CEP – SHADOW TIME
Outside of the official program CALENdeRsign presents its personal contribution to:
CULTURAL CAPITAL of EUROPE GRAZ 0003
WHAT IS CEP?
Abstract:
CEP the Countdown to the Equinoctial Planetary alignment is a new way of counting the days. CEP points into the future to the day of the Northward Vernal Equinox that coincides with an alignment of the classical planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn with Sun and Moon and the modern planets Uranus and Neptune.
CEP counts down the days to this event. CEP = 0 is convertible into 20th March 2675 CE or JDN 2,698,162.
On CEP –245500, or 22nd February 0003, the new calendar was first presented here to the general public.
CEP, orientated to an alignment of all planets, is in line with the great calendrical time keeping systems of mankind:
The Christian yearly count, Anno Domini (AD), was adjusted in a way that an alignment of all classical planets occurred at the millennium, exactly on 5th May, 2000, CEP -246,492.
The start of the Indian age “Kali Yuga” was adjusted to a similar alignment on 17th February, 3102 BCE.
The first Chinese timekeeping started also at such a conjunction.
Placing the CEP date on the SHADOW OBJECT CLOCK TOWER is CALENdeRsign’s special contribution, outside of the official program, to CULTURAL CAPITOL of EUROPE GRAZ 0003.
The Logo
of GRAZ 0003, a
peculiar yearly dating,
may relate to an informal talk of Sepp Rothwangl with the former senator of
culture Helmut Strobl, and the shadow of the Clock Tower, a wonderfully
successful black clone of the popular landmark of Graz, created by the young
Styrian artist Markus Wilfling, provides concrete temporal and spatial points to
present the new time calculation CEP for the first time outside the internet to
the public.
The
reason and incentive for the contribution of CALENdeRsign was the invitation of
the director, when he said during the opening gala of GRAZ 0003 on 13th
Jan.: “You are the one, we mean. You are the partner of GRAZ 0003 …come join
us!” and the words of US artist Vito Acconci during opening of the new Mur
Island: “You need to capture the time, and you need to move in its direction
… and there is seemingly a permanent desire of mankind to avoid the future”.
CEP, the
Countdown to the Equinoctial Planetary alignment counts the calendrical days up
to this event on day CEP = 0, which is
convertibel with 20 th March,
2675 CE.
This way of counting time towards the future not only has a predecessor in the recent gone countdown up to 2000, but is linked with ancient tradition, like the counting of days in the Julian Calendar. The daily calendar of ancient Rome in fact represents a countdown. The month is divided into three parts by the Kalaende, Nonae and Ides and the days are counted within the month up to these three corner points. This tradition is still evident during the leap days in liturgical Christian calendar, where the sixth day before the start of March was counted double, and therefore was called “bisextilis”, and fell always on 23rd day of February.
But also
the counting of the year after the Year of the Lord (anno domini), invented in 6th
cent. by Dionysius Exiguus represents in fact a countdown,
true origin of which comes from shadow into light. Using
as a base an actual alignment of all
classical planets during his lifetime on 31-5-531CE , Dionysius calculated
towards the future the recurrence of an identical alignment, which in fact took
place on May 5, 2000 .
Then he
used the value
for constant of precession,
at this time assumed, and supported
by the Revelation of
St. John, with 66.6 year shift over 1° (results 30° in 2000 years) to adjust
from this moment backwords to the year of the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
The true
origin for the invention of the AD count was to avert Chiliasm, Millenarianism,
and the world-end fever that came up reaching the frightening year 6000 of the
first Christian chronology, a creation of the world era, written in the world
history of Sextus Julius Africanus in the 3rd century.
The AM count is based on a teleological concept that would use history to
show God's plan of salvation and thus is constructed on a time frame that
depends on the words of the Bible:
2 Peter 3:8: one day is with the
Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
In the
concept of Africanus, the biblical seven-day creation plays a major role, and in
this time frame, 6000 years (relating to the six days of creation of the world
in Genesis) would elapse between the creation of the world, and the seventh day
would be the Day of the Lord or Day of Judgment.
In
accordance with this 6 days concept the Anno Mundi count was influenced by
another temporal idea, that put the whole assumed history of mankind of 6000
years into the frame of one single “Christian doomsday”, in which Christ
appeared in the last (11th ) hour: Writing
in the first half of the third century, Origen, in his Commentary on Matthew,
employed this analogy of the twelve hours of the day to divide the whole of
biblical history into ages. Accordingly, he locates Noah at the third hour,
Abraham at the sixth, Moses at the ninth, and, finally, Christ at the eleventh
hour.
Consequently,
in the AM count, the date of Christ’s birth was adjusted in the middle of
sixth millennium to the year AM 5500, because it corresponded with the 11th hour
of the available 12. (6000 : 12 * 11 = 5500).
This AM
method is still seen
with little change in
the Byzantine Era of Orthodox Christians.
So the
actual reason for the invention of AD years by D.E. was to combat the world-end
fever and
the fear of judgement day, caused by fatal date AM 6000. D.E. D.E.
shifted this fearful event about 1500 years
into the future, by calculating the assumed end of the Picean age, which took at
beginning symbols like ICHTHYS and the sacrificed lamb (the slaughtered ram, the
past age of Aries).
Dionysius
finds a parallel in the adjustment of Kali Yuga by the Indian astronomer
Aryabhata of Kusumpara, who as a contemporary, calculated backward
to find its beginning at a conjunction
of all planets on 17-Feb-3102 BCE.
A model
for his calculation Dionysius found also in the classical Greek philosophers,
whom he surely knew. Their ideas are clearly handed down e.g. by Censorinus: ...
there is a yearly unit, which Aristotle calls the Greatest Year rather than a
large year. It concerns the period in which the circular paths of the Sun, Moon
and the five planets will pass through in such a way that all these heavenly
bodies are located in the same constellation.... The time in which all planets
meet again in the same sign is the "Greatest Year."
CEP thus
is in line with the great calendrical time keeping systems of mankind.
CEP
numbers the days until a Northward Spring Equinox, that randomly coincides with
a very narrow conjunction of all classical planets (also Sun and Moon) including
also the modern planets Uranus and Neptune. To calculate a recurrence of such an
alignment at an equinox is impossible even with modern methods and is presumably
out of the range of human existence.
The spatial situation of
this conjunction has left its mark already with the
Planet Trail “HEAVEN ON EARTH” in
Rettenegg – Stuhleck in seven miles a landscape in the scale of 1: 1 billion.
The
cosmic and calendrical situation on which the date CEP = 0 is focused, therefore,
will not be in the shadow of all till now known temporal
corner points.
We hope
that Graz now, unfortunately for Johannes Kepler no lucky residence, during the
presentation of CEP will prove itself more tolerant, favourably inclined and is
worthy for its slogan “GRAZ ANYTHING GOES”.
The
location of the three dimensional Shadow building of the Clock tower, that shows
hours and minutes with its hands in reverse manner, was consciously chosen in
order to present this new possibility of measuring time near to an optical
parallel.
The day
number of public presentation (CEP 245500) may be an additional riddle for
numerologists, giving the hours of the day and the year of Christ’s birth in
the Anno Mundi count.
Further historical information
will be found on the website Adjustment of
AD.
More information on new
time concept, please see CEP.
CEP -245,492 (30th Jan, 0003) after finishing of construction works,
1000 days after 5th May 2000, CEP -246,492