Thomas Chandler Haliburton, T.T. symbolism, Bacon links, a first look

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I'm going to do a quick presentation of only one aspect of Haliburton's work (said to be his favorite), "The Old Judge, or life in a colony". This is a work written immediately after TCH visited England after his wife's death and when resided with his relatives, the Burtons, in London. His is known to have stayed with his cousin Jesse Burton who, at the time, had a precocious child, who was already Bacon interested. She would later become Constance Mary Fearon Pott, founder of the Francis Bacon Society and author of many speculative works known to us.

This Bacon work is generally panned by critics as being dreadfully disjointed and apparently going nowhere fast. The genre is in fact in the Biblical style of following a character along and presenting events with which we can draw some moral conclusion from. The work seems to never have been understood well for the allegory which it presents. If it has, I have never seen a description of that. Instead, more have commented on it in a very shallow, matter-of-fact, way as if we are only treated with the overt accounts which deal with colonial governance (boring !). Of note to some is that he work contains what is believed to be the earliest written reference to mystery in Chester Bay, NS. It is therefore a work associated with the Oak Island legends. However, it is not ever mentioned for that, because it suggests that the treasure there isn't what people think it is. As fuel for searchers of material wealth it is generally forgotten.

This is a work of high allegory, and it is because of it that we can understand why Haliburton valued it so much. A lot of work went into it.

Anyway, I just want to show the table of contents (of all things) to show how clever Haliburton was in even the putting together of the work. Here goes. You'll immediately see we are dealing with a very specific take on life in the colony. The colony is, figuratively, us on this planet, but it is also referring to colonial times. The Judge is on one hand a fictional judge who is modeled after a real one in NS, and of course THE judge from above.

We're not long into the 40 business with the second chapter question and answer game. The alternate title here is one I have researched quite a bit. It seems to be about the time Saint Anthony secluded himself in the desert to atone for his wicked ways. Anthony you will recognize as a reference to Francis' brother. Anthony was a bad boy too, and Francis was quite worried that he may not have died having repented.

The chapter titles continue on to suggest various aspects relating to the story at Oak Island and to a story which speaks to the T.T. mystery we have seen in Shakespeare and other places. There are Pythagorean references in here and there is a significant numerology based gamesmanship going on. The chapters which will relate to the TT mystery are 1, 4 and 9. These are the squares of 1,2 and 3. Chapter 4 is the T.T. mystery given in a real narrative. It is placed on page 100 and it is 20 pages in length. It concerns promised reunions in heaven.

The OI fans will want to read the 9th Chapter called the Hecke Thaler. This is where you will encounter the suggestion of that truest of all pointers and other things relating to the mystery which is said to originate in Germany.

At this time I want to stop and look at the interesting numbering scheme used. At first glance there is only a hint that we are treated with anything special. Next to the pages I wrote the chapter lengths. From that we start to see music happening. 13,33,53,20,42,34,9,25,24,27. 13 is for the 13 intervals which give us music, the zodiac and the 12+1 suggestion with the apostles and their boss. 33 we know as Bacon. 53 is that Pythagorean angle in the corner of the 3:4:5 triangle. 20 is twenty and T T, 42 is forty-two (a way used by Carroll to refer to a puzzling mystery, and 3x14, but most pertinently the number of assessors of the dead, or judges, in the Egyptian cosmology), 34 is the magic constant of the 4x4 square, 9 is the square of 3, the cube of three, 27 of ashlar side length fame, is given also. 25 and 24 (sum is square of 7?) have no immediate purpose until we treat the interval length between these chapter lengths. Those give 20,20,33,22,12,25,16,1,3. Careful initial number selection by TCH has reproduced the 20 and 33. If you add these numbers in pairs you get 40,55,37,20 (there's a nice Tetrad bookended by TT and TTTT). Furthering the exercise of finding the spacing between the previous series yields 0,13,11,10,13,9,15,2. We do it again and we get 13,2,1,3,4,6,13. We arrive to a bookended pair of 13s in a 7 number sequence that sums to 42.  That 42 is displaying a 7x6 suggestion where finally work down the monad number (6) which evokes the hexagon shape as the carrier of the symbolism in 42.

42 is often most associated with Lewis Carrol. It's used to effect in the "Hunting of he Snark" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". There have been scholarly attempts to tie this to the the number of Lutheran objections and such (many things relating to Protestantism). 42, because of its mystique was later incorporated in the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy as the solution to everything. Well, it stems to this link to the retelling of this mystery, IMO.

Carrol picked 42 up and popularized its mystery. Haliburton may have got the inspiration from his cousin in London with whom he toured quite a bit. This fellow was none other than the main archaeologist who had discovered parts of the Temple of Karnak in Egypt. This discovery had led to a new understanding of the lineage of pharaohs and to a new understanding of the judgment of the soul in Egyptian religion. Out of it seems to have come the use of 42 for a symbol of the judgment.  I've not encountered an earlier reference to this. I've liked forty-two as a way to involve 40 and the story of the two Tees, but with "The Old Judge" we have a new context.

It's hard to know exactly what TCH gleaned from his cousins, but the first work he published after is a story which has links to Bacon and to Constance Pott. Lewis Carroll was a fan of TCH whose work "The Clockmaker" was a big influence on many English writers  who dabbled later in the ridiculous bordering on the insane.

Edited January 19 by RoyalCraftiness

[Light-of-Truth]

Here is a copy:

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Old-Judge-Life-Colony-Two-Volumes/31272520713/bd

I am not having luck finding an online version so far. So spoiled!

Fascinating, intriguing in Deed. Maybe Bacon lived in NS after he "left" England. A. Phoenix suggests with evidence that it is possible Bacon did not die in 1626.

https://www.academia.edu/attachments/69180480/download_file?s=portfolio

Video: Did Francis Bacon die in 1626 or Feign his Death with the help of his Rosicrucian Brotherhood?

Nova Scotia, bet its pretty up there. Lobster and cod. Is the climate similar to England?

If Bacon were there, what did he do?

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia

The first Europeans to settle the area were the French, who arrived in 1604, and Catholic Mi'kmaq and Acadians formed the majority of the population of the colony for the next 150 years. In 1605, French colonists established the first permanent European settlement in the future Canada (and the first north of Florida) at Port Royal, founding what would become known as Acadia.^[22][23]

EDIT2:

If I were Bacon hiding out in Mahone Bay, you would find me here. Look at he food in the photos!

https://goo.gl/maps/bSQ4ZMQk9fLQqrY18

 

Edited January 19 by Light-of-Truth

[RoyalCraftiness]

1 hour ago, Light-of-Truth said:

Here is a copy:

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Old-Judge-Life-Colony-Two-Volumes/31272520713/bd

I am not having luck finding an online version so far. So spoiled!

Fascinating, intriguing in Deed. Maybe Bacon lived in NS after he "left" England. A. Phoenix suggests with evidence that it is possible Bacon did not die in 1626.

https://www.academia.edu/attachments/69180480/download_file?s=portfolio

Video: Did Francis Bacon die in 1626 or Feign his Death with the help of his Rosicrucian Brotherhood?

Nova Scotia, bet its pretty up there. Lobster and cod. Is the climate similar to England?

If Bacon were there, what did he do?

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia

The first Europeans to settle the area were the French, who arrived in 1604, and Catholic Mi'kmaq and Acadians formed the majority of the population of the colony for the next 150 years. In 1605, French colonists established the first permanent European settlement in the future Canada (and the first north of Florida) at Port Royal, founding what would become known as Acadia.^[22][23]

EDIT2:

If I were Bacon hiding out in Mahone Bay, you would find me here. Look at he food in the photos!

https://goo.gl/maps/bSQ4ZMQk9fLQqrY18

 

It's available to read here: The old judge, or, Life in a colony : Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Volume II is there also. That one refers allegorically to going to Hell. At the end of vol. 1 you are presented with purgatory. Then you cross over...

This is no way suggests anything like Bacon goint to NS. His consideration of the Bay there would have been by virtue of it being on that line from Heliopolis through to the NA continent and it's latitude (identical to the Bologna one). There's almost no doubt that anyone who was keen on the Atlantean legends would not look up, for fun, what presented itself as in line with the Egyptian Delta and the Pillars. The suggestion, in my opinion, is that Freemasons brought some idea about the specilness of the place with them to that island we know when it was surveyed in 1762. A legend of something strange geometric goings on in Chester Bay is said to have circulated among the German population there, and yes there were many more Germans in NS than English in 1760.

It's not just Dee who liked to dabble in geo-metry (geometry applied to the globe). I've shown you how using 44.4 N and 66.6W is enticing, but let's now consider this.

This rather large spherical triangle comes out of the use of another Great Circle.  This one is from the Mahone Bay ground point going through to Jerusalem. Any two points can be used to suggest a Great Circle around the globe. The line you see looks straight, because I have turned the globe tilted in such a way that is presented as that. It's actually a curve like the other two sides of the triangle  are. The longitude difference between the two points is essentially 100 degrees. 99.9 and change. If you break that down from Paris, the MB point is 66.6 W and the Jerusalem one is 33.4.  67(Francis) + 33(BAcon) =100=C=Cygnus. On two completely different levels the MB ground point is juicy to Bacon. The other if you remember was 44.4 N and 66.6W from Paris summing to 111 and being in perfect harmonic 3:2 proportion. 

Was the location ever marked off? We don't know that. Did Bacon ever go to NS? Extremely doubtful and not worth suggesting without evidence to the contrary. Did he have to in order contribute any knowledge of this symbolic point? No, not really. Was he aware of this Ground Point? I would argue yes, based on what stars and alignments I have seen him refer to in his illustrations.

The heading for the Great Circle from MB to Jerusalem is 30.1 degrees N of E, so nearly matching the inclination of the Northern Cross asterism. Too juicy to not like it. It's all stuff anyone could have laid some geometry down to celebrate Bacon with.

 

Edited January 20 by RoyalCraftiness

[Light-of-Truth]

50 minutes ago, RoyalCraftiness said:

If you break that down from Paris, the MB point is 66.6 W and the Jerusalem one is 33.4.  67(Francis) + 33(BAcon) =100=C=Cygnus.

I am sure you explained this before.

I use this Lat/Lon tool for my computer work on Google maps (there is a low daily use limit), but the numbers are slightly off from yours.

https://www.latlong.net/

I believe it is the Paris "shift", or whatever it is. As I'd like to compare with other places, is there a formula I could use to convert?

[RoyalCraftiness]

47 minutes ago, Light-of-Truth said:

I am sure you explained this before.

I use this Lat/Lon tool for my computer work on Google maps (there is a low daily use limit), but the numbers are slightly off from yours.

https://www.latlong.net/

I believe it is the Paris "shift", or whatever it is. As I'd like to compare with other places, is there a formula I could use to convert?

Use the longitude of Paris from Greenwich. 2.349. Add it to the OI-Greenwich long, and substract it from the Jerusalem-Greenwich one.  Roughly 67 and 33.