The folly of Interpreters has been to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

Isaac Newton: Observations Upon The Apocalypse Of St. John


God comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.

Christian proverb

Prologue

Two years before the most momentous day in recent history there was a rare total eclipse of the sun, seen over parts of the USA and Europe. In the UK, where I live, the total eclipse corona was first visible in Cornwall on the 11th of August 1999 at 11:11AM BST. In other times solar eclipses were thought to be harbingers of destruction, but nowadays we see no meaning at all in the passing of the moon in front of the sun. Perhaps the ancients were wiser than are we.

The internet is awash with conspiracy theories about the identities and motives of the real perpetrators of 9/11. While I have no doubt that the official story of what happened on that day is possibly far from the truth and that there may well have been a conspiracy of some kind, the identities of the earthly perpetrators are of no consequence. They played their parts in the 9/11 drama, but the director was offstage and well beyond any human manipulation.

I have my own small part to play here, a part which began on that very morning. I woke up to hear an inner voice speak the words “Serpent power”. I had an idea of what they might mean and I knew from recent experience that something important was happening, so I wrote the words down and went off to work. Serpent power is also called Kundalini energy. According to Hindu mythology, Kundalini is the serpent goddess, who is supposed to lie coiled at the base of the spine. This energy gives us strength and creative power. Serpent power is also the power of anger and conflict: men in battle are supposed to be harnessing Kundalini energy. According to practitioners of yoga, under certain conditions this energy can rise up through the ‘chakras’ and give rise to a ‘Kundalini awakening’, a dramatic and potentially dangerous moment of enlightenment.

I left work early in the afternoon and drove home, unaware of the apocalyptic events unfolding across the atlantic ocean. Around 3.00PM my wife telephoned me to say that something extraordinary had happened and that I should put the television on. I immediately did just that. I sat there, hardly moving, for eight hours, watching with horror, fascination and an odd sense of unreality as the serpent struck the USA, causing the deaths of three thousand people, the destruction of the twin symbols of global capitalism and the ‘Kundalini awakening’ of our sleeping world.

As I absorbed all the news reports and interviews, my sense of the unreality of it all was compounded by something else. I couldn’t help noticing a growing string of numerical coincidences involving the number 11. For instance, the date was the 11th, the twin towers resembled the number 11, the first airplane to strike was flight 11 and there were 110 storeys in each building. In the weeks, months and years that followed, I found and was given many more of them. These included facts that seemed to indicate that the site was historically linked with eleven. For instance, Manhattan Island, on which the twin towers stood, was discovered on September the 11th.

Could this string of elevens be accounted for simply by chance? Certainly some of them could. Furthermore, the date of the attack, the target and other elements could have been deliberate decisions on the part of, or opportunities taken by, the perpetrators to assign it a significance. But others, such as historical events relating to the date, were more difficult to explain away. I sensed from the start that a more likely explanation for the unusual frequency with which the number eleven appeared in the facts and figures surrounding 9/11 was a phenomenon first described by the great psychologist Carl Jung: synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence. It shone out like a beacon, signalling for those of us with ‘ears to hear’ that 9/11 had a significance that went far beyond that of other events in history.

For a brief introduction to gematria (necessary for a full appreciation of the following information) please click here.



The 9/11 Targets

From any picture of the Pentagon and the twin towers, it can easily be seen that they visually depict two numbers: 5 and 11.

In fact the buildings could be said to be pictograms for these two numbers. This relationship is even more profound than may at first be supposed. These targets were watermarked with the numbers 5 and 11.

The Pentagon and 5

1. The Pentagon building, seen from above, is a perfect pentagon, a regular five-sided figure.
2. As can be seen from the picture, the Pentagon building is made of five concentric pentagons.
3. The Pentagon has five floors.
4. The ordinal value of the words ‘the Pentagon’ is the cube of 5:

The Pentagon (o) = 125 = 5 x 5 x 5

5. The ordinal value of the word ‘Pentagon’ is a pentagonal (five-sided) number:

Pentagon (o) = 92, the 8th pentagonal number.


The Twin Towers and 11

The clustering of elevens around the events of 9/11 is well known. Here are ten of the huge number of 11-related coincidences involving the twin towers and 9/11.

1. The date of the event was the 11th.
2. The twin towers resembled the number 11.
3. The first plane to strike was flight 11.
4. There were 110 storeys in each building.
5. Both buildings collapsed to the 11th storey.
6. The towers burned for 99 days. 99 = 9 x 11.
7. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
8. New York was the 11th state to join the federal union.
9. Manhattan Island, on which the twin towers stood, was discovered on September the 11th.
10. The 9/11 Commission hearings closed on 17/6/04, 1010 days after 911.

The number eleven is deeply woven into the gematria surrounding 9/11, suggesting that even the English language has been employed to bring the message of 9/11. Here are some of the connections I found:

Osama bin Laden (o) = 110
Osama bin Muhammad bin Laden (o) = 209 = 11 x 19
New York (o) = 111
Nine one one (o) = 110
Nine hundred and eleven (o) = 198 = 11 x 18
September the eleventh two thousand and one (o) = 440 = 11 x 40

There are many, many more such signs, involving the numbers of passengers on the flights themselves and other peripheral 9/11 events, recorded on several 9/11 websites (for instance, see september11news.com). These show beyond any reasonable doubt that the events of September the 11th, 2001 were the focus for an immense clustering of meaningful numbers. Even more impressive, however, is the voluminous evidence that the synchronicities surrounding 9/11 extend well beyond the confines of the event itself.


Other Contemporary Signs

Several books and films that were released in or around 2001 show signs of having been mysteriously influenced by 9/11, even though they were all created or at least begun, well before that day. Notable in this regard are Oceans Eleven (2001); Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001), in which Harry was taken to Hogwarts on his 11th birthday; The Two Towers (2002), the second in the Lord of The Rings trilogy; The Matrix (1999), in which Neo is first seen opening the door to his appartment, numbered 101. The number 101 may have been a reference to George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, in which London is dominated by four monolithic government buildings, the most sinister of which contains the infamous room with that number.

Other well-known and fairly recent films may also contain prophetic information. In Alfred Hitchcock’s masterly film The Birds (1963), the birds begin attacking en masse on the eleventh birthday of Mitch Brenner’s sister. The Exorcist (1973) is set in Washington DC and involved a girl who was eleven years old when the malevolent spirit entered her home (this raises the interesting possibility that 9/11 was a kind of exorcism). 2001: A Space Odyessy (1968) featured a huge, rectangular monolith, discovered on the Moon in 2001. The Omen (1976) is an apocalyptic tale about the rise of the antichrist, whose name is Damien Thorn.

Damien Thorn (o) = 121 = 11 x 11
antichrist (o) ........= 121 = 11 x 11

The uncanny timing of the solar eclipse in 1999, which began in the UK at 11:11AM BST on the 11th of August, seem to forewarn us of 9/11. Another astronomical event that may have constituted a sign is the so-called Harmonic Concordance of 2003, where the planets in our solar system, observed from earth, appeared to form a near perfect hexagon/hexagram in the sky behind the moon. This event peaked on the 9th of November (11/9) of that year (this was also when I produced my first version of this page).

Other events in the recent past may have anticipated 9/11. One such event was the great northeast USA blackout of 1965. This infamous electricity blackout took place on November the 9th of that year in and around New York, of all places. The number of days from that event to 9/11 is 13090 or 11 x 1190. An event that may have had personal significance was a world-famous UFO encounter only two miles from where I live, at Dechmont Law. This traumatic encounter involved a landscape gardener who regularly worked alongside a friend of mine. He was working alone in some local woods one morning when he encountered an unknown and unusually shaped aircraft. Two spheres emerged from the craft, rolled towards him (leaving tracks on the ground) and attached themselves to his trousers, ripping two large holes in them. The ripped trouser legs may have symbolised the future destruction of the twin towers. The date of this encounter, twenty-two years prior to 9/11, was November the 9th, 1979.

Finally, Pope John Paul II, the head of the Roman Catholic church from 1978 until 2005, was the 264th Pope, 264 being 11 x 24. He was also the 110th Pope from Celestine II to "the end of the world", according to the prophesies of St. Malachy. The funeral of Pope John Paul II and its relationship to 9/11 is discussed in The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ.

In biblical numerics the number 11 means subversion and disorder, ideas which resonate with the events of 9/11. The numeral 11 itself, consisting of two separate digits, implies the number 2 in its duality. Therefore it is also an ideogram for the related ideas of division and duality, associated in biblical numerics with the number 2. Visually, the numeral ‘11’ resembles the horns of a beast.

The number 5 is biblically associated with God’s grace, love and heavenly favour. These are not ideas that spring to mind when contemplating the Pentagon, symbol of the USA’s military power. However, in The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ we will see that the Pentagon itself has been employed as a symbol for an idea that does indeed carry these associations.

Why has the number 11 been so assiduously encoded into the 9/11 event and, apparently, into natural phenomena, historical events and western popular culture of the period around 9/11? What is the role of the number 5? Before we can answer these questions we need to take a closer look at 9/11 through the lens of gematria.

As you proceed, you will see that many of the numbers are derived by calculating ordinal values, but eventually take on meaning under the standard value system. This is also true of the most significant encodings I have found within the NIV Bible, suggesting that they emanated from the same source.



The World Trade Centre and The Pentagon

The names the World Trade Centre, the north tower, the south tower and the Pentagon have ordinal values that reflect the internal structure of a series of nested cubes.

Let’s start with the cube of 5, which has 125 units:

This cube will fit perfectly into a shell of 218 units....

...to create a larger cube, the cube of 7, with 343 units:

These two numbers are the ordinal values of the 9/11 targets:

The Pentagon (o) .................................................= 125
The World Trade Centre (o) ................................= 218
The World Trade Centre (o) + The Pentagon (o) = 343

Therefore the three buildings involved in the 9/11 tragedy encode cube 343 and two numbers that derive from its internal structure. 343 is the cube of 7, the most sacred number in biblical numerics.



The North Tower and The South Tower

Of the collection of buildings comprising the World Trade Centre, only two were struck. These were the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, individually known as The North Tower and The South Tower. The ordinal values of these names encode a number representing another shell that can surround cube 343 to create an even larger cube.

This cube will fit perfectly into a shell of 386 units....

...to create an even larger cube, that of 9, with 729 units:

It so happens that 386 is the sum of the individual ordinal values of the names ‘the North Tower’ and ‘the South Tower’.

The North Tower (o) + The South Tower (o) ...........................= 386

Therefore from the ordinal values of the 9/11 targets we can obtain three nested cubes, those of 5, 7 and 9:

The Pentagon (o) .......................................................= 125 = 5 x 5 x 5
The World Trade Centre (o) + 125 ..........................= 343 = 7 x 7 x 7
The North Tower (o) + The South Tower (o) + 343 = 729 = 9 x 9 x 9

Perhaps significantly, the largest cube, encompassing the entire set of numbers, is the cube of 9, the biblical number representing endings, finality and judgment.



A Dimensional Shift

Cube 729: 2D Diagonal Projection

The 2D projection of every cube along one of its internal diagonals is a hexagon. If the 2D diagonal projection of cube 729 is taken we obtain hexagon 217, also the ninth member of its series. This transformation is shown below.

As I showed above, 729 is the sum of the ordinal values of the 9/11 targets. Amazingly, the number 217 is also implied by the 9/11 targets. Although only two towers were actually hit, three towers were totally destroyed on 9/11: WTC 1, WTC 2 (these were the twin towers) and WTC 7.

The chronological order in which the three buildings fell was as follows:

WTC 2 at 10:05AM
WTC 1 at 10:28AM
WTC 7 at 5:20PM

This gives us the sequence 2, 1, 7 which implies the number 217.


217 and 9/11

Cleverly concealed within the bible is startling evidence linking the numbers 217, 729 and 911.

1. The Bible’s 217th verse is, incredibly, Genesis 9:11. This describes the making of a covenant between God and man.

Gen. 9:11 (NIV)
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.

2. The Bible’s 911th chapter is Haggai 2, which begins as follows:

Hag. 2:1 (NIV)
On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai.

The ordinal ‘twenty-first’ followed by ‘seventh’ implies 217.

3. Recalling that 729 is the cube of 9, we note that the Bible’s 729th verse is Genesis 27:1. Again we see the digits 2, 1 and 7 employed.

217 and the Beast

Within the NIV, The number 217 is also associated with another concept, that of the beast of Revelation.

1. The Bible’s 521st verse is Genesis 21:7

The beast (s) = 521

2. Taking the numbers 2, 1, 7 in their natural ascending order, we obtain 127. The Bible’s 127th verse is Genesis 5:21, implying 521 once more.

3. The bible’s 666th verse is Genesis 25:7, which tells us the life span of Abraham.

7. Altogether Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.

Genesis 25:7 (o) = 521
The beast (s) = 521

4. The bible’s 666th chapter is Ecclesiastes 7, entitled ‘Wisdom’. This chapter has 29 verses, and stating chapter and verse gives 7:29, implying the number 729. The first verse of the NIV version of this chapter is shown below:

1. A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.

Ecclesiastes 7:1 (o) = 729 = 9 x 9 x 9
1st six words Ecclesiastes 7:1 (o) = 216 = 6 x 6 x 6

There is another, more subtle, link between 217 and the beast, or more specifically, the number 666. The numbers 127, 271 and 721 are all numerical anagrams of 217, and, like this number, they are all centred hexagonal numbers. This unique feature of numerical geometry links the digits 2, 1 and 7 in a geometric sense with the number 6.

So here we see numbers associated with the beast found alongside the numbers 217 and 729, the very numbers that were encoded into the fall of the twin towers and the 9/11 event in general. Why would this be the case?

The Mark of The Beast

The number of the beast is, in fact, clearly stamped upon the events of 9/11, marking them for our urgent attention and suggesting they have a significance beyond the merely historical.

The three cities involved in the 9/11 event were, to give them their full names, the City of Boston, the City of New York and the City of Washington DC.

The City of Boston (o) + The City of New York (o) + The City of Washington DC (o) = 666

The last three US presidents are also marked with this number. Note that this only applies to them in their presidential capacity, perhaps because the presidency is the ultimate expression of temporal power.

President George Bush (o) + President Bill Clinton (o) + President George Bush (o) = 666

Another ‘666’ is found in the names of the city on which the 9/11 attacks were focused and on the date itself. Note that, as usual, it is the ordinal values that encode information.

New York (o) + Nine Eleven (o) = 216 = 6 x 6 x 6

The ordinal value of the words ‘nine eleven’, the name by which that apocalyptic day is universally known, is the triangular number 105.

Nine Eleven (o) = 105

The number 666 happens to be a triangular number, every important structural property of which is also triangular. One of these properties is the outline of triangle 666 of the number 666, which has 105 units and is itself the 14th triangular number.

The Watermarked Targets

I am now going to show the first of two geometrically significant dismantlings of cube 729, to obtain two important numbers.

By subtracting the shell of 218 units from cube 729 we obtain the significant number 511 (figure 59).

Firstly, 511 is linked to 9, the number of endings, finality and judgment, through number theory in mathematics. 511 is the 9th Mersenne number. These are an important class of numbers, which are calculated by the following formula:

Secondly, 511 is the sum of the ordinal values for the three individual targets on 9/11:

The Pentagon (o) + The North Tower (o) + The South Tower (o) = 511

At the start of this page I showed some of the voluminous evidence that the 9/11 targets were and are associated with the numbers 5 and 11, as well as visually depicting these numbers. Now, incredibly, we see that the ordinal value of the targets themselves is the number 511.

There is a geometric solution to this mystery which adds a new dimension of meaning to the 9/11 tragedy. If this interpretation is correct, and the numerico-geometric connections I summarise in this page are more than simply fabulous coincidence, the events of 9/11 transcend the merely historical to enter the realms of biblical end-time prophecy.

The ‘end times’ is a series of apocalyptic future events predicted in many of the Bible’s prophetic passages, most notably in the books of Daniel and Revelation. These prophecies have been given many interpretations by theologians, from the esoteric to the frankly embarrassing, but are acknowledged by the vast majority of Christians to be a time of great tribulation, at the end of which Christ comes to defeat the powers of darkness and usher in a new era of peace and love. This final event is of course the Second Coming Of Jesus Christ.


Second Coming

If the events of September the 11th, 2001 were in some way connected with the Second Coming we might expect this to be encoded within the phrases most commonly used to describe the event, such as ‘Second Coming’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘The Second Coming of Jesus Christ’, etc. Let us begin with ‘Second Coming’, the ordinal value of which is given below:

Second Coming (o) = 121 = 11 x 11

The number 121 has the unique geometric property of forming both a square and a centred hexagram. I showed earlier how the World Trade Centre is symbolised by the number 11 and the Pentagon by the number 5. Astoundingly, these are the place values of the number 121 in the two series of figures to which it belongs!

The two figures are illustrated below. The hexagram, shown first, is a perfect archetypal symbol for Christ, who was a Jew from the line of David. Note how both figures have internal properties that perfectly mirror the gematria of the words ‘Second’ and ‘Coming’.

The standard value of the words ‘Second Coming’ is 391 (see note 1), which is the standard value of the Hebrew word for Jesus, transliterated as ‘Yehoshua’.

391 is also found in connection with the three destroyed WTC buildings, which were also known as ‘Building One’, ‘Building Two’ and ‘Building Seven’.

Building One (o) = Building Two (o) + Building Seven (o) = 391

Christ’s Second Coming

I showed earlier how cubes 125, 343 and 729 are encoded within the names of the 9/11 targets. The largest of these cubes, 729, has as its 2D diagonal projection hexagon 217. It so happens that hexagram 121 fits precisely into that hexagon. This arrangement is shown in figure 62.

Christ’s Second Coming (o) = 217

This is no fanciful pairing of figure and phrase: if we count the individual units in each of the three coloured zones created by the superimposition of hexagram 121 on hexagon 217, we discover that these three numbers are also the ordinal values of the individual words in the phrase ‘Christ’s Second Coming’.

Christ’s (o) = 96 = units in outer rhombii
Second (o) ..= 60 = units in outer triangles
Coming (o) .= 61 = units in inner hexagon

This degree of coordination between numerical values and geometric properties is stunning evidence of intelligent design, rather than random forces, and is singularly appropriate for the message being conveyed.

The relationship between 121 and 217 is cemented when we transform the above image from 2D to 3D. The 3D figure which projects hexagon 217 with internal hexagram 121 is cube 729, with three slices made along the centre of each of its three planes. This is shown below, with the slices coloured for easy identification.

As you can see, hexagram 121 is the 2D projection of the subtracted units. However, when we count these subtracted units we find, to our astonishment, that they total 217! Here the link through gematria between the numbers 121, 217 and 729 is underscored by their profound geometric interconnections (see note 2).

Finally, if we take a 2D projection of the sliced cube, we obtain the figure below.

This is remarkably similar to the first generation of the Creation Snowflake, also with 151 units!

The general form of each figure, an inner figure of 37 units surrounded by a symmetrical arrangement of 114 units, is the same. The same gematria connections also apply.

Jesus Christ (o) = 151
Holy Spirit (o) .= 151
God (c) .............= 114
The Lord (r) .......= 37
Spirit (r) .............= 37

The Second Coming

I constructed cubes 125, 343 and 729 from the gematria of the 9/11 targets. Then, by examining the inner structure of cube 729, I found the ordinal values of the targets and a significant new number. The individual targets are all either cubes or the difference between two cubes, as shown below:

The Pentagon (o) ......................................................= 125
The World Trade Centre (o) = 343 - 125 ................= 218
The North Tower + The South Tower = 729 - 343 = 386

We have one further subtraction to perform: 729 - 125 = 604. This is illustrated in the next figure, along with the phrase with standard value equal to the number of units remaining.

The North Tower (o) + The South Tower (o) + The World Trade Centre (o) = 604
The Second Coming (s) .....................................................................................= 604

The Second Coming Of Jesus the Messiah

The news of the Second Coming was delivered by four airplanes that smashed into three buildings representing the beast of Revelation. This message was also borne in the very flight numbers and departure points of these angels of death.

1. The three airplanes that hit their intended targets on 9/11 are given below:

Flight 11 hit the North Tower.
Flight 175 hit the South Tower.
Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.

11 + 175 + 77 = 263
Messiah (s) ...= 263

2. The fourth hijacked airplane crashed in Pennsylvania. Adding its flight number to the sum we obtain the ordinal value for the following phrase (see note 3).

11 + 175 + 77 + 93 .........................................= 356
The Second Coming of Jesus the Messiah (o) = 356

The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ

The flight numbers of the hijacked airplanes sum to 356, which, as I showed above, is the ordinal value of the phrase “The Second Coming of Jesus the Messiah.” It turns out that the number 356 has the property of effecting an alchemical transformation of other numbers related to 9/11, which I have already derived from the names of the targets. Note that, yet again, the numbers are derived from ordinal values but take on meaning as standard values; this is the ‘signature’ of the New Bible Code.

The World Trade Centre (o) + The Pentagon (o) ...........................= 343
343 + 356 ........................................................................................= 699
Lord Jesus (s) ..................................................................................= 699

The North Tower (o) + The South Tower (o) + The Pentagon (o) = 511
511 + 356 ........................................................................................= 867
The Word (s) ...................................................................................= 867

New York (o) + Washington D.C. (o).............................................= 248
248 + 356 ........................................................................................= 604
The Second Coming (s) ...................................................................= 604

The flights left from three airports, as detailed below:

American Airlines Flight 11 left from Logan International Airport
United Airlines Flight 175 left from Logan International Airport
American Airlines Flight 77 left from Dulles International Airport
United Airlines Flight 93 left from Newark International Airport (see note 4).

Adding the ordinal values of the airports to the numbers of the flights that left from each airport, a procedure identical to adding the number 356 to the sum of the locations only, we obtain the central message of the New Bible Code.

Logan International Airport (o) + 11 ..= 309
Logan International Airport (o) + 175 = 473
Dulles International Airport (o) + 77 ..= 399
Newark International Airport (o)+ 93 = 414
309 + 473 + 399 + 414 ......................= 1595

The Second Coming of Jesus Christ (s) = 1595

I said at the start of this page that the numbers 5 and 11 were encoded into the 9/11 event through the designs, names and histories of the targets and through the details of the event itself. In this final numerical value, these numbers make a final, triumphant appearance.

1595 = 5 x 11 x 29

The number 29 itself is the reduced value of the word ‘Messiah’, whose return was announced through this miracle of numerical synchronicity.


Bill Downie

Last updated
5/5/07