Yes, there is indeed a lesser order phenomenon associated with planetary patterns: Earthquakes. They are a targeted agitation of specific locations on/just under the earth. They are caused by patterns of far less power than those which trigger a general agitation of the whole of the earth, and the other planets also.
Seems plausible to me. We've mostly tended to think for centuries that we are moving along through space in a vacuum unaffected by anything other than a gravitational attraction to the Sun, even ignoring the Moon's tidal effects. But we're really being tugged to and fro all the time, and with our land mass not being balanced very well.
With regard to the Franciscans, I would ask you what you consider to be the ‘end of time.’ I believe that it is a very precise pattern that triggers these end of age events, as I identify. But if the Franciscans believed that ‘the end’ constitutes something else i.e. some literal return of Jesus, then they would not have recognised the 1345 AD as the event in question.
Keith, to be clear I am not arguing against your position, only that it appears clear to me that there are at least two different 'tracks', or frameworks of context, for considering what is being referenced by biblical references to 'end times'. There is your type of framework, and then a politicized / theological version. With perhaps the latter version both profiting from latent collective fears of former occurrences and/or the former veiling the physical manifestation for keeping the sheep calm at other times.
The documentary doesn't seem to provide us with an ability to know what the exact dating they were expecting, if any. In any case, Januszczak, an art historian, finds a pretty convincing clue of what inspired the Sistine Chapel in the work
Christian Topography by the Egyptian monk, Cosmas (see at ~1:30:00). It might be profitable to research more into this material, which appears to make us of Zodiacal references.
The Waco Siege of 1995 left 76 cult members dead - What caused their zealous obsession with God? Embarking on a global search for answers, Waldemar Januszczak finds a clue in the least likely place possible: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in Rome.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/713272
As Januszczak was pursuing a second track framework, I am doing similar, in demonstrating why the Jesuits would simultaneously posit two End Times scenarios (Preterist and Futurist) and the Vatican also endorse them both at the same time.
As such, likely you are not familiar with Joseph Atwill's book,
Caesar's Messiah, which shows that the New Testament Second Coming was referring cynically to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple "in the disciple's
generation" (i.e. 40 years). The early church father's happily admitted as much. The Jesuit's Preterist school veiled this meaning by shifting the focus to the End Times being centered around Constantine's approval of Christianity as the empire's official religion. And today this still leaves the Jesuit's Futurist scenario to be fulfilled.
Meaning, that overlaying and/or (possibly intentionally) obscuring your meaning, that the purveyors of our dominant religion incorporated the cutting edge science of the day, Zodiacal astrology, in their system. This leaves one to debate on when the Zodiacal 'ages' transition from one age to the next. That is does it go by the irregular spacing of the constituent constellations, or is it equally spaced. If the latter is it determined by dividing the Great Year exactly by 12 or, is such as exact Millennialism employed?
The textual evidence demonstrates that not only is Millennialism employed, but there are even boundaries at our ~x500 year marks. And such Millennialism was employed prior to Christianity in pagan works. Apollo (the Sun) was besotted with the once beautiful Sybil of Cumae and the thousand grains of sand in her hand. She wanted to live as long as the number of grains in her hand. This sisterhood of oracular voices of the gods tell men when it is time to change things up.
And with the Della Rovere popes, things changed dramatically for the West, with the race to colonize the world launched among other things. The appropriately named Julius II, insisted on triumphantly re-entering Rome preceded by waving palm fronds, riding his horsey, to celebrate the Easter festival at the exact correct time. As Januszczak convincingly demonstrates, these Franciscan (Della Rovere) popes had rebuilt the Jerusalem Temple in Rome, which we call the Sistine Chapel.
What I am doing is pursuing this second track even further, none of which, in my mind, contradicts your claims. It's just geopolitical context instead of your cosmological physics.
In 525 AD the Christians placed our current Year of the Lord,
seemingly arbitrarily at 1 AD. Perhaps the time this took place (525 AD) is related to the Franciscan notion? In any case, I can demonstrate that the exact same political dynamics is occurring today as happened 2000 years ago. In literary terms, we talk a lot about 'typology' and here I claim that typology becomes life imitating art ... when the notions expressed become a script (for whatever reasons).
Perhaps if Venus is going to 'grace' us with with her gifts, then our earthly lords take interest in spreading their human flocks as wide as possible, under whatever pretenses work best?
Haven't gotten to your hyperdimensional physics video yet.
