Spoke 19
Psalms, Mark, II John
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Psalm 19
Many people ask about my research methods. The integration of the Number 19 with the Bible Wheel and
World History offers an apt example of the process.
For many years I have been writing articles on the relation between the Number 19 and
Physical Manifestation such as Grace Manifest Holograph (cf.
Apemen and Evolution for more details).
All I did then was hold the idea of Quph in my mind while scanning timelines of
the major Nineteenth
Century events, discoveries, and social movements. The results were immediate and obvious, as anyone
can see by looking at the documentation below.
It is an eternal cycle in which matter moves, a cycle that certainly only
completes its orbit in periods of time for which our terrestrial year is no
adequate measure, a cycle in which the time of highest development, the time of
organic life and still more that of the life of beings conscious of nature and
of themselves, is just as narrowly restricted as the space in which life and
self-consciousness come into operation; a cycle in which every finite mode of
existence of matter, whether it be sun or nebular vapour, single animal or genus
of animals, chemical combination or dissociation, is equally transient, and
wherein nothing is eternal but eternally changing, eternally moving matter and
the laws according to which it moves and changes. But however often, and however
relentlessly, this cycle is completed in time and space, however many millions
of suns and earths may arise and pass away, however long it may last before the
conditions for organic life develop, however innumerable the organic beings that
have to arise and to pass away before animals with a brain capable of thought
are developed from their midst, and for a short span of time find conditions
suitable for life, only to be exterminated later without mercy, we have the
certainty that matter remains eternally the same in all its transformations,
that none of its attributes can ever be lost, and therefore, also, that with the
same iron necessity that it will exterminate on the earth its highest creation,
the thinking mind, it must somewhere else and at another time again produce it.
Dialectics of Nature  . Frederick Engels [1883]
Dialectical Materialism is the theoretical foundation of the Materialist Conception of History
promulgated by Marx and Engels. This theory holds that Matter is supreme, as seen in the
quote above. Note also the profound integration with the Theory of Evolution
which is seen as an inevitable consequence of the eternal cycles of matter. This corheres
precisely with the ancient Rabbinical undestanding of the Letter Quph, which they derived directly
from Scripture, as we shall now see.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words
to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man
to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto
the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Psalm 19
This passage is discussed in context in the introductory article to Spoke 19, which I have had published for
over two years. This is why the discovery of the integration of History with the Bible Wheel is such an
overwhelming wonder - the articles I have had written for years were just sitting there waiting to be linked
to the major events of World History! This is the grandest confirmation that any theory could have.
The word translated as "circuit" is  (Tekuphah, S# H8622 is closely related to the name of the Nineteenth letter (the three central letters of Teckuphah spell
Quph). Rabbi Munk gives us the report on how the Sages traditionally understand this letter
[emphasis added, and notes in square brackets]:
The most obvous manifestation of God's majesty is expressed in nature and its cycles. Therefore
the Sages relate the name Quph to haqaph, to go around,
and haqaphah, cycle.
The cycles of nature - the changing seasons, the monthly renewal of the
moon, the twenty-eight year solar cycle - all teach man that there is a pattern and purpose to
the Universe.
Could the contrast between theistic and atheistic presuppositions be any clearer? The very facts
Munk sees as evidence of God are claimed by Engel as proof of his non-existence!
It is important to review the quotes of both Engel and Rabbi Munk to really grasp how Engel's words
reflect a negative image of the meaning of the Number 19 as revealed in Scripture.
The formulation of the biological theory of evolution by means of natural
selection by Charles DARWIN virtually eliminated teleological explanations of biological
phenomena and thereby buttressed material and physical interpretations of organic development.
With the advances in chemistry achieved by Lavoisier (1743-94) in France and
John Dalton (1766-1844) in England, the reductive analysis of natural phenomena
to chemical substances, elements and processes bolstered the empirical, naturalistic and
materialistic interpretations of phenomena. During the nineteenth century
many philosophical thinkers sought to build theories on the foundation of scientific facts,
principles or laws. The historical materialism developed by Marx and Engels sought to
formulate laws of social, economic and historical development, but did not
defend metaphysical materialism (see DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM). The general appeal of
materialism in the nineteenth century is shown by the popularity of the
1855 work by Ludwig BÜCHNER, Kraft und Stoff (Force and Matter), which passed
through sixteen editions. Although philosophically crude, it is an accessible compendium
of popular materialism. In 1852, Jacob Moleschott had defended the
reduction of force to matter, the doctrine of the conservation of matter, and a
species of objective relativism in Der Kreislauf des Lebens (The Cycle of Life).
Following the ill-chosen analogy between the brain and thought and the digestive system
in Jean Cabanis' Rapports due physique et du moral de I'homme (Relations of the
Physical and the Mental in Man) (1802), Karl Vogt proclaimed that the brain 'secretes' thought the
way the liver secretes bile. Despite such excursions into, 'vulgar materialism', the
nineteenth century became a period of intense debate for scientists and philosophers
alike in regard to the limits of scientific knowledge and the, epistemological problems of
metaphysical materialism. This was fuelled by a Neo-Kantian movement which Particularly
in Geschichte des Materialismus (History of Materialism) (1865) by F.A. LANGE,
held that materialism is a useful methodological principle in science, but questionable as
a reductionist metaphysics. The concepts and postulates of science
are theoretical entities or conventional notions formed by the mind. Their usefulness
does not, according to Lange, warrant their role as bases for materialism.
George J. Stack
The above is quoted from Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig. 1998
Routledge, New York.
British art historian Kenneth Clark coined the term Heroic Materialism to describe
the engineering of the middle 19th century. Those Victorian engineers were melodramatic artists
in iron. And Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the grandest artist of them all.
John H. Kienhard
The theme of materialism in the Nineteenth Century appears also in
unparalleled feats of engineering in iron and other technologies, such as the laying of the Atlantic
Cable.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world.
Psalm 19
The word translated as "line" in this verse is the fundamental Quph KeyWord  (Qav, S# H6957) which appears in the Psalms only in Psalm 19. The stretching of this
line "through all the earth" and its association with the "their words" going out
"to the end of the world" sounds very much like the laying of the Atlantic Telegraphic Cable. The first
message was sent on August 5, 1858 contained these words:
Europe and America are united by telegraphic communication. Glory to God in the
highest, on earth, peace, good will towards men.
This returns us to the first verse of Psalm 19: GLORY TO GOD!
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