Let There Be Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven to Divide the Day From the Night
Day four: A reexamination of the fourth of the seven days of creation
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. (Gen 1:14–19 KJV)
We arrive at last on the fourth day. This is the day when the Sun and the Moon are referred to, indirectly. Still, I maintain that the Sun was created on the first day and the Moon on the second. What we have today is the creation of clarity.
Day One saw the creation of light and a lifeform capable of converting that light into energy-rich matter through the process of photosynthesis. So, while it did not see light as it had no eye, it could perceive light as it fueled its life processes.
Day Two saw the creation of animal life in the form of trilobites, aquatic arthropods. These animals possessed a primitive visual system that used light to perceive motion as they oscillated between predator and prey.
Day Three saw the plants of day one and the arthropods of day two raised onto dryland, yet plants still had no eyes and while insects had eyes they were still too simplistic to perceive the Sun and Moon as orbs in the sky.
What Day Is Today?
Sunday saw the creation of light. Monday saw the creation of the Moon. Then came Tuesday, which was the day of Mars. That makes today Wednesday.
Wednesday in French is Mercredi. In Spanish, it is Miércoles. In Italian, Mercoledì. In other words, Wednesday is Mercury day.
Mercury is the planet associated with the intellect, the mind. The Biblical account describes the lights in the sky as having to do with timekeeping as this is one of the foundations of rational thought.
Five Balls
Each day in sequence adds an additional ball to the structure. The last day had a structure of four balls. The form for today has five. I call this shape the crystal.
I like to think that this shape represents how vision works. The middle three spheres are the lens, while one polar sphere is the external focal point, the other polar sphere is where the image meets the retina.
Mercury Rules
Astrologically, Mercury rules Virgo: the Virgin, and Gemini: the Twins.
According to my theory, the astrological signs associated with each day indicate the type of life that came into existence on that day. However as there were no humans as of yet, it is a bit difficult to determine what Virgo and Gemini represent.
Gemini
We can attempt to use the Labors of Hercules as recorded in the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, which is as close to a canonical version of the Greek myths as you’ll find.
Hercules’ first labor was to slay the Nemean lion.
Next, he was to destroy the Lernaean hydra. As he was fighting it, Hera sent a crab to distract him which he crushed under his foot. Then he finished killing the hydra by cutting off its one immortal head.
So first Hercules killed a lion representing the sign Leo, then he killed the crab for Cancer. This means that his labors were running clockwise through the zodiac. So the hydra likely corresponds to whatever animal Gemini represents.
There is another myth, this time of a Roman wolf god named Lupercus who also had twelve labors¹. The first five of these are as follows:
To carry the sacred ram and set him among the stars. To purify the hide of the sacred white bull. To tame the twin serpents of Teramo. To carry the Great Sea Crab to the Western Horizon. To free the sacred Lion.
This also follows the order of the zodiac, although this time in the counter-clockwise direction.
In the Lupercus version, in the position of Gemini, we have twin serpents. In the zodiac, we have twin brothers. Ordinary human twins have eight arms and two heads. And with Hercules, we have the hydra with nine snake-like heads, one of which is immortal.
I suspect that the Hydra is actually the mangled description of an eight-tentacled creature with one head.
Assigning this zodiac sign to the octopus is an excellent fit for a number of reasons. The octopus belongs among is the most intelligent invertebrate animals. Also, its eye is an example of convergent evolution as it developed along an alternative path to the eyes of vertebrates, including mammals. One feature of the cephalopod eye is that it does not suffer from having a blind-spot.
According to a popular horoscope website, Geminis are:
Playful and intellectually curious, Gemini is constantly juggling a variety of passions, hobbies, careers, and friend groups. They are the social butterflies of the zodiac: These quick-witted twins can talk to anyone about anything.
That seems a fairly accurate description of the octopus, given the medium of metaphor.
Virgo
According to the same popular horoscope website cited above:
Virgo is governed by Mercury, the messenger planet of communication. Though Mercury also rules Gemini, these two signs are radically different: Gemini is about output and expression, whereas Virgo is about input and processing. A Virgo deals with information like a computer, transforming even the most jumbled set of information into organized, clear concepts.
Let us suppose that we are dealing with a single phylum of biological life that expresses itself at two polar extremes. One extreme represents the mind’s experimental and investigating abilities as exemplified in the form of the octopus. The other extreme is the mind’s introverted organizational aspect. What sort of mollusk would fit that description while also being identified as a virgin?
And when we talk about a woman being a virgin, what body part are we focusing on in exclusion to all others?
Perhaps this morphological similarity explains why the goddess of love is frequently associated with the scallop shell.
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I-Ching
We are now going to examine the verses for this day to see if we can identify any hexagrams. Those of you reading this should feel free to confirm my findings. An online version of the I-Ching can be found here.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: (Gen 1:14 KJV)
Lights in heaven I suppose is Heaven over Fire. Each day tends to have a pair of hexagrams with the positions reverse so I am going to say that the second hexagram is Fire over Heaven.
13. T’ung Jên / Fellowship with Men
above CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN below LI THE CLINGING, FLAME
THE JUDGMENT
FELLOWSHIP WITH MEN in the open. Success. It furthers one to cross the great water. The perseverance of the superior man furthers.
THE IMAGE
Heaven together with fire: The image of FELLOWSHIP WITH MEN. Thus the superior man organizes the clans And makes distinctions between things.
This hexagram seems to correspond to Gemini, the outwardly communicative aspect of Mercury.
14. Ta Yu / Possession in Great Measure
above LI THE CLINGING, FLAME below CH’IEN THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN
THE JUDGMENT
POSSESSION IN GREAT MEASURE. Supreme success.
THE IMAGE
Fire in heaven above: the image of POSSESSION IN GREAT MEASURE. Thus the superior man curbs evil and furthers good, And thereby obeys the benevolent will of heaven.
This hexagram seems to correspond to Virgo, the introverted aspect of Mercury. Notice also how the theme of this hexagram matches up with the following verses from Matthew, bringing us back to the pearls of wisdom that grow within Mercury’s introverted oysters.
44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. (Mat 13:44–46 KJV)