The
Feeding of the Five Thousand
Mark
6:30-44
Scripture
interweaves the imaginative with the historical, sometimes introducing
what is utterly impossible, sometimes what is possible but never occurred.
Early church father, Origen, Philocolia 1.8
Mark composed two Sacred Geometry stories about feeding a multitude
of people. In the first story the twelve apostles return after Jesus
gave them "authority" and sent them out "two by two."
When they return, the twelve inform Jesus that the crowd that comes
to see him is hungry. Jesus and the twelve then feed the multitude
which includes 5,000 men with 5 loaves and two fish having enough
leftovers of fish to fill 12 baskets (Mk 6:34-44). In the second story
Jesus feeds another multitude including about 4,000 men with 7 loaves
and a few fish having enough leftovers to fill 7 baskets (Mk 8:1-9).
The
gospel authors highly valued the story of how Jesus fed five thousand
men because it is the only story that appears in all four gospels.
On a literal
level, the two stories report how Jesus feeds a multitude of people
by means of a miracle. On a spiritual level, the two stories are allegories
for receiving spiritual instruction and knowledge as food for the
soul. The two stories are sacred geometry riddles using the Greek
practices of isopsephia and gematria to "prove" the raising
of Jesus. By
identifying the isopsephia value of the key words in each story and
correctly interpreting the drawing instructions disguised in the imagery
of the narration, the underlying geometry diagrams in each story are
constructed verse by verse.
The
solution of the two miracles involves two different graphs. The solution
for the miracle of feeding the 5,000 uses a circle with a circumference
of 888 units for most of it's diagrams, while the solution for the
miracle of feeding the 4,000 uses a circle with a circumference of
8880 units for all of it's diagrams. The two miracles mirror the motif
of Mark’s gospel ... "raising" Jesus from a circle
with a circumference of 888 units to a circle with a circumference
of 8880 units.
Diagrams
and Commentary