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When people look at solving a crime they try to find a pattern of murder. Over the years people have looked at maps of where the murders occurred and have tried to see a pattern in it. Some people have connected the dots and seen anything from a pentagon shape to a cross. Here’s yet another pattern for the Jack the Ripper murders.
After the murder of Nichols the killer turned west with the murder of Chapman. He then went southeast and killed Stride, before again making his way west to slay Eddowes. Finally the killer returned to the northeast with Kelly's murder. If a line is drawn, following these directions, given that they are true and equidistant, they make a figure eight pattern.
This pattern is more commonly called the ‘Vesica Pisces’ or Vessel of the Fish and is a paramount image of sacred geometry and central symbol to Christian religion. Thompson was obsessed with this symbol. This figure eight pattern was printed on the cover of Thompson’s 1913 three volume complete works. Engraved upon Francis Thompson’s tomb is the same symbol carved as linked crowns, one of laurels, and the other of thorns:
A central part of Thompson longest poem ‘Sister Songs’ depicts Dryads, which are mythical winged spirits. These spirits trace two circles in a linked figure eight pattern in the air.
The figure eight Vesica Pisces as shown in the cardinal compass directions the Ripper headed after each murders, is in the form of two triangles that meet at a point so that one is upright and the other is reversed. Thompson held this shape to be of utmost importance. Here is given just a small section of his on the topic, which is contained in his notebooks, stored in the Burns Library in Boston. It is given as he wrote it to highlight the depth of observations,
‘Antipodal Triangle 1= first progeny of any given triangle in its evolution towards perfection. (i.e. towards equilateral triangle). Tendency of successive progenies to oscillate twist plus and minus; difference of half each time, as measured by angle of equilateral ∆ = 60 degrees. Thus one progeny will equal (say) +70 degrees, the next =5.5 degrees; next +62 ½, next -58 ¾ (plus +minus). Thus progress in a regular 2 ratio till an equilateral ∆ is evolved. Reversing the process you pass through the “∆ of reference” (or starting-point ∆), & reach ultimately a point = degenerated triangle. But, in certain cases the triangles tend to degenerate into an oscillating straight line, the basic ends closing up simultaneously with the apex (apex point>) & thus coalescing in the point = the degenerated triangle. (Hegelian law)...the straight line only manifests the oscillation.’
This figure eight 'Vesica Pisces' pattern, shown in the murders and studied by Thompson, is more commonly called the Vessel of the Fish. It is a paramount image of sacred geometry and a central symbol to Christianity. Of this symbol Thompson professed,
After the murder of Nichols the killer turned west with the murder of Chapman. He then went southeast and killed Stride, before again making his way west to slay Eddowes. Finally the killer returned to the northeast with Kelly's murder. If a line is drawn, following these directions, given that they are true and equidistant, they make a figure eight pattern.
This pattern is more commonly called the ‘Vesica Pisces’ or Vessel of the Fish and is a paramount image of sacred geometry and central symbol to Christian religion. Thompson was obsessed with this symbol. This figure eight pattern was printed on the cover of Thompson’s 1913 three volume complete works. Engraved upon Francis Thompson’s tomb is the same symbol carved as linked crowns, one of laurels, and the other of thorns:
A central part of Thompson longest poem ‘Sister Songs’ depicts Dryads, which are mythical winged spirits. These spirits trace two circles in a linked figure eight pattern in the air.
‘Sister Songs’ records:
Gyre in gyre their treading was,...
Wheeling with an adverse flight,
In twi-circle o'er the grass,
All the band linked by each other's hand;’
Gyre in gyre their treading was,...
Wheeling with an adverse flight,
In twi-circle o'er the grass,
All the band linked by each other's hand;’
The figure eight Vesica Pisces as shown in the cardinal compass directions the Ripper headed after each murders, is in the form of two triangles that meet at a point so that one is upright and the other is reversed. Thompson held this shape to be of utmost importance. Here is given just a small section of his on the topic, which is contained in his notebooks, stored in the Burns Library in Boston. It is given as he wrote it to highlight the depth of observations,
‘Antipodal Triangle 1= first progeny of any given triangle in its evolution towards perfection. (i.e. towards equilateral triangle). Tendency of successive progenies to oscillate twist plus and minus; difference of half each time, as measured by angle of equilateral ∆ = 60 degrees. Thus one progeny will equal (say) +70 degrees, the next =5.5 degrees; next +62 ½, next -58 ¾ (plus +minus). Thus progress in a regular 2 ratio till an equilateral ∆ is evolved. Reversing the process you pass through the “∆ of reference” (or starting-point ∆), & reach ultimately a point = degenerated triangle. But, in certain cases the triangles tend to degenerate into an oscillating straight line, the basic ends closing up simultaneously with the apex (apex point>) & thus coalescing in the point = the degenerated triangle. (Hegelian law)...the straight line only manifests the oscillation.’
This figure eight 'Vesica Pisces' pattern, shown in the murders and studied by Thompson, is more commonly called the Vessel of the Fish. It is a paramount image of sacred geometry and a central symbol to Christianity. Of this symbol Thompson professed,
Oh, I believe astrology,
Tis destiny prevails,
And my evil stars are the fishes, with
The Virgin and the Scales!
Tis destiny prevails,
And my evil stars are the fishes, with
The Virgin and the Scales!
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