The Immaculate Constellation

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It's a comet! ... It's an alien probe! ... No! It's a message sent from God.

...or so our theory goes.

In the last post we explored the theory that the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is somehow a message from God, and connected to the similarly mysterious Wow! signal recorded by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence nearly fifty years ago.

And, by coincidence or not, we discovered scripture readings for both 3I/ATLAS and the Wow! signal focusing on the same theme... the second coming of Christ and coming of the end.

Very intriguing. Let's investigate further.

Following the trail

Our theory has led to some interesting correlations consistent with a message from God. But a good theory should be more than a one trick pony. It should be able to predict other things.

So let's take a look at what's new and unusual so far.

We've already observed that the readings share the alarming theme of the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. But there's also something else.

There's something about Mary

The Virgin Mary is showing up all over the place.

• We received the signal on the date of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• We have readings of the Virgin Mary, pregnant with child.
• And now we have this very real manifestation of 3I/ATLAS appearing in the constellation Virgo.

It's reasonable to consider that this is intentional. And if we look closely, we see an even deeper connection. It's not only the name of the Virgin that continues to come up, but the broader context that's similar.

Notice the correlation so far...

• First, the signal pointed to the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary – which claims the Virgin's body was taken up to heaven by God.
• Which led to 3I/ATLAS in the constellation Virgo – depicting a virgin's body placed in the heavens by God.

The correlation seems more than a coincidence. What might it mean? Well, if it really is God behind this, He appears to be emphasizing Marian doctrines.

The theory has already pointed to two:

1. The doctrine of the Assumption of Mary.
2. The doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary.

Where do we see evidence of the latter? The doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity says Mary maintained her virginity before, during, and after the birth of Jesus.

And what do we find here? We find 3I/ATLAS in the constellation Virgo, representing a woman eternally in the sky as a virgin before, during, and after the time when Mary walked the earth.

If this is indeed a pattern, it leads us to another hunch...

Might God also be pointing us to evidence of other Marian doctrines?

The Immaculate Conception

There have been only two times a Catholic pope has exercised papal infallibility since its formal definition by the Vatican I council.

Pope Pius XII was the last pope to do so in 1950, declaring the Marian doctrine we've already discussed – the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The only other time was in 1854, almost a hundred years earlier, when Pope Pius IX defined the Immaculate Conception of Mary as doctrine.

As another Marian doctrine defined by a pope, it could make a good candidate to investigate. But before we dig further into our message and its stars, we need to first understand what the doctrine actually means, because of the confusion around it.

The confusion stems from the common misperception that the Immaculate Conception pertains to the conception of Jesus Christ... that he was conceived through the miraculous action of the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary's womb.

This is incorrect.

The Immaculate Conception is actually about Mary's conception. It is the belief that Mary was conceived by normal biological means, but her soul was preserved from the stain of original sin from the moment of her conception.

The doctrine teaches that this singular grace was given only to Mary, on the future merits of her son Jesus, and that she remained immune from sin her entire life.

So – following what we suspect might be a pattern – we've got another candidate for a Marian doctrine to consider, proclaimed authoritatively by a pope in the same manner as the Assumption.

And now that we understand what the doctrine means, the question we have to ask is...

If God were to point us to evidence of the Immaculate Conception, how would he do it?

It almost seems like a movie.

Seeking the sacred feminine

In The Da Vinci Code , professor Robert Langdon and detective Sophie Neveu are in a race against time to uncover an ancient secret of Christianity. Along the way they solve cryptographic puzzles regarding symbols and mathematical ciphers hidden in art and embedded in Christian history, eventually leading them to the 'sacred feminine.'

I say our situation almost seems like the movie, because many claims and conclusions about Christianity in The DaVinci Code are fictitious and demonstrably false.

But in a general sense, our real world scenario is curiously similar. Our present-day theory also intersects with Christian history. And it has now led to a message we need to decode – a message playing out in the heavens with a valid sacred feminine, the most holy woman in history as a central character.

So where might this lead us? According to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Mary was free from sin, holy and perfect from a spiritual perspective. Which is another way of saying... 

Mary was the most perfect human ever to live. 

And that sparks an idea.

The divine proportion

One of the mathematical patterns explored in The Da Vinci Code surrounds the concept of phi ɸ – also known as the golden ratio, or the divine proportion.

Phi is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 1.618, and its properties have been studied by the greatest mathematical minds, from antiquity to this day.

Phi is called the divine proportion because we see it in many places in nature, as well as in human art and design.

For our purposes, we will focus on how phi is found in the human body...

If you measure the height of the body, then divide by the distance from the navel to the foot, you get phi... ~1.618.

The same ratio is said to be found with arms and other parts of the body.

Now, human bodies are obviously not all the same size, so this is not an absolute maxim. And some people dispute these examples as exaggerated. But whether it is absolutely true in all cases does not matter here.

What is important is the established concept of a divine proportion in the human body, along with the fact that it has a known numeric value forged in foundation of mathematics.

We can now use them to make another prediction from our theory.

PREDICTION TWO

If part of God's message is to confirm the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary... might He be pointing us to an Immaculate Constellation of Virgo in the sky?

In other words, what if in order to emphasize the divine Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, God intentionally formed the stars of the constellation Virgo so they would appear in the divine proportion, in a similar way the proportion appears in Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man?

Let's just say that would be... creative.

The Virgonian Woman

The classic interpretation of the divine proportion in the human body is to divide the overall height of the body by the height to the navel.

So starting from the constellation's navel (the star connecting the legs), we'll draw a first line A to the star at the top of Virgo's head. Then we'll draw a second line B from the navel to the star at the bottom of the right leg.

Now we can measure the length of the two lines, and plug them into the formula for phi. Writing a bit of code lets us access location data for the stars in Virgo from the Gaia mission and calculate the precise angular separation between them.

And when we do, we get an astonishing result...

The overall body of the constellation Virgo (the ratio between its head, navel and lowest foot) is within 99.0% of the divine ratio.

That is quite astounding.

Could it be a coincidence? Sure, maybe.

Make it a double

There is a widely recognized concept in scripture, that when God wants to establish something with certainty he repeats it for emphasis. He doubles it, or triples it.

We actually saw an example of this earlier, when our theory landed us in a double message pointing to the second coming of Christ. Double trouble, if you believe what the Bible says about that event.

So we might ask ourselves, would God double down here, to address the notion that our first measurement might have been a fluke?

Virgo has arms and leg segments it looks like we could measure, maybe one of those is also 'divine'?

And wouldn't you know it... after tweaking the code to investigate further, we find another divine ratio in the left leg. Not only that, the ratio between the leg segments calculate to within the exact same 99.0% of the divine proportion.

That's now two divine ratios in Virgo, who is now looking very much like an Immaculate Constellation.

Seek and you shall find

This discovery is quite stunning.

In fact, the thought that God might intentionally be doing this is so extraordinary we might find ourselves grasping for other explanations.

Maybe it's still a coincidence. Possibly. We're stacked a couple layers deep here now, predictions on top of predictions, and the possibility of coincidence is getting smaller and smaller.

Okay, we might say, but if God was intentionally doing this – couldn't He have gotten even closer than 99%?

This is similar to the argument we made in the first post, when we speculated God could be more precise and use time as well as a date, only to find out it looks like He actually did. And it's a decent argument to bring here.

To be fair, we did get two divine ratios, right where we expected, and they were exactly the same proportion, but still.

There is one other possibility to consider.

What if orchestrating both ratios to within 99% was intentional?

In fact, now that we think about it, 99.0% and 99.0% is somewhat suspicious. Both of them off by exactly 1.0%?

Where then, is God hiding the remaining 1%?

Perhaps He is hiding it in time.

Rolling back the universe

Stars are not stationary in the sky. Stars move.

As we stand looking at the sky, the stars don't appear to move. Even over a lifetime, we would be challenged to notice any change in a star's relative position in the sky.

The reason stars appear stationary is because they are so far away. The brightest stars in the constellation Virgo are 35 - 250 light years away, which means they are 2 - 10 million times farther away than our own star, the sun. At that distance, they don't appear to move to the naked eye.

Humans living thousands of years ago would have seen the same constellations, but the stars would be in a slightly different spot if they could compare them to today.

This now leads us to a further prediction.

PREDICTION THREE

If God is sending us a message about the Immaculate Conception of Mary, we should find our Virgo star separations are even more perfect two thousand years ago – at the time when the Virgin Mary walked the Earth.

With all this dynamic movement, it would seem unlikely these stars would be closer than 99.0% of 'divine proportion' two thousand years in the past, right?

Remarkably, after adding code to calculate the position of the stars in the past, we see the position of the stars in this celestial ballet get even more 'perfect' as we wind the clock of the universe back.

The separation ratios of these stars in the constellation Virgo in the year 1 A.D., when the Virgin Mary was walking the earth, are now within 99.8% and 99.9% of the divine proportion.

What are the chances that even one of our ratios would become more perfect than 99.0%? And we see both of them do exactly as predicted in alignment with the story conveyed by our theory?

Another double? A double double emphasizing the divine perfection of Virgo, going back two millennia to the time of the Virgin Mary to do it?

Immaculate Constellation indeed.

And the curious thing is... it somehow seems like we were led to it.

Summary

We began this post seeking to uncover more of the message we theorize God is sending us with 3I/ATLAS.

We began by looking for patterns in the discoveries made so far...

• Beyond the alarming theme of the second coming of Christ and the end of the world, we noticed the Virgin Mary making appearances throughout, including symbolically as the constellation Virgo alongside 3I/ATLAS.
• We noticed that two Marian doctrines had already been emphasized, the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary, and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary.
• Recognizing a potential pattern, we speculated this might be an intentional part of the message, and wondered if there might also be evidence supporting the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which states Mary was preserved from sin from the moment of her conception.
• We saw an analogy of Mary's sinless state to phi – the mathematical divine proportion of ~1.618 often attributed to the human body – and wondered if God might position the stars of the constellation Virgo in this divine proportion to emphasize the Immaculate Conception.
• Remarkably, we found the star separation ratios in Virgo within 99.0% in both the overall height of the constellation and in the left leg.
• Wondering if the ratios might be even better than 99.0% at the time the Virgin Mary was alive, we recalculated the ratios based on the star positions in the year 1 A.D. – and discovered Virgo's stars even more perfectly aligned to the divine proportion of phi, now within 99.9%.

Beyond these astounding results, it is interesting to look at what has gotten us here.

We are using reason and following intuition based on a theory, but the thread we are following is based on a story.

And it seems like we are being led to discover something personal.

Why would both those ratios cause our curiosity to dig deeper, only to find them in even more satisfyingly perfect alignment both numerically and with the rationale behind the prediction?

It's as if we were not only to discover the divine proportion in Virgo, but also to realize something about the Divine Creator of the message Himself...

What might He lead us to next?

This is part two in a series investigating the theory that God is behind the appearance of 3I/ATLAS.

Check back as we continue to investigate 3I/ATLAS and see where the theory continues to take us.

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