Washington DC Map Templates

4 Axes

  • Looking at the DC map we can see that three visual focal points generate three north-south axes; these are the White House (red), the Capitol Building (purple) and Lincoln Square (blue). You will note that the last two lie on the main east-west axis (East Capitol Street).

  • The Capitol marks the 'zero point' of the regular n-s-e-w grid of streets in the map. East-west streets are 'lettered' starting at E. Capitol St, while north-south streets are 'numbered' beginning at North and South Capitol Streets, the north-south axis that runs through the CB. The White House lies on 16th Street west and 12th Street East centers on Lincoln Square.

    Symmetry

  • The map is symmetrical around two of these axes, 16th Street West and East Capitol Street.

    We are told that L'Enfant had planned for an equestrian statue of George Washington to be located at the junction of these two axes, south of the WH and west of the CB. We read endless stories about how L'Enfant planned the whole of the map around this triangle. [Note that the triangle features a 19.5 degree angle at the CB, so that the distance from the statue to the WH would have been one third the distance between the CB and WH. (sine 19.5 = .333)]

    If you have read my introduction, you know that I contend that this is not the triangle (or rhombus) the planners would have like to work with, since I believe that the CB was located north of where they wanted it, as witnessed by the fact that if you put the CB in the position I suggest, Pennsylvannia Avenue runs straight from Georgetown to the river, and the angle is 23.5 degrees.

    As it turned out, the monument dedicated to GW was not located at this point, but was displaced 371 feet to the east and 123 feet to the south (which is a ratio of 1:3). Note that this move plays havoc with the notion of symmetry being centered at the crossroads (red x above).]

    If you look at the 1901 Plan (below), you can see how the line from the CB to Wash Mmt runs down hill (south of due west). Looking closely you will notice an attempt to restore the symmetry to the map by introducing a cross shape which was to result from adding the Lincoln Memorial to the west end of the E Capitol Street axis, and the Jefferson Memorial to the south end of the 16th Street axis.

    Note especially that the point that the McMillan folks use for the axis crossing is south of the real n-s e-w center point since the line is not 'level'. The image below is a close up drawing of the McMillan plan for the monument area. Note, this is not what DC looks like; the circle depicted below the WH (above) is now an ellipse.

    The location of the 'true' corner of that triangle is marked today by what is being called the Jefferson Pier (seen below), a two foot tall concrete marker.

    Intentions

    It is no secret that I believe that the DC planners used the Tree of Life and Metatron's Cube as templates for the map plan. In what I present, of all the points that make up the Tree and Cube in the map, four are mis-placed. Two are the Capitol and the Jefferson Memorial, which if the Capitol we moved south and Penn and Maryland Aves were redrawn would fit. The House of the Temple at sphere 1 is located in the middle of the top triangle on the Tree instead of being at the point (where New Hampshire crosses 16th St).

    The Washington Monument is roughly on the 16th Street axis which features the Scottish Rites House of the Temple, Scott Circle, the White House, the Ellipse, the Wash Mmt, and the Jeff Mml. Studying the map has convinced me that every feature in the plan was considered more than once, and that any 'deviation' would be done on purpose. That is, if the monument was supposedly planned for the point on 16th Street where two axes cross, and it 'needed' to be there according to the Tree and the Cube images, but it was placed eleswehre, it was done so in order to fit somewhere else.

    I submit that the Wash Mmt was 'moved' or rather positioned so as to map to the Queen's Chamber in the map image of the pyramid. The White House is the King's Chamber.


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