The Eye of a Needle
And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again,
and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter
into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mark 10.24
The Name of the Nineteenth Letter, ק Quph,
denotes the Eye of a Needle. The reason it's called this is rather obvious from its
basic form as a cirlce atop a line. It corresponds to the Latin letter Q which contains similiar
elements. The phrase eye of a needle occurs three times in Scripture - once in each of
the synoptic Gospels. It is symmetrically centered around the Gospel of Mark on Spoke 19.
Furthermore, in the Gospel of Matthew, where the chapter sequence is so very strongly correlated
with the order of the Alphabet, this phrase appears in
Matthew 19. Thus, two out of three occurrences of
the name of Quph in Scripture are directly correlated with the order of the Alphabet, and all
three are symmetrically centered around Spoke 19.
Ape, Flesh, and Physical Manifestation
The word Quph also denotes a monkey or an ape, and is understood by the Rabbis to signify
our fleshly nature. This manifests in a number of Spoke 19
themes linked on the sidebar, most notably the introdution of the
Nineteenth Century Theory of Apemen, a.k.a. Human Evolution.
From the idea of the flesh, we move to the more general concept of physical manifestation, such as
is declared in Psalm 19: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth
his handywork."
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