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Claim: Nikola Tesla said: “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.” He was fascinated by these three numbers, and his advice to “think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration” points the same way: the pattern in which 3, 6 and 9 stand apart when numbers are doubled is a hidden key to how the universe works.

Not supported No writing, interview or letter from Tesla's lifetime is known to contain the 3-6-9 line, and the earliest dated copy AKASHA has found is a blog post of December 2009 that names no source; the energy line rests on a single recollection that cannot be checked. Tesla's autobiography of 1919 records that as a child he needed repeated acts to be divisible by three, and that he never found evidence for spiritual phenomena; the doubling pattern is a property of writing numbers in base ten.

Claim: The Kybalion, published under the name “Three Initiates”, sets out the Hermetic philosophy of ancient Egypt and Greece. Its seven Principles (Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect, and Gender) are the teaching of Hermes Trismegistus, an Egyptian sage of the time of Abraham, preserved in an ancient collection of maxims called the Kybalion, and its axiom “As above, so below” is the heart of that teaching.

Not supported The Kybalion was published in Chicago in 1908 and names no surviving source: by its own account its maxims were never written down, and no earlier text of that name is known. The Greek and Latin Hermetic writings, composed in the first centuries CE, share some of its themes, above all God as Mind, but contain neither its seven Principles nor its maxims, and “As above, so below” shortens a line of the Emerald Tablet, a separate text first known in Arabic.

Claim: A large planet called Nibiru, still unseen by modern astronomers, circles the Sun on a long elliptical orbit of 3,600 years. The Sumerians knew it and recorded it: it is the home of the Anunnaki, the gods of Mesopotamian myth, and the Babylonian Epic of Creation tells in coded form how its collision with a planet called Tiāmat made the Earth (Zecharia Sitchin, The 12th Planet, 1976). In a later form, spread online from 1995, Nibiru is on course to strike or pass close to the Earth, first in May 2003 and then in December 2012.

Not supported In the cuneiform texts nēberu, "crossing", is a name for a visible star of the god Marduk, usually the planet Jupiter, and for a station Marduk fixes in the sky; no text describes an unseen planet, a 3,600-year orbit or a collision, and sky surveys have found no such planet.