72 - In Gematria it bears the value of the truth. 72 – Average number of heart beats per minute. 72 – Percentage of water in the human body. 72 – Names of God in the Qabalah 72 – Degrees of Jacobs Ladder which took him to heaven 72 – The numerical system of the Druids 72 – Mass of the Moon relative to the Earth
72 – The number of spots on the Red Jaguar in the Pyramid of Kukulkan 72 – The dimensions of Teotihuacan are based on multiples of 72 72 – Stupas crown the seven layered temple of Borobudur 72 – The number of columns in the temples of Angkor, Arunachaleswar 72 – The number of columns in the central courtyard of Luxor 72 - The angle of the staircase to heaven in the Phnom Bakheng Temple
72 – Average lifespan ??
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
i dont know their significance, but its prolly called that way cause a pentagram consists of 5 A's..
i think the sumerians used it to describe astronomical knowledge of the 5 planets they found.. venus seems to take a special place, perhaps cause its its inferior conjunctions (the moment of passing between earth and the sun) form a pentagrammic precession sequence..
The following is quoted from the introduction to "The Bible's Inner Meaning: The Biblical Interpretations of Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn" by Clyde W. Burnham II. It should provide a brief background on the author of this following article. Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn was a prolific writer, and at the conclusion of this article you will find a fairly extensive index of the entire literary works of this influential thinker:
Born in 1880 on a farm in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Kuhn graduated from Princeton, he studied the Greek language, to which he later attributed great importance regarding his interests in theology. Kuhn's graduation address, "The Lyre of Orpheus", focused upon Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. This speech, he later felt, would prime his interest in the Orphic Mysteries.
For the next twenty-five years Dr. Kuhn was a high school teacher of foreign languages. In 1927 he enrolled at Columbia University where, in 1931, he received his Ph.D. His thesis, Theosophy: A Modern Revival of the Ancient Wisdom, was, according to Kuhn, the first instance in which an individual has been "permitted" by any modern American or European university to obtain his doctorate with a thesis on Theosophy.
His major work, The Lost Light (1940) - an exposition of the allegories, parables, and personages of biblical Christianity as having been extant in pre-Christian paganism under different forms and names--was deemed by the chair- man of the Philosophy Department of Ohio University to be the greatest of theological works to have occurred in the English language.
In September of 1963 Dr. Kuhn passed away in Morristown, New Jersey just after completing The Ultimate Canon of Knowledge.
