Comment Eighteen

From Barbelith

18. Real time ceased in 70 C.E. with the fall of the temple at Jerusalem. It began again in 1974 C.E. The intervening period was a perfect spurious interpolation aping the creation of the Mind. "The Empire never ended," but in 1974 a cypher was sent out as a signal that the Age of Iron was over; the cypherconsisted of two words: KING FELIX, which refers to the Happy (or Rightful) King.

(King Felix) Just made a quick google to find out if anything happened 1974:

"On November 16, 1974 a digitally encoded schematic (below) was beamed from the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico after decision from SETI to celebrate the telescope upgrade. 20 terawatt transmission at 2380MHz, was aimed at the globular star cluster M13, some 25,000 light-years away, in the constellation of Hercules, near the edge of our galaxy. The message consisted of 1679 pulses in binary code, which, as a product of two prime numbers 23 and 72, makes the massage easy to display as a matrix 23 cells wide and 72 cells high in which each cell is either full or empty, thus forming a singular image."

At least it seems we sent out a cypher that year.

(iivix) March 1974 is the time of PKD's VALIS pink light ephinany. And let's not forget the fall of Nixon's "imperial presidency" in 1974. See also Comment Sixteen

(Nietzsch E. Coyote) I am struck now by how similar this is to the movie Pi. Especially the scene when the Hassidic jews describe the destruction of the temple and the significance of the number Max decoded.

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