MichaelTheAngel
02-25-2010, 02:53 PM
I'd like input on how the lighthouse dial might be the basis for the discarded show title "The Circle"
Notes:
360 degrees, 360 names, 360 candidates.
Compass - circular face - 360 degrees
Circle of ash.
Coming full circle - to complete a full cycle, return to a starting position
Closed Timelike Curves (time circles)
Ouroboros - Eloise had a bracelet of one
Yin-Yang - circular shape - good and evil are part of an inseparable whole.
Eyes - circular shape
Oceanic symbol - concentric circles
Jacob has crossed off most of the 360 candidates, leaving Jack, Sawyer, Hugo, Kate and a few others. He is near completion of the circle of names, and finding his successor.
Maybe the title refers to Jacob's role as 'protector' and 'spiritual advisor' to the Island as "coming full circle"
p.s.
"God is a circle who's center is nowhere and circumference is everywhere" - Hermes Trismegistus
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus
is the representation of the syncretic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism) combination of the Greek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology) god Hermes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes) and the Egyptian god Thoth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-0) In Hellenistic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic) Egypt, the Greeks recognised the congruence of their god Hermes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes) with the Egyptian god Thoth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-1). Subsequently the two gods were worshipped as one in what had been the Temple of Thoth in Khemnu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermopolis), which the Greeks called Hermopolis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermopolis).In addition, both gods were psychopomps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp); guiding souls to the afterlife. Plato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato)'s Timaeus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_%28dialogue%29) and Critias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias_%28dialogue%29) state that in the temple of Neith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neith) at Sais (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sais), there were secret halls containing historical records which had been kept for 9,000 years. Clement of Alexandria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Alexandria) was under the impression that the Egyptians had forty-two sacred writings by Hermes, encapsulating all the training of Egyptian priests. Siegfried Morenz has suggested (Egyptian Religion) "The reference to Thoth's authorship...is based on ancient tradition; the figure forty-two probably stems from the number of Egyptian nomes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome_%28Egypt%29), and thus conveys the notion of completeness." The Neo-Platonic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism) writers took up Clement's "forty-two essential texts".The origin of the description Trismegistus or "thrice great" is unclear. Copenhaver reports that this name is first found in the minutes of a meeting of the council of the Ibis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis) cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult), held in 172 BCE near Memphis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis) in Egypt.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-7) Fowden however asserts that the earliest occurrence of the name was in the Athenagora (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athenagora&action=edit&redlink=1) by Philo of Byblos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_of_Byblos) circa 64–141 CE[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-8). Another explanation is that the name is derived from an epithet of Thoth found at the Temple of Esna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esna), "Thoth the great, the great, the great."[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-9) The date of his sojourn in Egypt in his last incarnation is not now known, but it has been fixed at the early days of the oldest dynasties of Egypt, long before the days of Moses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses). Some authorities regard him as a contemporary of Abraham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham), and some Jewish traditions go so far as to claim that Abraham acquired a portion of his mystical knowledge from Hermes himself (Kybalion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kybalion)).
Many Christian writers, including Lactantius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactantius), Augustine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine), Giordano Bruno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno), Marsilio Ficino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsilio_Ficino), Campanella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Campanella) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pico_della_Mirandola) considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan) prophet who foresaw the coming of Christianity[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-10). They believed in a 'Prisca Theologia', the doctrine that a single, true, theology exists, which threads through all religions, and which was given by God to man in antiquity[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-11)[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-12) and passed through a series of prophets, which included Zoroaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster) and Plato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato). In order to demonstrate the verity of the 'priscia theologia' Christians appropriated the Hermetic teachings for their own purposes. By this account Hermes Trismegistus was either, according to the fathers of the Christian church, a contemporary of Moses[14] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-13) or the third in a line of men named Hermes, i.e. Enoch, Noah and the Egyptian priest king who is known to us as Hermes Trismegistus,[15] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-14) or "thrice great" on account of being the greatest priest, philosopher and king.[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-15)[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-16)
In some trance "readings" of Edgar Cayce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce), Hermes or Thoth was an engineer from the submerged Atlantis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis), who also built, designed or directed the construction of the Pyramids of Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids).100%
From http://www.whats-your-sign.com/circle-symbol-meaning.html
Some circle symbol meaning keywords to contemplate:
Inclusion
Wholeness
Focus
Unity
Nurturing
Cycles
Initiation
Everything
Perfection
Womb
Centering
Revolution
Infinity
Mobility
Completion
Notes:
360 degrees, 360 names, 360 candidates.
Compass - circular face - 360 degrees
Circle of ash.
Coming full circle - to complete a full cycle, return to a starting position
Closed Timelike Curves (time circles)
Ouroboros - Eloise had a bracelet of one
Yin-Yang - circular shape - good and evil are part of an inseparable whole.
Eyes - circular shape
Oceanic symbol - concentric circles
Jacob has crossed off most of the 360 candidates, leaving Jack, Sawyer, Hugo, Kate and a few others. He is near completion of the circle of names, and finding his successor.
Maybe the title refers to Jacob's role as 'protector' and 'spiritual advisor' to the Island as "coming full circle"
p.s.
"God is a circle who's center is nowhere and circumference is everywhere" - Hermes Trismegistus
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus
is the representation of the syncretic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism) combination of the Greek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology) god Hermes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes) and the Egyptian god Thoth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-0) In Hellenistic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic) Egypt, the Greeks recognised the congruence of their god Hermes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes) with the Egyptian god Thoth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-1). Subsequently the two gods were worshipped as one in what had been the Temple of Thoth in Khemnu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermopolis), which the Greeks called Hermopolis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermopolis).In addition, both gods were psychopomps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp); guiding souls to the afterlife. Plato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato)'s Timaeus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus_%28dialogue%29) and Critias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias_%28dialogue%29) state that in the temple of Neith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neith) at Sais (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sais), there were secret halls containing historical records which had been kept for 9,000 years. Clement of Alexandria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Alexandria) was under the impression that the Egyptians had forty-two sacred writings by Hermes, encapsulating all the training of Egyptian priests. Siegfried Morenz has suggested (Egyptian Religion) "The reference to Thoth's authorship...is based on ancient tradition; the figure forty-two probably stems from the number of Egyptian nomes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome_%28Egypt%29), and thus conveys the notion of completeness." The Neo-Platonic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism) writers took up Clement's "forty-two essential texts".The origin of the description Trismegistus or "thrice great" is unclear. Copenhaver reports that this name is first found in the minutes of a meeting of the council of the Ibis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis) cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult), held in 172 BCE near Memphis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis) in Egypt.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-7) Fowden however asserts that the earliest occurrence of the name was in the Athenagora (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athenagora&action=edit&redlink=1) by Philo of Byblos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_of_Byblos) circa 64–141 CE[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-8). Another explanation is that the name is derived from an epithet of Thoth found at the Temple of Esna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esna), "Thoth the great, the great, the great."[10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-9) The date of his sojourn in Egypt in his last incarnation is not now known, but it has been fixed at the early days of the oldest dynasties of Egypt, long before the days of Moses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses). Some authorities regard him as a contemporary of Abraham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham), and some Jewish traditions go so far as to claim that Abraham acquired a portion of his mystical knowledge from Hermes himself (Kybalion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kybalion)).
Many Christian writers, including Lactantius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactantius), Augustine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine), Giordano Bruno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno), Marsilio Ficino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsilio_Ficino), Campanella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Campanella) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pico_della_Mirandola) considered Hermes Trismegistus to be a wise pagan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan) prophet who foresaw the coming of Christianity[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-10). They believed in a 'Prisca Theologia', the doctrine that a single, true, theology exists, which threads through all religions, and which was given by God to man in antiquity[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-11)[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-12) and passed through a series of prophets, which included Zoroaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster) and Plato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato). In order to demonstrate the verity of the 'priscia theologia' Christians appropriated the Hermetic teachings for their own purposes. By this account Hermes Trismegistus was either, according to the fathers of the Christian church, a contemporary of Moses[14] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-13) or the third in a line of men named Hermes, i.e. Enoch, Noah and the Egyptian priest king who is known to us as Hermes Trismegistus,[15] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-14) or "thrice great" on account of being the greatest priest, philosopher and king.[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-15)[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trismegistus#cite_note-16)
In some trance "readings" of Edgar Cayce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce), Hermes or Thoth was an engineer from the submerged Atlantis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis), who also built, designed or directed the construction of the Pyramids of Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids).100%
From http://www.whats-your-sign.com/circle-symbol-meaning.html
Some circle symbol meaning keywords to contemplate:
Inclusion
Wholeness
Focus
Unity
Nurturing
Cycles
Initiation
Everything
Perfection
Womb
Centering
Revolution
Infinity
Mobility
Completion