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Microtubules are cylindrical protein polymers that organize the cytoskeleton and play essential roles in intracellular transport, cell division, and possibly cognition. Their highly ordered, quasi-crystalline lattice of tubulin dimers, notably tryptophan residues, endows them with a rich topological and arithmetic structure, making them natural candidates for supporting coherent excitations at optical and terahertz frequencies. The Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR theory proposes that such coherences could couple to gravitationally induced state reduction, forming the quantum substrate of conscious events. Although controversial, recent analyses of dipolar coupling, stochastic resonance, and structured noise in biological media suggest that microtubular assemblies may indeed host transient quantum correlations that persist over biologically relevant timescales. In this work, we build upon two complementary approaches: the parametric resonance model of Nishiyama et al. and our arithmetic–geometric framework, both recently developed in Quantum Reports. We unify these perspectives by describing microtubules as rectangular lattices governed by the imaginary quadratic field Q(i), within which nonlinear dipolar oscillations undergo stochastic parametric amplification. Quantization of the resonant modes follows Gaussian norms N = p2 + q2, linking the optical and geometric properties of microtubules to the arithmetic structure of Q(i). We further connect these discrete resonances to the derivative of the elliptic L–function, L′(E, 1), which acts as an arithmetic free energy and defines the scaling between modular invariants and measurable biological ratios. In the appended adelic extension, this framework is shown to merge naturally with the Bost–Connes and Connes–Marcolli systems, where the norm character on the ideles couples to the Hecke character of an elliptic curve to form a unified adelic partition function. The resulting arithmetic–elliptic resonance model provides a coherent bridge between number theory, topological quantum phases, and biological structure, suggesting that consciousness, as envisioned in the Orch OR theory, may emerge from resonant processes organized by deep arithmetic symmetries of space, time, and matter.