Upon our request, Mr. John Gordon was kind enough to provide us with his comments on the subject of 'precession' and the research done by the Sirius Research Group.

Dear Uwe Homan,

Thank you for your E-mail of 3rd February. I have had a look at your website and was pleased to see that the subject of precession and the defective view of its modern scientific presentation are being intelligently explored and questioned by others, scientifically, from outside the ramparts of of orthodox astronomy and astrophysics. My approach is of course slightly different, although I hope that it will be regarded as complementary.

The article which I wrote for Kheraha in fact deals with only a part of what I had to say in general in my latest book' KHEMMEA' on the subject of how the Ancients appear to have been aware of far more than our modern scientists would believe (or want to believe) possible. To write a larger and more extensive article covering all the issues, however, would necessitate paraphrasing over 40 pages (without even considering the various explanatory diagrams) - which I would be loath to do, as too much important explanatory detail would be lost.

What I have described there otherwise, for example, explains how and why the just under 41,000 year cycle of Obliquity is also (like precession) based upon a visual illusion and why also it appears in fact to be but one half of an approx. 81,500 year cycle, itself seemingly derived from the full cycle of movement of our solar system relative to its yet greater focal point within the constellation of Taurus. This approx. 81,500 year cycle is itself equivalent to the precessionary cycle multiplied by Pi - hence the association with the number seven which we find throughout all ancient systems of cosmological thought.

The fact that the best known cycle of Sirius (i.e as seen from Earth) is 1461 years of course makes it impossible for it to be the star around which our solar system orbits during the Great Year. However, the Ancients believed that both Sirius and Orion led the Decans of our greater sidereal system around in its full axial cycle - which gives us the clue (if the ancient view of the Decans is properly understood) as to the location of Sirius and Orion relative not only to our immediate system, but also to the present Celestial Pole and the Circumpolar Stars generally. However, none of this can be properly appreciated without first taking into consideration the fundamental and all-pervading (i.e universal) principle of concentricity - the view of the Ancients that every system involves objective celestial bodies, each within their own parent spheres (like our ionosphere) orbiting intelligently within greater celestial spheres which are themselves orbiting within yet greater celestial spheres, each and every one simultaneously being involved in its own axial motion - and all subject to the dictates of superior Intelligence, in line with an overriding Plan of Universal Order.

One final point. The much derided ancient image of the 'flat Earth' is based upon yet another complete misapprehension of what the Ancients were actually saying. To them, each universe was triple, containing in descending order a (secondary) 'Heaven', an 'Earth' and an 'Underworld'. However, this objective state in which we ourselves live is the true Underworld. The so-called 'Earth' was representative of the World Soul state within which the Underworld existed and from which the lesser souls of mankind 'fell' - again the principle of concentricity, which led the Ancients (in various cultures all over the globe) to conceive of our local system as the 'cave' of Creation, within which there existed seven subsidiary caverns - a metaphor for the seven subsidiary states of being and consciousness possessed by each such sidereal and planetary system. In larger kosmic terms, the 'flat' plane of the galaxy, at the centre of the sphere of our local universe, would itself have been the 'heavenly Earth'. There is much more - but I regret that I have to leave it there for the moment due to other writing commitmets. Keep up the good work!

Yours sincerely,

John Gordon

Email: Orpheuspubl.Ho@btinternet.com

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Dear Mr. Gordon,

Thank you very much for your interesting comments and your kind words of support.

Perhaps, we seem to disagree (and speculate somewhat) about the nature of the motion of our sun through space relative to Sirius. However, I do feel that some of the various thought provoking theories on this subject will offer open minded readers the possibility to learn more about the fundamental scientific issue, namely that the Newtonian luni-solar precession theory of the Earth is false.

In that respect I would like to ask you, if it is OK with you that I post your comments on our website?

Thanks again for your time, and I will try to get your latest book 'KHEMMEA' so that in future we could talk maybe more about your subject of interest.

With Best Wishes,

Uwe

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Dear Uwe,

Thanks for your reply. I have no objection to my comments being posted on your site.

Despite my suggestion that it is not actually Sirius around which our own solar system directly orbits, its importance as one of the most vitally influencing stars in our local system remains of prime consideration to me, for reasons which extend beyond mere astronomy. So do not think that I am in any way belittling its critical significance. Even in a very mundane fashion its cycle appears to have a direct effect upon Earth. Were you aware, for example, of the enormously severe, supposedly 'freak' weather conditions in the northern hemisphere(confirmed by meteorological historiansand dendrochronologists) which attended the beginning, mid-point and end of the last Sothic cycle (139 A.D. - 1600 A.D.)?

Just as the Earth experiences a slight magnetic fluctuation and weather blip around the time of the two solstices each year, so it would appear that this same principle in the wider cosmic context has a corresponding effect upon our solar system as a whole, affecting our planet via a fluctuation of the Sun's radiation. Whilst meteorologists are just beginning to accept the principle that our Earth's weather patterns are clearly affected by variations in solar radiation, they as yet have no conception of the Sun's output itself being affected by the indirect influences of and upon its orbital cycle by other star systems. The Ancients, however, were clearly aware of such things and the rationale behind them.

Yours sincerely,

John Gordon

Email: Orpheuspubl.Ho@btinternet.com

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SRG Note:

It appears that the so-called Sothic cycle of 1461 years has really nothing to do with the assertion that our sun is in orbit with Sirius over a period of about 25000 ± 1000 years (precession period). Supposedly, the Sothic cycle of 1461 is based on a fixed (Egyptian) calendar year of 365 days and a so-called Sothic year of 365.25 days. Hence, 1460 sothic years equal 1461 fixed years. A similar mistake of counting time occured with the Julian calendar vs. the actual solar year. That mistake eventually led to the reform of the calendar in 1582. The time period of the solar or tropical year - to which the modern calendar year has to be synchronized to - is 365.24219878 days. Of scientific importance is therefore the fact that this fundamental time interval is essentially identical to the complete orbit period of the earth around the sun (sidereal year), as measured relative to the inertial postion of Sirius, and with respect to the positions of the equinoxes and solstices.

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Dear Uwe,

Thanks for your E-mail of the 9th and the details of the other author. Like you, I hope that somebody takes the climatic issue up in greater detail. In the meantime, you and your readers might perhaps be interested in an Appendix which I wrote for my first Egypt book "Land of the Fallen Star Gods", entitled 'The Relationship Between the Sothic Year & The Annus Magnus', as follows:

"Whilst this relationship is perhaps not immediately obvious, it is nevertheless very real. It confirms with mathematical exactitude not only the rate of (supposed) Precession as it affects our Earth, but also a major reason why the Ancients regarded our otherwise apparently insignificant planet as the microcosm of a vast sidereal Macrocosm.

First of all, the result of merely dividing the 25,920 years of the Annus Magnus by the 1460 years of the Sothic cycle , is that we find ourselves with the apparently unremarkable ratio of 71:4. However, let us imagine that two entities both set out at the same speed in Space, at exactly the same time - one following the path of the Ecliptic and the other a spiro-eliptical path around it (i.e. just like the Sun and the Earth respectively). The effect would be roughly as shown in the attached diagram.

The diagram shows the 360 degree cycle of the Annus Magnus divided into its own thirty-six decads, or decanates, each of the latter taking (theoretically) 720 years to complete. Nevertheless, because our solar system cycles constantly around this path, completing one full orbit (as seen from Earth) every 1460 years, when it has completed two decanates(i.e 20 degrees), it would find itself twenty years 'behind schedule'. This amounts mathematically to:

(1460 - 1440) ÷ 1440 = 1 ÷ 72

By the time the solar system has completed 18 Sothic cycles, it will have taken 26,280 years instead of the 'scheduled' 25,920 years, the disparity between the two being exactly 360 years - i.e. one seventy-second part of the Annus Magnus - which is pretty well exactly the same ratio as found in the 5.24 day disparity between the 'scheduled ' 360 day orbit of the Earth and the actual completion time of 365.24 days. Both are due to an orbital eliptical cycle around another, greater celestial body, which is itself involved in a yet greater orbital cycle of its own.

Interestingly, the fact that that there are nine Sothic cycles out from the start point and a further nine involved in the return to the point of origin from the Celestial Perihelion was dramatised by the ancient Egyptians in their Heliopolitan pantheon - in the two divine Enneads of gods, where Horus the Younger (as the son of Osiris and Isis) is seen as a metaphor for the commencement of each new Annus Magnus ......."

Hope that this is of interest.

Yours Aye,

John Gordon