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kailash
 Since long forgotten centuries this mountain has been a prized goal of pilgrimage. Different religious groups - Hindus, Buddhists, Jajnists - have celebrated this withdrawn giant behind the main Himalayan range, and many were those suffering death before the walk was fulfilled.
Its striking profile and the lively features of its faces are never forgotten once experienced. Lama Angarika Govinda comments on this mountain in his beautiful book, The Way of the White Clouds, questioning the 'personality' of certain mountains, concluding that Kailash definitely is a story of its own.
Reading this I got the feeling that even Earth geometry might comment on it. The possible sacred quality of a place, like a mountain, might be the result of combined qualities, agents of energies that are perceived not only by the eye (shape, landscape scene) or experienced by religious feeling. Perhaps the whole scope of capacites are transmitted in a way we are hardly conscious of.
If this be true, the term 'holy' would be fully relevant.
The geometrical quality in question refers - as in so many other cases - to the latitude. Kailash is located at 3114-3115aa north. This figure may even relate it to the Great Pyramid, although the comparison may seem odd.
The Pyramid's actual longitude is 3113aa east, mentioning the Greenwich meridian as the zero line. To compare the Greenwich meridian with the equator may seem more than awkward, however. The self-defining middle of the rotating planet and the manpower-defined zero of longitudes definitely refer to different references.
However, thinking of the Great Pyramid as a basic longitudinal zero, defined thousands of years before London was even imagined as a fishing-place, we might state that the Greenwich meridian is a derivation ...
Anyway, the point here is what the number 3114 can reveal (being the numerological symbol of the figures mentioned). The answer is most clear in the Kailash example, suggested by the fact that the latitudinal plane divides the polar axis in the proportion 1 : pi.
In other words, the distance to the south pole is 3.14... times that to the north pole. The parable of the Key of Transition enters the scene.
The Key is a most important symbolical key of geometry. It is a symbol of totality, or, of duality in unity, where both components refer to the circle. The circle - the geometrical carrier of the symbol One - produces this key without support from other agents. It's a divine symbol in the radical sense of the term, exposing the united extensions of diameter and periphery as an addition, thus announcing a mention of origin and produce, or, absolute and relative, as parts of an intimate whole.
The pilgrims experiencing Kailash may exclude such deliberations. None-
theless I guess there may be a connection between the different levels of experience and knowledge. The Periscope seems to nourish that
idea.
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