One verse of the song hands over the whole architecture of creation, mind-born and numbered — and says outright that the same code builds the cosmos and builds you. Tap any stage to open it.
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The fourteen measure time — and the measuring can be done two ways. Count the reigns of the fourteen and a day of the Creator comes to one figure. Take the song's own reckoning at 8.17 — a thousand ages — and it comes to another, larger by twenty-six million years. Neither count is wrong. The first one leaves out the joins.
A thousand divine years, with a hundred at each end for the twilights that open and close it. Reckoned in our years, that is the shortest of the four ages.
Fourteen reigns are separated and bounded by fifteen junctions — one before the first, one between each pair, one after the last. Each is given the length of a Kṛta-yuga, the longest of the four: {{ ySandhi }} years. Fifteen of them come to {{ yGap }} — which is exactly what the reigns alone were missing.
The length of a junction is the tradition's own figure, not this page's arithmetic; what the page does is put the two counts side by side and add them up. A seminar of seven lessons on Book VIII, 1983, sets the reigns out this way — Master E.K.'s reckoning, restated in our words.
Macrocosm and microcosm share one code — trace the hierarchy outward, and you are reading yourself inward.