Chart 2. I Ching kua
chapter numbers are assigned to the codons and Hebrew letters to amino acids. Red="Mother"
White="Double" Blue="Simple" Hebrew letters.
TABLE OF THE UNIVERSAL GENETIC CODE
PYRIMIDINE NUCLEIC ACIDS PURINE NUCLEIC ACIDS
URACIL CYTOSINE ADENINE GUANINE
Chart 1. The codons for the amino acids read from left-top-right. Red=Punctuation White=Non-polar
Blue=Polar amino acids.
There is an article on page 24 of the March 1995 issue of "Scientific American" titled "Talking Trash." This article states that scientists have found "word" patterns in the "junk" DNA of man. The junk DNA (segments of the DNA genome which do not encode instructions for the production of proteins) exhibits the same statistical patterns that are found in languages. These scientists say that junk DNA follows the structure of languages. My work points to the possibility that the language may be Hebrew or, possibly, a Proto-Caananite precursor of Hebrew.
A number of years ago I stumbled across a unique similarity of form between the genetic code and a fusion of the Hebrew alphabet with the ancient Chinese divination system of the I Ching; or "Book of Changes." I was studying the I Ching when I came across a book(1) that demonstrated an isomorphism between the 64 symbols of the I Ching (called hexagrams or kua) and the 64 codons of the genetic code. I wondered if there might be, among the mystic or occult systems of other cultures, a corresponding set of symbols for the amino acids of the genetic code for which the 64 codons code. I turned to the Hebrew occult system of Qabalah and discovered the Sefer Yetzirah or "Book of Creation."(2)
The Sefer Yetzirah is the earliest known text of the Qabalah. Its "magical" purpose is to educate the reader in the process of creation using the Hebrew alphabet as The Creator did. Because the 22 trump cards (also called atu) of the Tarot system of divination have Hebrew letters assigned to them, I thought that maybe I could compare the symbols, images, and concepts in the Tarot trumps with the corresponding contents of the I Ching kua. Then, if there are enough similarities, I could assign each of the trumps to a group of I Ching kua. The result would be a Hebrew letter assignment for each amino acid and punctuation codon in the genetic code.
Chart 2. I Ching kua
chapter numbers are assigned to the codons and Hebrew letters to amino acids. Red="Mother"
White="Double" Blue="Simple" Hebrew letters.
The assignment of the I Ching symbols to the nucleic acids of the genetic code is based upon similarities of form and function between their respective domains. The assignment of Hebrew letters to the groups of I Ching kua is based upon the similarity of content between the atu of the Tarot and the kua of the I Ching. The Hebrew letter PE, on the Tarot atu "The Tower", is assigned to the I Ching kua 20, 23, 24, 3, 42, and 27 because the symbol, image, and concept content of the atu and kua are similar to a high degree. As a result, PE is analogous to the amino acid leucine because the kua assigned to it are analogous to the codons which code for leucine.
I used the Wilhelm/Baynes(3) translation of the I Ching and Aleister Crowley's "Book of Thoth,"(4) his interpretation of the Tarot. I didn't think that I would find too great a similarity between these two divination systems since Wilhem's I Ching is derived from the very moralistic Confucian school of Oriental philosophy while Crowley's Tarot is a vehicle for his highly idiosyncratic and minimally moral system of "sex magic" as a path to enlightenment.
Imagine my shock and surprise when I discovered that these two diverse approaches to divination, one Eastern and one Western, demonstrated an enormous similarity of content; symbolic, imagistic, and conceptual - WHEN GROUPED AND ARRANGED AS THE NUCLEIC ACIDS AND AMINO ACIDS ARE GROUPED AND ARRANGED IN THE GENETIC CODE.
It is interesting that one half of the Occult Genetic Code should be insinuated into the occult tradition of the Chinese, the most numerous of our planet's peoples; while the other half should be entrusted to the Hebrews, who make up only a relatively small but influential part of the worlds population. Until recently the Chinese did not wander far from their home in Asia and their influence upon the culture of our world has been relatively small. The Jews, on the other hand, have had an influence on the history and culture of our planet completely out of proportion to their numbers. This is in part due to the effects of the Diaspora. Other comparisons can be made regarding the history and culture of the Chinese and Jewish peoples which may shed light on why these two unique cultures were chosen to be the vehicles for the transport of two halves of what may be a textual virus - set to infect the body politic of Earth at a time when that knowledge is needed.
One implication of my discovery gives me pause. Perhaps the Hebrew alphabet was deliberately modeled on the naturally occurring chemical "alphabet" of life. I have studied the official theories regarding the development of writing, and I think they are weak in certain areas; particularly when trying to explain why this alphabet has only 22 letters when the Hebrew language and its Caananite precursors have many more phonemes than that.
Perhaps somewhere in the vast genetic library that is the human genome there is a clear message, in the Hebrew or a precursor language, from "The Creator(s)." If "The Creator(s)" have a sense of humour similar to ours maybe they would get a kick out of the idea of letting us know, at a future time when we are technologically advanced enough, just who we are and how we came to be.
Find each of the Trump/Hebrew letter assignments to their respective amino acids and why they are so by using the:
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 "The I Ching & the Genetic Code: The Hidden Key to Life"; Martin
Schonberger, ASI Publishers Inc., New York N.Y., 1979
2 "Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation"; Aryeh Kaplan, Samuel
Weiser, Inc., York Beach Maine, 1990
3 "The I Ching or Book of Changes"; Richard Wilhelm translator,
rendered from the German into English by C.F. Baynes, Princeton
University Press, Princeton N.J., 1976
4 "The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot)"; Aleister Crowley, U.S.
Game Systems, Inc., New York N.Y., 1979