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As we discovered each new part of the jigsaw, it was becoming increasingly obvious that a picture was forming which would be totally unpalatable to any number of ‘authorities’, and on many occasions we doubted the wisdom of publishing our findings. Having already alienated the chauvinistic Christian diehards in Genisis, we were now about to disclose that, far from being the ‘holy place’ that some would have wished it to be, Rennes-le- Chateau was actually an institution of advanced intellect. Furthermore, with the structure of the mystery unquestionably proven to be one of mathematical discipline, we were effectively creating redundancy for those who had banked upon it remaining mysterious enough to provide them with income for years to come. Being blissfully unaware that mathematics was anti-Christian, we persisted with the geometric analysis, only to be labelled by some as being "in league with the Devil", or "Satanists”. Intrigued by these accusations, we referred to that reliable tome, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, only to find that "Satan" was nei- ther catalogued nor cross-referenced. Under "Devil", however, we were more fortunate and found copious notes equating these two personae, together with various theological arguments as to their identities. However, the entry concludes with the profound statements: "Interesting as these speculations are, it may be confidently confirmed that belief in Satan is not now generally regarded as an essential article of the Christian faith, nor is it found to be an indispensable element of Christian experience. On the one hand, science has so explained many of the processes of outer nature and of the inner life of man as to leave no room for Satanic agency." wl 7 1081 are which can be made with the geometry, one must exercise cau- tion in their interpretation. As we have always said, the geometry of Rennes-le-Chateau is provable and undeniable, whereas its interpretation might always be arguable. Initially, we were severely criticised for identifying Set as a celestial body capable of devastating the Earth. Nevertheless, in the intervening years between the publication of Genisis and Geneset, a number of astronomers have reached the same conclu- sion. Careful examination and comparison of the legends which speak of destruction from the skies, as well as the geological and palaeontological evidence, have confirmed our worst fears: that planet Earth is far from being the safe haven which the past few hundred uneventful years have led us to believe. The current description of the comet being a "dirty snowball" is considerably more comforting than the legendary descriptions of a "malevolent Ice God" or “fiery red serpent"—descriptions which are certainly far more accurate. We should not overlook that, in more recent times, H. S. Bellamy saw the Book of Revelations in the Bible as an account of catastrophic damage to the Earth by a celestial agency, and I. Donnelly's Ragnarok, The Age of Fire and Gravel was dismissed as fanciful, if not heretical. This leads us to another well-informed gentleman who, for fear of ridicule or even persecution, decided to record his opinions in coded form. ye -- moro -o-- JULES VERNE AND NICOLAS POUSSIN essential article of the Christian faith, nor is it t found to be an It was the relationship between the "Arcadia" inscription and _ indispensable element of Christian experience. On the one hand, Set which finally convinced us of the identity of another custodian science has so explained many of the processes of outer nature of the secret who lived in comparatively recent times: the famous and of the inner life of man as to leave no room for Satanic French author, Jules Verne. One of his Voyage Extraordinaire agency." stories was "La Chasse au Météore” ("The Search for the (Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 7, 1961) Meteor"). The story is saturated with cryptograms and innuendo which leave us in no doubt that Verne was closely associated with We may also do well to remember that many of our most emi- the enigma of Rennes-le-Chateau. Others had suspected this was _ nent theoretical physicists do not consider there is any room for so, but we had the advantage of knowing the manner in which Set _ the Christian God in their scenarios. had been woven into the Arcadia coding of Poussin's painting Returning to the geometric ground figure, and armed with the and, furthermore, of his legendary identification with global cata- trigonometric and doctrinal weaponry we had gathered, we found strophe. In view of this, we were able to understand the strange that veil after veil was being lifted to reveal the mathematical marriage and divorce which occurred between two of the charac- magnificence of its construction. Even in isolation, any one of the ters in the story: Seth Stanfort and Arcadia Walker. component figures was enough to convince the most hardened Bearing in mind that by Verne's time Christianity had decided _sceptic of the ingenuity of the designers, but for the figures to be to equate Set with Satan, the reader will probably immediately be integrated with the harmony and atcuracy that the computer was partially aware of the message which Jules Verne was attempting displaying was nothing short of awesome! This was indeed the to convey. A full explanation of this intriguing code, and a great _—_—- work of the gods, and we had no alternative other than to publish deal more, is to be found in Geneset. what we had found, regardless of our rapidly diminishing poten- 4 tial readership. The workload of preparing the findings for publication effectively halted further research, but when Geneset went to press we were once more free to pursue the refine- ments of the mathematics, It was at this stage that we found a minor miscalculation in the frame size of Poussin’s painting, Les Bergers d'Arcadie. As insignificant as it was, it had neverthe- less obscured the mathematical brilliance inherent in its construction. The height and width were originally thought to be 34.285 inches and 47.19 inches respectively, but we ‘ - eventually found that they should have been The arched — of Nut, the Sky Goddess, separated from Geb, the Earth God 34.23803459 and 47.1246118. Although the he P. or "Great Cackler™ wish M ) variation was immeasurable by normal (From the Papyrus of Tameniu, British Museum, means, with that minor difference we had 40 © NEXUS (Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 7, 1961) OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1996