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"Just the facts, ma'am" — Joe Friday
See the entry Lucky (?) Numbers of Saturday, April 2, 2005, 11:07 AM ET, for links to a few facts about the historical role of the Number of the Beast in the Pennsylvania Lottery.
The Pennsylvania Lottery mid-day drawings take place at about 1:10 PM ET.
Pope John Paul II died on Saturday, April 2, at 2:37 PM ET.
Thus the final PA drawing of his lifetime was on that Saturday afternoon.
The winning mid-day number that day was…
In the I Ching, this is the number of
The Power of the Great.
Neuhaus stated that "If any phrase encapsulates the message that John Paul declared to the world, it is probably 'prophetic humanism.'" If there is such a thing, it is probably best exemplified by the I Ching. For further details, see Hitler's Still Point.
Father Neuhaus's argument included the following mysterious phrase:
"God's unfolding covenant with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus."
Compare the following two passages from Holy Scripture:
"…behold behind him
a ram caught in a thicket by his horns"
"A goat butts against a hedge
And gets its horns entangled."
A topic for discussion by the foolish:
In the current historical situation,
who is Isaac and who is the goat?
From yet another Holy Scripture,
a topic for discussion by the wise:
“Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world. But I doubt that the gardener would succeed in incorporating the world in his bamboo grove.”