Poet Dante: following the numbers and meaning of the Phaistos Disk to compose the Divine Comedy
Western scholars deny that there is any evidence of Buddhist meditation practices in Europe. The master key with coded numbers – illustrated as images – with which objects and scripts can be analysed, the Phaistos Disk, was wrongly classified to the Bronze Age, the “Cretan hieroglyphs” on the disk can still not be translated convincingly. With an understanding of the images as ideograms objects made during 1,800 years in Europe can still be analysed.
The most spectacular guide anybody could have wished for to expose the meaning of the numbered codes appeared in the 14th century”: poet Dante Alighieri from Florence in Italy. Dante meticulously followed the system of numbers and its meaning as illustrated on the Phaistos Disk to write the Divine Comedy, which was basically a Commentary on 1,800 years of Buddhist meditation as practiced in Europe.
Dante Alighieri left Florence, he started writing the Divine Comedy in Rome in AD1308 under protection of the Roman Catholic Pope Boniface VIII and completed the text in Northern Italy in AD1320, his patron Cangrande I della Scala, ruler of Verona.
The horse as symbol for an ascetic life was replaced by warhorses for aristocrats
Still considered to be a “world masterpiece of literature” Dante meticulously followed the system of numbers as illustrated on the Phaistos Disk to compose his text. Divided into three sections to replace Three Trainings (ethics, concentration, wisdom) Dante’s choices represented condemnation of non-believers to Hell (“comb” 34 Cantos), followers could have their sins forgiven in Purgatory (tree of life 33 Cantos) and Paradise represented eternal life for those who believed (tree of life 33 Cantos).
The Divine Comedy: was composed as a Commentary to replace the meditation system, each Canto following the exact order and meaning as illustrated on the Phaistos Disk
In every Canto Dante followed the original numbers and meaning to describe the goals of the new faith, Christianity, that gradually replaced the original meditation system that was practiced since the 6th century BC, a period of 1,800 years. A notable detail is that Dante met his original teacher Brunetto Latini from the Fesole outside Florence in Hell Canto 15, the number 15 represents the teacher on the Phaistos Disk, an indication that the meditation system was still known and taught in Florence at the time.
Gundestrup Cauldron: the teacher Phaistos DIsk symbol no. 15
In Hell Canto 20, number that represents the meditation system, Virgil discusses northern regions in Italy including the area where the Lunigianesi sculptures were found and Val Camonica. Virgil asks a question, evidence that Dante knew the meditation system well:
“…Art thou, too, of the other fools?”
– Dante, Divine Comedy, Longwood, Hell Canto 20, line 27
Following the same methods to organise information as illustrated on the Phaistos Disk and later applied on Rune stones, Dante divided the Cantos of his text into circles with groups and terraces – each section representing a special symbolic meaning.
One of the most important passages that reveals the forgotten system of numbers in Europe is Paradise Canto 19 where the ideograms of Ogham and Runes are described indirectly:
And to declare how pitiful he is
Shall be his record in contracted letters
Which shall make note of much in little space.“ [135]
— Dante, Divine Comedy, Paradise Canto 19 Lines 127-135 translation Longfellow
The “contracted letters” in Paradise Canto 19 and 20 described by birds in the sky are clarified by Phaistos Disk numbers: a meditation formula that describes liberation from rebirth
Example: in Canto 19, 20 and 21 Purgatory, located in the 7th Level (Seven Stages of Purification) and 5th Terrace (5 clinging aggregates) of Purgatory (Three Trainings: Concentration) poets Virgil and Dante respectively see a flying figure in the sky (number 19 M named horse), they hear an earthquake (number 20 bird) and then meet poet Statius who was just released from his sins in Canto 21 (number 21 liberation: “to cross the ocean of samsara”).
Geometrician who “squares the circle”: meaning of the number 13
Dante Divine Comedy geometrician “who squares the circle” compared to Phaistos Disk number 13
Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in the shadow of the Pantheon in Rome which was designed with the use of the “Mystic numbers of Pythagoras”, illustrated as images following a numerical order on the Phaistos Disk. The Pantheon was consecrated as a church in AD609.
Dante’s last 13 lines of the Divine Comedy reveals the meaning and impact that the numbers related to the meditation system had on Rome, the centre of culture in Europe. The floor patterns of the Pantheon with large circles inside squares represented meditation techniques:
“the geometrician who endeavours to square the circle … by taking thought”.
“ Wherefore my sight was all absorbed therein.
As the geometrician, who endeavours
To square the circle, and discovers not,
By taking thought, the principle he wants,
Even such was I at that new apparition;
I wished to see how the image to the circle
Conformed itself, and how it there finds place;
But my own wings were not enough for this,
Had it not been that then my mind there smote
A flash of lightning, wherein came its wish.
Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy:
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.”
— Paradiso Canto 33 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The number 13 illustrated on the Phaistos Disk: to cut the rebirth link
Dependent Origination illustrated moving from the 6th (6 senses) to the 7th circle (Seven Stages of Purification) of Hell, Canto 12 (Dependent Origination: Causes and Effects)
Number 30 : 30 Circles
Divine Comedy parallel systems compared
The numbers: a list of Ogham & Rune symbols with short definitions to summarise the meaning
Dante map of Hell 10 circles with equivalent Phaistos Disk symbols (Cetani 1855)
Dante map of Purgatory 10 circles with equivalent Phaistos Disk symbols
Dante map of Heaven 10 circles with equivalent Phaistos Disk symbols (Cetani 1855)
In Rome where Dante started writing the Divine Comedy under protection of Roman Catholic Pope Roman Catholic Pope Boniface VIII the original meditation system was illustrated in the Pantheon (AD125), a major source of information: a 3D meditation diagram of “an eye to see the truth of existence”.
Pantheon: Eye of the mind, Maeshowe and the “E” at Delphi
A simple question turned into a series of discoveries: with basic knowledge of the meditation system taught by the Buddha in his lifetime there is overwhelming evidence that meditation was practiced in Europe for up to 1,700 years. The most impressive evidence is how the light beam inside the Maeshowe tomb was first “studied by a grammarian from Tarsus” and then applied by emperor Hadrian in the Pantheon of Rome: a 3-D meditation diagram: an “eye of the mind”. His collaborator, Plutarch (Neoplatonic priest in Delphi), wrote an essay that describes in exact chronological detail a definition for each of the rune symbols of Scandinavia, the definitions are recognisable despite the corruption of the text: “On the ‘E’ at Delphi”. By implication the information reveals knowledge of early European history thought to be lost: “mystic numbers of Pythagoras” and the unwritten doctrines of Plato. After Delphi was destroyed the golden collars of Sweden and massive silver chains in Scotland were made as a celebration 1,000 after the lifetime of the Buddha by communities who protected the meditation practices, they continued to use the definitions of Plutarch. Again, 1,500 years after the Buddha, impressive rune stones were made in Sweden with evidence that they were familiar with formal Buddhist teachings in India. The video is a visual introduction of illustrated text that describes the history in detail: “Golden Collars of Sweden and the ‘E’ at Delphi”.