The AP wheel depicts three 'quarters'.
3/4 = (3 * 25%) = 75% unity.
Bear with me on this.
5/4 = (5 * 25%) = 125% unity.
And of course, 4/4 = (4 * 25%) = unity.
Hopefully now you can already see where this is going...
4/4 = unity in the reference frame of the ground - the meeting place or boundary line between what lies above the earth, and what lies beneath.
At 5/4 we open a portal to the heavens, whose bounty flows down from above.
But at 3/4 we open a pit, into which the vis viva - the 'living', motive essence - is sucked down, irreversibly lost..
Thus the AP wheel motiff is a curse, the meaning of which would only be obvious to someone else who has discovered the means by which to climb higher upon Jacob's ladder...
He's basically attributing the work and motives of his detractors to unholy influences.
Which segues us neatly into the next realisation:
..cut-n-pasted from a recent post on JC's blog...“a great craftsman would be he who, as one pound falls a quarter, causes four pounds to shoot upwards four quarters.�
...do you see it, then?
4/4 = unity, remember...
In other words, a weight dropping off the fifth rung of the ladder has sufficient advantage to cause all 4 weights on the rungs below it to ascend one rung upwards, thus the weight on the fourth, 'unity' rung in turn ascends to the fifth rung, therein to be endowed with the divine '5/4', 25% bonus, and so primed to perpetuate the cycle.
In case anyone missed it, this is also basically the solution to the Toys page - it's a depiction of the ladder, and the N^2 / N kg-m/s input-efficiency constant is represented by the hammer toys. The staff and chain (items A and B) represent the 5/4 ladder, and the upturned top that RKE / CF is now an output rather than an input.
If anyone still doubts we're there, i salute your pragmatism..
ETA; On reflection, i suppose another good candidate is this squared vs linear relationship of (e^2 / P)...
..since it's ((N^2) / (N)), a '4' on the right corresponds to 16 on the left.
Since N = Force / mass, it could also be equivalent to "weight" and thus "pounds" in Bessler's conceptual framework.
And since it is the same numerical value on both sides, his mental image could've been:
((pounds^2) / (pounds))
Whereas, with our modern view of gravity as a universal effective acceleration, we've initially derived it as ((9.81^2) / (9.81)), and then generalised it to any distribution of force & mass, ((F/m^2) / (F/m)), then substituting (F/m) for the arbitrary constant N, hence ((N^2) / (N)) and ultimately ((e^2) / (P)).
Either way, these are the proportions and ratios that any such clues must be alluding to..