【90-Year Cycle / Triple Cycle Analysis】America Edition Chapter 3 (1658–1741): The Maturation of the Concept of Liberty — From Colonial Maturity to the Great Awakening

【Triple Cycle Analysis】America Edition

Chapter 3 (1658–1741)

“The Maturation of the Idea of Freedom — From Colonial Maturity to the Great Awakening”

Turning Points: 90-Year Node 2 (1672) · 55-Year Node 4 (1712) · 83-Year Node 3 (1741)

⚠️ This article is an analysis based on the Triple Cycle Theory. It does not predict or guarantee the occurrence of any specific event.

Section 1: Triple Cycle Turning Points of Chapter 3

Cycle	Node	Turning Point	Historical Event (Margin)	Significance
90-Year (Power)	Node 2	1672	Prelude to the Glorious Revolution (1688, +16 yrs)	Confirmation of the “preparatory phase” for the transformation of power structures
55-Year (Economy)	Node 4	1712	First colonial newspaper (1704, −8 yrs)	Establishment of a new system of information and economy
			Codification of slave laws (1705, −7 yrs)
83-Year (Civilization)	Node 3	1741	Peak of the Great Awakening (1730s–1740s, −10 yrs)	Independent establishment of the idea of “individual freedom”
			First Pluto Return transition period (1740, −1 yr)

Chapter 3 (1658–1741) has only three turning points — fewer than other chapters — yet each carries profound significance as “the formation of the ideological, institutional, and economic foundations for the Independence Revolution.” The 83-Year Node 3 (1741) is especially important as the ideological confirmation point for the Declaration of Independence (1776) that would follow.

Section 2: Analysis of the 90-Year Node 2 (1672) — The Power Turning Point

“Sixteen Years Before the Glorious Revolution”

The 90-Year Node 2 (1672) falls 16 years before the Glorious Revolution (1688). It may appear to be “a turning point without a direct historical event,” but it should be read as the year the preparatory period for the transformation of power began.

The situation in England and the colonies around 1672: following the Restoration in 1660, King Charles II was oscillating between “absolutism” and “parliamentary sovereignty.” In 1672, Charles II bypassed Parliament to issue the Declaration of Indulgence (which failed), and in the same year launched the Third Anglo-Dutch War against the Netherlands. This was the overture to a decisive confrontation with Parliament.

Important events also occurred on the colonial side during this period. King Philip’s War (1675–1676) was the largest-scale conflict with Indigenous peoples. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) was the first major insurrection against the colonial elite. “Questioning of authority” had begun within the colonies as well.

The “Power Reading” of the 90-Year Turning Point

The turning points of the 90-year cycle are “confirmation points of transformation in the principles of governance.” What the 1672 turning point indicates is: the power struggle of “Crown vs. Parliament” had entered a stage of no return.

The Glorious Revolution (1688), coming 16 years later, functioned as the “institutional completion” of the direction indicated by this turning point. “Parliament stands above the King.” “The King cannot make laws without parliamentary consent.” These principles were codified in the Bill of Rights (1689).

Section 3: Analysis of the 55-Year Node 4 (1712) — The Economic Turning Point

The Turning Point at Which Information Became an Economic Good

The economic significance of the 55-Year Node 4 (1712) is “the economization of information.” The first colonial newspaper in 1704 (−8 yrs) is a leading indicator showing that information had begun to circulate as a commodity.

However, what is more important is that the “economic institutionalization of slavery” was completed around this turning point. The Virginia Slave Code of 1705 (−7 yrs) legally defined people of African descent as “property.” The worst form of economic transition — “human beings becoming economic goods” — was confirmed here.

The Establishment of the Slave Economy: The “Dark Side” of Economic Transition

The 55-year economic turning point marks “the establishment of a new economic system.” The economic system established at the 1712 turning point was a slave economy based on plantation agriculture.

The major crops of the American South — tobacco, cotton, and sugar — were economically unviable without enslaved labor. The economic prosperity of the colonies was, quite literally, built upon the deprivation of human freedom.

The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 (the same year as the turning point, exact match) was the first large-scale resistance to this economic system. The pattern in which economic turning points and social resistance arrive simultaneously was confirmed repeatedly in the Japan Edition as well.

Section 4: Analysis of the 83-Year Node 3 (1741) — The Civilizational Turning Point

The Great Awakening as an “Ideological Revolution”

The Great Awakening, which began shortly before the 83-Year Node 3 (1741, −10 yrs), was the first large-scale religious and social awakening movement in American history.

The core of the Great Awakening: “The individual can face God directly — not through a pastor or church.” This was the American version of Luther’s Reformation. The idea that “an individual can reach truth without the mediation of established authority (church, aristocracy, king)” was directly converted into the political idea that “colonists can govern themselves without the mediation of established authority (the British Parliament, the King).”

Jonathan Edwards’s sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741, exact match) delivered such emotional impact that listeners fainted. The experience of “an individual directly feeling God’s judgment” was directly linked to the revolutionary idea that “individual rights are granted by God — not by the King.”

Overlap with the First Pluto Return Transition Period (1740, −1 Year)

One year before the 83-year turning point (1741), the year 1740 corresponds to the Pluto Return transition period calculated from 1492 (1492 + 248 = 1740). This is “the year the first 248-year cycle of American civilization was completed.”

Pluto symbolizes “death and rebirth, fundamental transformation of power, and the exposure of what was hidden.” At the Pluto Return transition period of 1740, the Great Awakening occurred — “an explosive exposure of the hidden idea of individual freedom.”

Confirmation of “The Ideological Foundation of the Independence Revolution”

Organizing the ideas established by the Great Awakening:

① “Authority is not bestowed from the outside but arises from within” — from the authority of the pastor to the faith of the individual.

② “All human beings are equal before God” — an egalitarian vision transcending status and class.

③ “Shared experience creates community” — the prototype of a collective identity as “Americans,” transcending denominational lines.

These ideas appear directly in the Declaration of Independence 35 years later (1776): “All men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

Section 5: The Historical Position of Chapter 3

From “A Chapter of Preparation” to “A Chapter of Conviction”

Chapter 3 is not the period of direct preparation for the Independence Revolution — that is Chapter 4. However, Chapter 3 is the chapter in which “the formation of the ideological, institutional, and economic foundations that made revolution possible” was completed.

Foundation	Content	Turning Point
Power Foundation	The principle of parliamentary sovereignty was established (Glorious Revolution, Bill of Rights) — the precedent that “the King can be constrained”	90-Year Node 2 (1672)
Economic Foundation	Economic self-sufficiency of the colonies — establishment of plantation, trade, and information industries	55-Year Node 4 (1712)
Ideological Foundation	The conviction that “individual rights are granted directly by God” — questioning of established authority	83-Year Node 3 (1741)

When all three of these foundations were in place, the Independence Revolution became “possible.” Chapter 4 (1741–1824) is the 83 years of that “explosion of possibility.”

Handoff from Chapter 3 to Chapter 4

Domain	What Chapter 3 Completed	What Chapter 4 Will Realize
Ideas	“Individual rights are granted by God”	“The King’s rule holds no legitimacy” — the Declaration of Independence
Economy	The foundation of colonial economic self-sufficiency	“Taxation by the motherland is exploitation” — the will for economic independence
Power	The precedent of “parliamentary sovereignty”	“No taxation without representation” — the claim of legitimacy for colonial assemblies

Triple Cycle Analysis · America Edition — Chapter 3 (1658–1741)

⚠️ The analyses and projections in this article are considerations based on the Triple Cycle Theory and do not definitively predict the occurrence of any specific event.