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students Of mystic lore and occult meanings It is only at the earnest request Of the e kindly cri tics that I have consented t o publish this volume The contents are necessarily Of a frag m entary character and have been collected from an immense number Of sources ; the original matter has been intentionally reduced t o the least possible quan tity s o as t o Obta i n space for the inclus i on Of the ut m ost amount Of ancient quaint and occult learning It i s impossible t o give even an approximate list Of works which have been consul t ed ; direc t quotations have been acknow ledged in numerous instances and (perhaps naturally ) many a s t atement might have been equally well quoted from t he book Of a contemporary a u thor a medi aeval mon k a Roman historian a Greek poet or a Hindoo Adept : t o give the credit to the m odern author would n ot be fair t o the ancient sage to refer the reader t o a Sanskrit tome would be in most cases only loss Of time and waste Of paper My great di fficulty has been to supply information mystic enough t o match the i d eal Of the work and ye t not SO esoteric as to convey truths wh i ch Adepts have still conce aled I must apologise for the barb arous appearance Of foreign words but it was not found prac t icable to supply Sanskrit Coptic Chaldee an d Greek type s o t he words have had
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firs t ed itn thi s li t tl e b ook has b een long o u t Of i print and for s 1 years I have been asked t o enlarge i t e n o t been but until the presen t t i me suffi ci ent le i sure ha s found t o collec t t he add itional matt er which seemed desirable Th i s essay o n Num bers n o w appears as Vol ume I X Of ” my Seri es en t it led Colle ct anea H erm et ica O f which it seems to form a su itab le part and I am hopeful that i t may be a s well received b y s t udents of mysti c philosoph y a s the previous volumes which t reated of Alchem y in the Her metic Arcanum Hermeti c Ar t E uphrates and Aesch M et z arep h; t he Dream Of Scipi o an d t he Go l den verses O f th e P yt hagoreans the P ym an d er O f Hermes and E gypt i an Mag i c I have added in this editi on many notes o n t he notions O f t he Rabb i s Of Israel b oth from those who cont ri buted to the Mishnah and Gemara O f the Talmuds Of Jerusalem and Of Babylon and from t he R abb is who made a specia l study Of the Kabalah O nly a few Talmudic treatises have as yet appeared i n t he E ngli s h language and hardly any Kabal i stic tracts except three from the Zohar o r Book O f Splendour viz the Si phra t en i ou t ha the Idra Rabba and the Idra Su ta A few othe rs are to be read in German and French t ranslations Many Talmudic and Ka bal istic quota ti ons may however be foun d i n J P St ehelin s Rabb inical Literat ure o f 1 7 4 8 ; in John Al l en s Modern THE
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Judaism 1 8 1 6 and in works On the Kabalah by Adolph ho n has pub Franck and Chri s tian Ginsburg while H ers ” “ li s hed Hebraic lore in his Talmudic Miscellany and ” Genesis according to the Talmud ” “ The Midrash ha ZO ha r Of D H Joel Leipzig 1 8 4 9 narrates the relation between the Kabalah and P latonis m Neo Platonism Greek philosophy and the Zoroastrian doctrines Of the Parsees Perhaps the Oldest extant Kabalistic Book is the Sepher ” ” “ Y et z ira h O r Book O f Formation an English translation Of which has appeared in three editions from the A u thor s own pen The fundamentals O f the numerical Kabalistic ideas o n creation are laid down in that treati se ; it has also been printed both in French and German and there is an American edition Upon the mathematical asp ect Of Numbers readers may cons ult fo r fu rther detail the works Of Gau ss D i s i u s i t i o n s e q ” ” “ 1 8 0 1 ; Legendre Théorie des Nom b res A ri t hm et i c ae ” 1 830 W G O Smith Reports o n the Theory Of Numbers ” “ in the Transactions Of the British Associatio n 1 8 5 9 ” “ Mathematical Recreations 1 71 0 James Oz a n a m trans ” “ lated by H u tton in 1 8 1 4 Su art The Power Of Numbers ; ” and Barlow s Investigations O f the Theory Of Numbers “ For further information on Hindoo philosophy see The ” Theosophical Glossary Of H P Blavatsky the works Of T u kara m Tatya and modern translations O f the Vedas “ Puranas and Upanishads also Rama Prasad s Na t ure s ” Finer Fo rces ” “ Lamaism in T ibet 1 8 9 5 by Dr Laurence Austine Waddell i s a very learned work ; it contains a vast store O f information o n the numerical occult lore O f the Lamas and B uddhists Upon Egypt i an Numbers cons ult the works Of E A Wallis B u dge ; Flinde rs Petrie ; Sir John Gardner Wilkin ” Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman ; and s on ; ” Egyptian Belief by James Bonwick Mystics will find m u ch food for tho ught i n the Y i King a very curious product o f ancient Chinese lore The Gnos t ic philoso phy ”
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has a deep num erical basis and the works O f C W K i ng and G R S Mead may be suita bly s tud i ed Many volumes Of Bijou Notes and Queries have b een ublished by S C Gould Of Manches t er and these p are full O f numerical i deas I am prepared to find that critics w ill decl are this volume t o be an undigested collecti on O f heterogeneous i nformation st ill I prefer t o leave the data in their present form ; fo r there i s a scheme Of instruction running thro u gh it whic h will b e recogn i sed by students Of certain schools and others will be able to find a basis for a general knowledge Of nu m bers vi eW d from the standpoint Of occult sci ence ,
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this design he migrated t o Cro t on a a no t ed city in Magna G raeci a which was a c olony founded by Dorians o n the — O f South coast Italy It was here that this e v er famous Philosopher founded his College or Society Of Student s which became known all over the civilized world as the central assembly Of the learned O f Europe and here it was in secret conclave that Pythagoras taugh t that occult wisdom which he had gathered from the Gymnosophists and Brahmins Of India from the Hierophants Of Egypt the ala h O racle of Delphi the Id aean cave and from the Ka b Of the Hebrew Rabbis and Chaldean Magi F o r nearly forty years he taught his pupils and exhibited his wonderful powers ; but an end was put t o his instit u tion and he himself was forced to flee from the C ity owing to a c o n r s i a f c and rebellion which arose on account a quarrel O p y between the people Of Crot o na and the inhabitants Of Sybaris : he succeeded in reaching M et apo nt u m where he is said to have died about the year 5 0 0 B C Among the ancient au thors from whom we derive o u r knowledge Of the life and doctrines Of Pythagoras and his successors the following are notable — B C 450 Herodotus who speaks Of the mysteries O f the Pythagorean s as similar to those Of O rpheus B C 3 9 4 — Archytas O f Tarentum wh o left a fragmen t upon Pythagorean Arithmetic —Theon Of Smyrna B C 38O — B C 3 7O Philolaus From three books O f th i s author it is believed that Plato compiled his book T i m m u s he was probably the first who committed t o writing the doctrines Of Pythagoras ” — i ca M et aphy s Aristotle Refer t o his B C 322 ” ” Moralia Magna and Nicomachean Ethics O f St agyra was h i s father N i co m a c hu s — Eratosthenes author O f a work entitled B C 2 76 ” Kokkinon or Cribrum a Sieve to separate ” Prime from Composi t e N u m bers “ — Cicero Refer to hi s works De Fin ibu s B C 4O ” and De natura D eo ru m ,
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saying m y fri end i s my se lf has b ec ome a by word The t each ing was i n a great measure secret and t o this day certain studies and knowledge were allo tt ed to each C lass and grade Of instruction : meri t and ability alone su ffi ced to enable anyone t o pass to the higher Classes and t o a know l edge Of the more recondite mysteri es N o person was permitted t o commit t o writing any tene t o r secret doct ri n e and , SO far as is known n o pup i l ever broke t he rule un t il after his death and the dispersi on O f t he school We are t hus entirely dependent on the scraps Of i n for mation which have been handed down t o us from hi s successors and from h i s an d their critics A considerable amount O f uncertain ty therefore i sinseparable from any consideration Of t he real doctrines Of Pythagoras himself but we are on su rer ground when we investigate the Opinions Of his followers It is recorded that hi s instruction to h i s followers was — for m ulated i nto t wo great div i sion s the science O f numbers and the theory O f magnitude The former divi s i on included two branches arithmetic and musical harmo ny ; the latter was further subdivi ded into the Consideration of magnitude — — at rest geometry and magnitude in m otion astrono m y The most s t ri king peculiarities of hi s doctri nes are depen dent O n the mathematical concep ti ons numerical ideas and impersonations upon which his philosophy wa s f o u n d ed governing Num be rs were supposed t o be T he p ri n ci ples the prin ciples Of all Real Existences ; and as Numbers are the primary constituen t s Of Mat hemat ical Quantities and at the same tim e present many analogi es t o vario u s realities it was further inferred that the elements Of Num b ers were the ele men t s O f Realities T O Pythagoras himself it i s be lieved that the natives of Europe o we the first teach i ng Of the principles Of music O f the properties O f Numbers at he had visited an d Of physics ; but there is evidence t h Central Asi a and there ha d acquired the mathem atical ideas which form t he bas i s O f his doc tri ne The m odes O f thought introduced by Pythagoras and fol l owed by his successor J am bli cu s and others became known later o n ”
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d ivine goodness ( Buddhi) ; thi s b ounds and moderates the i n d efi ni t en es and inequality o f its desires s It may be demonstrated that all inequality arises from equali ty so that Obtaining as i t were the power of a mother and a root s he pours forth wi th exuberant fertil ity all sorts o f i nequality ; and did space and time allow it could be also shown that all inequality may be reduced t o equality I am b li c hu sin his treatise o n the Arithmet i c o f Nico m ac h us throws another light o n numbers ; he says some are like friends they are Am icable numbers as 2 8 4 and 2 2 0 Pythagoras being asked what a friend was said ér epos ” “ e w = ano her I Now this is demonstrated to be the t y case in these numbers ; the parts of each are generative o f each other according t o the nature o f friendship a French mathematician A D 1 7 1 0 gives ex Oz an am ” amples in hi sMathematica l Recreations o f such Amicable um Numbers He remarks that 2 2 0 is equal t o the s o f the aliquot parts o f 2 8 4 ; thus I 2 4 + 7 1 1 4 2 2 2 0 : and 2 8 4 is equal t o the sum o f the al i quot parts o f 2 2 0 ; thus .
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Alu Mikhael Ga briel ve Raphael A LU M I KA L GBR I A L V R P AL converted are I 3 0 6 4 0 I O 2 0 I 3 0 3 2 2 0 0 2 1 10 I 0 8 0 also amountin to and 0 6 0 0 1 0 3 3 7 g the Rab bis argued that these t wo sets o f three beings were identical Some Christian Kabalists point o u t that in ” “ Genesis xlix v 1 0 we find Y eba h Shiloh VBA ShI LH ” “ Shiloh shall come wh i ch amount t o 3 5 8 ; and that the ” word Messiah M ShY Ch is 4 0 3 00 1 0 8 o r 3 5 8 ; b u t s o h the Serpent o f Moses N Chs is a lso N achas h 5 0 8 3 00 ; and I must remark that the claim t o translate ShI LH or ” as some ancient Hebrew MSS wri te it ShLH by Shiloh in the sense of Jesus Chris t is far fetched The word is ” ” “ “ simply rest o r peace in its simplest meaning but also is the Scorpio of the Chaldean zodiac (rela t ed to Nachash ” “ serpent ) ; and Judah of whom Jaco b is talking in the “ prophecy is the sign of the zodiac ; Leo for Judah is a ” lion s whelp (the Chaldean zodiac has a lion couchant) ” “ he crouches as a lion In this sense then the S ceptre ” shall not depart from Judah power shall not leave Leo until Shelah Shiloh or Scorpio S hall come up o r rise Astronomy teaches that as Leo passes away from ” “ the merid i an Scorpio ri ses The title Comforter ” “ Menachem M N c hM 4 0 5 0 8 4 0 amounting t o I 3 8 ” “ and the title The Branch applied t o the Messiah in Zec hariah iii V 8 namely T ZMC h 9 0 40 8 also I 3 8 are of the same n u m ber Metatron the great an gel M T hR T hN ” “ and Sha dd ai ShD I translated Almighty are both 3 1 4 “ The letter Shin Sh = 3 o o is used as a glyph of the ” spiri t o f the living gods Ruach Elohim R U Ch A LH I M which t ransmutes into 2 0 0 6 8 1 3 0 5 1 0 4 0 or ,
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dental is Shi d d ah a w ife ; if we replace w i th a hard den t al a partial Change o f meaning i s effected ShT hH Sittah an adulterous wi fe ; both letters hardened completely change the sense ST h Se th a fallen m an a b ackslider ; ST hN Satan a dversary I cannot without Hebrew letters explai n well the change of sound in the Shin SH from S H t o S bu t it i s marked by a do t over the right o r l eft tooth o f the three teeth o f the letter A deep mystery i s concealed in t he Gene t ic account of the conversi on o f the names of A b ram A BR M into Abraham and that o f his wife Sarai St into Sarah A BR H M — SH R H see Genesis xvi i v 5 1 5 o n the occasion o f the concept ion of Isaac Y T z c hQ o r Y hChQ from the root ” “ laugh when Sarah was 9 0 and ShChQ o r T ZC hQ A b raham 1 0 0 years 5 was o n the occasion of the covenant made by Jehova bram and the institution of circumcision of males thereof Now here we have the addition o f an H o r 5 the essent ially Female Letter t o the name o f Abraham and a conversion o f a Y o d into H e Y into H i n t he case of Sarah ; and then their steril i ty is destroyed Some learned men c onsider Abraham to be a con version Brahma the Hindoo Deity The name splits up of o n A M is like O M o r curi ously A B is father B R i ss ” he i s lifted up A U M a d eifi c name o f Power ; R M meant Blavatsky remarks that Abraham and Saturn were identical t rO symbology the Father o f the Pharisees was Jehovah in A s and they were Of the seed o f Abraham The number o f A BR M i s I 2 2 0 0 4 0 o r 2 4 3 the number o f the man fi gure Seir A n pi n representing Microprosopus ” Read Pistorius Ars Cabalistica for the effect of add i ng “ H 5 to men s names see page 9 6 9 ; also Inman Ancient ” ” “ Faiths article Abraham Secret Doctrine i 5 7 8 ii 7 7 ” also C W King The Gnostics et of s i m i la rs The name Sarah also has a curious s in — Hebrew SR H princess ; SA R flesh ; SO R gate ; SChR black ; S O R hairy seir S R T incision ; SR and SR R navel ; ,
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Patience because it is t he firs t number tha t endures separation from the Monad Phanes or Intelligible In t ellect 7 8 It is the fountain of all Female d i vi ni ti es and hence Nature Rhea and Isis i t Cupid j ust Era t o from desiring s o posite for as p 9 partner In Astronomy we speak o f 2 nodes Cap u t and Cauda Draconis and in Astrology o f 2 aspects o f the planets B en efi c and M alefic The Two Pillars I KI N an d B oz at the entrance of King Solomon s Temple are notab le sym bols of Strength and Stability ; they are comparable t o the T WO Beings Kra t o s and Bia who appear i n the Play by fE s as a m ale and chylu s a female potency who ind Prometheus as the colour of Heaven T he Chinese speak 0 becau se made up of Red Male and Black Female ; o f the active and the pas s ive ; the brilliant and the obscure The followers of Pythagoras spoke o f t wo kinds of enj oy ment First lasc i viousness and indulgence of the belly like the murdero u s songs o f Sirens ; second honest and just indulgences which bring o n no repentance says 2 things are necessary t o life the aid of H iero cles kindred and benevolent sympathy o f o ne s neighbours A notab le anci ent Egyptian hieroglyphic was formed o f t wo serpents in connection with a globe o r egg representin g the world Another cele b rated pair in connection w i th worship is the association of a tree and a serpent referring ay to the Mosaic account o f the Tree o f Know as some s ledge and the Tempter Serpent Some have supposed “ that it is only S ince the condemnation on thy Belly shalt ” thou go that the Serpent ha s been limbless and oblig ed t o crawl Note it has been argued and by a great churchman too that the whole tale rests o n error and tha t for serp ent we ” “ should read Ape ( Rev Ad am Clarke) This i s ti s ub s t u ting o n e error for another In the orgies o f Bacchus M aenades the worshippers had 6
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Two are be tter than thre e ; this means youth i s better than old age wi th i t s sta ff o f support There were two women notorious for t heir pride and their names were contemptible De b orah meant wa s and p Many persons nowadays believe that birth el H u lda wea s names somehow affect their owners as names g i ven are prophetic o f the nature and fate o f the person Speech may be worth o n e Selah ( a Jewish coin ) but silence is worth T wo A certain man had t wo w i ves o n e young and o n e o ld when he was forty and i n clined to become grey the young o n e pulled o u t all the grey hairs and t he o ld w i fe pulled out all his black ha i rs s Wh i ch th i ngs o he became b ald point a moral as well as adorn a tale o f wood and o n e of green the .
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Among the Brahmins t here were t hree great Vedas t hree Margas o r ways o f salvation ; three Gunas the Sat va quiescence ; Rajas des i re ; and Tamas decay Three Lokas Swarga Bhum i and Patala ; heaven earth an d hell — Three Jewels of wisdom the Tri rat n asBuddha Dharma and Sanga The three Fires being the three aspects o f the human soul Atma Buddh i and Manas There were three prongs of the trident and three eyes in t he forehead of Siva Note also the 3 syllabled Holy Word A U M At the O blation of the Elements in the Celtic Church 3 drops o f Wine and 3 drops of wa t er were poured into the chali ce In the present Chris t ian Church we notice 3 crossings wi th water at Baptism 3 Creeds ; the Banns of M arriage are published 3 t i mes ; and a Bishop in bened i c tion makes t h he Cross 3 times In Ro man churches the Angel us Bell i s rung three times a times 3 for the heavenly hierarchies o f angels : Po pe John XXI I ordered that the faithfu l shou l d s ay on each occas ion In civi l life the usher o f a court 3 times repea t s the ” “ warning O yez O yez O yez wh i ch word means hear o r ” “ listen Note also the emb l em o f the Irish na t ion the Shamrock a eez os ella which has a three lobed leaf the Oxa lz s ” The Trigrams of F O hi should be studied in The Y i King a b ook o f Ancient China said t o have been the production of Kin g Wan and his s Kau The great Confucius on wrote a supplement to it This book is a mystical work on Symbolism referring to Cosmogony t o Man and to the purposes of life T he initial symbols are the Yang male and the Yin female Then follow 8 trigrams formed o f — emblematical lines ; they are z khien tui 1i C han sien khan kan and kwan each expressed by figures of one long and t wo S hort lines Some say that one F o H i invented these symbols A later Mystic expanded the system into 6 4 figures each composed o f 6 lines o f whole and half line s With these were associated two diagrams formed ” “ “ of C ircles named the R iver Horse and the W ri t i ng o f ,
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The O bjects of des i re are 4 : viz Prosperity Renown Power Friendship The celebrated 4 Causes of Ari stotle may be mentioned here : — Divin i ty a s the cause by which ; or m r o n up o u — Matter from which ; or 66 0 1) ex ou — or Form through which ; av di ou o u pros ou E ffect with reference to which ; o r 1rp os The Dead also are called 4 times Blessed ; and the Living but thrice blesse d The num b er 4 being the completi on o f the quaternary group of point line s and body has also this u p erfic i es character that its elements 1 2 3 and 4 when summed up are equal to 1 0 which is s o perfect that we c a n go no further but to increase we must return to the Monad It was also cal led Kosmos the World because it formed the n um b er 3 6 when its digits were t hus combined : .
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Four Red Tongue lips cheeks g u ms — Four Round Head neck forearms ancles — Four Long Back fingers arms legs Four Wid e —Forehead eyes seat lips — Four Fine Eyebrows nose lips fingers — Four Thick Buttocks thighs calves knees — Four Small Breasts ears hands feet ” “ See Lane s edition of the Arab i an Nights In the Rosicrucian writings of Behmen Fludd and Maier we find t he occult dogma that the four elements are peopled by spiri t s bei ngs who may have influence on the destiny of Man ; t hus the Earth was inhabited by Gnomes ; the Air was inhabited by by Sala manders and t h Undines these are now commonly called See L ives of the N ecro ” m a nc ers W Godwin Michael Maier ; Jaco b Behmen s Works The ex i s t ence o f E lem en tals sco ffed at by modern educa tion is really suggested in a large number of places in both O ld and New Testaments the inspired volume of the Christia ns : examine for example J u dges ix 2 3 ; 1 Samuel xvi 1 4 Psal m lxxviii 4 9 ; Ac t s xvi 1 6 xix 1 3 xxvii 2 3 ; Ephesians vi 1 2 ii 2 But above all consider the meaning o f the Canticl e ” Benedicite omnia opera in the book o f Common Prayer 0 ye stars 0 ye showers and dew 0 ye fire and heat 0 ye winds 0 ye gre en things 0 ye mountains and hills ” bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever These phrases are e i ther folly o r else they recognise the spirit u al essences o r beings inherent in the ele m ents and cre ated things Again read hymn 2 6 9 in Hymns Ancient and Modern a most orthodox volume Principalities and ” powers watch for thy unguarded hours and Hymn 9 1 “ Christian dost thou s ee them on the holy ground How ” the troops o f Midian compass thee around ? If these are n ot the evil elementals what are they ? Francis Barrett mentions the 4 Consecrat ed Animals Lion Eagle M an and Calf emblems o f the Kerubim on ,
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the terrestrial plane ; 4 A rCha ngelS Michael Gabri el Uriel Raphael ; note all end in the Dei ty name e1 z e A L of the Hebrews The Gnos t ics said that all their edifice rested o n a 4 pillared Basis ; Truth Intelligence Silence Bathos Note the earth was form ed on the 4t h day according to ” the allegory found i n the Jewish Genesis and is the 4 t h world in a chain o f spheres say the Hindoos The figure o f 4 as Ragon remarks is the upright man carrying the triangle o r Divinity a type o f the Trinity of Godhead O n the Hebrew Magical word AGLA see the chapter alah page 2 7 o n the Ka b Note 4 elements 4 sides o f a square and 4 angles qualities cold hot dry damp humours 4 4 f f seasons the year quarters the horizon o o 4 4 Rivers Eden Euphrates Gihon Hiddekel and Pison o f 4 f t R i vers the Infernal Regions according the Greeks o o ; 4 Phl egethon Cocytus Styx and Acheron f elements Metaphys i cs Be i ng essence v i rtue action o ; 4 Masonic v i rtues 4 Evangelists and Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John ; 4 related to the Four Keru bic forms of the Man Lion B u ll — and Eagle and th u s to the Zodiacal Signs Aq u ari u s Leo Taurus and corpio ( the relation of Aq u ila to Scorpio is a Rosicrucian secret ) O ne of the abstruse dogmas o f the Kab a la h concerns the Fo u r Worlds o f Emanation A t z ilu t h Briah Y et z ira h and ia h these are not worlds in any ordinary s ense but s As rather planes of development and existence the former the mo st diaphanous and exalted the others becoming more and more concrete and manifest the ten Sephiroth exist on each plane those of the higher planes be i ng more sublime than those of the lowest each world has a secret name and number Man displays 4 evil tendencies o n e in opposition to each evil tho ughts evil o f these 4 Worlds ; an evil inclination words and evil actions ( Isaac Myer ) Vulcan gave Apollo and D i ana arrows on the 4 t h day of ,
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The ancient had a maxim Pass not above the b eam o f ” — the balance that is be n o t cause of inj ury for they said let the members in a series form a Balance Beam Th u s when a weight depresses the Beam an obtuse angle is form ed by the Depressed side and t he Tongue Vertical and an acute angle on the other Hence it i s worse to do than to s u ffer inj u ry and the a u thors o f inj ury sink down to the infernal regions but the inj u red rise to the gods Since however injustice pertains t o inequality equalization is necessary which is effected by add i tion and sub traction Plutarch in his t reatise on the Generation of the Soul ” according to Plato states that the Pentad is called t ro phos which equals Sound because the first of the intervals of a Tone which is capable of producing a sound i s the fifth it ” also a type of Nature is The Pentalpha or 5 poi n ted s tar an endless complex set o f angles was the emblem of Heal th Hygeia ; it forms 5 copies of the capital letter A It i s also called the Pentagram and ,
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the Seal o f So l omon and is sai d to have been the device o n the signe t ring o f th i s anc i ent Grand Mas t er o f the Mysteries Kenne t h Mackenzi e remarks that being formed by t he union o f the first o d d and even numbers 5 was considered o f peculiar value and used as an Amulet o r Talisman power ful t o preserve from evi l and when inscribed on a portal could keep o u t evi l sp iri t s i t i s found almost everywhere in Greece and Egypt “ calls five the union of the four elemen t s wi th D i o d o ru s ” Ether There are 5 orders o f Architecture ; a n d 5 Senses o f the human body now commonly kn o wn and described but the try is technically called ( the 5 t h the grand scheme is the 5 h po ints of F ello ws note also 5 Brethren can hold a F ello wcra ft s lodge It is also called the Pyram i d from the arrangement of Monads thus three below then two then one above the m N ote t he s y stem of 5 regular Euclidean bodies tetrahedron hexahedron o r cube octohedron do d ekahed ro n and icosahedron The P entagram was t he emblem of safety The Pentacle t he Masons S ignet mark (accord i ng to Stukeley ) was the devi ce b orne by Anti ochus Soter o n a war banner to which was ascribed the signa l victory he obtained The Ancients esteemed this number as a meas ure for drink i ng they mixed 5 parts o f water with the i r wine and Hippocrates added o f wa t er to milk as a med i cal draught P hi nt ysthe daughter o f Callicrates descri bes the Five Vi rtues of a Wife : mental and bodily purity ; abstaining from excess of ornament i n dress ; staying at home ; refrain ing as females then did from celebrating pu b lic mysteries piety and temperance In Roman marriage ceremon i es it was customary to light 5 tapers and to admit the gues ts by fives s ee Plato in Leg I V Theology displays 5 modes o f the Conception of God Pantheism Polyth eism Dualism Unitarianism and Trini ,
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62 t th i ngs which m i ght nly b e ea t en in the camp N o to O 5 eat fruit from a tree until it Was five years old The t respass O ffering imposed o n the Philistin es 5 golden emerods and f sui t s raiment golden mice Joseph gave Benjamin o 5 5 — Joseph presented only h f i b rethren to Pharaoh o s 5 David took 5 pebbles when he went t o fight Goliath — The Jews classed a Bride s at tendants b y fivesfive wise and five foolish virg i n s There are Five Articles of Bel i ef i n the Mahometan fai th in Allah in Angels in t he prophet the day of j udgment an d predestination The Five duties o f a Member o f the Chri stian church were stated by the Fathers : To keep holy the festivals ; to observe the fasts to attend public worship ; to receive the Sacraments ; and to adhere t o the customs of the church St Paul sa i d he preferred t o speak 5 words in a language understood by his hearers than in an unknown tongue In arranging an Horoscope some astrologers use only 5 — i tion aspects o f t he planets the conjunction the oppo s sextile trine and square ; and the evil or good fortune o f the person seems t o depend o n them Among the Romans a display o f 5 Wax Candles indicated that a Marriage wa s being celebrated ; and special prayers were also made o n such occasions to these 5 deities J u pit er Juno Venus Pitho and Diana See Rabelais 3 2 0 O ne of the two mai n divisions o f Flowering Plants is characterised by a predominance o f the numbers 4 and 5 ; these plants have almost a total absence o f the n u mbers 3 and 6 in the component parts of thei r flowers These are the Exogens or Dicotyledons o n the other hand the Monocotyledons o r Endogens have a co n stant predominance o f the numbers 3 and 6 and a total absence of 4 and 5 symmetry There are 5 kinds o f intercolumniations in Architecture mentioned by Vitruvius determined by the proportions o f height and diameter vi z Pycnostyle systyle eustyle diastyle and a ero s t yle .
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Triad Society of China concerning which we find 1 6 l p r t 1 8 u e i e w a r on s e R v an arti cle in the F r eem a s Q 45 y 5 boas t s o f great antiquity it resembles Freemasonry in some points five is a C hief mystical number i n i ts concern s Its seal is pentangular o n its angles are 5 characters represent ing T o o or Saturn M U H o r Jupiter ShW U Y o r Mercury KI N o r Venus and H 0 or Mars In t he Infernal World are 5 terrors and torments Deadly bitterness horrible howling terrible darkness unquencha b le heat and thirst and a penetrating stench ; says old John Heydon quoting some medi aeval father o f the Church He wa s admitted an Adept among the Frat res Ros ee Crucis b ut was never recei the M agis t ri Five styles columns are descri b ed : c t u ra l nth i a n and Composite Tuscan Doric Sir Thomas Browne 1 6 5 8 notes an anc i ent Greek divi sion o f vegetables into five classes Dendron Arbor Tree ; T ham n o sF ru t ex Bush Phru ki o n o r ganon Su ffru t ex herb P o a Herba grass and A s m n o n fungus mushroom and seaweed gy — Note the Quintuple section o f a Cone C i rcle Ellipse Parab ola Hyperbola and Triangle A ga Me la c/ze that is Good for t une is the old title of Astrologers for the 5 t h house ( succedent ) o f the Heavens a sshown in an Astrological Figure a nd which refers to o ffspring success in hazardous schemes o f fortune or pleasure and wealth Joshua hanged 5 kings o n 5 trees they were found hidden in a cave and were the kings o f Jerusale m Hebron Jarmuth Lachish an d Eglon Every important measurement of the Jewish Tabernacle was 5 or a m ultiple o f 5 The Hebrew letter H Heh 5 wa s in occult Kabalah always de em ed o f female potency There were 5 principal parts of Solomon s Temple David Blesses the Lord 5 times in Psalms C i i i C iv The Talmud says that there are 5 little things which are a terror t o 5 strong th i ngs ; the mosquito to the lion ; the gnat to the elephant ; the ichneumon fly t o the scorpion ; ,
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the flycat cher bird t o the eagl e and t he stickleb ack t o the ” levi athan Lewisohn Zoology o f the Talmud ixt iet h p art of 5 other Five things have in t hem a o n e s — things ; fire is o n e sixtieth o f hell ; honey o n e sixtieth of manna ; the Sabbath one sixtieth of the Sabbath here after sleep of death and a dream one sixtieth O f prophecy Talmud B erac hoth 5 7 2 Even o n the Sabbath you may k il l 5 things — the fly in E gypt ; the wasp in Nineveh ; the s c orp i on of H a d a b ia the serpent of Israel and the mad dog anywhere Talmud Sab b at 1 2 1 2 In the Fi rs t Templ e o f Solomon were 5 th i ngs which were not in the second Temple ; the Cher u bic Ark ; the Shek i nah the Holy Spirit and the Urim and Thummim Talmud Yoma 2 1 2 Rabies in the dog has 5 symptoms ; its mouth gapes i t drops spittle its ears hang down ; it carries its tail between i t sl egs and it keeps to the si de of any path Yom a, 8 3 2 For suckling mo t hers t here are 5 things which are inj urious ; garli c cucum b er melon leeks and onions : said Rash i If one study 5 years and then has found no profit in it he will never profit by it Talmud Chu lli n 2 4 1 Fi ve is the number o f expiation and of sacrifice the number and the 5 wounds o f Christ These were o f the passio ns commemorated anciently by 5 crosses inscribed on the Altar tables and the Priest made 5 crosses on h i mself at the canon in the Liturgy W F Shaw Jesus 5 t i mes foretold H i s passion and gave 5 partic ulars concerning i t and received 5 wounds The Brahm ins sp eak of 5 skandhas o r attributes o f men a m n a conscious they are r upa form wa a a a perception s ness s a m ka r a action and wdy a a a knowl edge In China 5 means Shangti or Thian the God in Heaven : — the Chinese speak o f 5 Blessi ngs longevity riches health virtue and a natural death — The ancient Chinese spo ke o f 5 E l emen t s earth wood ,
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N I C O M A CH U S calls it t he form o f form the on l y num b er adapted t o the Sou l t he dist i nct un i on o f the par t s o f the ” universe the fab ricator of t he Soul also Harmony and it is properly Venus herself It is also Zygeia and N u pt i alia and the Androgynae who “ Pliny t ells u swere an African tribe who had dextra ” a e m m a vi r i lis n l va mulie b r i s Among the Fates it a i s I La chesis Among the Muses it is Thal i a Six i s also Benevolence Peace and Health A cmon o n e o f the Cyclops ( a km on an anvil ) and Truth “ By the Pythagoreans i t was called the Perfecti on of ” parts ” “ to Marri age it is a number equal to it s parts and As marriage i s a ceremony t o s anc t ion the produc tion o f o ff spring similar t o t he parent It is form ed by the multip l ication o f the first ( beyond it resembles t he u nity ) odd num b er and the first even union o f Male and Female as in Marriage or in Andro f Heal t h and Beauty o n account o its symmetry i t e n y gy ” “ wa va p xa a pa narkeia u ffici en t It was called all s According t o the Pythagorean s afte r a period o f 2 1 6 years which n umber i s the cube of 6 all things are re generated and they said this wa sthe periodic time of the Metempsychosis or the re birth o f man after each death ix has When multiplied int o i t self like the penta d s also always itse lf in the unit place thus 6 3 6 2 1 6 1 2 9 6 7 7 7 6 O n the 6 t h day Man was created according t o Genesis O n the 6 t h day of the week Jesus died o n the cross ,
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The Israelites had 6 c i ties o f Refu ge Num b ers xxxv v 6 ix t h i ngs hated by Jehovah There were s Prov vi v 1 6 The Seraphim of Isaiah had each 6 w i ngs In a Freemasons Lodge t here are 6 Jewe l s three o f which are immovable and li e open in the lodge fo r the Brethren to moralize upon while the other three j ewels are transferable from o n e Bro t her t o ano t her at the periodical changes o f o fficers ” “ “ In the Hebrew Book o f Crea ti on the Sep her ” Y et z ira h the Hexad is spoken o f t he un it s represent i ng the four quart ers o f the World ; North South East and West and als t and dep t h and in the midst o f all See my translati on ; cap i v 1 1 1 1 1 and notes 9 The Druids had a mysteri ous religious prefe rence for the number 6 They performed their principal ceremon i es o n t he 6 t h day of the moon and o n the 6 t h day o f t he moon began their year They went 6 together t o gather the s elt o e) and in monuments and p l ates s acred mistletoe (I n i s now extan t we oft en find 6 o f the i r pries t s grouped t ogether See Mayo ii 2 3 9 An astronomical period o f 6 0 0 years s poken of as the ” “ N aro s the Cycle o f the Sun the L un i Solar period o r S i bylline year consisti ng of 3 1 periods o f 1 9 years and one years is often referred to in old works on the of 1 1 Mysteries It seems t o have been known by the Chaldeans and ancient Ind i ans ; it is a period o f pecul i ar properties Cassini a great astro nomer declares it the most perfect o f all astronomic periods If o n a certai n day at noon a new moon took place at » any certain point i n the heavens it would take place agai n at the expiration of 6 0 0 years at the same place and time and w ith the planets all in similar pos i tions It i ssupposed t hat o n e recurrence o f this period is referred t o in t he 4t h E clogue of Virgil the p o em which as is well known has been spoken of as contai ning an allusion t o the Messiah Jesus “ The period su ng by the Cum aean Sibyl has now arri ved .
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and the gran d seri es o f ages ( t hat series which occurs agai n and again in t he course o f a mundane revolution ) begins afresh The virgin Astraea returns another re ign of Saturn ” commences and a new progeny descends from heaven It has been calculated by the late Dr Kenealy that a Messiah or divine teacher has been sent to the world every 6 0 0 years thus Adam the first messenger from the Gods t o ou r race on earth Enoch the second 6 0 0 years afte r F o hi the t hird to China i n par t icular B ri ghou a Hindoo prophet Ia Za ra t u s ht Zoroaster the fifth t o P ers Thoth T aau t u so r Hermes Trismegistus sent t o the Egyptians is o r Moses the Jewish law glv er the seventh A m os Lao Tseu a s econd t o China 6 0 0 B C the eighth Jesus the ninth t o t he Jews first and then to the Gentiles Mohammed t he tenth he flourished about A D 6 0 0 C hen gi z Khan the eleventh A D 1 2 0 0 conquered Pers ia Who the special messenger o f 1 8 0 0 was the author is ignorant o f the Apocalypse and o f the The secrets of the N aro s Mediatorial Sacrifice have been considered t /z e secrets of the Ancient Myst eries Circumcision was possibly an outward sign of Initiation in the earliest times “ Jes u s at any rate writes the Author o f the Book o f ” God appeared at the 9 t h N aro sand no o n e c a n deny that such a messenger was expected Juvenal oddly “ enough t oo mentions in Satire X I I I v 2 8 Nona aetas igit u r now i s the n i nth age which indeed it was though how he kn ew it is a mystery The Soth i c Cycle wa s1 4 6 1 years containing lunations ” — is n o t t o be c onfused with Saros a cycle N aro s AI R o f the moon of 1 8 years an d 1 0 days which was known to the Chaldeans and Greeks a peri od after the expiry o f ,
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wh ich the eclipses of the moon recur Si milar l y : i t consists o f 2 2 3 l u nations The circumference of a globe has been fixed at 3 6 9 degrees six sixties the hour divided into 6 0 minutes each The Tartars had a period of 6 0 days the o f 6 0 seconds Chinese also ; and the Asiatics generally a period o f 60 years The Babylonian great period was 3 6 0 0 years the Naros multiplied by 6 ” “ The Lily which in all the old A n nunciation pictures 6 leaves and the flower Gabriel presents to the Virgin ha s shows 6 petals all alike around a central t hree headed stigma O ne o f the three main a n i c ally correct divisions are arranged by Bo t anists i s typified o f the numbers 3 and 6 i n all parts of t he flowers 6 leaves forming a perianth 6 stamens and a 3 lobed stigma with a 3 or 6 celled ovary is the common arra n gement Berosus o n e of the Chaldean Priests mentions three periods of time a So s a N aro so r Neros of s us o f 6 0 years 6 0 0 years and the Saros 3 6 0 0 years There seems some confusion here with the Saros of 1 8 years and 1 0 days ” “ Bailly in hi s Astronomie Ancien ne p 3 1 says : T he Brahmins used t he n u m bers6 0 and 3 6 0 0 in computing time The Chaldeans also did so The Brahmins have also an Antediluvian peri od o f 6 0 0 years The Tartars and Chinese also used a period o f 6 0 years in their computati ons o f time U nder the number Six t oo we must n o t omit t o menti on the sym b ol o f the dou b le triangle Hexapla o r H exa lpha the Shield o f David it i s used at present as a S ign in the Degree o f the Royal Arch in England It must not be c o n fused with the Pentalpha which is the true Solomon s seal In Christian Churches we find the H exalp ha used t o ex press the union of the Divine and h u man natures deemed to exist in Jes u s the Christ of the New Testament The blending o f the t wo triangles has als o been used to typify the union o f Fire and Water ; for the early symbol o f Fi re was the triangle apex upward and that o f Water the same .
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associated planets ; thus Infancy Moon Luna ; Ch ild hoo d Mercury Knowledge ; Youth Venus Love ; Manhood Sol ; Full Strength Mars ; Mat u rity o f J u dgment Jupiter ; and O ld Age Saturn Some phil osophers have said that our souls have 7 foc i in the material body , viz the five senses the V oice and the generative power The body has seven obvious parts the head ch es t ab domen two legs and t wo arms There are seven internal organs stomach l i ver heart lungs S pleen and two kidneys The ruling part the head has seven parts for external use t wo eyes t wo ears two nostri ls and a mouth There are seven things seen body interval magnitude colour motion and permanency There are seven inflections o f the voice the acute grave circumflex rough smooth the long and the S hort sounds The hand makes seven motions ; up and down t o the right and left before and behind and C irc u lar — There are seven evacuations tears from the eyes mucus o f the nostrils the saliva the semen two excreti ons and the perspiration Modern med ical knowl edge corro borates t he ancient dictum that in the seven t h mon t h the human o ffspring becomes viable Menstruation tends t o occur in series of four times seven days and is c ert ainly related t o Luna in an occult manner The lyre has strings corresponding to the planets 7 There are 7 vowels in English and some other tongues Theon o f Smyrna also notices that an average length of an adult s intestine is 2 8 feet four times seven and 2 8 also i s a perfect number The number 7 is also associated wit h Voice and Sound w i th Cli o the Muse ; with O siri s the Egyptian deity ; with — Nemesis Fate A dra s t ia not t o be escaped fro m ; and with Mars As to the sacredness o f the num b er 7 note amo ng the Hebrew oaths were confirmed by seven witnesses ; o r by ,
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seven Vi c ti ms o ffered I n sacrifice ; a ss ee the covenant between Abraham and Abimelech with seven lambs — Genes i s chap xxi W 2 8 2 1 2 8 the He b rew word seven also Sh B o H i s derived from o r is a s i milar t o Sh B o t o swear Clean beas t s were adm itt ed i n t o t he ark b y sevens whi l st the unclea n onl y in pai rs The Goths had 7 Deities from whom come o u r names o f week da ys ; Sun Moon T u i s Wo tan Thor Friga co Seat u r corresponding o f course t o the planets Apollo the Sun God ha d a G reek title E bdom ai o s sevenfold The Pers ian Mithras a Sun God had the number 7 sacred t o him h Ladder o f 7 steps ascent No t e t he My Kad o s and 7 steps de the o n e side O heb Eloah Love of God ; the o t her OhebKero bo l ove of the neighbour ” “ Plat o , in his Tim aeus teaches that from t he number seven wa sgenera ted the Soul of the World A m m a M u n da n a (Adam Kad m o n ) The S even wise men of Greece were : ” Bias who said Most men are bad B C 5 5 o ” “ Chilo Cons i der the end B C 5 9 0 ” “ ulo s Avoid Extremes B C 5 8 0 Cleo b Periander Noth ing i simpossib l e t o persever ” anc e B C 6 00 ” Pittacus Know thy opportuni t y B C 5 6 9 ” Solon Know thyself B C 6 0 0 ” Th ales Suretyship is ruin B C 5 5 0 The Seven Wonders of the World are thus e numera t ed : 1 Pyram i ds o f Egypt 2 The hang i ng Gardens o f Babylon fo r Sem i ram ls a f o M u l Tomb King Caria at Halicarnassus s o u f O 3 built by Artemisia his Queen Ctesiphon 4 Temple of Diana at Ephesus 5 5 2 B C was the c hief architec t o f u Colossus Rho es an i mage the n god o d s f 5 Apollo o f b rass 2 9 0 B C ,
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Statue of Zeus at Athens by Phidias f o Pharos Egypt buil t by Ptolemy Ph i ladelphus of 7 white marble 2 8 3 B C o r the Palace o f Cyrus which is sometimes substi t uted Sanskrit lore has very frequen t reference t o this number : note Sapt a Rish i seven sages ; Sapt a Kula 7 castes ; Sapt a Loka seven worl d s ; Sap t a Para 7 cities ; Sapt a D wip a seven holy islands Sapt a A ran i a 7 deserts ; Sap t a Parna S a t human principles Samudra seven holy seas a a t a S 7 ; p p V ru ks ha 7 holy trees The Assyrian Table t s also teem with groups o f sevens f k gods earth s o gods gods f fiery spheres : f o o ; 7 7 y; 7 seven gods m aleficent ; seven phantoms ; spirits o f seven heavens spiri ts o f seven earths a The Chaldean notion seems t o have been that 7 wa s holy n u m ber which became nefas t under certain conditions The Opposite sides of a d i e added together are always seven i n total numeration the 4 opposite 3 6 o pposite I and so on It used t o be asserted says John Heydon that every seventh Male born withou t any femal e coming between c a n cure the King s Evil by Word o r To u ch St James iii 1 7 gives the 7 characters o f wisdom \ After Birth the 7 t h hour decides whether the chi ld will live in 7 days the cord falls o ff i n twice 7 days the eyes follow a light thri ce 7 days turns the head 7 months gets teeth twice 7 months s i ts firmly thrice 7 months begins to talk after 4 times 7 months walks strongly Aft er 7 years teeth of second set appear After 1 4 years is the arrival o f generative power After 2 1 the hair o f Manhood is completed A fter 2 8 we cease t o grow at 3 5 is greatest strength at 4 9 is the greatest discret i on and 7 0 is the natural end of Life The Moon passes through stages of 7 days in increase full decrease and renewal Naam an was ordered by Elisha (an Adept) to take seven dips in Jordan t o cleanse himself from Leprosy 6
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The Go l den Candl es t ick of Seven Branches was a no t a ble emblematic ornament o f t he Tabernacle of Moses Exodus xxv 3 1 Note t he seven years for Repentance ; 7 churches o f ia h) 7 Ange l s w i th Trumpets 7 candlesti cks Asia (or A s s o f the Holy Places 7 seals 7 trumpets 7 kings 7 thousands S lain 7 vials o f wrath t o be poured o u t p a ce the Apocalypse mem b ers make a Freemasons lod e p e rfec t althou h g g 5 J may hold o ne ” cat al ogues 7 B i rds Franc i s Barrett i n hi s Magus Fi shes Animals metals stones and me m bers of the bo d y It has been sai d there are seven apertures o f the skull to correspond w i th the planets There are Seven Degrees i n the O rien t al O rder o f S ikha and the I have doubts o f the O rder of the name ,
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From the relat i ve length of thei r courses the anc i ents constructed a Plan etary Ladd er with Vowel Symbols thus : Moon Merc Venus Sun Mars J u pi t Sa turn o a e i u 00 ee These sym b ols were used i n mys t ical knowledge as an Inscripti on a t the Temple o f Apollo at Delphi shows where E I meant the Sun and its nearest Planet Sun and Mercury ; and Mercury wa s often represented as a Dog following a Sun Man The O racle o f Claros ( Macro b ius Saturnal i a 1 1 8 ) said that I A O (the Gnostic Deity ) was the Sun and the first and last of the plane tary s et hence the 7 Concen t ric spheres Duncan assigns these Minerals and A nimals to the 7 Heavenly Bodies known t o the ancient world Moon Bull Silver Mars Wolf Iron Mercury Serpent Quicksi l ver Jupiter Eagle Pewter sLead Ven u s Dove COpper Saturn A s Sun Lion Gold Note also the number o f 7 pipes in the Musica l i n s t ru ment a t the mouth o f the o ld deity Pan the Great Whole a Sun G o d ( not the later Rural Pan ) ,
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An ancien t sym b ol of t he universe was a Ship wi th seven p ilots in the centre of the sh i p a Lion po ss ibly from an idea that t h e Sun firs t rose i n Leo Note Aries supplanted Taurus as the constellation i n which the sun rises at the Vernal equi nox ; Ta urus was the S ign a t the early fa b ulous periods of the earth— i t was displaced about 3 0 0 B C The sign b ecomes changed every 2 1 5 0 years by the precess i on o f the equ i noxes : Pisces h as now followed Ari es ; bu t t he Sun is still said t o enter the S ign Ari es at t he Vernal E quinox ab out March z rs t I ts actual posi tion in March 1 9 00 wa near om ega Pisces T Subba R ow describes t he Seven Primary Forces o f i x powers resumed i n a seventh Nature as s These are called Sakti ( Mahamaya) and are relat ed to Kanya Virgo as the 6 t h Zodiacal Sign ; t hey are P ara s akt i force akt i akt i intellec t ; I t chas cause o f light and heat ; I n an a s akt i of voluntary movements ; Kriya s energy of will ; Kundalini sakti the l i fe force shown i n attraction and repuls i on positi ve and negati ve ; M an trika sakti the power of s ounds vibrat ion music words and speech ; t hese are summarized in D aivi p rakrit i = t he Light o f the Logos et O ur physical senses kno wn as 5 are an inco m ple t e s there are indeed 7 forms o r modes o f percep ti on as appears in the highest developments o f the Chabrat zereh aur ” bokher and as descri bed i n the oldes t Sanskri t o c cult — science o f the Upanishads : smell taste sight t ouch — hearing and 6 t h Mental preception with 7 t h spi ritual understanding : the two latter were not dwarfed and ma t erialized in t o noticeable organs in t his fifth Race of beings t o which Man n ow b elongs F or a fuller explana ” tion see the Secret Doctri ne o f H P Blavatsky The — Archaic scheme recognized Seven S t ates of Matter homo aeriform nebulous germina l o r cu rd li ke atomic u o s e n e g fiery elemental fourfold vapoury and lastly that which i s cold and dependen t o n a vivifying Sun for light and heat alah i s O ur Ear t h sy m bol i sed b y M ALKU T H o f t he Kab the seventh o f a series and is on the Fourth plane ; i t is ,
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79 od genera t ed b y J es t he foundat ion t he S i x t h World and after complete purification will in the 7 t h Race of the — Cycle become r e united t o the Spiritual L ogos and in t h 7 the end to the A b solute O ur earth hasb een al ready thrice changed and each cycle sees seven k i ngs (a so f E dom ) There were Seven Kings o f Edom Genesis x xxvi types of pr i mordial v 3 1 ; the Kabal ists consider these a s worlds wh i ch failed t o survive t heir creati on Seven i s the key to the Mosa i c creation as t o the symbo l s of every rel igion There are Seven Planes of be ing the upper three are s ub t i e and unknowable t mank i nd the lower four are e c v o j obj ective and may be contemplated by man as m etaphys i ca l o there are the seven Princi p l es in Man and a b stractions : s d from t he lower group of four at dissolution The Seven consti t u ti ng man are variously named by the E so t eric Buddh i sm by the Vedan t ic scheme and by other ph il osophies but they corres pond in idea ; first from above Come A t ma a ray from t he A b solute ; Buddhi spiritual soul ; and Manas human soul ; t hese are the superior triad which separates at human death from the lower tetrad o f principles The l ower four are Kama rupa t he pass i ons ; Linga Sari ra the as tral body ; Prana life essence ; and St hu la Sari ra the l ower b ody see the dogmas o f E soteric Buddhism The Ka balah divides these int o four p l anes o f the Soul which are further separated by adepts these are Chiah ha m ah R u ach and Nephesh wh i ch corres N es po nd to the symbol i cal worlds o f A t z i lu t h Briah Y et z ira h and ,
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b e con tradi c t ed i n Joshua ve rses He was born on the same day o f the same month efi I he Bava Kama says tha t after 7 years a male hy aena becomes a bat in another 7 years a Vampi re after an other a T horn and after another is turned i nto a demon If a ‘ man fails t o pray devoutly for 7 years hi s spine after death 1 becomes a serpent Besides those who prophes i ed for Israel there were 7 other prophets Beor Balaam Job E lipha z Bildad ZOhar ( a n d Elihu the son of Barachel the Buz i te The Bava Bat hra says that 7 men form an unbroken J series t o th i s day Adam was seen by Methuselah then Shem Jacob Amram Ahijah the Shilonite and E lij ah i a wh i m and Elij ah i s still alive until to day who s E ven 7 years of pestilence will not cause a man t o d i e efo re his allo t ted time This dictum o f the treati se is a statement of predestination ‘ Sanhedrin A Ram has b ut o n e voice while alive but aft er death his e body makes 7 sounds ; h i s horns make t wo trum pets his thigh bones t wo pipes hi s skin will cover a drum the large intest i nes are formed into stri ngs fo r the lyre and the small intesti nes will make the small strings fo r the harp E In the Sab b a t 1 5 2 2 o f t he Talmud it i s said that the Soul o f a man watches over h i s co rpse for 7 days Compa re t his with the Theosophic teaching that the Linga Sari ra b roods over the body for a week after deat h Rabbi Nat han says that 7 good q ualities avail a t the Judgment ; w i sdom right eousness good opinions mercy truth grace and peace Seven ep i thets are applied to t he Earth in the Hebrew tongue ; A ret z Adamah A requ a Gia T z i ah Y a b ha h C heled or T heb The mysti cal River es el at y o n flowed all the week but w still o n the 7 t h day Sa m b as says Rashi H ers hon Talmudic Miscella ny 1 5 4 The 7 Catholic Deadly Sins are Pride covetousness , lust anger gluttony envy and sloth The 7 Gi fts o f the Ho l y Sp irit Isaiah xi v 2 are Wisdom Understanding Counsel Fortitude Knowledge v
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P i ety and Fear of t he L ord t hese are seven o f the Kabali stic Sephiroth Seven i s the token o f Union be t ween God who i s Tri une and Man who is Qua t ernary W F Shaw The Holy Ghost i s sai d to impart a 7 fo l d gift ; 7 L amps burn before the Throne o f God The Council of Arl es declared t ha t 7 B i shops ough t t o take part in the O rd inati on o f a B i shop There was a 7 years pro b a t ion for ad m I SSI On to the Ce l tic O rder of the Culdees There are 7 Vestments o f the Christ i an priesthood and Bishops shoul d wear 7 others Sandals D almatic Rational Mitre Gl oves Ring and Staff The 7 Champions of Christendom were St George for England St Denis o f France St James o f Spain St Andrew Davi d of Wales S t Pat rick o f o f Ita l y Ephesus ac c ording t o the monk i sh legend were Christians who hid in a cave under the pers ecu tions of Deci us i n the Third Century ; they fell in t o a trance and slept 2 0 0 years They awaked in A D 4 47 and going t hey convinced h i m o f t he t o t he Emperor Theodosius truth of the Life beyond the grave : this done t hey returned to the cave t o sleep until the Last Judgment The 7 Dolours o f t he Virgin Mary is the name o f a Roman Catholic Fast Day held on the Fri day before Palm Sunday The 7 W ise Mas t ers were o fficers o f Ki ng Kurush who tell stories t o save the l ife of the King s s o n : they exist in Greek S yriac Hebrew Pers i an and i n E ngli s hare called The Book a d edited by Clouston o f Si n di b The Coptic Gnos t ics represented the Jehovah o f the Hebrews by a curious arrangement of the 7 vowels withou t a consonant ; thus I E H O OU A ( the H i s t he Greek e t a lo n g e ; and the first O is the Greek long 0 omega ) In the Zoroastrian theology we read o f the highest beings the 7 A m s has a f n d o f O rmuzd source l i e Bahman the s ; p king of this world ; A rdi behes t fire producer ; Shahrivar the former of metals ; Spa n d arm a t queen o f the earth ( the Gnos t ic Soph i a) Khordad the ruler of times and seasons .
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and A m erd ad ruling over the vegetable world Below there are the 2 7 I z ed sruled over b y Mithras ; in Oppositi o n t o these were powers o f darkness the 7 arch devs and the 2 7 devs o r devils as we call them The historic city o f Rome pagan before i t was Chris ti an was built upon Seven Hills the Palatine C oelian Aventine Vim i nal Quirinal Esquiline and the Capitol In Latin t imes it was called Urbs Sep ti colli s Some old authors speak o f Valent i a as a secret n ame for Rome ” The B ij ou Notes and Queri es vol xiv p 2 3 5 says that an the 7 days o f the week have al l been used as sacred days ; Sunday by Chri stians ; Monday by the Greeks ; Tuesday by the Persians Wednesday by the Assyrian s Thursday by the Egyptians Friday by the Turks ; and Saturday by the Jews The number 7 was curiously related to H P Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society Lucifer wa s first published t in 1 8 8 7 and 1 8 8 7 is the s um o f 1 7 hundreds 1 7 tens a n d P B lived at 1 7 Lansdowne Road and 1 7 1 7 units ; H ” “ Avenue Road ; Luc i fer was published at 7 Duke Street ; volu es were completed at her death Colonel O lcott first m 7 1 1 Beckman Street and later at Broadway met her at 7 7 , New York A n na Kingsford was elected pres i dent first o f the London T S Lodge on 7 t h Jan u ary 1 8 8 3 Isis U n was published in 1 8 7 7 and the Third volume of the v ei led V ” I 8 1 Secret Doctrine was published i n 9 7 after her death ,
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Hence the O gdoad was also call ed Ca dm eia because Harmony waslooked upon as t he wife o f Cadmus and Cadmus meant the Su b lunary Wor ld as O ly m pi od oru s says Eight was called also Mother and Rhea Cybele and Dindy mene from bei ng the first cube and a cube repre senting t he earth The eight persons saved from the flood o f Xi s are ru s ut h synonyms o f many oc t aves o f gods such a sthe 8 Cabiri great gods of Samo t hrace s ee Bryant and F aber o n this myth There are 8 Beati tudes of t he Christ i an religion Ma tt hew chap V Eight is the num b er o f the Moons Of Saturn There have been several Masonic orders concerned with 1 t his N o a chi t e O gdoad a s the Prussian masons Kn i ghts o f h L A x R t o a f L a n i e e or Prince b the Noachi t es and o u s g y I the Royal Ark Mariners which i s a subsidiary order to the i M ark Master Masons Macrobius says the O gdoad was the ty pe o f Justice because it consists of evenly even nu m ber sand on account o f i ts equal divis i ons John Heydon tells us tha t 8 E vents be fal l t he Damned and that there are 8 rewards of the Blessed The number 8 was sacred to Dionysos who was born at t he 8 t h month the isle of Naxos was dedicated to him and i t was gra n t ed to the women o f Naxos that their childre n born in the 8 th month should live whereas it is usual for such to die altho u gh those born in e ither the 7 t h or the 9 t h month are usually reared The Jews were accustomed t o practise Ci rc u m cI SI On o n e 8 t h day after birt h m ale infants upon t h The Jews at the Chan u cah o r Feast o f Dedication lit 8 candles and it lasted 8 days This i s the E ngkai ni a o f John x 2 2 A s t o conj uring among the ancient Je ws it is said in Talmud Succah 5 3 1 that Levi played with 8 knives Samuel in the presence of the King Sapor of Persia u sed 8 cups and Abaj i before R abbi Rava used 8 eggs Eight prophet s were descended from Rahab the Harlot ,
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The First and t he Second Temples o f the Jews were both destroyed on the 9 1h day of the Jewish month Ab O n the 9 t hday of Ab modern Jews d o no t wear the T ali t h and Phylac t eries unt i l even i ng The day should be spent in tears and no good comes of work done on that day The Talmud in Sot ch 2 0 1 says that a woman prefers o n e meas u re o f fun t o 9 of Pharisaic professional goodness Nine persons have entered A li ve i nto the Jews Paradise E noch Elijah Mess i ah Eliezer the servant o f Abraham Hi ram kin g of Tyre Ebed Melek the Ethiop Jabez the s o n of J eh u d a the Prince B at h i a daughter o f Pharaoh and Sarah the daughter of Asher Some Rabbis add Rab b i Y os hu a s o n o f Lev i but he entered n o t at the door but climb ed over the wall See Ket hu bo t h 7 2 In the 1 4 5 th Psalm we find 9 reasons fo r p ra i sing God }; The Great E l eusinian Mysteries were the succe s sors o f the Egyptian Mysteries o f Isis and O siris a n d were cele brat ed at Eleusis and possibly also at Athens in honour o f Demeter o r Ceres ; they occupied 9 days and were co m .
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which they were n o doubt led from t he conven i ence of coun t ing t he t en d igi t s o f the hands “ It is also spoken o f as Klei aoa kosthat 1 5 having ” custody o f others the magazine of the o t her numbers b ecause other numbers are branches from it : al so called Fate which comprises all sorts of events : Age Power ; Atlas because it supports t he 1 0 spheres o f Heaven ; “ Phanes ; Memory ; Urania ; and The first Square because ” i t consists of the firs t four numbers Two o ld conceits were that the Tenth wave o f the s ea is always larger than others ; and that b irds laid the ro t h egg o f a larger size than the others “ The word Ten was used by the Hebrews instead of a ” lat large number so that care must b e exercised in t ran s ” “ i ng this ; thus Nehemiah interprets t en generations o f ” “ Nehemiah Deuteronomy xxi i i v 3 t o mean for ever .
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The Cuckoo o f Belkis o The Ram f Ishmael 9 1 0 Al Borek the Animal which conveyed Mahome t t o heaven “ We find 1 0 generati ons from Adam t o Noah 1 0 from Shem to Abraham The 1 0 spiri tual graces o f Christianity are Love j oy peace long su ffering gentleness goodness ” faith prudence meekness and t emperance says D r G O liver ; although where he ge t s 1 0 generations from Adam to Noah I know n o t Under 1 0 also falls t he ment i on of the Pythagorean Tri angle Tetrac tys consisti ng of an equilateral triangle enclos ing ten Y O D S : t hus the upper is the Monad t he second line the Dyad the third the Tri ad and the fourt h the Quaternary or Tetrad : representing t he four forms of point line super fi c iesand solid A similar form is gi ven by Hebrew Ka b alists to the deity number by placing in a triangle four two V a n sand one Heh final b eing the H o f the Tetragrammaton o r they may be put conversely Note that ten is used a s a S ign o f fellowsh i p love peace and Un i on i n the Masonic third token the union o f t wo five poin t s o f Fel l owsh i p In the Bible we notice 1 0 Commandmen t s 1 0 ins truments t o which Jewi sh Psalm s were sung s t ri ngs in the 1 0 Psal t ery and that the Holy Ghost descended ten days after the As cension T u c er R ab Raymond L ully assoc i ate the an u sand num b ers 8 t o Air 5 t o Fire 6 t o Earth and 1 2 t o Water Apuleius states t ha t among t he E gyp ti ans it was customary t o fast 1 0 d ays before sacri ficing and Budge says that they used a 1 0 day week The Ten Sephiroth form the essence o f the Hebrew dogmati c Ka balah a subject which is too vast and complex to be entered upon in th i s volume on numerals A mere glance at t he Sep hi rot ic emanations o f the Absolute D eity from t he mathemat i cal point o f Vi ew is al l t hat can be 8
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The Rabbis tau ght that a man should d ivorce hi s wi fe i f fOr 1 0 years she had no o ffspring At funerals condolences were recit ed by 1 0 men and at Ten cups weddings by ten men including the bridegroom — were drunk at a funeral party three before s u pper three at upper and four after the meal at the recitation o f the four s blessings Abraham was tested 1 0 times 1 0 Miracles were performed {I n Egypt to help the Children o f Israel and 1 0 at the Red Ten plagues were made to afflict the Egyptians Ten Sea t imes the Jews o ffended God in the Wilderness Ten times did the Shekinah come down into the world at the Tower of Babel at Sodom a t the Garden of Eden i n Egypt see Exodus iii 8 at the Red Sea Psalm cvi ii 9 o n Mount Sinai ; at the Temple ; in the Pillar o f Cloud ; o n the Mount o f O lives see Zechariah xiv 4 ; the r o t h is o mitted in the original reference A v o t h d Rabbi Nathan c hap 3 4 There are 1 0 Hebrew words t o designate Idols and 1 0 fo r Joy Sodom was to be spared fo r 1 0 righteous men ; G ideon took 1 0 servants to destroy the Altar o f Baal ; Boaz itnesse for his marriage with Ruth J oa bs armo u r c hose 1 0 w wa s borne b y 1 0 young men Jes u s speaks of 1 0 talents 1 0 pieces o f silver 1 0 cities and gave a parable o f 1 0 V irgins The Tabern acle has many 1 0 dimensions There a re 1 0 Bible names o f G o d 1 0 Canticles and 1 0 necessari es Ecclus 3 9 2 6 fo r m an s life There were 1 0 Pythagorean Virtues of Initiat ion an d the B uddhists teach 1 0 P a ra m it a s o f Perfection In the A lc hy m i c o Kabalistic tract called Aes ch Me t t referred o by Eliphaz L vi and col l ected from the ;z are h e p en ro t h and translated into Engl i s h Z Oha r of Knorr von R o s ” “ and forming Volume IV of my Collectanea H erm et i ca will be fo u nd 1 0 names for Gold all extracted from the O ld Testament ; they are there related to the Sephira Gebu rah The Hindoo Puranas tell us o f the 1 0 Avatars o f t he G o d Vishnu the Preserver of the Brahmanic Religion ; t hey are periodical incarnations o f the God First a s the ,
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F ish Ma t sya 2 Kurma the Torto i se ; 3 Varaba t he i ngha Boar ; 4 N aras the Man L i on ; 5 V am an a the Dwarf ; 6 Parasu Rama 7 Rama Chandra ; 8 Krishna ; 1 0 h t Buddha and the Kalki the Horse is ye t t o ; 9 These Avatars are susceptible o f a mystical explana c ome tion o n the plane o f cosmogony it has been g i ven in the ” Garuda Temple o f t he O riental O rder o f Light by Frater T H Pa tt i nson o f Bradford a very notab le mystic and o ccult stude n t V i h t f In the Yoga Maha Ramayan Valmiki a s s h a a o 4 will be found an es say on edited by Vihar i Lala Mitra C m Tat Sat o u i d est and this con t ains some very curious information o n the 1 0 numerals as rel ated t o the mys ti cal yllable O M or A U M s ” Aum _mani padm ehum means literally O h the j ewel ” “ in thy m us and is t aken In y s the spark o f t i c ally to mean th e D ivi ne wi thin me ”a s fully explained by Blava t sky wa s t o her E SO t CI lfl CCTlO H o f Theosophists ,
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Judas c all ed L e bbaeus and Thaddeus S i mon t he Canaan i te and Judas Iscari ot The Venerable Bede propos ed t o rename the Signs with t he names of the apos t les and a “ sc heme o f allo t ment i s t o be found in The Sphere o f ” Marcus Mani lius by Edward Sherburne London 1 6 7 5 ” “ See Notes and Queries Vol x i v Man chester p 21 1 Westcott o n t he Zo diac in So c R o sReports give s the Christian allusions t o the Zodiac In an ordinary pa ck o f Playing Cards there are 1 2 Court Cards but in the Tarot Pack there are also 4 Caval iers The Kabal i sts greatly esteemed the 1 2 lettered Name o f ”— “ fui t est cri t or God H I H H V V H V I H I H mean i ng He wa sis will be Less eso t eric wast he Tri ple Te t ragrammaton I H VH t hrice written All Fratres o f t he Rosicru cian Soci ety of England will al so h A hBen ve be fam iliar with A B B E N V R U C h H QD s h meanin g Father So n and Holy Spirit Ruach ha Ko d es The R o s icrugi an Soc i e t y had a scheme of distributing 1 2 shades o f Colour among the Zodiacal Signs but this is a secret matter ; many erroneous schemes have b een published The 1 2 Signs of the Zod i ac are named I n Hebrew b eginning wi t h Ari es Tal eh Shur T hau m im Sartan Ariah it h Gedi Akrab Kes Deli and B et hu leh M az a n ai m In Arabic ; A I Hamal Al Thaur Al Tauman Al D agi m Sarta n Al A sad Sunbul A l Zu ben a Al Akrab Al Kaus Al Ged i Debi and Al Hau t In Chinese P e ya u gh the sheep ; K i n n i eu golden bull ; Shang hu i ng two brothers ; Kin hiai crab ; Sin lion ; Sha niu the house girl ; T i en t c hi n gh the claws o f a scorpion ; Tien K i e the scorpion ; Gun Ma the m an horse Mu Thien the hill sheep ; P ao n gh precious vase ; and Shang Y u t o fishes w i p The o ld Sanskrit Hindoo names used by as t rologers at hab the presen t time are ; Mesha R i s a Mi t h u n a Ka t akam hchika D han u s M akaram S i mha Kanya Tulam Vri s Kumbha and M i nam The 1 2 simple letters of the He b rew Alphabe t have ,
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affiniti es with the Zod i acal Signs bu t the order o f relati on I c rU CI an private doctrine is a R os There were 1 2 recorded Appearances of Jesus after his death ; to Mary Magdalene to the Gal ician women to t wo disciples t o Peter to ten apostles t o eleven apostles t o seven apostles and others when fishing t o 5 0 0 brethren a t once t o James the Less, t o eleven apostles t o Stephen at his martyrdom t o Paul at hisConversion and to t he apostle John The 1 2 hours marked in a watch face can be used t o find the cardinal points if the time i s correct and the sun i s visible Lay the watch flat and point the hour hand to the u n and then the south will be h alf way be t ween that hour s an d the figure XII The author of the Hymns o f O rpheus the Scholiast o n Hesiod and Porphyry state that the 1 2 Labours o f Hercules are s ai d t o be emblems of the sun in its passage thro u gh the ” I 2 signs and this is repeated by the Mystagogus Poeticus 1 6 5 3 a n d they have been allotted as follows to Aries the quest o f the Golden Apples o f the Hesperides t o Taurus the slaying o f the Cretan Bull ; Gemini Hercules and his twin brother strangle the serpents ; Cancer the taking o f the Herds o f Geryon Leo the slayi ng o f the N em aea n Lion ; Virgo the victory over the Amazon Queen ; Libra the death o f the E ry m an t hean boar ; Scorpio the death of the Lern aean Hydra ; Sagittarius the shooting of the Stymphal i an Birds ; Capricorn u s taking o f the hind alive t o Mycen ae ; Aq u arius cleaning the stables o f Augeas Pisces the capture o f the horses o f Diomedes Janus o f the Romans is the God o f the 1 2 months and is drawn with 1 2 altars beneath his feet He is the same as Assyrian Ain Ion Jan ; O N of Eastern nations ” Dunlop s Vestiges ( John Heydon gives the following statements Prospero u s numbers are 1 2 3 4 7 9 1 1 1 3 1 4 Very good I 6 1 7 1 9 20 2 2 2 3 1 0 26 2 7 1 8 21 8 1 2 I Indifferent 6 5 5 0 24 2 Very bad 2 8 29 5 3 ,
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s n The name and symbols c b e obta i n d in S nskrit a a e W l a nd in Arab i c P roctor believes that Solar As tronomy o f t he 1 2 signs arose abo u t 2 1 7 0 B C in a c o u n ny of abou t 6 f degre north latitude and at a perio wh n Taurus e s o d e 1 3 the firs t constellation o f the Zodiac was han ha s 29 The Rosh H a s ays the perio d o f t he M oo n s ix hours and forty minu t es R evolution is 2 9 days and s 0 0 f A me l Lentils once in days keeps the ff a o o 3 3 i 0 h u insy At years of age Jesus b e an s m i nistry ; Q 3 g 0 l d o oseph was ye s wh n he stood bef re Pharaoh ar e o ; J 3 0 l 0 David wa s y s when he b egan to reign pieces e ar o d 3 3 o f silver was the price Judas received and Jair had 3 0 sons = AL 0 1 The num b er of El God 1 3 3 1 o t Jo h u a did comp l te the conquest anaan s e o f n C 3 u nti l he had slain 3 1 ki n gs 2 The number f the Paths f Wisdom f the h o o o e S e r 3 p Y et z ira h being 1 0 Sephiro t h and 2 2 le tt ers o f the Hebre w a lphabet f The years of the l i e f Jesus K i ng David re i gned : o 33 i n Jerusalem 3 3 years : the number of ver t ebrae in the human spinal column The number o f Agla A G LA a c omposite Ka b a 35 li s t i c wonder working name See page 2 7 h 6 6 Abaj i said ther are never less t an oly men h e 3 3 o f any generation upo n whom the Sheki nah does not r est ” “ e P lu tarch De Iside O siride c alls the Tetr ct ys 6 t a 3 t he power o f the number 3 6 and on this was the greatest o ath of the Pythagoreans sworn ; and it was denominat ed t he World in conseq u ence of its being composed o f the first four even and the first four od d numbers ; fo r I and 6 8 and and and 1 2 and are 6 add and a n d 4 3 7 ; 5 o btain 3 6 f The number o f Artic l es t he Protestant Chr i s t ian o 39 C hurch belief 0 Up to 4 0 years of age eating is b est for a man aft er 4 0 0 drinking s u its b st He who has passed days w i h e t 4 4 o u t ah afflict i on has had h is reward in this life e
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Noah N C h Ar istotle stated that t he C rocodile lives na t urally 6 0 years an d sits 6 0 days o n 6 0 eggs The Chinese have a time cycle o f 6 0 years and call it Kya tse The people o f Malabar call this period Chi tam 6 0 The Talmud re fers to 6 0 deadly drugs and 6 0 sorts the sow bears her litter in 6 0 days o f wines 6 1 The number A I N Negative existence o f the Deity 6 4 Aletheia tr u th ” “ 6 5 The n u mber o f Adona i, t rans l ated L ord (A D N I ) and of H S Hes keep silence 6 7 The number o f Binah Supernal Mother the 3 rd Sephira f U D 0 The number Sod a secret doctrine and o S 7 pri vate assembly : the earliest name for t he Kabala h: also I I N Y a y i n wi n e also meant a secret 0 0 h Rabbis considered that there were nations e T 7 7 and Mordecai is said t o have known 7 0 languages The Je wish 7 0 years o f the captivity are reckoned from their conquest by N ebu cha dn ez z ar to the accession of Cyrus 1 The number of the Members of the Sanhedrin 7 — 2 has a large number o mystic references t the f o 2 7 7 — angels bearing the names of Go d derived from Exodus xiv 1 9 2 0 2 1 by the Kabalists there is an important s et o f 7 2 pentacles which placed in pairs forms a series o f 3 6 talis m an s ( s ee Dr Rudd the Lem eget o n Harleian it is als o the nu m ber of Chese d ( ChSD ) t he Sephira M ercy 2 f It is said that Ptolemy King Egypt collected o 2 7 7 Hebrew Rabbis and confined each in a separate room and ordered each to write ou t the Mosaic Law and that by the help o f God each wrote o u t the same words Megillah of the Tal mud 9 1 This account I S SI m i la r to that of Joseph u s and Aristaeus but di fferen t to that o f Philo : hence the name Septuagint K M H m h h The number k a Wisdom the h o f o C C ( 73 ) 2 n d Sephira 0 8 The number of cards in a Taro t pack : numerals 4 7 r6 court cards and 2 2 Trumps 8 5 60
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num b er of the bon es i n é he human bod y This is the number o f Ai n Su ph A I N SVP t he 207 Boundl ess and Aur A V R Light and of Ado na i O l am A D N I OVLA M Lord o f the Universe 21 6 Th e cu b e o f 6 21 6 ye ars t he period o f t he Pythagorean Metemp sychosis The Cup o f David in heaven con tains 2 2 1 l ogs of 221 wine : (about 2 0 gallons ) says the Talmud The sum o f the numbers 1 t o 2 1 t he Gat es of the 23 1 2 00
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num b er of Messiah M ShI Ch and N Chs h n ac h h the Serpent sy m b ol o f life as 6 h h h a t a t n H h The name atan e S T h N con t a i n s S s 3 4 6 and all these days f each year he can tempt man o t u b 3 4 n o t o n the 3 6 5 t h the Day of Atonement 6 f The Greek numeration o A b raxas a Gno t ic t alis s 3 5 man ic word 6 Days the year Negat i ve Jewish precepts Duke f o s 3 5 o f Babylon and Streets in the City of Rome 0 r f Directions f the thought o Microp osopus o S e e 37 Idra Rabba 5 5 3 7 L ogos 3 73 M H S h L Solomon 7 3 5 f T ere were this number o l aw cour t s in h h t e 4 39 Jerusalem o f the kingdom peri o d 0 0 0 0 f The body Joseph was carried m i les to bur i al o 4 4 David i s said to have had a g u ard o f 4 0 0 young men who rode in golden C hariots at t he head o f his army 0 1 0 1 d The F i rst Temple sto o years and the Second 4 4 Temple 4 2 0 » T B D f O h The num b er aath Secret Wisdom e o t 4 74 u nion o f C h okm ah and Binah 6 l h K f M u M L T The num b er the Kingdom a k t o 49 ( ) the 1 o t h Seph i ra 0 0 Kosmos 5 The num b er of the mystic name A h asher i h e e A i e e 4 5 3 ” hR A H I H ) I am that I am ( A H I H A s 0 h M I R the Shamir the mag i cal insec t wh i ch cut t he S 55 stones for Solomon s Temple 6 08 is a very notable number representing the Sun “ Martianus Capella of the 5 t h century says : The Sun is called in Italy the God 8 01 at the Nile Serapis at Memphis O siris ; he i s also Attis ; Adonis at Byblos ; and Ammon in Li b ya ; also Typhon Mithras and Pluto ; his In holy name is of 3 letters which num ber Chaldee and Hebrew 6 0 8 is Cham o r Ham ( C hM) which ” “ a lso means heat In Greek Y H S fro m U H S = 4 00 8 2 00 Tyre T R C h i s also an example o f 6 0 8 60 8 8 35
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Zeus The words Moses o u r Rabbi M s hH R BI N U ; and Lord God o f Israel I H V H A LH I I s hR L both number by Gematria 6 1 3 The 6 1 3 Precepts o f the Jewish law were delivered to Moses Davi d it is sai d reduced them t o i x and later t o t wo eleven and Isaiah to s H abakk u k t o O ne v iz The just S hall live by Faith 6 1 3 also refers t o the holy garment which had 6 0 0 fringes eight threads a n d five knots 6 2 0 The n u mber of Ket her KT R the Crown o r I st Se phira F 6 2 2 years from the Christ i an era 13 the date o f the Heg i ra o r flight of Mahomet from Mecca from which year t be x M ahometans reckon their calendar 6 3 2 years A D is the foundation of the Persian mode o f r eckoning years from their king Y ez d egi rd 6 4 0 is Shemesh the Sun St h Mem I S water ; place the three letters one above the other and we get Sh fi re s u n rising above and S inking below the waters 6 46 The total numeration o f Elohim o r A lei m 0 f 1 0 6 o r avoiding use 0 t h o A L H I M being 1 0 e ; 3 5 fi nal Mem we get 1 0 1 0 0 neglecting the tens + 4 3 5 1 + l w e I and placing these figures in a c i r c e + + + 4 5 3 get the sequence notable as the value o f 71 or the r elation o f a diameter to circumference o f every circle E lohim is both a sing u lar and a plural word 6 5 0 has been referred by Godfrey H iggins to Noa h Noah in Hebrew is N VCh or 6 4 M enes and Bacch u s 6 5 1 T ele ai , the Greek Ancient Mysteries and Epist em e t 61 2 61 3
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num b ers d id n ot mean o u r solar years but years o f five mon t hs of th i r t y days and perhaps t he earliest year was only on e month David spoke of 7 0 years as the l ength of hum an life ; there was n o such long peri od between Noah and David as could reduce human life by eleven twelfths 9 7 4 There were this number o f generations from t he writing of the Law by the Holy O ne before he created Man i n t he World u t b e n n alth u t here be w d h c o on 999 m r e g 99 9 , i gm n a man he s hall be saved n e plead for him S 1 0 00 e 1 0 00 headed serpent i s Sesha o r Anan t a t he Hindoo emblem o f etern i ty 1 000 The daughter o f Pharaoh whom So lomon married told him o f 1 0 0 0 forms of mus i cal i nstruments and taught him the chants for all the i dols 1 0 0 0 is the cube of Ten a symbol o f perfection ar s wife tempted Joseph with 1 0 0 0 t alents o f personal charms failed to m ove him 5 o f the earth s crust is 1 0 0 0 ells : b e l o w th i s i s an abyss of ells Succah 5 3 2 ,
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cc ord in g t o The C an o n t h i s n u m b er exh ibit s an i mpo r ta nt m easure o f the Cosmos; an d wa s the foundation o f t he s ci entific pantheism upo n wh i ch Chri s tia n theo l ogy wa s b uilt it was a par t o f The Gnosis and was derived from t he f ries t ly a tronomers E gyp t o s p 1 48 4 en kreu t z died : the Vau l t clo sed over Chri stian R os his bo dy and t he sec re t s o f the O rder he had founded 1 6 04 The Vault o f C R opened b y his successors after 1 2 0 years o f secre t s tudy and b enevolence 1 61 4 R os The Fama Fra t ern it a t i s as p ri n t ed ae Crucis w 1 71 7 Grand Lod ge of Fr eemas ons i 2 New Y ear s D ch aii ed g " ay W Jan t er Ro b e rt Wen t wor t h L i ttle founde d t he Rosi crucian Societ Freemasons of E ng l and in itsg es en t form 8 8 5 Dr Wm Ro b ert Woodman b ec me Supreme Magus a 1 892 Dr Wm Wynn Westco tt beca m e Supreme Magus 1 91 1 This year A D i s t he 5 o r 3 t h year o f the Kali Yuga o f t he Hindoo sa ges this Yug a is t o continue years 2 000 A Sabbat h day s journey was 2 0 0 0 paces Rabbi Gama l i e l had a t ube made wh i ch when he looked through he could s ee obj ec t s a t 2 0 00 cub i ts dista nce ; this is t he earli est suggestion o f t he telescope E iru v in 4 3 2 23 68 The Geeek number o f I es Christos ou s 00 R H n h 0 00 m a says tha t Solomon sp ke 0 v a m u a o 3 3 proverbs A t the mourn i ng fo r Moses 3 0 00 prec ep t s were forgotten 1 02 1 0 2 In B i n February the Kal i Yuga the C 3 3 B l ack Age o f humanity began according t o the Brahmins 1 t 6 The Jew i sh Era was cal c ula t ed c ommence o 6 1 37 37 years before the Christi an E ra 2 1 Years after t he dispersion sai d Rashi t he Jews 4 3 will be restored t o their o wn l an d 2 1 f After these years t he w rs Go g and Magog w ill a o 4 9 cease says the Tal mud 8 8 f 8 The number verses in the Pen t ateuch says o 5 t he Ki d du s h i n : b u t t hey are usually coun t ed as 8 5 45 a
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The world wa sintended to last 6 00 0 years : 2 0 0 0 years o f Disorder ; 2 0 0 0 o f the Law : and 2 00 0 more before Messiah sho u ld come ; but his Coming has been d elayed by o u r iniquities s o says the Talmudic treatise Sanhedrin 9 7 1 Ac c ording to Ezekiel the mystical city o f Jerusalem wass u rrounded by a square space measuring roods i n length and this he called The Holy O blation and it was fo r the use o f the priests the sons of Zadok 1 f 71 1 f the value the ratio diame t er t o circum o o 3 4 59 ference o f a circle Bode s Law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem 6 0 00
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1 27 re a 6 eyed L mb near the Throne a n a v horned d 7 7 t he 7 Spirits o f God i s n head d and r hor ed S c arle t Be a st o wh i ch a o n e 7 W oman xvii 3 Crowns x i i I o headed and horned Dragon with 7 3 7 o f headed n I o horned Beast rose u t Sea xii i I a d o 7 1 0 Crowns o n Ten horns o f beas t which had 7 heads xii i I I O horned Dragon with 7 heads x ii 3 I o horned Beast with 7 heads rose o u t o f s ea xi ii 1 a I o horned Sca rl et Beast with 7 heads o n which wa s woman xvii 3 1 2 Tribes o f Israel 1 2 Apo stles o f t he La mb x xi 1 4 1 2 Gates o f the New Jerusalem xxi 1 2 1 2 Angels guarding them 1 2 Foundations o f the Walls o f the New Jerusal em 1 2 Stars o n the head o f the Woman xii 1 1 2 sorts o f Fruit o n the Tree o f Li fe xxi i 2 2 4 Elders around the Throne o n 2 4 seats iv 0 1 4 2 months the Gentil es tread over t he outer court o f 4 T emple xi 2 2 mon t hs t he o he d ed Beast t have power to a 4 7 b laspheme xii i 5 1 4 4 cubits t he heig h t of t he Walls o f the N ewJerusal em -
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