Archeometer

In 1903, the French Alexandre Saint-Yves d' Alveydre (1842-1902) publishes an enormous work entitled Archéomètre , which claims to be an adjustable wrench making it possible to measure the Antiquité and to determine the true value of each philosophical, scientific or religious system, in order to integrate it into the universal tree of science or the tradition. The word even of “Archéomètre” comes from the Greek and means “measurement of old textually”.

The system rests on a series of symbols and significances which milked with Archée, or with the Principle. The mysteries of this Archée are multiple and they are strongly different according to the cultural universe of which they raise, Saint-Yves distinguishes from them primarily two: on a side, a Hebraic antique tradition according to which Archée is equivalent to that of the” laws”, which includes the animals of the Zodiac and the other creatures celestial, as well as the letters of the alphabet crowned; on another side, a tradition of origin hindouist, in which Archée is venerated like the “sanctuary of the mysteries”.

On the disc of” Archéomètre” are indicated, beside the stellar symbols, the planets, the degrees of the circle, the notes of music and the letters of various alphabets. The letters of various languages there are recognized: Arabic, Assyrian, chaldéenne, Frenchwoman, the samaritaine, syriaque and another, most mysterious, the alphabet " adamique". Moreover the letters of the alphabet crowned, reflection of the astral alphabet appear. Here, Saint-Yves employs nineteen letters instead of the twenty-two traditional ones. (Nineteen also corresponds to the sum of the twelve zodiacaux signs and seven planets.) The topic of the letters and the alphabet is of an major importance, because they represent, in many systems esoteric, materials essential to the central combinative method. The numerical base is a duodecimal system resulting from a tripling of tétragramme (3 X 4).

The system of representation of Archéomètre is made up various concentric zones of correspondences, which contain the various elements carrying direction: colors, planets, signs of the Zodiac, notes of music, letters and figures. Its center is made of four superimposed equilateral triangles, registered in the same circle. In that of the higher level, which corresponds to the Earth, the point top is yellow, that blue line, that of red left. The triangle immediately below, which corresponds to Water, in exactly reversed position, has its point lower violet (mixture of the red and blue), its orange left point (mixture of the red and the yellow) and its green right point (mixture of the yellow and blue). A rotation with thirty or sixty degrees of these two fundamental triangles gives the triangle of the Air and that of Fire; their points are coloured tons intermediate resulting from the mixture of the two close colors. The center is the white, i.e. the unit. Beyond the circles which enclose Archéomètre is the black, absence of light, therefore of any color. It is the kingdom of darkness.

Astrologically speaking, each of the three signs of Fire (Ram, Lion and Sagittarius) is followed - in the opposite direction of the needles of a watch - by one of the three Ground signs (Capricorn, Taureau and Virgin). Follow one of the three signs of Air (Balance, Verseau and Twin), then one of the three Water signs (Cancer, Scorpion and Poisson). For the distribution of planets according to the zodiacaux signs (the” residences” of these planets, on which they reign), the Sun (symbol of the day) and the Moon (symbol of the night) have each one a residence which is entirely reserved to them (those of the Lion and Cancer, respectively). Each another planet thus reigns on two zodiacaux signs and thus has two colors, which are those of oxides or salts of metal reserved for each planet, each one of them having generally two oxides. Saturn lunar (or night, in the Capricorn) corresponds to the yellow; Saturn solar (or diurnal, in Aquarius), with yellow-orange. Lunar Jupiter (in Poisson) corresponds to orange; Solar Jupiter (in Sagittarius), with the green-yellow, and so on. Among metals, gold belongs to the Sun, the money with the Moon, lead with Saturn, tin with Jupiter, iron at Mars, copper with Venus and quicksilver with Mercure. The traditional colors thus refer to the aspect various metals reserved for planets. The symbolic system of the days is superimposed on the unit, by allotting Sunday to the Sun, Monday with the Moon, Tuesday at Mars, Wednesday with Mercure, Thursday with Jupiter, Friday with Venus and saturdays with Saturn. With regard to the tonalities (all major), Jupiter is in C, Mars in D, the Sun into semi, Venus in F, Mercure in ground, the Moon in and Saturn in If.

If one traverses the circular building of Archéomètre according to a certain way, one passes constantly the day to the night, or more exactly from the diurnal residence in the night residence of each planet. In a three-dimensional space, the distribution then takes the shape of a helicoid body.

The planisphere of Archéomètre is divided into seven concentric zones, read outside towards the interior. The first zone is composed of two rings carrying the indications of degree running in opposite direction from one ring to another, so that the sum of the figures located on the same ray always forms 360. The second zone contains the” modal” letters, i.e. the twelve morphological letters, the twelve arithmologic letters, the figures indicating the magic properties of the figures and the twelve colors. The third zone is mobile and contains a ring with twelve points - each one of them containing a planet, a letter drawn from each of the five different alphabets, a figure and a color - as well as the colorless ring where the notes of music appear. The fourth zone - fixes - is composed of the symbols representing the twelve signs of the zodiac; the fifth, again mobile, carries the signs of planets. The sixth zone is occupied by the twelve points resulting from four superimposed triangles, that is to say twelve colors. The seventh zone, with the center, is held by the note of central music - mid- symbolized by its initial; six diameters define twelve white rays in it.

External bonds

http://www.initiation.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=43 a bond towards the review Initiation with an article of Yves-Fred Boisset

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