144, so 2/3 would be 96.  In Tolkien's actual account, the number that began the journey to Aman was 88, so slightly less than 96.  How to explain the discrepancy?  I am not sure.  Maybe it was actually 96 instead?  Maybe just intended to refer to the 2/3 proportion?

In any case, pas gar can mean something like "Juice to hold" or "Juice place".  Pas seems to mean Juice, very clearly, but gar could be a couple things.  Either could work, and it seems to suggest that 96 (of the 144?) will hold Juice or be in a Juice place, which I am guessing would be Aman.  Maybe this is an initial number of the 144 - at first, the original Beings on the Great Journey return, and then other ways are found for the remaining 1/3?  I don't know.  However it works out, having the Juice as being something that Beings are brought back to, and as potentially a place where it is, seems to support my change to where Juice or any drinks being administered are not in our world, but in Aman - the Juice Place.

I am up for other guesses on the 96, but that is the best I have so far.

Anyway, stepping back this entire story in some way also helps explain the Alpha and Omega reference to Orion.  He was there at the very beginning (his sign), and will lead them at the very end.  Further "determino", as it turns out, in Latin is quite literally to set bounds, or to limit (de-terminus).  Or, in other words, to set a Beginning and an End, which is setting bounds and limits.  Alpha and Omega.  So, Orion will be involved in all of this.

I am not sure where else I want to go here.  It can seem pretty strange, but could also make sense and is consistent with other things I have been thinking through.  We'll see where it goes.