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The principle
A point fulcrum at the centre of a solid bisects each face at right angles and gives it an axis, and around each face axis a space torus forms. In a pyramid the tori all turn the same way, so at the apex, the point of conjunction, they join into a single column of axial energy. Its direction follows the right-hand rule: if the flow leaves through the faces, it enters through the apices, and the reverse. The same holds for every solid.
The frequency of a torus depends on how far its wave travels from its axis. Wide tori turn slower and lower; tight tori turn faster and higher, just as a theremin's pitch rises when the hand comes closer to its aerial.
Around each face axis the tori are concentric. A pyramid brings the tori of its faces together at the apex, the point of conjunction: there they join into rings around the apex axis that tighten toward the tip (after Illus. 11-4B). The right-hand rule sets every spin: the thumb points along the current and the fingers give the rotation. Where the current leaves through a face, its tori turn counterclockwise seen from outside; the current enters at the apex, so the apex rings turn clockwise seen from outside. The spins agree exactly where the faces meet, and together they make the column of axial energy at the apex.
In the diagram every current is coloured by its direction: blue going in, red going out, whatever reverses it. Follow the currents inward and every axis becomes a dipole. What the apices draw in travels along their axes to the centre, splits there, and leaves along the face axes. In the tetrahedron each apex axis runs straight through the centre and out of the opposite face, so one line carries the current in at one end and out at the other.
In the Merkaba the shape allows only one behaviour: it is a passive circuit, and like a star all 8 tips receive, or all 8 emit, at the same instant. The counter-rotation that many teachings describe is still there, as a matter of viewpoint. Look along the axis through two opposite tips: the near tip's rings turn clockwise, and the far tip's rings, which also turn clockwise seen from their own side, appear counterclockwise from here. One rule, seen from one side, gives two tetrahedra turning opposite ways. Press Cones to see it: the apex tori grow into cones, the axis through two opposite tips stands upright, and the labels show the top cone turning clockwise and the bottom one counterclockwise.
The octahedron at the Merkaba's core agrees with it too (Octahedron tori). Each of its 8 faces looks straight at one tip, so its face axis lies on that tip's axis: its tori carry the tip's current and turn the same way. Its 6 corners lie on the 4-fold axes, and by the same rule (current in through the faces, out through the corners) they add six new currents. Press ▶ Start pulse to drive the solid like an alternating current: in each half cycle the currents slow down, stop and reverse, so faces and apices swap roles, and the slider sets how fast. Use View to look straight along a 2-, 3- or 4-fold axis: the moving currents then draw a pattern that repeats 2, 3 or 4 times around the centre.
Add more concentric tori with the Tori slider and the outermost one grows to fill its face. Every face here is a regular polygon, and its inscribed circle touches each edge exactly at the midpoint, so the tori of two neighbouring faces meet there. Seen from outside both turn the same way, like two wires carrying current in the same direction (Illus. 6-6): they do not cancel, they are drawn together, and a new point fulcrum forms in the middle of every edge, where a countercurrent appears. Card III, Eternity and Infinity: counter-rotating magnetic fields, shows how. Join the three fulcrums of a triangular face and an inverted triangle appears inside it: the first step of the Sierpinski division in card V, now made by the tori themselves.
Our hypothesis
The sharper the apex, the tighter the tori that meet there, and so the higher the frequency and the faster the axial current. Of all regular solids the tetrahedron has the sharpest corners (a solid angle of only 0.55 steradian), so it should resonate highest. In the diagram the apex currents pulse faster on sharper corners. This is a hypothesis still to be measured.
The Merkaba is two tetrahedra passing through each other, and their common core is an octahedron. Each of its 8 tips is a tetrahedron corner (0.55 sr), so all 8 should resonate as high as the tetrahedron. Every tip belongs to one tetrahedron only, so its three tori always agree. All 8 tips draw in together and all 24 faces send out together, and the octahedron at the centre, the heart of the Space-Time Antenna, passes the current on along its own six corners.
Conventional bridge
A current circulating in a loop produces a magnetic field along its axis, with the direction given by Ampère's right-hand rule. A spinning vortex ring carries momentum along its axis. And in resonant circuits, a smaller loop has less inductance and so a higher resonant frequency.
Where it differs
Separate tori on each face, and their agreement at the apex, have not been measured directly. The diagram shows the model, not a measurement.
Sources: Alchemical Manual, Vol. 1, ch. 11, Illus. 11-4A and 11-4B · own research · Right-hand rule · Solid angle · Theremin