Spoke 12: The Biblewheel and The 12th Century

Spoke 12: The Biblewheel and The 12th Century

When you look at the pattern of the Biblewheel, where the pattern of the Hebrew Alphabet, being 22 letters is found not only in the Alphabetic Psalms and poetic parts of the Bible, but also found in the pattern of books and chapters and numerical values within the text as well (days, years, amounts mentioned in the text).

This alpha-numerical pattern is found in history as well. In this case let us compare the Spokes of the Biblewheel with the books of the Bible related to the Spoke as well as the letter of the Hebrew Alphabet.

The 12th Spoke with Post-Christian History of the 12th Century and Links

Spoke 12: The Biblewheel and The 12th Century - John II Komnenos builds a hospital; - Manuel I Komnenos and his political alliances with the Latins; - Vitale II Michiel the Doge of Venice is murdered by a Venetian as he fails to negotiate a truce with the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Komnenos; - the AIMA prophecy is the acronym, the first letters of each ruler's name put together which spells AIMA, meaning blood in Greek. This first occurred with Alexios I, Ioannes I (John I), Manuel I and Alexios II. It is repeated with Andronikos I, Isaac Angelos, Manuel (Emperor of Trebizond) into the 13th Century, Andronikos I. And from Trebizond it reappears Andronikos I Gidos (r. 1222–1235), Ioannes I Axouchos(r. 1235–1238), Manuel Megas Komnenos (r. 1238–1263), and Andronikos II Megas Komnenos (r. 1263–1266);  - Field of Blood is a place of bloodshed near Antioch reminding of Judas the 12th disciple of Jesus buying of a field and hang himself; - Levon I founds the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia in the the last few years of the 12th Century and into the 13th. He shelters lepers; - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered  by king Henry II of England over the issue of signing of the Constitutions of Clarendon. But his murderers including the king sought repentance afterwards. - Bernard of Clairvaux from the late 11th century and early 12th century known to have made some miracles like Elijah and Elisha and wasn't afraid to rebuke authorities; - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire; - Saladin takes Jerusalem from Amalric, sends medicine to his ill opponent Richard the Lionheart during the 3rd Crusade; - the Lombard bankers; - Saint-Francis of Assissi and Elizabeth of Hungary and their life given to hospitality; - The Order of Saint-Lazarus founded in Jerusalem for lepers;  - Robert the Leper of Antioch; - Baldwin IV the Leper the son of Amalric reigned as King of Jerusalem; - Peter Waldo began to preach and teach publicly and condemned what he considered as papal excesses and Catholic dogmas, including purgatory and transubstantiation; - Waldo and one of his disciples went to Rome, where they were welcomed by Pope Alexander III and the Roman Curia; - they desired the gospel in the vulgate (local language).