On the Number 51

The 26th odd number = 51

Product of the 2nd & 7th prime numbers = 3 x 17 = 51

Sum of the 5th, 7th, and 9th prime numbers = 11 + 17 + 23 = 51

Sum of the 1st prime number & 7th square number = 2 + 49 = 51

Sum of the 5th and 8th triangular numbers 15 + 36 = 51

Sum of the 3rd and 9th triangular numbers 6 + 45 = 51

Sum of the 6th through 11th numbers = 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 = 51

The 48th & 49th digits of pi = 51

The 394th & 395th digits of phi = 51

10)

Atomic Number of Antimony (Sb) = 51 (51 protons & 51 electrons)
The metal antimony symbolizes the animal nature or wild spirit of man and nature,
and it was often symbolized by the wolf according to the alchemists.

11)

Atomic Weight of Vanadium (V) = 51 (50.9415)
Pure vanadium is a greyish silvery metal, and is soft and ductile.

12)

The 51st day of the year = February 20
John Glenn became first American to orbit Earth in space capsule on February 20, 1962.
American photographer Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 (Died 4-22-84, Obituary).

13)

51st Hexagram of the I Ching: The Arousing, Thunder

THE JUDGMENT:
SHOCK brings success.
Shock comes— oh, oh!
Laughing words— ha, ha!
The shock terrifies for a hundred miles,
And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.

THE IMAGE:
Thunder repeated: the image of SHOCK.
Thus in fear and trembling
The superior man sets his life in order
And examines himself.

14)

51st Tetragram of the T'ai Hsüan Ching: Constancy / Ch'ang
August 4 - August 8 (am):

Holding up the ink-line of the gods,
He follows the sacred model.
Using the One to pair ten thousand,
To the end, his light does not fade.

Yang Hsiung (53 BC-18 AD),
Canon of Supreme Mystery ( T'ai Hsüan Ching)
(translated by Michael Nylan, 1993)

15)

51st Trigraph of the Ling Ch'i Ching: I Yu / Beneficial Friends
The image of going somewhere:
Oracle:
There is a guest. Wang Sun, who comes to knock on my door.
He speaks to me about good fortune and felicity.
If I go out, I will be favored from above.
Verse:
If you want Heaven's beneficence to descend,
sincerity must first precede it.

Tung-fang Shuo,
Ling Ch'i Ching (circa 222-419)
(trans. Ralph D. Sawyer & Mei-Chün Lee Sawyer, 1995)

16)

51st Chapter of the Tao Te Ching
The Tao gives them life yet claims no possession;
It benefits them yet exacts no gratitude;
It is the steward yet exercises no authority.
Such is called the mysterious virtue.
Lao Tzu (604-517 BC), Tao Te Ching, Chapter 51
(translated by D.C. Lau, 1963)

17)

51st Chapter of Psalms: David prays for remission of sins
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness...
Make me to hear joy and gladness:
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Create in me a clean heart, O God:
and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 51.1,8,10 (1034 B.C.)

18)

51st Chapter of Isaiah: Exhortion to righteousness
For the Lord... will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of Lord;
joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody...
Awake, awake, put on strength...
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem...
Isaiah 51.3,9,17 (712 B.C.)

19)

Visionary quote from the 51st Book of Enoch:

And his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For the Lord of Spirits hath given to him and hath glorified him.
And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And the faces of all the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
And the earth shall rejoice,
And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
And the elect shall walk thereon.

Book of Enoch 51.3-5 (circa 2nd century BC)
(translated by Canon Charles, 1912)

20)

51st Saying of Gospel of Thomas:
His disciples said to him,
"When will the repose of the dead come about,
and when will the new world come?"
He said to them, "What you look forward to
has already come, but you do not recognize it."
Gospel of Thomas 51 (114 sayings of Jesus)
(translated by Thomas O. Lambdin, 1988)

21)

Case 51 of Hekiganroku: Seppo's "What Is This?"
Setcho's Verse:
The last word, let me tell you—
Light and darkness intermingled,
Living in the same ways— beyond telling!
Absolutely beyond telling!
Buddha and Dharma only nod to themselves.
East, west, north, and south— homeward let us go,
Late at night, seeing the snow on the thousand peaks.
Setcho (980-1052), Hekiganroku, 51 (Blue Cliff Records)
(translated by Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics, 1977)

22)

Dante writes of the spirit's desire in 51st Canto of Commedia, Line 51:

e fece la mia voglia tanto pronta
di riguardar chi era che parlava,
che mai non posa, se non si raffronta.

and kindled in my spirit such a fire
to see who spoke, as cannot ever rest
till it stand face to face with its desire.

Purgatorio 17.49-51 ( John Ciardi translation, 1977)

23)

Dante describes the pilgrim's ascent to his home in 51st line of Paradiso:

E sì come secondo raggio suole
uscir del primo e risalire in suso,
pur come pelegrin che tornar vuole,

And as a second ray will issue from the
first and reascend, much like a pilgrim
who seeks his home again, so on her action,

Paradiso I.49-51 ( Allen Mandelbaum translation, 1984)

24)

51st Poem of Emily Dickinson:

I often passed the village
When going home from school—
And wondered what they did there—
And why it was so still—

I did not know the year then—
In which my call would come—
Earlier, by the Dial,
Than the rest have gone.

It's stiller than the sundown.
It's cooler than the dawn—
The Daisies dare to come here—
And birds can flutter down—

So when you are tired—
Or perplexed— or cold—
Trust the loving promise
Underneath the mould,
Cry "it's I," "take Dollie,"
And I will enfold!

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
(edited by Thomas H. Johnson, 1955)

25)

51st New Poem of Emily Dickinson:
Think of that great courageous place
we have never seen!
Emily Dickinson (Letter 329)
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
(edited by William H. Shurr, 1993)

26)

Sonnet 51 in Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets (1960)

Your laugh: it reminds me of a tree
fissured by a lightning streak, by a silver bolt
that drops from the sky, splitting the poll,
slicing the tree with its sword.

A laugh like yours I love is born
only in the foliage and snow of the highlands,
the air's laugh that bursts loose in those altitudes,
dearest: the Araucanian tradition.

O my mountain woman, my clear Chillán volcano,
slash your laughter through the shadows,
the night, morning, honey of the noon:

birds of the foliage will leap in the air
when your laugh like an extravagant
light breaks through the tree of life.

Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973)

Love Sonnet LI, 100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor
Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1960 (trans. Stephen Tapscott, 1986)

27)

Numerology: words whose letters add up to 51

BUDDHA WISDOM: (2 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 8 + 1) + (5 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 6 + 4) = 22 + 29 = 51

MIND CENTER: (4 + 9 + 5 + 4) + (3 + 5 + 5 + 2 + 5 + 9) = 22 + 29 = 51

MIND LIGHT: (4 + 9 + 5 + 4) + (3 + 9 + 7 + 8 + 2) = 22 + 29 = 51

FIRE WATER: (6 + 9 + 9 + 5) + (5 + 1 + 2 + 5 + 9) = 29 + 22 = 51

SPIRIT STARS: (1 + 7 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 2) + (1 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 1) = 37 + 14 = 51

PLATO CHRIST: (7 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 6) + (3 + 8 + 9 + 9 + 1 + 2) = 19 + 32 = 51

GOD NIRVANA: (7 + 6 + 4) + (5 + 9 + 9 + 4 + 1 + 5 + 1) = 17 + 34 = 51

ONE COMPLETE: (6 + 5 + 5) + (3 + 6 + 4 + 7 + 3 + 5 + 2 + 5) = 16 + 35 = 51

ETERNAL ROSE: (5 + 2 + 5 + 9 + 5 + 1 + 3) + (9 + 6 + 1 + 5) = 30 + 21 = 51

SUN MOON YOGA: (1 + 3 + 5) + (4 + 6 + 6 + 5) + (7 + 6 + 7 + 1) = 9 + 21 + 21 = 51