[Inner Wheels] > The Wheel of Light |
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was
good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1.3-5
Variations on the pattern of the Wheel emerge from essentially every aspect of the Biblical
revelation. Like the spiral that unites galaxies and DNA, so the the minute details
of the text reflect the large-scale structure of the Word. A striking
example of this is seen in the Hebrew text of Genesis 1.3-5:
When this text is arrayed as a matrix of twenty-two columns, 12 of the 25 Hebrew words
are seen to be autocorrelated (lined up in the same column):

The most striking correlation appears amongst four of the five occurrences of the
word (Aur, Light), which are separated
by exactly |