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>Chapter Eleven, for example, reads as follows:
>"Now for every sky he made twelve Gates with their Porches high and wide, everyone ofthe Gates opposite its pair, and over everyone of the Porches wrestlers in front ofit. Then in those Porches in everyone ofits Gates he made six Lintels, and in everyone of the Lintels thirty Corners, and twelve Stones in every Corner. Then he erected the Lintels and Corners and Stones with their tops in the height ofthe heavens: and he connected the air at the bottom ofthe earths with the skies."
>Multiply the 12 Gates with the six Lintels to each Porch and you get 72 - the number of years it takes for the earth to move I° of a precessional cycle. Multiply this number with the 30 Corners of each Lintel and you get 2,160 - the number of years in one complete precessional age. Multiply this figure with the 12 Stones in every Corner and you arrive at 25,920 - the number of years in one complete precessional cycle
>Since the passage in question concerns the ethereal architecture of the heavens, I find it difficult to see this numerology in terms of pure coincidence, suggesting therefore that the Manichaeans were carriers of precessional information that was of extreme age even in their own day
>In addition to these examples, clear knowledge of the precessional cycle can be detected within the Yezidi belief in the 72 Adams who each lived 10,000 years, between which were further periods of 10,000 years when no one had lived in the world. Simplistic as this time-cycle may seem, the 72 Adams refer to the 72 years it takes for the starry firmament to move 1° of a precessional cycle, while 1,440,000 - the total number of years alluded to by adding together these amounts - is another important figure in the precessional canon of numbers
