{National Cycles [continued]}[6th March 1988]

[Redbook5:37-38][19880306.0000]{National Cycles [continued]}[6th March 1988]

19880306. (a.m.?)

The cycle identified above* looks like a two-century cycle, or thereabouts. No doubt the phrase 'fin-de-siècle' suggests century cycles as well, arising, perhaps (like the week-cycle) more from Man's awareness of his own chosen units of time than from any natural time-span (such as the day or the year).

Millennia, thousand-year-periods, have since Christ (well, 'has' – there's only been one millennium so far, after all, just) inspired imaginations: several mediaeval European societies were converted to Christianity in the years approaching 1,000 a.d. in anticipation, it seems, of the Big Breakthrough.** But it is certainly possible to identify two 1,000 year cycles in British history since the time of Christ. The first begins, naturally enough, with Christ – and the imposition of order by the Romans.

Perhaps a chart would show better the fits*** and misfits of these cycles:

Millennia					Bimill- ennia
+C†I~ Attraction	0 (CHRIST)	55BC/ 43AD	Romans arrive		+C†I~
Ordination	100	(Some	\
M~	200	Conversions)	Roman Rule
Outer Action	300		/
Complication	400		Romans leave
Distraction A~	500		English invasions and settlements: separate kingdoms	\
Fragmentation	600		((2nd) Conversion of the English begins)	\
G~	700			Seaborne invasions
Revolution	800	871-901	Alfred the Great	/
Attraction	900		\ Danish invasions	/	A
+C†I~	1000	1042-60 1066-87	/ [–] Edward the Confessor Norman Conquest – Imposition of order.
Ordination	1100	1154-89	Henry II – Government machinery & laws.
Outer	1200	1272-1307	Conquest of Wales & Invasion of Scotland (Ed. I)
Action	1300	\
Complication	1400	Plague	Loss of French territories. Rise of Merchants, Wars of the Roses
A~ Distraction	1500	/	Reformation. Break with Rome, Dissolution of the Monasteries.	Foundation of Royal Navy.
	1600	/ 1558 [1603]	Elizabeth I ascends throne. Union of Crowns.
	1700	1640-9 1688	Civil War Glorious Revolution (→William and Mary) Union of English & Scots Parliaments. (Enlightenment &) Science.
Revolution	1800	c.1759-76	Pinnacle of British World power (Red Coats NB)	(1789 French Revolution[)]
	1900	1832	Reform Bill. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.	Missionary activity. Maritime Empires.
+C†I~	2000				+C†I~

[Some of the precise positioning of text against years in the ms. is lost in this ts. Table.]

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*[See last previous entry.]

**(I may have covered this before, e.g. II. [? – not found; but see [[Redbook1:208-210][19710621]{Prophecy}[21st June 1971]].)

***Curious word, 'fit'.

{Like many English words, it has contradictory meanings – depending, perhaps, on the viewpoint.}

****{cf. VI. [] 244}

[And/but see later entries.]

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