64

Don't know if i still can (retrieve those ideas). Yesterday i was trying to write a mini-essay about the nr.64. Got stuck in an online dictionary that it seems now somebody was playing with. I'm gonna try again. After all, the word essaie in French means try.

But before i start i have to say what this number meant to me until today. Early home computers' (later called PCs) memories and memory unit allocation on many early mainframes and minis had a size of 64 koctets. Octets from the latin word octo, opt in Romanian, that means eight in English, an octet being 8 bits (bit = smallest memory size) later baptized, i don't know why, byte. (Maybe from the four incisive teeth on each jaw a human use to byte with, i don't know LOL). No, it's a logical extension of the word bit, a byte being comprised by eight bits. Ok LOL again, not that logical. (Who did it?).

2 to the power of 16 is 65536. Not exactly 64 Kbytes, but in a way, yes, because 65536 = 1024 * 64.

I have no idea why. Maybe the early computer manufacturers new about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_manuscripts#Halliwell_Manuscript.2C_or_Regius_Poem

Truth is it was enough to write some programs, for other you had to segment the programs so each segment can be loaded in a memory page of 64K.

Soon it grew to 128 (i had a Sinclair Spectrum at work with memory of that size but i'm not sure anymore) and the first IMB "compatible" PCs came with 386 then extended to 1024 or one meg. One meg (megabyte - literally mega byte) was huge compared to 64 that many mainframes used for years but today we are measuring memory sizes in Gigs, that is thousand of megs and God knows what's next. Terra bytes for hard drives. Always symbolic.

But this is just the beginning of my mini-essay. Cause i've also encountered the number 64 in Hindu mythology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%C4%81

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali

I am not that good in Sanskrit to establish a connection between the two words.

After reading this article http://www.libertatea.ro/detalii/articol/secretele-initierii-masonice-509411.html i found out about the masonic (ritual) death. Think i heard about before.

So if we connect all these can we make a link?

Don't know, in the 64 kalas or arts of Krishna there is no reference to Euclid nor geometry. Euclid was much younger, historically speaking . "Puranic sources mention[12] Krishna's disappearance marks the end of Dvapara Yuga and the start of Kali Yuga (present age), which is dated to February 17/18, 3102 BCE" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna

There is something here "In pleading, begging, railing, desperate lines, the Bengali Ramprasad Sen explores the depth of love and despair that is the love of the dark Mother Kali. The Saundarya Lahari (often attributed to Adi Shankara) details the magnificent, radiant form of the Devi as queen of the universe, and reveals the esoteric meaning of her form as the Sri Yantra, the geometric pattern of energies that describes the inner workings of the universe." http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/i_es/i_es_caldw_goddess_frameset.htm

But the idea i was following was different. I know Regius Poem was dated ca. 1425-50. But now i read "The document relates how the craft of masonry was brought to England during the reign of King Athelstan (924–939)".

I know it comes from Egypt. (Everybody knows that i think).

Fewer know though about Mamluks. There was simultaneously a Mamluk kingdom in Egypt and one in Delhi before that manuscript was written. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk Proably linked to each other, bringing also a possible explanation of the existence in Europe of slaves from India, especially after the wars and conquest by the the ottomans of the Mamluk kigndom, with the escape of their Indian slaves in Europe. I wrote more about this here http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2013/07/mini-eseu-despre-tigani-completabil.html I was thinking. What if the craft is not coming from Ancient Egypt but from India, especially from the cult of goddess Kali via the Mamluks? Or maybe it only partially comes from their, the rest being inherited and mixed by the Mamluks from whatever was still preserved from the heritage of ancient Egypt, maybe the worshiping of the Sun God during their kingdom (sultanate).