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O C C U LT PO W E R A ND MYST I C VI RT U E S

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W . W YNN W E ST CO T T
SU P RE M E M AG US OF T H E R O S ICR U CIAN S O CIETY OF EN G LAND
AU TH OR OF

THE T A B LE T
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T H E SE F K E R V E T Z I R A H

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T H E S A N CT U M R E G N U M O F T H E T A R O T T R U M PS

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A N I N T R O D U CT I O N T O T H E K A BA L A H

T H I R D E D I T IO N

LO N D O N

T H E O S O P H I C A L P U B LI S H I N G S O C I E T Y

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PRE FACE T O THE F IR S T E

DITI O N

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SEC O ND E DITI O N 7
T HIRD E DITI O N 9
PA R T I .

P Y THAGO RA S , H I S T ENET S AND H I S F O LL O W ER S II

PA R T II .

PY THAGO REAN VIE W S ON N U M B ER S 16

\ PA R T I I I
KABA L I S TIC VI E w N N U M BER S
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PA R T I V .

PR O P ERTIE S OF THE N U M BER S ACC O RD I N G T O THE

BI B L E THE T A L M U D S THE PY THA G O REAN S THE
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R O M AN S C H A L DEAN S E G Y P TIAN S H IND OO S M EDI

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[EV A L M A G ICIAN S H ER M ETIC ST U D ENT S AND THE

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SE VEN y ear w
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since this s
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essay was written , and
the M SS pages have been lent t o many friends and
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students Of mystic lore and occult meanings It is only

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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

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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 )
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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
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Roman historian a Greek poet or a Hindoo Adept : t o

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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
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would be in most cases only loss Of time and waste Of

paper My great di fculty has been to supply information
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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
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, o t he words have had

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to be trans l iterated Hebrew and Chaldee shou l d O f course

be read from right t o left and i t was at rst in t ended s
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, o to
print them in their convert ed form b ut the appearance Of
Hebrew in English letters reversed wast o o gro t esque ;
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A B N I is a representati on Of the Aleph daleth nun yod , , , ,

Of Adonai but I N D A would have been sheer barbarity :

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in the case Of Hebrew words I have O ften added the pro -n

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n u n c i at i o n .

The Secre t Doctri ne Of H P B l avatsky a work of

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erudition containing a vast fund Of archaic doctrine has ,

supplied me with valuable quotations If any readers desire .

a deeper insight into the analogies between numbers and

ideas I refer them in add ition t o the works Of E l iphaz Levi
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Athanasius Kircher Godfrey Higgins Michael Maier and

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John Heydon I have quoted from each O f these authorities

and Thomas Taylor s Theoretic Arithmeti c has

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supplied
me with a great part Of the purely arithmetical notions O f
t he Pythagoreans the elucidation O f which was mainly due
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to him In conclusion I request my readers

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A u"p er lage ez r ect e i n t el/236 ,

A u" s '

a fz n e a cen u ra s .

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THE rs t ed itn
i thi s li t tl e b ook hasb een long o u t Of
print and for s e g
1 years I have been asked t o enlarge i t
but until the presen t t i me suf ci ent le i sure ha s
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n o t been

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
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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
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the
previous volumes which t reated of Alchem y in the Her ,

metic Arcanum Hermeti c Ar t E uphrates and Aesch

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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
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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
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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
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study Of the Kabalah O nly a few Talmudic treatises have

as yet appeared i n t he E ngli s
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h language and hardly any ,

Kabal i stic tracts except three from the Zohar o r Book O f

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Splendour viz the Si phra t en i ou t ha the Idra Rabba

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and the Idra Su ta A few othe rs are to be read in German

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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
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Rabb inical Literat ure o f 1 7 4 8 ; in John Al l en s Modern
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Judaism 1 8 1 6 and in works On the Kabalah by Adolph

Franck and Chri s tian Ginsburg while H ers

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ho n has pub
hed Hebraic lore in his Talmudic Miscellany
li s
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Genesis according to the Talmud .

The Midrash ha ZO ha r Of D H Joel Leipzig 1 8 4 9

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narrates the relation between the Kabalah and P latonis m ,

Neo Platonism Greek philosophy and the Zoroastrian

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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
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Of which has appeared in three editions from the A u thor s

own pen The fundamentals O f the numerical Kabalistic

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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 s s
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q u i i t i o n e ,

A ri t hm et i c ae

1 8 0 1 ; Legendre
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Thorie des Nom b res , ,

1 830 W G O Smith Reports o n the Theory Of Numbers
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in the Transactions Of the British Associatio n 1 8 5 9 ,

James Oz a n a m
Mathematical Recreations
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1 71 0 trans , ,

lated by H u tton in 1 8 1 4 Su art The Power Of Numbers ;

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and Barlow s Investigations O f the Theory Of Numbers

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For further information on Hindoo philosophy see The

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Theosophical Glossary Of H P Blavatsky the works Of . .
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T u kara m Tatya and modern translations O f the Vedas

Puranas and Upanishads also Rama Prasad s Na t ure s
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Finer Fo rces .

Lamaism in T ibet 1 8 9 5 by Dr Laurence Austine
Waddell i s
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, 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

son ;

Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman ; and

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Egyptian Belief by James Bonwick Mystics will nd

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m u ch food for tho ught i n the Y i King a very curious -

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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

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and G R S Mead may be suita bly s tud i ed

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Many volumes Of Bijou Notes and Queries have b een

p ublished by S .C Gould
. Of Manches t er ,
and these
are full O f numerical i deas .

I am prepared to nd 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

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will be able to nd a basis for a general knowledge Of

nu m bers vi eW d from the standpoint Of occult sci ence

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PR EF A C E TO TH E T H I R D E D I T I ON, 191 1 .

A F E W co rrections have been made and interesting notes

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have been added many o f these have bee n supplied by my

pupils and fellow students O f t he Rosicrucian S ociety
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T H E I R O C C U LT PO W E R A ND MY ST I C VIRT U E S

PART I .

P Y T HA GO RA S , T ENE T S O LL O W E RS

H IS AND H IS F .

P Y T HAGO R A S, o n e O f the greatest philosophers O f ancient

s s
E urope , wa t he on Of M n e arc hu s san engraver He was , .

born about the year 5 8 0 B C e i ther at Samos an island in

the n ean Sea o r as some s
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ay at Sido n in Ph oenicia
Very little i s known Of hi s
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early life , b eyond the fact that

he won prizes for feats Of ag ility at the O lympic Games .

Having attained m anhood and feeling dissatised w i th the

amo u nt Of knowledge t o be gained a t home h l eft hi s
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nati ve land and spent many years in travel v i siting i n turn ,

most O f the great centres Of Learning History narrates .

that hi s pilgri mage in search Of wisdom extended t o Egypt

Hindo s
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t an Persia Crete and Palestine and that he

gathered from each country fres
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h stores Of i nformati o n ,

and su c ceeded in becom i ng well acquainted with the

Esoteric Wi sdom as well a sw it h the popu l ar exoteric
knowled ge Of each
He returned with hi s mind well s t ored and hi s
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j udgmen t
matured t o his home intending to open there a College
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o f learning b u t th i s he found t o b e imprac t ica b le owing to

the O pposit i on Of t s b e ru ler Polycra tes Failing in
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i t u r u l n t / .

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this design he migrated t o Cro t on a a no t ed city in Magna

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G raeci a which was a c olony founded by Dorians o n the

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South coast O f Italy It was here that this e v er famous

Philosopher founded his College or Society Of Student s

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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
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O racle of Delphi the Id aean cave and from the Ka b

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ala h ,

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 ee from the C ity owing to a c o n

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p i ra c y and rebellion which arose on account O f a quarrel

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
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B C 450 Herodotus who speaks Of the mysteries O f

the Pythagorean s
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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 .

.B C 38O.
Theon Of Smyrna
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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 rst who committed t o writing

the doctrines Of Pythagoras
M et aphy s
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.B C 322. Aristotle
. Refer t o his
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Moralia Magna and Nicomachean Ethics
N i co m a c hu s
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O f St agyra was h i s father .

.B C 2 76
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Eratosthenes author O f a work entitled
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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
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.B C 4O . . .

and De natura D eo ru m .
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5 0 A D
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N i co m achu sO f Gerasa Treatises O n Arit h
me t ic and Harmony .

A D Porphyry Of Tyre a great philosopher

3 0 0

sometimes named in Syr iac M elekh 0 r K i ng was

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the pupil o f Long i nus and P l o ti nus

s s s
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34 0 A D .

J.a m b li cu wro t e
De m y t eri i
De ,

P y t hago ric a

v ita

The Ari thmetic O f N ic o
us
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m ac h

0 f Gerasa and The Theo l o gi ca l P ro
s
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p e rt i e O f Numbers .

P roclus in his commen tary o n t he Works

45 0 A D . .
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and Days O f Hes iod gives information concern ,

i ng an views Of numbers .

5 6 0 A D . . O f Cilicia a contemporary Of ,

Constantinople has l eft a Bi bli

s
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ot heca Of the idea Of the Older philosophers .

Coming down t o more recent times the follow ing

authors should be consulted z M eu rs i u sJohannes 1 6 2 0
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om iu s
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M ei b ,
Marcus 1 6 5 0 ; and Kircher Athanasius 1 6 6 0
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They collected and epitomized all that was extant Of previous

author s c oncerning the doctrines O f the Pyth agoreans The
rst eminent follower o f Pythagoras was A ri s t wu swho
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married T hean o the widow O f his master : n ext follo wed /

M n es u sthe s on Of Pythagoras ; and later B u la go ra s

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arch

Tidas and D io d oru sthe A s

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p en di an After t he original
school was dispersed the chief i nstructors became Cli n i as
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and Philolaus at Heraclea T heori d es

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and Eurytus at Meta

p o n t u m ; and Archytas the sage Of Tarentum
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The school Of Pythago ras had several peculiar c haracter

ist i c s Every new member was obliged to pass a period Of
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v e years Of contemplati on i n perfect silence ; the m embers

held everything in common and rej ected animal food they
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were believers in the d octrine Of metempsychosis and were ,

inspired with an ardent and Impl i cit faith in their fo u nder

and teacher SO much did the element Of faith enter into
their training that a u tosaf ka
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H e said it was to -

t hem complete proof Intense fraternal affection between the

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pup il s was also a marked feature O f the school ; he nce t heir

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saying m y fri end i s my

, se lf has
o ther b ec ome a by word
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t o this day . The t each ing was i n a great measure secret and ,

certain studies and knowledge were allo tt ed to each C lass

and grade Of instruction : meri t and ability alone su f 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

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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
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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
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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

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two branches arithmetic and musical harmo ny ; the latter

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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
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doctri nes are depen

dent O n the mathematical concep ti ons numerical ideas and
impersonations upon which his philosophy wa s
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f o u n d ed
T he p ri n ci ples
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governing Num be rs were supposed t o be

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
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be lieved that the natives of Europe o we the rst teach i ng

O f the properties O f Numbers Of the principles Of music
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an d Of physics ; but there is evidence t h at he had visited

Central Asi a and there ha d acquired the mathem atical
ideas which form t he bas i s O f his
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doc tri ne The m odes O f .

thought introduced by Pythagoras and fol l owed by his

successor J am bli cu s
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and others became known later o n

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b y t he ti tl es of the Itali an s c hoo l or t he Do ri c
sh
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c ooL
The fo ll owers o f Py t hagoras deli vered t he i r knowl edge
t o pupi l s tted b y sel ec t ion and b y t ra in i ng t o rece i ve it I n
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secret ; b ut to others by numerica l and mathematical names

and notions Hence they cal l ed forms num bers a point
the monad a l ine t he dyad ; a s u per c i es
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, , t he t riad ; and
a so l id the tetrad
Intu i tive knowledge was
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referre d t o t he Monad t ype

Reason and cau s
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ation Dyad type .

Imagi nation (form o r ru pa) Triad type .

Sensation of ma terial O bj ec t s Te tra d t ype .

Indeed they ,
c t pla net m an idea and , , ,

essence to some i n a way wh i ch t o most

moderns mus t 5 m y s ti cal i n t he h i ghest
degree .

The numerals 0f Py thagoras says Porphyry who live d

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about 3 0 0 A D were hieroglyphic sym b ols b y means

whereof he explai ned all i deas
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concerning the na t ure O f

things a n d t he same method Of explaining the secrets O f
na t ure i sonce a gain b eing insisted upon in the new
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revelat ion O f the Secret D o ct rine b y H P Blavat sky , . . .

Numbers are a key t o t he ancien t vi ews O f cos m ogony

in it s broad sense spiri tually as well a s , phys i cal ly considered ,

and t o t he evolution Of the present human race ; al l sys t ems

Of religious m ystic i sm are based upon numerals The

s
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sacredness o f numbers begins with the Great First Cause ,

the O ne and end only with the nough t 0 r zero symbol

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O f t he inni t e and bo un dl ess universe
Isis Unvei led .
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v o l ii 40 7
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Tradition narrates that the studen ts O f the Pyt hagorean

school at rst cl assed a s
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E xoter i ci o r A u s c u lt a n t es l is t eners , ,

were privil eged t o ri se by merit and ability to the h igher

grades Of G enuini Perfect i M at hem at i ci o r the most , ,

coveted ti tl e O f Eso t eri ci .

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PART II .

P Y T HA G O R EAN V I E W S O N NU M BE R S .

THE found a tion of Py thagorean Mathematics was as follows :

The rst natural division o f Numbers i s i nto E VEN and
OD D , an E V EN number be ing o n e which is divisible into
two equal parts withou t leaving a monad between them
, .

The O D D number when d i vided into two equ al parts leaves

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the monad in the middle b etween the parts .

All even numbers also ( except the dyad two which i s
simply two u nities ) may be divi d ed into t wo equal parts
and also into two un equal parts yet s
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o that in neither ,

division will ei ther pari ty be mingled with imparity nor ,

imparity with parity The binary number two cannot be

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divided into two unequal parts .

Thus 1 0 divides into 5 and 5 equal parts also into 3 and

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7, both impari t ies and into

, 6 and 4 both p arities and 8 ,

divi des into 4 and 4 equals and parities and into 5 and
, ,

3,
both imparities .

But the O D D number is Only divisible into uneven parts ,

and o n e p a rt is also a parity and the other part an imparity

thus 7 into 4 and 3 or 5 and 2 i n both cases unequal
, , ,

and Odd and even .

The ancients also remarked t he monad t o b e odd and
t o be the rs
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t Odd number because it cannot be divided
,

into two eq u al numbers Another reason they saw was that

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the monad added to an even number became an o dd

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number, b u t if evens are added to evens the result is an

even number .
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U nevenly even num b ers may b e part ed i nto t wo equ al

d i visions and these parts agai n equally d ivi d ed b u t the
process does no t proceed until unity i sr eached ; such
, ,

numbers are 2 4 and 2 8 .

O dd numbers al so are suscepti b le o f b eing looked upon

from three po i nts of view t hus : ,


First and incomposite ; such are 3 5 7 1 1 I 3 1 9 2 3 , , , , , , ,

2 ,9 3 1 no other number measures t hem but unity ; they are

not composed o f o t her numbers but are generated from ,

unity al one .

Second and com posi t e are I ndeed Odd but contain ,

and are composed from other numbers ; such are 9 1 5 2 1 , , ,

2 5 2 7 3 3 and 3 9 These have parts which are denominated

from a foreign number or word as well as
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proper uni ty
thus 9 has a third part wh ich i s
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3 ; 51 has a third part

which is 5 and a fth part 3 hence as con t ain i ng a foreign
part it i s call ed second and as contain i ng a divis i bility it
is
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composite .

The Third Vari ety o f od d num bers i s more complex and ,

i s o f itself second and composite b u t wi th reference t o ,

another is rst and i ncomposite such are 9 and 2 5 These

are divis ible each of them that i s
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, second and composite ,

yet have no common measure ; t hus 3 wh i ch d ivides the 9

does n o t divide the 2 5 .

Odd numbers are so rt ed ou t in t o these t hree c l asses by a

device ca lled t he Sieve o f Eratosthenes which i s of t o o

complex a nature t o form par t of a monograph s

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o discurs i ve
as this must be .

Even numbers have al so been divi ded by the ancient

sages into Perfec t Deci ent and Superabundant
Superperfec t or Superabundan t are such a s1 2 and
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Decien t are such as 8 and 1 4

Perfect are su ch as
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6 and 2 8 ; equal t o the number o f

their parts ; as 2 8 half i s1 4 a fourth i s7 a seventh is 4
a fourteen t h par t i s
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2 and the twenty eighth is I whi ch

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q u otien t s added together are 2 8 .

In Decien t num be rs such as 1 4 the parts are surpassed

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by t he whole : o n e seventh is 2 a hal f is 7 a fourteenth i s , ,

1 the aggregate is 1 0 or less than 1 4

In Superabundant a s1 2 t he whole surpasses the aggre
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gate Of its parts thus the sixth is 2 a fourth is 3 a t hird is

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s s
, ,

4, a half is 6 and a twelfth

, i 1 and t he aggregate i 1 6 o r ,

more than 1 2 .

Superperfect num b ers they looked on as similar t o Bri areus

the hundred handed giant : hi s
,
-
parts were too numerous the
deci ent numbers resembled Cyclops who had bu t o n e ,

eye wh ilst the perfect num bers have the t emperament o f a

m i dd l e li m it and are the emula t ors Of Virtue a med ium
, ,

between excess and defect n o t the summit as some ancients , ,

falsely t hought .

E vil is i ndeed Op t o evi l but both t o o n e good

Good however i s
.
,

,
opposed t o go od but t o t wo
, ,

evils
,

The Perfect num l ike the vi r tues few in

num b er ; wh il s
,

t t he other t wo Classes are like the vices

numerous i nord i nate and inde nite
There i s
, , .

b ut one perfect number be t ween I and 1 0 tha t

is
,

6 ; on l y o n e b etween 1 0 and 1 0 0 t hat is 2 8 ; only o n e ,

be t ween 1 0 0 and 1 0 0 0 that is 4 9 6 ; and bet ween 1 00 0

on l y one that i s
,

and 8 1 28 , .

O dd num b e rs they ca l l ed Gno m o n s because b eing added

t o squares t hey keep the same gures a s in Geome t ry : s
, ,

, ee
S i mpl i cius l i b er 3, .

A number which is formed b y the multiplica t ion o f an Od d

and an even num ber to ge t her they called Hermaphrodi t e
s
,

a rren ot h

or elu .

In connection w ith t hese notes o n parity and imparity ,

den i te and inde nite numbers it is to be noted that the ,

Old philosophers we re deeply imbued with the union o f

numerical ideas with Nature i n i t s
c ommon acceptation ,

and also t o the natures essences or s u bstrata Of things ,

.

T he nature of good t o them was denite that o f evil ,

inde nite ; and the more indenite the nature o f the evil ,

the worse it was Goodness alo ne can dene o r bound the

.

indenite In the human soul exists a cer t ain vestige o f

.
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d ivine goodness ( Buddhi) ; thi s b ounds and moderates the

i n d e ni t en es sand inequality o f its desires .

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

li c hu sin his treatise o n the Arithmet i c o f Nico
.

I am b
'

us
,

m ac h ,
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 r epos
, , .

, ,

e w =

y ano ther I Now this
. is demonstrated to be the
case in these numbers ; the parts of each are generative o f
each other according t o the nature o f friendship
,
.

Oz an am a French mathematician A D 1 7 1 0 gives ex

amples in hi sMathematica l Recreations o f such Amicable
.
, , ,
.

Numbers He remarks that 2 2 0 is equal t o the s

. um 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

Another such pai r of numbers are and

Very curi ous specula t ions a st o the relation bet ween -

Numbers and marriage and the character of o ffspri ng from

,

it are t o be found scattered through the writings o f the

Philosophers Plato in hi s R epublic has
,

.

,
a passage c o n ,

cerning a geom etric number which divinely generate d will

be fortunate o r unfortunate N i c o m achu s
, , ,

also speaks O f
.

th i s same n u m ber an d he calls it the Nuptial Number ; and

, ,

he passes from it to state that from two good parents only

good o ffspr ing can come ; from two bad parents only bad ;
and from a good and a bad parent only bad ; whence he
warns the Republic against wedlock in a confused o r dis
orderly manner from which the progeny being depraved
, , ,

discord will result Simplicius in his commentary o n the

.
,

z u d Book o f Aristotle

O n the Heavens remarks that
, ,

Pythagoras and his followers claimed to have heard the

Music o f the Spheres t o have heard an harmonic sound
,

produced by the motion of the planets and from the sound ,

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"to have calculated by numbers t he ratio of d i s t ance and

size o f the Sun Moon Venus an d Merc u ry T 0 this
, , .

Aristotle objected but perhaps the di fculty might be

,

solved : in this sublunary sphere a ll things are n o t co m

mensurate nor i s ,
every t hing sensi b le t o every body alike .

Animals can be scen t ed and t heir presence den i t ely kn own

, ,

by dogs when at great distances from them and when man ,

i s i n complete ignorance o f thei r existence Some o f the

ancients thought the soul had three veh i cles the terrestrial

body an aerial one i n which it i s

, punished and an ethereal,

o n e luminous a nd celestial in which the soul abides when

, ,

in a state of bl i ss I t may be that some one by purication

.
,

o f the senses by hereditary magical power o r by prob i ty

ns O f hi s
, , ,

o r by the sacred religion may perceive , ,

with a terrestrial b aside things impercept i ble to u s

, ,

and hear soun us still in bondage ; or with

mantle partly unfolded some adept o r t ruth seeker may
, ,
-

perceive with eyes uprai sed sights invisible to mortals

whilst yet hi s
, , ,

ears are deaf t o the sounds bey ond us both

R OI why do we s
.

ee the s tars wh i le yet we hear n o t their

,

motion :

Why come n o t angels from the realms of glory

To visi t earth a sin the days of old ?
,

Is heaven more distant

O r has earth grown cold ?
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PART I II .

TH E KA BALA K O N NU M BE R S .

M AN Y nations o f antiquity made use o f the l etters o f their

alphabets as substi tutes for any independent s igns to typify
numerical conceptions It i s with the Hebrew l etters as
.

numerals tha t we are chiey co n cern edh a nd t o a smaller

extent with the Greek Ancien t records S how tha t the
.

Greeks used thei r numbers almost exclusively fo r everyday

purposes while the Jewish Ra bbis added t o t hei r practical
value special pecul iar purposes and looked t o them to
,

furnish deepe r vi ews o f nature exi stence and doctrine N o

,
.

doubt can exis t t hat the ancien t E gyptians were ful ly aware
o f the wondr o us mysteries wh i ch numbers are ab l e to
disclose s o considering that Greece and neither Judea nor

Babylon succeeded to the empires o f ancient Egypt it i s

, , ,

, ,

a curious fact how l i ttle knowledge o f the dogmas of the

Hierophants of Sais Memph i s and Thebes Greek li t erature
has transmitted t o u s
,

The Jewish Rabbis discovered s

.

o much o f in t erest and

impo rtance behind the merely supercial value of numbers ,

and o f words as their representatives that they gradually ,

developed a complete science o f numerical conceptions

apart from mathematics ; this t ook the name o f Ka bala h o r
Qabalah Cab bala or even Cabala words variously m i sspe l t
, , ,

from Q BLH t he Received do c trine from the root Q BL , ,

meaning t o Receive
The Greeks as
.

aforesaid did n ot deve l op n or use their

letters as numbers for mental conceptions yet in the Middle ,
 23

Ages we often nd Greek letters used to transl i terate

Hebrew s i m i larsand s
, o t here wasform e d a ba stard Greek
Kab ala h o n the Hebrew type .

It must b e constan tly borne i n m i nd t hat all Hebrew

words o r num b ers are read from right t o left o r the reverse ,

o f Engl i sh words ; but in the i r E ng l ish t ransl i teration they

are here i n E nglish order .

The corresponding numerals , Greek and Hebrew letters ,

are here given w i th the i r Engl i sh names and t he Eng l ish

synonymous le t ters
,

are al so added .

A B G D H U or V Z
Aleph Beth Gimel Dal eth Heh Vau Zain
N 3 J

l I
I 2 3 5 6 7
Alpha Beta Gamma Delta ,
J
E pSi lo n Zeta
a
B y 3

Ch Th Y or I or J K L M
Heth Teth Y od Kaph Lamed Mem Nun
n n 3 5 D J

8 9 I o 20 3 0 4 0
5 O

Eta Theta Iota Kappa La m bda Mu Nu

1
) 9 t K A p. v

S O P Tz R
Samekh Ay i n P eh T z a dd i Qoph Resh
1 D 3
'
D
'
I

60 7 0 80 9 0 I OO 2 00

Xi O micron Pi Kapp a R ho Sigma

6 o

11 I2 p 0
-
01 ;
 Sh T K M N
Shin Final Kaph Final Mem Final Nun
W n 1
'

c: I
3 0 0 4 00 5 0 0 6 00 7 0 0

T au Upsilon Phi Chi P i s

1
'
v l
<>
x # 1

P Tz
Fi nal Peh Final T z ad d i Dot t ed Aleph

1 Y N
8 00 9 0 0 1 000

Om ega Alpha dashed

w 71) 9

Note that t here were no proper Greek Letters fo r 6 9 0 , ,

and 9 0 0 so they used special symbols ep zkem on ( van or

bau d igamma ) fo r 6 ; kapp a fo r 9 0 ; and s

, ,
'

, a npz for 9 0 0

5 I1

At some per i ods the ve nals were n o t u sed for the

h u ndreds but instea d Ta u was written for 4 0 0 and other
,

hundreds added ; th u s 5 0 0 was T O Another point o f .

importance is that the Jews never write J H Jah for 1 5

beca u se it is a Deity title they u s
, ,

e instead 9 6 th u s TV
. , , ,

teth va u The Kabalists used J H only when they desired

.

to call attention t o the Holy Name in the n u mber .

In certain K abalistic n u merical computations many

Rabbis deemed it permissible t o add an Aleph o n e and , ,

this they called the C olel .

In some cases we nd the Greeks to have used their

letters in direct order for purposes o f n u meration as may ,

be seen in some copies of very O ld poems (t he 2 4 books of

Homer s Iliad and O dyssey for example ) in which the

, ,

stanzas bear the letters consecutively in a similar manner ,

to the Hebrew letters heading the portions of the 1 1 9 t h ,

Psalm in o u r Bibles .

The word Kabala h includes the Hebrew Doctrines o f

Cosmogony and Theology a swell as the Science of
 26

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 , , , , , , , , , , , ,

10 I 3 0 6 2 0 0 8 0 1 3 0 also amountin to 7 and

, , , , g , 0 1 , , , ,

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 nd 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
is a lso N achas h the Serpent o f Moses N Chs
, , , , ,

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 , , , , , , , ,

00
3
The Kabalists somet i mes Con s
.

o o O

l d ered the un i ts to refer

t o Divine Beings the tens to celestial bodies hundreds to

, ,

things of eart h and thousands to future even t s

N ot a rz con a word derived from the Latin not a ri a sa
.
,
'

, ,

shorthand wr it er means the c onstruction o f a word from the

,

initial o r nal let t ers of the several words o f a sentence ; or

vice ver s a the construction o f a sen t ence of which each word
 27

i n order begi ns w i th the several le t ters composing a g i ven

word : processes o f contraction and expansion therefore ,
.

Refer t o Deuteronomy xxx v 1 2 and nd that Moses . ,

.
,

asks Who shall go up for us t o heaven ? the initials o f
,

the words o f the sentence M Y Y O LH LN U H ShMY M H

read My y eola h l enu has
, ,


hem i m ha form the word M Y L K ,

or M yla h which means ,

Circumcis i on and the nal ,

letters form the word Jehovah Y H U H o r I H V H suggesting , ,

that Jehovah po i nted ou t the way by circumcision t o

hea ven Again t he rst s
, ,

i xletters o f the book of Genesis

B R A ShI T B era s
.
,

it trans l ated
, ,
In the beginn i ng but more ,

properly In wisdom are the initials o f the words B R A ShI T

R A H A LH I M ShY QBLU I s Bera s

,

hR A L T U R H read i t raua h

E lohim s
,

hy eq u eb elu Israel torah

whi ch mean In the

begin ning God s

,

a w tha t Israel would accept the Law

T he fa m o u s
.
,

i

l
power AGL A is '

Tu po t en sin
, ,

formed o f the tence ,
)
s aeculum Domine
ATH ,
G BU R LO U LM AB NI Ateh ,

g i b u r lo u la m Adon a i The word

. Amen
is from A M N ,

the initials o f
Adonai m elekh namen
A D N I M LK ,

N A M N m eaning The Lord and Fai thful King
, .

T em u m means Permutation ; sometimes the le t ters o f a

w ord are transposed accord i ng t o certain rules a nd with
ce rtain lim itations ; a t o thers each letter o f a word i s
,

re

p l c e d a o t her according t a denite scheme formi g

a y n o n ,

a new word o f Whi hpermutation there are many recognised

,

forms F o r example the alphabet o f 2 2 letters is halved

.
,

and the t wo sets placed o n e over the other in reverse order ,

thus
A B G D H V Z Ch Th Y K
T Sh R Q T z P O S N M L
then A i schanged to T and V t o P and s o on so Babel
= B BL b ecomes Shes
, ,

hak ShShK used by Jeremiah

Th i s form is called Atbash or A T Bs
,

xxv v 2 6
. . .
h; i t
will be seen that there must b e 2 1 other possible fo rms a nd
thes
,

e were named in ord er thus Albat Agdat etc ; the

compl ete s et wa s
, , , , .

called the combinat ions o f T z iru p h .

O ther Per m uta tions were named Ra t i onal Right Averse , ,

 28

and Irregular these are produce d by forming a square and

subdividing it by 2 1 lines in ea ch direction into 4 8 4 smaller
squares and then writing in each square a letter in order
,

successively from right to left o r from above down or the , ,

reverse The most pop u lar mode o f perm u ta tion has how
.

ever been the form called Kabalaho f the Nine Chambers

,

produced by the intersection of two horizon t al and two

vertical lines forming n i ne spaces a central square and 4
, , ,

three sided gures and 4 two sided gures to each of which

are allotted certain letters there are s
- -

, ,

e veral modes even o f

this arrangement and there is a mystical mode of allotting
the Sephiroth to t hi s
,

gure but this is a Rosicrucian secret , .

This method is u sed i n a supercial manner i n M ark

Master Masonry .

A fu rther development o f the Numeri cal Kabalah consists

o f arithmetical processes o f Extension and Contraction ;
thus Tetragrammat on i s considered as Y 10 H 5 V 6 H 5 , , , ,

or 2 6 but also may be spelled in full Y VD 2 0 H A 6

, , ,

VV 1 2, H A 6, or

Again the Kabalists ext ended a number by series Zain

,
.

Z o r 7 becomes 1 and 2 an d 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 , ,

or 2 8 After another manner they contracted as 2 8 was

.
,

eq u al to 2 and 8 o r 1 0 Again Tetragrammaton 2 6 became

,
.
,

2 and 6 o r 8 so every number was reducible to a primary

, ,

numeral In this manner within certain restrictive laws

.
, ,

every word ha d analogies with certain others thus A B

father I and 2 are 3 I H V Jehu 1 0 and 5 and 6 are 2 1 2 , ,

and I are 3 A L ShD I Al Shadd ai God Almighty I 3 0

.
, , , , ,

3 0 0, 4 1 0 o r
, 345 becomes 1
,
2 and then 2 and 1 are 3 ; , ,

H V A o r Hoa 5 6 1 are 1 2 and then 3 ; and G D VL H , , , ,

Ged u lah 3 4 6 3 0 5 are 48 and are 1 2 and 3

, , , , , .

Another method o f substitution leading to results o f an

opposite C haracter is the substitution in any word of similar
letters of an other group hard fo r soft o r sibilant fo r dental ; , ,

thus in T M = perfec t exchange T H for T and obtain T hM , , ,

meaning d e led : ShA N secure tranquil becomes SAN , , , ,

battl e ; ShKL wisdom becomes SKL foolish In the , , ,

.

word Sha d da i ShD I Almighty with soft sibilant and soft

, , ,
 29

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 , , ,

A BR H M and that o f his wife Sarai St

, into Sarah , , ,

SH R H see Genesis xvi i v 5 1 5 o n the occasion o f the
s
,
. .
,

concept ion of Isaac Y T z c hQ o r Y hChQ from the root , ,

ShChQ o r T ZC hQ
laugh ,
when Sarah was 9 0 and , ,

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

of Brahma the Hindoo Deity The name splits up
curi ously A B is father B R i ss
.
,

. o n A M is like O M o r , ,

A U M a d ei c name o f Power ; R M meant
,
he i s lifted up .

Blavatsky remarks that Abraham and Saturn were identical

in A s t rO symbology the Father o f the Pharisees was Jehovah
-

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 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
The name Sarah also has a curious s et of s i m i la rs
.
,
. .

in
Hebrew SR H princess ; SA R esh ; SO R gate ; SChR

, , , ,

black ; S O R hairy seir S R T incision ; SR and SR R navel ;

, , ,
 3 0

and no t e t he Sac t i o f
Brahma is Sara swa ti wat ery ; S ara
re fers t o SR 1 Lakhs
-
,

m i Aphrodi t e and all are related t o

, , ,

Water and Luna Vach Sophia o f t he Gnostics and the , , ,

ideal Holy Ghost all fem inine , .

The 2 43 o f Abra m becomes 2 4 8 b y add ing H and Sa ra I ,

0 becomes by taking ff pu t ting H f Y and the

5 1
5 5
0 5 o or , ,

to t al Of the two names is unaltered b eing 7 5 3 2 4 8 is the ,

number o f the members o f M i croprosopus and o f R ChM ,

rechem or Mercy
Before leaving t hls
.

su bj ect a reference must be made ,

to the Magic Squares o f the Planets etc to each planet , ,

.

belongs a special unit and secondari l y other numbers , .

Thus the Square of Saturn has t hree compart ments each

way and in each subd i vision is a unit I t o 9 so arranged
, , ,

that the columns add up t o 1 5 every way the total

b eing 4 5 The Square o f Jupiter hasa side of four
,

divisions total 1 6 each line ad ds up t o 3 4 and the to tal is

, ,

1 3 6
The Square o f Mars i s
.

gi ven here as an examp l e each :

s
,

ide 5 total squares 2 5 each s id e coun t ing 6 5 and to tal

, , ,

25
3 .

1 1 24 7 20 3
4 1 2 25 8 1 6

1 7 5 1 3 21 9
1 0 1 8 1 I 4 22

23 6 1 9 2 1
5

Simi l arly the four several numb ers o f Sol are 6, 3 6, III ,

6 66 O f Venus 7 4 9 1 7 5 1 2 2 5
. O f Mercury, , , , .
,
8, 6 4, 2 6 0,

2 0 8 0.

Luna 9 8 1 3 6 9 3 3 2 1
Of Each number then be comes
, , , , .

a name Take the case of Mercury ; 6 4 i s alike D I N and

B N I Din and Doni ; 2 6 0 i s
.

,
T i ri el T I R I A L ; and 2 0 8 0 i s ,

T ap ht hart ha ra t h, T P T R T R T .

Rawlinson in his volumes on the Ancient Monarchies

states that the Chaldeans as
, ,

,
sociated mystic numbers with
their Deities th u s to Anu P luto 6 0 Bel Jupiter 5 0 ; Hoa , , , , ,
 3 1

Neptune 4 0 ; S i n the Moon 3 0 ; Sha m ash the Sun 2 0 ;

Nergal ( Mars ) 1 2 ; and Belt i s o r Mylit ta I 5 ; and Nin is
, , , , ,

, ,

Saturn 1 0 ,
.

It w ill b e no t iced t ha t t he grea t number o f Sol i s 6 6 6 .

called Sorat h S U RT t he num b er of the Beas t a bout wh i ch

s as
, , ,

o much folly h been wri tt en O ne famous square of ve

r .

t imes v e divisions amounting in most directions t o 6 6 6 is

formed of the mystic words Ta tar a repa t enet op era rot a s
, ,

.
, , , ,

O f these the rst third and l as t num b er 6 6 6 b ut op era

and its reverse number only 3 5 6 The num ber 6 0 8 i s
, , ,

notable being in Copti c P hR E the s

.

,
un 5 00 1 00 8 and in , , , ,

Greek we nd VH S 40 0 8 2 0 0 wh i ch b ecomes I HS i n , , , ,

L at i n for t he Greek Ups il on changes t o Y and I in Latin

and s
, ,

o we ob t ain t he anagram o f
Iesus hom i nu m

S alvator .

Kircher poin t s o u t m ple o f mag i c squares ;

the names Jesus and I E SOU S M A R I A have a

curious relation 8 2 00 7 0 4 0 0
.
, , , ,

N ow take Mar i a 4 0 1 1 00 1 0 ,
\
Set 1 5 2 i n
, , , ,

a Magic Square of Three n i ne compar t men t s t hus , , ,

t hen the to t als are all 8 8 8
1 5 2 5 2 1 2 1
5
The l etters o f I es ou s
, , , .

also make a mag i c square of 3 6

d i vis i ons adding every way t o 8 8 8 Consu lt t he A ri t hm o
, .

log i a o f Kircher
i llz a sm em z m t Sy az lla d e nom z n a e s
.

' '

Remember
'

/

u

en em a Sou m ea a a e

s a ekaa e

sk e a l an

fa de s
s8
, ,

Okla, ta u m 8 8

or 720m m am ta z e ,

See S t Augustine, D e
. D ef .

No t e the mystic word Abraxas i s I 2 1 00 1 6 o 1 2 0 0 , , , , , ,

6
3 5 i n Greek let t ers
As a curiosit y not e that the Roman X fOI 1 0 i s two V s
.

, ,

wh i ch are eac h 5 ; C o r squarely drawn E fo r 1 0 0 con

sists of t wo L s
, , , ,

wh i ch are each 5 0 Pri sci an says I for I

wa s
.

t aken from i in the m i ddle o f the Greek m i a , female

of I and V for 5 because it wa s
, the fth vowe l T o .

remember Hebrew numerals note A I Q I 1 0 1 0 0 ; , ,

:
, ,

and in Greek A I R A = 1 1 0 1 0 0 , , , , , ,

Acco rdi ng t o The Canon o f 1 8 9 7 , an anonymous work , ,
 3 2

a Ves ica pi scis (t he gure for m ed by t he I ntersec t ion o f

two equal circles) whose dimens i ons are 2 6 and 1 5 is a ,

symbol o f t he hidden rule or canon by which Natural laws

were repres ented to Initiates in the secret wisdom of the

. s
Ancient Mysteries The Greek god Zeus Jupiter and ,

Apollo t he Sun god have t he same n umerical relation

, , .
 34

i n t he Ineffable pri nci p l e of things o f wh ich it i s the i mage

all i s
, ,

confused vague and in darkness , .

9 A. Chasm as a void ,
.

1 0 Tartarus from its being at the lowest extremity is

.
, ,

dissimilarly similar t o God at the highest end o f the ,

series
The Styx from i t s
.

1 1 i mmutable nat u re
Horror the ineffable is perfectly unknown and i s
.
, .

1 2 .
, ,

therefore terrible .

1 3 Void o f M i xture from the S implic ity o f the nat ure of

.
,

the ineffable .

1 4 Lethe obl i vion Ignorance

.
, ,
.

1
5 A Virgin
. from the purity of its nature
,
.

1 6 Atlas it connects supports an d separates all things

The Sun 1 8 Apollo 1 9 P yrali o sdweller i n re
.
, , , .

1 7 . . . . .
, .

20 . Morpho 2 1 The Axis 2 2 Vesta or the re in the

. . . .
,

centre of the earth 2 3 Spermatic Reason 2 4 The . . . .

point withi n a circle the Central Fire Deity
The lingam an upright p illar wa s
, .

, its Hindoo symbol , .

The Monad being esteemed the Father o f numbers is the

r eason for the universal prejudice in favour o f O dd N u mbers
over Even ones which are but C opies o f the rst even ,

number the Dyad or universal M other ; the father bei ng ,

more es t eemed than the mother for Might , .

O dd num b ers were given to the greater Gods and even ,

on es t o the inferior and terrestrial deities .

The number one is represented in the Roman and Arabic

systems by an upright simple line but in many old systems
, ,

whose numerals were their letters we nd that almost ,

universally the letter A from being chosen to commence ,

the set o f letters had the tas k of representi ng the Monad

,
.

In Nume ration note that the Romans began with lines , ,

I II III 1 1 1 1 and then followed the Acute Angle V f o r

s as
, , , ,

5
,
then fo r ten this wa doubled X for fty the angle w ,

laid down and became L fo r a hundred two fties one , , ,

inverted became C for ve hundred C and L became D ,

.

Hermias the Christian philosopher author of Ridicule

, ,

o f the Gentile Philosophers quo t es from the Pythagoreans ,
 35

The Monad is the Beginning of all thi gs a re/ze

n t on
p a rd on lz e m am a s .

The gure of on e signies iden t ity equality exis t ence , ,

and preservat i on it signies
,
living man alone among

a nimals erect ; o n adding a head we make o f i t P the

,

sign o f creative Power (patern i ty phallus P a n the Greek , , ,

gods and Priapus al l commencing wi t h the voca ble P )

,
.

A nother dash added a n d we have man walking a dvan c

ing wi t h foot s
, ,

et forward in t he le t ter R wh i ch sign i es

i en s i t u ru so r advanc i ng
, , ,

Co m pare Unity s ola salone

.
, ,

, t he un i que principle o f
, ,

good ; w i th Sol Sun God the emb l em of supreme power ;

, ,

and they are identical .

The Hebrew word fo r O ne i s A c bD achad and i t i s , ,

often put for G O ne voice t o man is the B a t/i

Kolf t he echo he Divine Voice .

The Talmud in v i 1 says that the Sheki n ah .

S hall rest even upon O ne who s tudies the Law O ne pang .

o f remorse i s o f m o re avai l for reforma t ion t han many

\

stripes
t ai n ed wi t h di f culty i s
.

O ne thing o b more valued than

1

a hundred obtained with ease Talmud . .

It is indiscreet for o n e man to S leep in a house alo ne \ ,

for fear that he may be at t acked by Lilith who was said

to have been Adam s rs t wife ; she i s
,

the Night Spectre ,

and has also power over newly b orn infants who are n o t -

protected by an Amulet .

Rabbi Nathan exhorted

Repent O ne day before thy

death ; a wise maxim inculcating the duty o f being ever
prepared ev e ry day some advance in knowledge and good
ness should be at t ained .

Ever work and ever pray for the road winds upward all
the way as
,

the Lord Buddha taught in ancient In dia
, .
 THE DY A D . 2 .

A s
was the case with the Monad so t he Dyad also was sai d
t o represent a large num b er of di fferent o bj ec t s and i deas ;
things indeed so dissimilar that it i s di fcult to understand
how such multiplicity o f opinion arose .

And rst it is the general opposite to the Monad the ,

cause of dissimilitude the interval between m ultitude and

,

the Monad O f gures those which are characterised by

.
,

equality and sameness have relation to the Monad but

those in wh i ch ineq u ality and di fference predominate are
allied to the Dyad Monad and Dyad are also called
.

Bound and Innity

I It was called Audacity from i t s
.

.

being the earl i est
,

number t o separate itself from the Divine O ne ; from the

Adytum o f God nourished Silence as the Chaldean

-

oracl es s
,

ay .

2 It was called Matter as b eing denite and the
.

cause o f bulk and d i vis i on .

3
. It
. is called
the interval between Multitude and t he

Monad because it is not yet perfect multitude but is
, ,

parturient wi th it O f this we see an image i n the Dyad of

Arithmetic for a s
.

, ,
Proclus observes The dyad is the med i um
,

between un i ty and number for unity by addition produces

,

more than by m u ltiplication b u t number by addition pro

,

duces less than by m ultiplication ; whilst the Dyad wheth er ,

added to itself or multiplied by itself produces the same ,
.

4

. Foun t a i n of Symphony and Harmony , .

5 Erato
. because
,
it attrac t s t he Monad like Love and , ,

another num b er is formed .

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6 Patience because it is t he rs t number tha t endures

.
,

separation from the Monad .

7 Phanes
. or Intelligible In
, t ellect .

1
8 It is the fountain of all Female d i vi ni ti es and hence
.
,

Nature Rhea and Isis

as s
.
,

9 Cupid
. j ust Era t,
o from desiring i t o pposite for ,

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 e c and M alec .

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 chylu s as
,

,
a m ale and ,

a female potency who ind Prometheus , .

T he Chinese speak 0 as the colour of Heaven ,

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

H iero cles
, .

says 2 things are necessary t o life the aid of ,

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

as some s
, ,

ay to the Mosaic account o f the Tree o f Know

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 s s
,

ub

. ti .

t u ting o n e error for another . I

In the orgies o f Bacchus M aenades the worshippers had ,

 3 8

snakes twined in their hair and danced singing Eve Eve

by whom came the s
, , ,

in See Clemens Alexandrin u s.
,

P ro t rep t 9 . .

Duality in t roduces us t o the fatal alternati ve to U n it y or

Goo d namely E V I L and t o many other human and

,

natural contrasts night and day light and darkness wet , ,

and dry hot and cold health and disease truth and error
, , , ,

male and female which man having fallen from his high
,

estate from spirit to m atter cannot avoid associating hi m self

with Two is a number o f Mo u rning and Death m is
, ,

.
,

fort u nes are apt to follow turn to our History of England

s
,

ee the unhappiness o Kings num b ered the second of each

name William Edward II and Richard I I o f England . .
,

were all murdered .

The Romans ded i cated the 2 n d month to Pluto God o f ,

Hades and on the z u d day of it they o ffered sacrices to

,

the Manes
Pope John XIX instituted t he Fete des Trpa s ss
.

.
( All
Souls Day ) on November 2 n d the second month of

,

Autum n .

The T wo Talmuds o f the Jews among o ther quaint notions , ,

have the following ideas of the number Two .

It is not every man who deserves to have two tables ;

this meant t hat very few deserve to have the b est of the
next life as w ell as the good things o f this o n e
, .

There are two impo rtant things ; rst that one s bed ,

should be placed north to south and that o n e should pray ,

in front of his bed There are two ways before a man one
.
,

leads to Paradise and one to Gai hinnom the place o f -

,

punishment .

There are only two Jewish laws the written law of Moses , ,

and t heoral law o f the Ka ba la h .

Every Jew who goes from the Synagogue t o his ho u se on

the eve of the Sabbath is acco m panied by two angels o n e ,

good and o n e bad and if the ho u se is all in order the good

,

angel conrms a blessing but if it be in disorder the good

angel has t o s
,

a y Amen t o the condemnation spoken by the

evil angel .
 39

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
,

p and
H u lda wea s
,

el Many persons nowadays believe that birth

.

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
,

o he became b ald Wh i ch th i ngs .

point a moral as well as adorn a tale .

o f wood and o n e of green the ,

sthe minority must at las t

on , o

always give way t a majority o

The Talmud a gues that Adam had t w faces some s
.

r y? o a

one before and b ehind while others s

one y one looked t a o
right and one t t he left O thers s s
,

w

o y that Adam both a a
a male and a female O thers s
.

y that Eve was made from a

hi s
.

his thirteenth rib and was not drawn t f head ou ro m

lest s not from his eyes les t s

, , ,

h should be vain
e h should , e
be wanton ; not from his mouth lest S he S hould talk too t ,

much not from his ears lest she should be an eavesdropper

,

not from his feet lest she sh o uld be a gadabout and n o t

from hi s heart lest s

,

he should be j ealous : yet in spite o f all

,

these precautions woman has developed all th ese faults Y .

O f two who quarre l he or gpg w h o rst

g,ives i n shows
h
t n
e oblest nature
Two negat ives or afrm a t ives are a s
.

good as an oath .

Shev u o t h, 3 6 . 1 .

The Twos o f the Two Testaments are t wo Tables of the

Law the Disciples were sent out two and two two
discipl es were sent by Jesus to fetch the ass s colt two to

m ake ready the Passover ; t wo disciples buried Jesus

Caleb and Joshua were t he two sp i es ; two angels rescued
 40

Lo t ; there were two witnesses of t he Resurr ection and ,

two of the Ascensio n .

The Book of Revelation o f St John the Divine speaks of

.

Two Witnesses two olive trees and t wo candlesticks

( If a dream wa s
, .

dreamed two times it foretold a truth as

in Genesis xli Judges V i First Book o f Ki ngs chapters
.
,
.
, ,

ix and xi
. .

The animal kingdom shows all sexual generation to arise

from pairs of contrasted beings the male and female ; the
,

microscope now discovers to us the spermatozoon and the

ovum b u t the truth was known o f old to philosophers of
,

India Egypt and the Gnostics in whose lore we nd huma n

, ,

generation to spring from the Serpent and the Egg .

 4 2

d ecan s,3 Lords ofan d

their Triplicity and among the
planets there are 3 Fortunes and 3 Infort u nes according
to the Chaldeans also there are 3 Ethereal words prior t o ,
.

the S phere of our Fixed Stars .

O n account o f the perfection o f the Triad oracles wer

1

e ,

delivered from a Tripod as is related o f the O racle at ,

elp hi
P With .

regard t o Music 3 is said to be Mistress because , ,

Harmony contains 3 symphonies the Diapason the , ,

Diapente and the Diatessaron

, .

Ezekiel xiv v 1 4 mentions 3 m en who saw a creation

. .
,

destruction and a restoration ; Noah of the whole world

, ,

Dan i el of the Jewis h world Jerusalem and Job o f his ,

personal world .

Note the Hindoo Trinity of Brahma who cons i sts ,

o f Brahma Vishnu and Siva ; Creator Preserver and

, , , ,

Changer : in India each has still a special sect of wor

shippers who mark themselves with p articular emblems ;
,

the Vaishnavas are much the most numerous .

The living were o f old called the 3 times blessed ( the

dead 4 times blessed ) .

There were Three cities of Refuge on the East side of the

Jordan : Bezer Ramoth Gilead and Gozan ; and T hree on
, ,

the West : Hebron Shechem and Kedesh N a pht ali , , .

Thre e Fates : Clotho Lachesis Atropos , ,

.

Furi es : Tisiphone Alecto Meg aera , ,

.

Graces : E u phrosyne Aglaia Thalia says Hesiod

J u dges o f Hades : Minos z E ac u s
.
, , ,
z
Rhadamanth u s , ,
.

Horae : Hesiod says they were Eunomia ( O rder ) ,

D ike ( Justice ) Eirene ( Peace )

Ju p iter s thunder is t ri form i s Hecate is always called
.
,

.

triple .

Neptune s spear is a trid ent and so has Siva the Tris ula

,
.

Pluto s dog Cerber u s had 3 heads

.

There were Three founders o f the Roman Empire :

Romulus B C 7 5 3 Camillus B C 3 8 9 expelled the Gauls ;
,
.
, ,
.
,

and Caius Marius B C 1 0 2 who overthrew the hordes of, . .

,

Cambrians and Te u to ns .
 43

The Jewish Rabbis s a y that the Sword of Dea t h h as 3

drops of Gall o n e drops in the mouth and the man dies
, ,

from the second comes the pallor o f death and the third ,

turns the carcase t o dust See Purchas The P i lgrimage
.
, ,

1 61 3
A letter Yod within an equ ilatera l triangle was
.

a sym b ol
o f the ineffable name Jehovah and wa s so used by the Jews .

The m oderns have po i nted o u t that t his form suggests

the idea that they knew something of a Triune God O ther .

monograms of Jehovah were also triple ; thus 3 rays and ,

the Shin and three yods in a triangle

, .

Under the number 3 also we may in pass i ng m enti on the

Royal Arch sign the Triple Tau three T s

,

uni t ed : the ,

which it represents ,

are n o t t ma t ters his work Note also

"

s
.

3 stones of the arc i p a l and 3 Sojo u rners 3 Veils

and in the Craft Lo dges 3 of cers 3 degrees 3 p era m
bu lat io n s
, , ,

In the Roman Cultus the num b er 3 i s of cons t ant

occurrence as for example see Virg il Eclogue 8 The

, , ,

P harm a Ceu tria the priests used a cord o f 3 coloured

strands and an image was carried 3 times round an altar
, .

Terna tibi h aec primum triplici diversa colore .

The Druids also paid a constant respect t o this number ;

and even their poems are noted as bei n g composed in Triads .

It is not necessary here t o enlarge upon the transcendent

importance of the Christian Trinity In Old paintings we
often s
.

ee a Trinity o f J esus with John and Mary

In the Tim aeus o f Plato the Divine Triad i s

.

, called

Theos God Logos The Word and Psyche the S o ul
, ,
.

Indeed it is impossible to study any single system of

wo rship througho u t the world w i thout being struck by ,

the peculiar persistence of the triple numbe r in regard t o

divinity ; whether a s a group of deiti es a triformed or 3 ,

headed god a Mysterious Triunity a deity of 3 powers or

, , ,

a family relationship o f 3 Persons s u ch as the Father M o ther , ,

and Son o f the Egyptians O siris Is i s and Horus

And again in the various faiths we s
, , .

ee t h e chief Dignity
 44

given in turn t o each person o f the Triad some rejoice in

the patriarchal Unity some in the greater glory of the Son
, ,

and others again lavish all their a doration o n the Great

Mother ; even in tri nities o f coequal males each has his ,

ow n special worshippers ; no t e this especially among t h e

Hindoos where for example the followers o f Vishnu are

,

called Vaishnavas : to complicate matters t o o in this case

each deity ha s
,

his female po t ency o r sakti and these also ,

have their Own adherents .

Under this notice of the Triad we may refer t o the em

b lem of the Isle of Man three legs united at the hips this
is supposed to have been derived fro m Si c ilia n M ari n ers
,

at
an early date for the same emblem is found at Palermo in
,

Sicily and this design is there t o be seen on an old public

,

building Sicily was anciently named T ri n acria from its

.
,

three promontories
Three i sa notable number in the mythology o f the
.

Norseman : the great Ash tree Yggdrasil supported the world ;

-

it had three root s o n e extended into Asgard the abode of ,

the Gods one int o J o t en hei m the home o f the Giants and
, ,

the third into N i eheim the region of the Unknown The

three N orn s
, .

( Fates ) attend to the root in Asgard : they were

Urda the past ; Verdandi the present ; and Sku ld a the
future .

The Talmuds are crowded w i th quain t conce it s concern

ing the Triad and many are very curious
,
.

The ancient Hebrews said there are three night watches

in the rst the a s sbrays in the second the dog barks in
,

, ,

the third the mother suckles her in fant and converses with
her husband .

He who three ti mes daily repea t s t he 1 1 4t h Psalm is sure

o f future happiness .

Three precious gifts were given t o the Jews the Law o f

Moses the Land of Israel and Paradise
In three sorts o f dreams there i s
.
, ,

truth the last drea m of

the morning the dream w hich i s
,
,

bo u r and a drea m twice repeated

also dreamed by a n eigh
.
i
 45

Three things cal m a man ; m elody scenery and sweet ,

s c en t : and three th in gs i m prove a man ; a ne house a ,

handsome w i fe and good furni t ure

, .

H e who is b orn on t he Th i rd day o f the week w ill be

rich and amorous
Three desp i se their fe llows gp s and do gs
.

Three love thei r fel lows prose yt ess l aves and raven

q ,

,
s
.
,

Thre e persons li ve a life wh ich is n o life he who li ves a t

who i s

ano ther man s tab le he who is rul ed by his wi fe and he
i ncapab l e from bod ily af ic t ion
,

.
, "
O rt hodox Jews were very particular about the cu t tings
from t he nails ; a pious man buries them an orderly man ,

burn s t hem b ut he who throws them away I S w i cked ; for

,

if a woman step over them mischance may follow Moed

Katon 1 8 I The
, . . should be tr i mmed o n a Friday
, .

"
and n ever o n a Th
T here are three k eys God keeps to himse l f and ,

which n o man can gain nor use the key o f life the key o f ,

rain and the key o f t he resusci t ation of the dead T aan it h .

,

2 I and 2 .

The Jewi sh butcher o f Kosher meat must use three kn i ves

one t o slaught er the an i mal another t o cut it up and a th i rd
as
, ,

t o remove the suet which was unlawful food pork is .

Three acolytes must attend t he High Priest when he went

in to worship o n e at his right o n e at hi s left and o n e had , ,

t o hold up t he gems o n the train o f his vestment

There are three parts of a man The father glves
.

the
white parts bones n ails brain and the whites o f the eyes
\ .

, , ,

the mother gives the red parts S kin esh etc : while Go d , , , .

g ives the breath soul mind,

and senses ,
.

The Sanhedrim could order as a pun i shment three

degrees o f Excommunication separation for an undened
time exclusion for 6 0 days and execration for 3 0 days
, , .

Moed Katon 1 7 1 ,
. .

The name o f Adam is o f three letters A D and M : /

, ,

t hese are t he initials of Adam David and Messiah and the , ,

Soul of the rs t pa ssed to Davi d and then t o the Messiah

Ni s
.

hm at h Chaj i m I 5 2 2

, . .
 46

The So u l of Cai n passed t o Jethro his spirit i nto Korah , ,

and his body to an Egyptian Y alku t Reuben 9 1 8 2 4 .

, . . .

The Soul of Eve passed t o Sarah t o Hannah the ,

Shu n a m i t e and then to the w i dow o f Za rep t a

,
The Soul of .

Rahab passed t o Heber the Keni t e The Soul o f Jael .

passed to Eli Some Souls of pious Jews pass into the

persons o f the Gentiles s
.

o tha t they shall p l ead fo r Israel

, .

Some evil Heb rew souls have passed in t o animals as that

o f Ishmael into the s he asso f Balaam and lat er into the
,
-
,

ass of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yai r The Soul of a slanderer

may be transmigrated into a stone s o as
.

t o become s i lent ,

and the Soul of a murderer into wat er E m eh H em elech .

,

2.

There are t hree causes o f dropsy depend i ng o n d i seases ,

of the breast the liver and the kidneys

,
.

There are three forms o f coma that i s insensibility ,

due to brain inj ury brain d i sease and brain poisoning

There are three mode s
, .

o f death beginning either at t he ,

brain the lungs or the heart Bichat Physiologie

,
.
,
.

O ne Zodiacal Sign that of Scorp i o has three emblems

, ,

the eagle in the highest symbolism t he snake and the , ,

scorpion in evil aspects only .

Astrologic Natal Fi gures are often erroneous by reason of

the all eged momen t o f bir t h being incorrect : there are
three modes of Rectication t wo are anc i ent the A n i m o dar
o f Ptolemy and the Trutine of Hermes ; and there i s
, ,

one
modern method the Natal Epoch of W R Old
, . . .

In both the O l d and the New Testaments we nd the

Day was divi ded into three day watches and fo u r night
watches The m ed i aeval occultists divided the days in to
.

Planetary hours the scheme of al ternation occupied a week

s s
, ,

7 d a y x 2 4 hours =
= 1 6 8 hours o 1 6 8 hours are divisible
among the Seven Planets each day beginning with it s
,

ow n

di fferent o ne s
,

ee Harle i an MSS 6 4 8 3 and The Herbal .
, ,

Culpepper 1 8 1 4
,
.

There is also ano t her scheme i n which t he planets are

related t o a six hour period by Ragon and Blavat sky
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.
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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
churches the Angel us Bell i s
.
,

In Ro man
,
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

which has a three lobed leaf the Oxa lz s a eez os
, ,
'

ella -

, .

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 on Kau The great Confucius , .

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 gures 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 gures 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

,

,
 4 8

Lo
these will repay t he con t emplation of modern
occultists Yang male i s also associated with Heaven
.
, , ,

the Sun Light and 2 5 t he t otal o f the o d d units Y i n

,
.
,

female w i th the Moon the Earth darkness and the number

, , ,

3 0
,
the total of t he even numbers t o t en See
.

Sacred

Books of the Eas t ; The Vi King
-
.
 T H E TE TR A D .
4
.

TH E ythagoreans said N i co m a c hu scall the number

P
,

,

four the greatest m i racle

a God after another manner
, ,


a manifold divinity the fountain of Nat ure and its

, ,

key bearer It is the
. introducer and ca u se of the

permanency o f the Mathematical discipline It is most

masculine and robust ; it i sHerc u les and fE OlU S It

.

is Mercury Vulcan and Bacchus Among the Muses

, , .
,

Urania They also called i t Feminine e ffective of Virility

.
, ,

and an Exciter of Bacchic fury In harmony it was said to .

,

form by the q uadruple ratio the symphony dis diapason -

.

They called it Justice as the rst evenly even number

As
, .

a type o f Deity we all know o f the famous Hebrew

,

title Tetrag rammaton o r unpronounceable name we call

Jehovah I H V H : this Name was u sed by the Kabalistic
Rabbis to hide their secret tenets of the Divine Essence of
the Creator Go d .

Almost all the peoples o f Antiquity possessed a name

for Deity consisting of four letters and many of them ,

considered 4 to be a D i vine nu m ber thus ,

In Hebrew we nd also I H I H called E heie and A H I H

called A hei e .

Assyrian A DAD Egyptian A MU N Persians S Y R E or S I R E

Greek T hE o sLatin D E U S German G OTT French D IE U
, , ,

, , , ,

Turkish E S A R Tartar I T GA Arabian A LL H Allah Samaritan

, , , ,

J A B E,
Egyptian T EU T T AU T T H O,T h ,
.

In San c ho n iat ho n we nd the Deity called I E V O .

In Clemens Alexandrinus J A O U .

Attention should be paid t o the Sanscrit holy phrase ,

 SI

aspirati on o r prayer o f Four sylla b les Aum m p adm e

O h the Jewel i n the 135 q
'

hum literally ( meaning

-
, ,

t e Di vine spark wi thin man

Theon o f Smyrna in t he edition o f Ismael B u lli ald o 1 6 44
, , ,

page 1 4 7 says The Tetractys was not only principally
, ,

honoured by the Pythagoreans b ecause all symphonies

exist withi n it but also because it appears to contain the
,

nature of all things hence their oath Not by him who
, ,

delivered to our souls the Tetractys ( that is Pythagoras ) ,

this tetrac t ys is seen in the C O M P O S I T I O N o f t he rst numbers

1 . 2 .
3 .
4 .

But the 2 nd Tetractys ari ses from the i ncrease by MU L

T I P LI C A T I O N of o d d and even num b ers beginning from the

b
l o na d .

T he 3 rd su b s i s t s to Magni t ude .

The 4t h is in od i es Monad F ire Dyad Air

,
-

,
-
,

Triad Water Tetrad Earth

-

,
-
.

The 5 t h is o f the gures o f Bod i es Pyramid F i re

O ctahedron Air I cp s
-
, ,

ah edro n Wa t er Cube E arth

-
,
-
,
-
.

The 6 t h of Vegeta tive L i fe Seed Monad o r point ; if i t -

increase in length dyad l i ne ; in b readth triad s u p er ci es

,
- -

i n thickness tetrad solid -
.

The 7 t h is o f Commun i ties ; as Man House S t reet , , ,

City .

The 8 t h i s the Judic i al power : In t ellec t S ci ence , ,

O pinion Sense ,
.

The 9 t h is of the parts of the An i mal the Rational , ,

Irascible and Epithymetic soul and the Body they live in , .

The ro t h Tetractys is o f the Seasons o f the Year S pri ng , ,

summer autumn W i nter , , .

The r 1 t h Tetractys is of the Ages o f Man t he infant the , ,

lad the man and the senex

, ,
.

And all are proportional o n e t o an o t her 3 n d hence they ,

said all things are assim ilated to number .

They also gave a four fold distribution of goods t o the

Soul and Body to t he Soul Prudence Temperance , , , ,

Fortitude Justice ; and t o t he Body Acuteness o f senses

, , ,

Health Strength Beauty

, ,
.
 5 2

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 sthe cause by which ; or m r o n up o u

.

Matter from which ; or 66 0 1) ex ou .

Form through which ; or av di ou
o r 1rp os
.

E ffect with reference to which ; o u pros ou .

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 u p erc i esand body has also this
, , ,

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 :

,

7+ 8 = I s
3 6
bei ng the s um of the rs t four num b ers with the rst o dd
four even numbers .

Plutarch De Anim P ro cr 1 0 2 7 says the world cons i sts

.
, .
,

o f a do u ble Quaternary ; 4 of the inte llect u al World ,

T A ga t ho n Nous Psyche and Hyle that is S u preme

, ,
.

Wisdom or Goodness Mind Soul Ma tter and four o f t he

Sensible World forming the Kosmo so f Elements Fire
, , , ,

, , ,

Air Earth and Water ; pur aer g and udor m m

, 7 7
1 , , ,

, ,

u 3wp .

Four is the number of the moons or satellites of Jupi ter

and Uranus .

The Arabians analysed Female Beauty into nine fo urs ;

a s
F our Black Hair , eyebrows eyelash es eyes
, , .

Four Whi te Skin white of t he eyes t ee th legs
, , , .
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Four Red Tongue lips cheeks g u ms , , ,

.

Four Round Head neck forearms ancles , , ,

.

Four Long Back ngers arms ,legs , , .

Four Wid e Forehead eyes seat lips , , , .

Four Fine Eyebrows nose lips ngers , , , .

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 nd t he occult dogma that the four elements are peopled

by spiri t s bei ngs who may have inuence 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 re 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

, , ,
 54

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 edice 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 gure 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 ,

o n the Ka b alah page 2 7 , .

Note 4 elements 4 sides o f a square and 4 angles

,

4 qualities cold hot

, dry , damp 4 humours
, , ,

4 seasons o f the year 4 quarters o f the horizon

4 Rivers o f Eden Euphrates Gihon Hiddekel and Pison , ,

4 R i vers o f the Infernal Regions according t o the Greeks ;

Phl egethon Cocytus Styx and Acheron
, ,

4 elements o f Metaphys i cs ; Be i ng essence v i rtue action , , ,

.

4 Masonic v i rtues .

4 Evangelists and Gospels ; Matthew Mark Luke John , , , ,

related to the Four Keru bic forms of the Man Lion B u ll

,
, ,

s

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

As s
, ,

ia h these are not worlds in any ordinary s ense but ,

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 ,

o f these 4 Worlds ; an evil inclination evil tho ughts evil , ,

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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their Nat i vity : th i s says Sir Thomas Browne i s

,
the Gentile ,

eq u ivalent to the Creati on o f the Sun and Moon o n the 4 t h

day.

The Talmud lays down t he law as t o a woman s dri nking ,

saying one c u p o f wine is good for her t wo d o her harm three , ,

demoralize her and the fourth converts her into a female

,

animal There are 4 persons who are little better than

.

dead the blind the leper the pauper and he who has n o sons
, ,
.

There are 4 sorts o f passionate men ; he who is easily

provoked and is as easily pacied he loses more than he
gains ; he who i s n o t readily provoked and i s
,

di fcult to
appease he gains more than he loses ; the pious man who
, ,

is not easily but is easily pacied ; and he who

s
i easily prov ok iswith dif culty appeased he is a ,

wicked man .

There are 4 sor t s o f pupils in occu lt science ; he who

learns and then will n o t teach he who wants to teach and
does n o t learn ; he who learns and then teaches and lastly ,

he who listens and won t learn and can t teach

Four thi n gs deter a man from s

.

in : the thought o f whence

he comes the fear o f where he may go the conception of who
his judge will be and what hi s
, ,

fate may be at the Judgment

,
.

Four persons should o ffer up thank o fferings ; he who

returns safe from a s ea voyage he wh o has safely crossed a ,

desert he who has recovered from an illness and he who is

, ,

released from prison These are referred to in Psalm cvii

Four men have died from original s
. .

i n the work o f the ,

Serpent for they thems elves did n o ill ; Benjam i n Amram

, ,

t he father o f Moses Jesse the father o f David and Chilah

the s
, ,

o n o f David Sabbat 5 5 2 . . . .

At the end of the Passion Fast every Hebrew S hould

drink 4 glasses o f wine even if the price robs him of other
,

necessaries .

The Talmud says that only 4 men had entered Paradise

( Pardes the ,Garden o f Holiness ) ; this meant the state o f
superna l communion with God the B eat i c Vision by pro , ,

found abstraction of mind These were t he Rabbis Ben .

Azai Ben Zoma Ash er and Akiba

, , .
 5 6

The tracta t e Yoma sa y s God will pardon a man three

times for a sin but the fourth occasion is fatal
The Jewish Sanhedrin had power to order 4 sorts
.
,

of death
penalty ; by stoning beheading burning and strangling , , .

The Sanhedrin as a Court o f Justice ceased with the S econd

Temple b u t the Rabbis taught that if a man incurs th e
,

death penalty o f either form he sti ll dies in these ways

fortuitously as if he would have been executed by strang
,

ling he will be found t o die o f drowning o r some o t her

,

form o f su ffocation See Sanhedrin 3 7 2 .

, . ,

Job had four entrances to his ho u se north south east

'
, , ,

and west so that the poor might enter and nd relief from
whichever quarter they cam e .

Fo u r things God repented that he had made ; m a n s evil

passions the Ishmaelites the Chaldeans and the Captivity

, , .

Go d has made only 4 women perfect in beauty ; Sarah ,

Abigail Rahab an d Esther ; Eve is not included because

,

she was not born o f woman Esther is said t o have had .

golden coloured hair .

5 God left the North Pole u n ,

nished saying if there be any my equal let him nish it

,

,

like the others This corner is the home o f demons ghosts
.
, ,

devils and storms P irke o f Rabbi Eleazar ca p 3

.
,
. .

The number 4 is re l ated to Jacob the Lesser Light , ,

which is the Moon Jacob was spelled I O QB and its

initials are those of epithets I U T Z R the Former ; O U s
.
,

hH
the Maker QU NA the Possessor and BVR A the Creator See
, , , .

Amos v ii 2 where Jacob is called the small
.
, .

In Christian dogma Christ the triple deity on the Cross

o f 4 limbsis the descent o f Spirit into
,

,
Matter : or as ,

the Theosoph i sts say the Triad of Atma Buddhi Manas ,
- -

d escends into the Quaternary of personal Man the Kama , ,

Prana Linga and St hu la Sarira
,
.

The 4 Cabeiri or great deities o f Syro Phenicia were -

A xiero sA xio kers o sA xi o kersa and Ka s m i llo s

, ,

, ,
C hi ldren o f ,

Sy dy k are named by Sa n c hon i at ho n and quote d by Eusebius

,
.

In the ancient Egyptian form o f b urial while the body ,

was made into a swathed mummy the internal organs of the ,

 5 8

1 7 th century compiled a His t ory of Ire l and from B C . . 2242

to A D . . 1 61 6 .

Magic Squares were rst known by the work o f a Greek

Emanuel M o s c o p u lo sstill existi n g in M SS
,

of the 1 6 th , .

century in the National Library o f Paris Cornelius Agrippa .

then gave the Plane t ary Squares which have been many ,

times copied in subsequent books From a more mathe .

m a t i c al point o f V iew they have been much studied in ,

France by M Bachet and M F ren i cle M Poignard o f . .

, .

Brussels and de la Hire M d e la Lo u bre gives inform a

,
. .

tion of the use of Magic Squares by the Indians o f S u rat .

To the number 4 belong the several forms of the cross ,

Maltese Greek Passional St Andrew s and the Fylfot
, , , .

cross the Swastika Hermetic philosophy teaches how to .

view the l ast as composed from a magic square of 5 giving

square sof which the Fylfo t takes 1 7 referring to the
,

25 , ,

Sun Signs and E lem ents There is a quaint Hebrew

, .

association between the name Tetragrammaton I H V H , ,

the God name and man formed in his image for i f Yod s ,
: ,

Heh n Vau i Heh n be drawn one over the other the

, , , , , ,

Y o d will look like the head above t he Heh will look like ,

the t wo arms the V a n will be upright body and the nal

, ,

Heh will S how the t wo legs .

It is state d in some ancient Persian works that 4 bright

stars were placed as g u ardians at the 4 cardinal points At
the beginning of the Kali Yuga at Cri s hn a s
.

death at 3 1 0 2 ,

B C . the astronomers say that Aldebaran the eye of Taurus

.
, , ,

and Antares the heart of Scorpio were as the equinoctial

, ,

points and Regulus the heart of Leo and Fomalhaut the

, , , ,

eye o f the Southern Fish were near the solstitial points : ,

this was 5 0 0 3 years ago .

The pack of commo n playing cards has 4 suits of diamonds ,

hearts cl u bs and spades ; the old Tarot o r Ta rocc hi

,

cards had 4 suits ; Wands Cups Swords and Pentacles , ,

occult science relates these to the Yod Heh Va u Heh o f , , ,

the Tetragrammaton : the Tarot pack has also 4 Co u rt

cards Cavalier King Queen and Violet or Knave also
, , ,

called Knight King Queen and Princess by some mystics , ,

.
 THE P E N TA D .
5 .

F R OM the Nicomachean Ext racts we derive o u r

knowledge o f Pythagorean doctrine of the number
ve .

It is an em i S pherical and circular number ,

because in every m u ltiplication it restores itself and

is found t erminati ng the num b er ; it i s C hange of

Quality because i t changes what has three dimensions

,

into the samen ess of a sphere by moving circularly

and prod u cing light : and hence Light is referred t o the
number 5 .

Also it is the Pri vation o f Stri fe because i t unites in
,

friendship the two forms o f number even and od d the

2 and 3 Also Justice from throwi ng things into t he
.

light .

Also the Unconquered from a geometrical reason
which may be found in Alexander A phro d is i sCom
i en s
m en ta ri es
,

on the I st Book of Aristotle s Metaphysics

.

Also the Smallest extremity o f Vitality because there
w
,

are three po ers of L ife vege t able psychical and rational :

and as the Rational i s
, , ,

arranged according to the hebdomad

and the Psychical according t o the hexad s
,

o the Vegetati ve
,

power falls u n der the control o f the Pentad .

P roclus o n Hesiod gives t wo reasons fo r its semblance t o

Jus ti ce
because it punishes wrong and takes away i n
equality of possession and also eq ualizes what i s
, ,

,
less to ,

benet .

Also named Nemesis fo r it arranges in an appropriate

manner all th i ngs
,

celestial d i vine and nat ural

, .
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And Venus because t he mal e 3 triad and the femal e 2 or

dual odd and even are conj oined in it : Ven u s was s
,

om

as eIl
, '

ro di t e and w d
-'

ti c erm a h
p Bear e d ,

as full bosomed
-
.

Kn a Gamelia that is referring to marriage

, .

A n d A n d rogy n i a being o d d and masculine yet con t ain

, ,

ing an even female part .

Also a Demi goddess because it is half o f the Decad
-

, ,

which is a divinity And Di d ymus because it di vides .
,

the Decad into two equal parts But t hey called it Pallas .
,

and Immortal because Pallas presides over the Ether o r

s
, ,

5 t h Element ( akasa ) which is indestructible and i not

And Card ia t i so r C o rd ia li s
,

m a teri a l to o u r pr esent senses .

,

b ecause like a heart it i s in the middle o f the body of the

numbers thus ,

I 4 7
2
5 8
3 6 9

The ancient had a maxim s

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 rst of the intervals of a ,

Tone which is capable of producing a sound i s the fth it

is

also a type of Nature .

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 .

,
 61

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 rst 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
D i o d o ru s
.

calls ve the union of the four elemen t s wi th

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
po ints of F ello ws h 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 ves s ee Plato in Leg I V . .

Theology displays 5 modes o f the Conception of God

Pantheism Polyth eism Dualism Unitarianism and Trini
s
, , ,

t aria n i m .

Jewish references t o ve are many gift s to t he pri es t s

5 ,
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5 th i ngs which m i ght Only b e ea t en in the camp N o t to

eat fruit from a tree until it Was
.

ve years old The t respass .

O ffering imposed o n the Philistin es 5 golden emerods and ,

5 golden mice Joseph gave Benjamin 5 sui t s o f raiment

s
.

Joseph presented only

5 o f h i b rethren to Pharaoh .

David took 5 pebbles when he went t o ght Goliath

The Jews classed a Bride s at tendants b y vesve wise
.

and ve 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

aspects o f t he planets the conjunction the oppo s
i tion , ,

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 owers 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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T he Triad Society of China concerning which we nd

on s
an arti cle in the F r eem a s
,

Q u a r t er l
y R evi ew 1 8

45 p 1 6
5 , , .
,

boas t s o f great antiquity it resembles Freemasonry in some

points ve 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
the M agis
,

was never recei t ri .

Five styles c t u ra l columns are descri b ed :

Tuscan Doric ,
nth ,
i a n and Composite .

Sir Thomas Browne 1 6 5 8 notes an anc i ent Greek

, , ,

divi sion o f vegetables into ve classes

Dendron Arbor Tree ; T ham n o sF ru t ex Bush Phru
ganon Su ffru t ex herb P o a Herba grass and A s
, , , ,

, ,
ki o n o r
, ,

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 y t o the scorpion ;
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the ycat cher bird t o the eagl e and t he stickleb ack t o the ,

levi athan Lewisohn Zoology o f the Talmud
Five things have in t hem a o n e s
. .
,

ixt iet h p art of 5 other

things ; re 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 y 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 prot in it

he will never prot by it Talmud Chu lli n 2 4 1 .
, , . .

Fi ve is the number o f expiation and of sacrice the number

o f the passio ns
,

and the 5 wounds o f Christ These were

, .

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

they are r upa form wa a a a perception s
,

a m n a conscious
'

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 , ,
 THE H E XA D . 6 .

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
,

In a m m a vi r i lis l aeva mulie b r i s

Among the Fates it i s
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
As to Marri age it is
.

a number equal to it s parts and
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 rst ( beyond

u nity ) odd num b er and the rst even it resembles t he ,

union o f Male and Female as in Marriage or in Andro

,

gy n ei t y Heal t h and Beauty o n account o f its symmetry

It was called all s
, , .

-
u fci en t wa va p xa a pa narkeia
, , .

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

When multiplied int o i t self like the penta d s ix has
.

, 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

There were s
. . . .

ix t h i ngs hated by Jehovah 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 fcers .

Sep her

In the Hebrew Book o f Crea ti on the ,

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 . . .

,

and notes . 1
9 1 1 .

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 acred mistletoe (I n i s s
.

elt o e) and in monuments and p l ates

,

now extan t we oft en nd 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

, ,

of 1 1 years is often referred to in old works on the

, ,

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 rst 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

ht Zoroaster the fth t o P ers
Za ra t u s
.
,

Ia

Thoth T aau t u so r Hermes Trismegistus sent t o the

, , , .

, , ,

Egyptians
A m os is
.

o r Moses the Jewish law glv er the seventh

,
-
, .

Lao Tseu a s econd t o China 6 0 0 B C the eighth

, , . .
, .

Jesus the ninth t o t he Jews rst and then to the

,

Gentiles .

Mohammed t he tenth he ourished 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
The secrets of the N aro s
.

o f the Apocalypse and o f the

Mediatorial Sacrice 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
now i s
.
, .
,

igit u r 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
N aro s
.

AI R is n o t t o be c onfused with Saros a cycle ,

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 xed at 3 6 9

degrees six sixties the hour divided into 6 0 minutes each
, ,

o f 6 0 seconds The Tartars had a period of 6 0 days the

.
,

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
Gabriel presents to the Virgin ha s 6 leaves and the ower ,

shows 6 petals all alike around a central t hree headed ,

-

stigma a n i c ally correct O ne o f the three main

are arranged by Bo t anists i s
, .

divisions ,

typied o f the numbers 3 and 6 i n all ,

parts of t he owers 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 .

I

Berosus o n e of the Chaldean Priests mentions three

periods of time a So s sus a N aro so r Neros of
, _ ,

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 nd 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 ,
 7 O

apex downward : the sym b ols o f Air and Earth were t wo

sim i lar triangles each w i th a cross b ar ,
.

The Talmud says

Six things are disgracefu l t o a wise man to walk alone a t
night to scent oneself for walking by day t o talk with a
strange woman i n the street ; to talk at table wi th the
ig n orant to wear ragged shoes and to b e late at the house ,

o f prayer B erachot h 4 3 2
.
, . .

S i x things lay up capital for hereafter and also bear ,

interest in this world hospitali ty well ordered comfort to

the sick prayerfu l meditation early instruction of children
training in the Mosaic law and charitable trea t ment of a ,

neigh bo ur Sa b ba t 1 2 7 1 . . . .

Evil Demons have 6 charac ters like men they t ake food
and drink they b eget and they die like angels they have
, ,

wings they pass from one end o f the world t o the other
, ,

and they can learn the future Talmud . .

Solomon is called by six names ; Solomon Jedidiah

Koheleth s Agur and Lemuel : s
, ,

o n of J a keh The

, ee ,

Ab ot h

Fathers ,
by Rab b i Nathan ,
.

There are 6 kinds o f Fire common re which eats and ,

-

does not drink re that drinks an d does not eat as fever ,

re that eats and drinks that of Elijah I Kings xviii 3 8 , , .

the re o n the Altar which consumed both moist and dry

the re of Gabriel which consumed o t her re and the ,

Essential re of God which consumed evil angels Yoma .

,

21 . 2 .

The Tables of
Moses were said t o have been 6 hands
breadths long 6 wide and 3 thick Talmud ; N edari m
rs
.
, ,

3 8 8. H e .ho n reckons that if cut out o f Sinaitic stone ,

eac h Table wo u ld have weighed 2 8 tons but he i s in error

reckonin g hands breadths as ells as 1 8 in c hes in s
, ,
-
tead of 4 ,

inches .

_ The Angel o f Dea t h had no power over 6 holy persons ;

Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Aaron and M i riam Bava
, , , , .

B at hra I 7 1 These died by the Divine Kiss o f death

but it i s not s
.
, .
,

o deni t ely sta t ed i n t he c ase o f M i ri am for ,

fear o f scandal .
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The Lion has names in the Book o f Job ; A R I 6 ,

ShChL KP I R LI Sh LE I A and Shc hT z

The Serpent has 6 names ; N C H s h O Ks
.
, , ,

hU B A P O K
N a cha s
, , ,

T ZP OU N I T N I N and ShR P h the Brazen Serpent ;

Okes
, .

hu b an asp Psalm cxxiv 4 ; O poh an adder Isai ah

, ,
.
, ,

xli 2 4 ; T z ephou n i the bas il i s k Isaiah xiv 2 9 ; Tanin

.
, , .
,

the serpent o r crocod ile and Seraph a serpent of re , .

See Rabbi Nathan cap 2 9 ,

. .

Six blasts of the Horn were b l own o n the eve of the

Sab b at h and then the Sa bb ath had begun
,
.

W F Shaw says that 6 i s the num b er o f t emp t ation and

s
. .

in for at
, 6 t h hour o f t he 6 t h day the rst temptati on
came into world Six is the number o f to i l and work .
,

for 6 days ites had to collect manna ; at the 6 t h

hour of the 6 t h day Jesus was sen t enc ed to death and in ,

the Revelations the 6 t h seal trumpet and vial were all

emblematic o f woe The Flo od came w hen Noah was
,

6 0 0 years old .

The number 6 6 6 was an emblem o f the Great Wicked

O ne still wi t hout i dentication but he i s imp l ied in a
pro totype Schechem ben Hamor whose nam e i s
, ,

,
6 6 6 by ,

Gematria ShKM BN ChMV R he was t he corruptor o f Dinah

, , .

See Genesis xxxiv verse 2 . .

The Jews expected that the end o f t he present dispensa

tion of the world would arri ve after 6 0 0 0 years and St ,
.

Barnabas repea t s t his as a reasona ble bel ief o f the ancie n t .

Christian Church
The A n cien t E gypt ian shad for the i r h ighest Priests a
.

College o f 6 o f which hardly any information ha scome

down t o u sbut on e A s es
hra i sm entioned as
,

Master of the
Mysterious Words of the 6 and a statue has been found of ,

o n e E i meri whose engraved t itle is Chief o f the Dwelling

-
,

o f the Great Six .

 T H E H E P TA D .
7 .

TH E Hep t ad say the followers of Pythagoras was so
,

,

called from the Greek verb sebo to venerate ( and from

,

the Hebrew ShB o seven o r satised abundance ) being

, , , ,

Septos ,
Holy divi ne ,and
motherless and a
, ,

Virgin
From N i c o m achu s
.

We learn that i t was called Minerva

being unmarried and V irgina"begotten neither b y a mother

,

, ,

even number nor from a father , o d d number : b u t ,

proceeding from the s u mmit of the Father o f all things the ,

M onad ; even as Minerva sp rang all armed from the Fore

head o f Jove o r Ze u s .

Hence also Obri m o pa t re or dau ghter of a mighty father , ,

and Glaucopis shining eyed and a p nr wp and a y ehet a -

A m et or and A gelei a s
, , ,

he that carries o ff the spoil

, .

And Fort u ne for it decides mortal affai rs
, .

And Voice for th ere are seven ton es in every voice
, ,

human a n d instrumental : because they are emitted by the

seven planets and form t he Music of the Spheres
,
.

Also T ri t ogen ia because there are 3 parts o f the Soul

, ,

the Intellectual Irascible and Epithymetic (desiring ) and

, ,

4 most perfect virtues are produced Just as o f the three .

intervals length breadth and depth there are fo u r

bo u ndaries in corporeal existence poi nt line s u p er c i es
, , , ,

, ,

and solid .

It is called Agelia fr om A gelai herds as groups o f
, , ,

stars were called by t he Babylonian sages over which herds ,

r u led 7 angels
Also P hylakiko svAa KI Kos = res
.

p e rv i,
n g

guardian
b e , ,

cause the Seven Planets direct and guide ou r universe .

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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 ve 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 inections o f the voice the acute grave , , ,

circumex 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
.
,

7 strings corresponding to the planets ,

.

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 .

s
As to the sacredness o f the num b er 7 note amo ng the ,

Hebrew oaths were conrmed by seven witnesses ; o r by

,
 7S

seven Vi c ti ms o ffered I n sacrice ; 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
, co Wo tan Thor Friga
, , , , ,

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
Kad o s
.

No t e t he My h Ladder o f 7 steps ascent

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
.
, . .

Cleo b
Avoid Extremes B C 5 8 0
Noth ing i simpossib l e t o persever
. .
,
.

Periander

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
The hang i ng Gardens o f Babylon fo r Sem i ram ls
s
. .

s
. .
,

3
. Tomb o f M a u O lu King o f Caria, at Halicarnassus , ,

built by Artemisia his Queen , .

4 Temple of Diana at Ephesus 5 5 2 B C Ctesiphon

was
.
, . .

the c hief architec t

s
.

5
. Colossus o f Rho d es an i mage o f the
,
u n god ,

Apollo o f b rass 2 9 0 B C
, , . .
 7 6

6 Statue of Zeus at Athens by Phidias

.
, , .

7 Pharos
. o f Egypt buil t by Ptolemy Ph i ladelphus
, of ,

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 , ,

7 human principles Sa p t a Samudra seven holy seas ; Sa p t a

V ru ks
,

ha 7 holy trees, .

The Assyrian Table t s also teem with groups o f sevens

7 gods o f sky; 7 gods o f earth ; 7 gods o f ery spheres :

seven gods m alecent ; seven phantoms ; spirits o f seven

heavens spiri ts o f seven earths
The Chaldean notion seems t o have been that 7 wa s a
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
, , ,
.

n It used t o be asserted says John Heydon that every , ,

l

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 rmly 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
, .
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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

Asia (or A s s
ia h) 7 Ange l s w i th Trumpets 7 candlesti cks
, ,

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

, , .

J mem b ers make a Freemasons lodg e p

e rfec t
a
althou h
g 5 ,

may hold o ne
Franc i s Barrett i n hi s Magus
.

cat al ogues 7 B i rds
, , ,

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 ,

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

. .

a e ee i o u 00

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 rst
and last of the plane tary set 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

Saturn A ssLead
, , , ,

Ven u s Dove COpper

'

, , , ,

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 ) .

 7 8

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 rs 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
as
. .

2 1 5 0 years by the precess i on o f the equ i noxes : Pisces h

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 s .

T Subba R ow describes t he Seven Primary Forces o f

Nature as s
.

i x powers resumed i n a seventh 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

o f light and heat ; I n an a s intellec t ; I t chas

, ,

akt i akt i cause

of voluntary movements ; Kriya s
, ,

akt i 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

O ur physical senses kno wn as 5 are an inco m ple t e s
.

et , ,

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 fth 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

g en e o u s aeriform nebulous o r cu rd li ke atomic germina l
ery elemental fourfold vapoury and lastly that which i s
, , , ,

, ,

cold and dependen t o n a vivifying Sun for light and

heat .

O ur Ear t h sy m bol i sed b y M ALKU T H o f t he Kab alah i s

the seventh o f a series and is

, ,

on the Fourth plane ; i t is

,
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genera t ed b y J es od t he foundat ion t he S i x t h World and

, ,

after complete purication will in the 7 t h Race of the

7 t h Cycle become reunited t o the Spiritual L ogos and in
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

v 3 1 ; the Kabal ists consider these a s
.
, , .

types of pr i mordial
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 ,

j e ct i v e and unknowable t o mank i nd the lower four are ,

obj ective and may be contemplated by man as m etaphys i ca l

a b stractions : s o there are the seven Princi p l es in Man and ,

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 ; ,

rst 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

N es ha m ah R u ach and Nephesh wh i ch corres
,

, po nd to ,

the symbol i cal worlds o f A t z i lu t h Briah Y et z ira h and

s
s
, ,

A i ha .

There is an occu l t reference in t he Seven s t ars in the

head of Tau rus called the Pleiades s i x present and on e ,

hidden said t o be daugh t ers of A tl as who pursued by , ,

O rion were changed by Zeus in mercy into pigeons (pelei a )

, .

The missing on e is Merope who married the mortal ,

Sisyp hus and h i des herself for S hame

, .

Seven was the number o f t he Rabbis who left t he

Greater Holy Assembly ; t en had formed it three had ,
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passed away from t he Sod SVD mys t ery See The , , .

Greater and
Lesser Holy Assem bly or the Ha Idra
Ra b ba Qu adi s ha and Ha Idra S ut a Qu a di s
,

ha .

Athanasius Kircher the Jesuit s t ates that the ancient

Egyptians associated num b ers to the plane t s a s
s
follows
Saturn 3 9 I 45 , , ,

J u p i ter 4 I 6 34 1 3 6 , , ,

Mars 5 2
5 6 5 3 52 , , ,

So l 6 36 I I I 6 66 , , ,

Venus /
7 49 1 45 1 2 2
5 , , ,

Me rcury 8 64 2 6 0 2 0 80 , , ,

Luna 9 8 1 6
3 9 35 2 1

In this matter see also Fran c1s

, , ,

Barre tt The Magus ,
.

The later Coptic names o f the 7 Gods and planets and

Genii of the World of the Ancient Egyptians are : Saturn
Rephah God of t ime ; Jup iter P i cheu sGod of life ;
,

, , ,

Mars Moloch God o f destruct ion ; Sol P hre or Pire

, , , ,

meaning Holy Lord ; Venus Suroth lady o f love ;

is
, ,

Mercury Hermes H erm an u b

, Go d o f speech ; and L una
, , ,

P i oo h lady o f the waters

,
.

In China 7 is the num b er o f Death and t heir days of ,

mourning are 7 t i mes 7 : the Seven Star Plank is the name

of the bottom plank o f a co fn I n which they bore 7 holes
The Hindoos speak of 7 T a t wa sthe a b stract principles
.

of existence metaphysical and physical the su btle elements

, ,

and the corresponding human senses of which only ve are ,

yet developed So there are ve exo t eri c Akasa Vayu

.
, , ,

Tejas A pas and P rit hwi the rst t wo esoteric yet unknown
,

are Ani and A n u pad aka The rst name means O ne .

,

Unity the Atom and is a name of Brahma ; the latter

, ,

means parentless self existent The rst ve are referred

,
-
.

t o primeval Aether Air Fire Water and Eart h : and t o

, , ,

Hearing Touch Sight Taste and Smell ; note Air is

not Hearing See R ama Prasad o n The T a t was
, , ,

. .

The Sanscrit names o f t he Seven Planets used in Hindoo

Astrology are S urya fo r the Sun Chandra for Moon , ,

Kuj a for Mars Budhan fo r Mercury Guru for Jupiter

, , ,

Sukra for Venus and Shani for Sat urn : then t here are
,
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b e con tradi c t ed i n Joshua ve rses He was born v . 1 0 1 2 .

on the same day o f the same month .

e 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
a , .

1
1
:
spine after death ,

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 .
,

i Shem Jacob Amram Ahijah the Shilonite and E lij ah

who s a wh i m and Elij ah i s
, , , , ,
n

still alive until to day
,
-
.

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
A Ram has b ut o n e voice while alive but aft er death his
Sanhedrin
.

e ,

body makes 7 sounds ; h i s horns make t wo trum pets

his thigh bones t wo pipes hi s

a ,

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

E harp
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

es
, , , ,

T z i ah Y a b ha h C heled or T heb el The mysti cal River

as
, , .

Sa m b at y o n owed all the week but w still o n the 7 t h day

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

, ,
.
a

The 7 Gi fts o f the Ho l y Sp irit Isaiah xi v 2 are , . .

,

Wisdom Understanding Counsel Fortitude Knowledge

, , , , ,
 33

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 o t he Emperor Theodosius t hey convinced h i m o f t he

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 fcers 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

, , ,

o f Si n di ba d edited by Clouston
,
.

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 rst O is the Greek long 0 omega ) , .

In the Zoroastrian theology we read o f the highest beings

the 7 A m s hasp a n d sO rmuzd source o f l i fe ; Bahman the
king of this world ; A rdi behes
, ,

t re 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

,
 84

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

Lucifer wa s
. .

and the Theosophical Society rst published

t in 1 8 8 7 and 1 8 8 7 is the s
.

o f 1 7 hundreds 1 7 tens a n d
E
um

, , ,

1 7 units ; H . P B lived at 1 7 Lansdowne Road and 1 7

. .
, ,

Avenue Road ; Luc i fer was published at 7 Duke Street ;
7 volu m es were completed at her death Colonel O lcott rst
met her at 7 Beckman Street and later
,
at 7 1 Broadway 1
, ,

New York A n na Kingsford was elected pres i dent rst o f

.

the London T S Lodge on 7 t h Jan u ary 1 8 8 3

. . Isis U n
V
v ei led was published in 1 8 7 7 and the Third volume of the
,
.

I
Secret Doctrine was published i n 9 7 after her death
1 8 ,
.
 THE O G D OA D . 8 .

I sthe rst cu b e o f energy and i s , the only evenly even

n u mber with i n the decad The Greeks thought it an
.

all powerfu l number ; they had a Proverb all things are
-

eight
C a m erari u s
.

i n his edition o f the Arithmetic o f N i co m a

chus
,

calls it
,
a l Harmony because musical ratios are
,

number
8 is ses
.

q u i o c t av e t his forms a tone and

is
,

attributed to t he Moon .

1 2 to is sesquitertian
9 Mercury "
1 2 to 8 is sesquialter

1 6 t o 1 2 is
V en u s
sesquitert ian
1 6 t o 8 is duple
o
1

1 8 to 1 2 i s sesquialter
Sun
.

1 8 to 9 is duple

2 1 t o 9 is duple sesqu i tertian Mars .

2 4 t o 1 8 is sesquitertian

2 4 to 1 2 is duple

2 4 to 8 is triple
Attribu t ed to

1 8 to 1 2 sesquia l ter
Jupiter .

1 2 to 8

3 2 to 2 4 sesquitertian
8 quadruple Saturn .

3 2 t o

i
t o 2 sesquialter Are ascribed t o the
3 6 4 8 th or I n erra
3 6 t o 1 8 duple
6 to 8 qua d ruple tic Sphere which
3
I comprehends all
the res
2 4 t o 1 8 sesquitert i an
J t .
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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 rst cube and a cube repre
, ,

senting t he earth
The eight persons saved from the ood o f Xi s ru s
.

ut h are
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 .

1 There have been several Masonic orders concerned with

t his N o a chi t e O gdoad a s the Prussian masons Kn i ghts o f
s
, ,

g t he R o y a L A xe or Prince o f Li ba n u the Noachi t es and

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

m ale infants upon t h e 8 t h day after birt 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 ,

 87

v iz
, N e
.ra i a h,
Sera i ah ,
M a a i a h,
Jeremia h,
H i s
lkiah , H a nn e
m eel, and Shallum Note also that H uldah the prophetess
.

3
was the grandch il d o f Rahab .

The last 8 verses o f Deuteronomy , The Mosaic Law, The

Pentateuch , were wri t t en b y Joshua Bava B at hra, 1 4 1
s
. . .

Rabbi Nathan stat e that there were 8 sects o f the

Pharisees : but both o f the Talmuds (Jerusalem and
Babylon ) name only seven I t i prophes i ed that the Harps. s
which will be played o n earth before the Mess i ah wil l have
8 strings . Brac hi n 1 3 2 , . .

As seven was the num b er o f the original Creation so 8 , ,

says W F Shaw may be considered as the Day o f R e

. .
,

generation Eight souls were saved in the A rk Of Noah

and Noah was the 8 t h in descent his
.
,

name was c h= 8 ,

t i mes 8 6 4 .

8 8 8 i s the s Cial number of Jesus Chris t as

He who
is t e es
7

u rrec and the Life He is the great opponent
r o f t he B eas
.

o f the 6 6 6 t he t the number o f a Man

s

, , .

The anc i ent e writings refer t o 8 musical s ound ,

the Pah yin (G Schlegel )

-
. . .
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THE E NNE AD .
9 .

TH E Ennead is the rst square o f an odd number it was ,

said to be like the O cean owing around the other numbers

wi t hin the Decad ; n o further elementary number is possible ,

hence it is like the Horizon because all the numbers are

bounded by it We nd that it was called Prometheus
.
,

and Freedom from Strife and V u lcan beca u se the

, ,

ascent o f numbers is as fa r as 9 j ust as the ascent of things

decompo s ed by re is as far as the sphere o f Fire ( the s
,

um

mit o f the air ) and Juno because the Sphere o f the air is
, ,

arranged according to the novenary system and sister ,

and wife to J u piter from its conj u nction with the Monad
And T eles ro s or
.

p h o Bringing to an end because the

human o ffspring is carried 9 calendar months by the parent
And t elez osor p erfec t for the same reason and also called
.

'

/ ,

Perfect because it is genera t ed from the Triad which is ,

called Perfec t
Attention is called t o i t s
.

being an emblem o f M a tt er whi c h

ever varying is never destroyed ; s
,\ ,

o the number 9 when

multiplied by any number always reproduces i tself thus

,

times 2 a re 1 8 and 8 plus I are nine and so on as below

9
X = 27
9 3 5
9 X = 6
4 3 3 9 X I3 = II7 5 7+ I + 1 =
9
=4 3 4+ = X I = 1 26
9 X 5 5 S 9 9 4 ;

x = 6
9 7 33
8 = 72 7 =
9 X 5 9 >< I 1 53 3
9 X = 81
9 3 9 X 1 8= 1 62 ;
X I O =
9 9 3 0

X I I =
9 99 3
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Santa F o rt u na and Fides The Sabi nes became merged

, .

with the Romans about 2 6 6 B C . .

The Nine gods of the Etruscans were Juno Minerva , ,

Tinia Vulcan Mars Saturn Hercules Summanus and

V edi u s the E truscans also became united with the
, , , , ,

Romans .

Note in Macaula y s poem o f Horatius Lars Porsena ,

of Clusium by the n i n e gods he swore in 5 9 6 B C Lars , . .

Porsena led the Etruscans ; they were then most powerful :

from the Etruscans the Romans took much of their la w ,

custom and superstition

I t is
.

by nines that Eastern presents are given when they ,

would extend their magnicence to the greatest degree as ,

mentioned in Comte de Caylus O riental Tales
1 7 43
, . .

Barrett s Magus notes also 9 precio u s stones 9 orders

,

of devils 9 choirs of angels he C opies from John Heydon
Not e in thi s connection the N u n d i n als
, .

o f the Romans ,

who marked the days by letters into parcels of 8 days and ,

o n every 9 t h day the pe o ple left their pursu i ts and went

to the towns t o market ; hence the jocular Latin saying
T res m u lz eres These n u n d in als
,

N u n di n a : f a ez a a t are a
' '

type of our Domin i cal letters a s

. .

et of seven marking out

,

the 8 t h days The Romans also held a purication cere

.

mony on male in fants on the 9 t h day of life hence the ,

presiding goddess o f this rite was called N undina .

The Nones were one of the sets o f days compo sing each
,

calendar mon t h The Roman N oven n ali a was a feast in

.
-

memory o f the dead celebrated every gt h year The

Novendiale wasan occasional Roman Catholic fast to
.

avert calam iti es from this arose the R C system o f

,
.

Neuvaines .

There is a Masonic order of Nine Elected Knights
in which 9 roses 9 lights and 9 knocks are used
, .
,
q
The Mahometans have 9 9 names of the deity Some .

Jews have taught that God has 9 times descended to earth;

I st in Eden 2 n d at the con fusion o f tongues 3 rd at the
, ,

destruction of Sodom 4 t h t o Moses at Horeb 5 t h at

, ,

Sinai 6 th t o Balaam 7 t h t o Elisha 8 t h in t he Tabernacl e

, , , ,
 9 1

and 9t h in the T emple at Jerusalem and tha t his ro t h

coming as the Messiah will b e n al .

The ancients had a fear o f the number Nine a n d its

multiples especiall y 8 1 they thought them o f evil presage
, ,

indicatin g change and fragility .

A t the 9 t h hour Jesus the Sav i our died .

Nine is also the ear t h under evil i nfluences

.

Joh n Heydon in the Holy Guide and J M Ragon in

, . .
,

his M acon neri e O cculte thus associate numbers wi th the

,

Planets .

Sun 1 and 4 Moon ,

2 and 7, Jup i ter 3, Mercury 5,
Venus 6, Sa turn 8 Mars , 9 .

and t he Zodiacal Signs thus

1 Leo ius 3 Capricornus 4 S agittari u s

5 Cancer 6 s 7 Aries 8 Li bra
9 Scorp i o 10 II P i sces 1 2 Gemin i .

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 .

, . .
i g

In the 1 4 5 th Psalm we nd 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 ,

 9 2

tm en c ed the fteenth day of the third Attic month

on ,

Boedromion Sep t e m ber : they took place once in every

,

ve years .

i The Lesser Mysteries were perfo rmed in t he month

Elaphebolion March at Agree on the River I ly s
, , s
us in
honour of Persephone o r Proserpine dau ghter o f Ceres
Candidates after reception became M y s
, .

t ae : in the Greater
Mysteries they became E pOpt ae The ceremon i es were
called T elet ai perfect in gs They remai ned i n use fo r 1 8 0 0
.

.
,

years and were only ceased in the time of the Emperor

,

Theodosius A D 3 9 5
,
. . .
I

Mention o f 9 Worthies is found in literature ; they were

Gentiles Hector son o f King Priam Alexander the
3 ,

Great and Julius C aesar 3 Jews Josh u a David and Judas ,

Macca beus 3 Christians King Arthur o f Britain Charle

,

magne and G odfrey de Bouillon .

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THE D E CA D . Io .

T R E Decad number T en o r P A N T E LE I A wh i ch meant

V All complete o r fully accomplished i sthe grand
, , ,

summi t o f numbers which once rea ched cannot be pas s

,

ed
to i n g ea se the s
,

um we must retrograde to the Monad .

z/ The Pythagoreans were entr anced with its virtues and

called it De i ty Heaven Eternity and the Sun
, ,
.

Ten o r receptacle of all numbers was

called = t o receive and hence Heaven

'

, ,

which was ord ai n e

Like the Dei ty it is a Circle with vi s i ble centre but i t s , ,

C ircumfer ence too vast for sight .

It is the sum o f the un i ts o f the number four as previously

mentioned a holy and Deistic number thus 1

are 1 0 and thus ten gains splen dour from i t s

, ,

, parentage .

Also spoken o f as Eternity which is innite l i fe
/ becau s
, ,
L e it contai ns every number in i tself and number i s ,

i nnite .

It is also called Kosmos that i s t he Un iverse

Proclus
says : The decad i smundane also it is the world which
, .

receives the images of all the divine numbers whi ch are ,

supernat ural ly impart ed to i t .

I t is called the fountain of eternal na t ure because i f
we take the half ve a sthe middle numb er and add
,

, ,

together t he next above and the next below vi z 6 and 4 , .

, ,

we m ake 1 0 and the next two in a similar manner 7 and 3

are 1 0 ; and s
,

o o n 8 and 2 and 9 and 1 give the same

result .

All nations reckon by the Dec i mal scale o f no t ation t o ,

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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 rst Square because
i t consists of the rs
,

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
large number so that care must b e exercised in t ran s
,

,
lat

i ng this ; thus Nehemiah interprets t en generations o f

Deuteronomy xxi i i v 3 t o mean for ever Nehemiah
. . .

X11 1 . 1 .

The Kab alists called 5 6 and 1 0 circular numbers , ,

because when squared t he resul t shows the same num b er ,

in the unit gure thus : ,

5 t imes 5 are 5
2 and 5 times 2 5 are 1 2
5
6 times 6 are 3 6 6 times 3 6 are 21 6
10 times 1 0 are 1 00 1 0 times 1 0 0 are 1 0 00

An old periphrasis mentioned by S hakespeare is Id

s
,

meaning the

et my ten commandments in your face ,

nger nails for scrat ching See 2 Henry VI i 3

The Mahometans s
. . . .

a y that ten anima l s were adm itt ed t o

Paradise .

1 Krat i m the d og o f the Seven S l eepers

.
, .

2 Ass of Balaam
. .

3 Ant of
. Solomon .

4 Whale . o f Jonah .

5 The Calf ( not Ram ) o f

f ered t o Jehova h b y Abraham
instead o f Isaac his s
.

on ,
.

6 The O x o f Moses
. .

7 The Camel
. of the prophe t Sa l e eb .
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8 . The Cuckoo o f Belkis .

9 . The Ram o f Ishmael .

1 0 Al Borek the Animal which conveyed Mahome t t o

.
,

heaven .

We nd 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

c iesand solid
, ,

A similar form is gi ven by Hebrew

.

Ka b alists to the deity number by placing in a

two V a n sand one Heh
,

triangle four
nal 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

, ,

ve 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 1 0 s t ri ngs in the ,

Psal t ery and that the Holy Ghost descended ten days
,

after the As cension

an u sand
.

T u c er R ab , Raymond L ully assoc i ate the

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 cing 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
 9 6

attempted ; my Introduct ion t o t he Kabalah may be

referred to
From the Absolute Pass i ve Negativity A I N proceeds
.

A I N SU F H the Limitless and then A I N SU F H A U R Bo u nd

,

l ess Light which concentrat es in the rst manifestation o f

,

the Sephiroth which is the Crown KT R Ket her : from

, , ,

Ket her proceeds C hKM H C hochm a h Wisdom an active , , ,

masc u line potency and BI N H Binah Understanding a

, , , ,

passive feminine power .

These three form the Supernal Triad The fourth and .

fth are C hSD Chesed Mercy active and mal e and

, , , ,

G BV R H G eb
,
u ra h Strength pass i ve and fe m ale
, , .

The sixth Sephira is the notable T P A R T T ipheret h

Beauty the central s
, ,

,
un the Logos t he Manifested So n :
, ,

this completes a second triangle the reection of the ,

former
Num b er seven isN T z c h N etz ach Victory active and
.

, , , ,

the eigh t h is H VD Hod Splendour passive ; the ninth

is Y SVD Y es
, , ,

, od the Foundation completing the third

, ,

trinity or triangle
,
.

M LKT M alku t h, the Tenth Sephira completes the

, ,

emanations She is the Bride of Microprosopus the Son

the Su n Logos ; she i s
.
,

,
the Inferior Mother Q u een and , ,

the Manifested Universe .

The whole Ten are viewed as reignin g over Four Worlds

o r Planes of Existence ; these are the Worlds of A z i lu t h
Briah Y et z i rah and A s s
,

i ah M alku t h on the plane of

As si a h alone is
.
,

the vi sible tangible universe .

These Ten Sephiroth are the prototypes o f everything

spiritual and also of every part of creation : they are traced
,

in the angelic host and i n our universe t hree superior and ,

seven succedent exi st in all things ; the lower seven are

obvio u s to the uninitiated but in these manifestations the
supernal triad i s
,

veiled t o t he pro fane .

Some occultists phrase it thus three are sub

j ective and
incomprehensible t o m a n seven are obj ective and compre
hen s ib le ; thus Seven archangels are comm only named and ,

we have known only of Seven great planets o f ou r system .

 9 8

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

, ,

weddings by ten men including the bridegroom Ten cups .

were drunk at a funeral party three before s u pper three at

s
,

upper and four after the meal at the recitation o f the four
,

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 ,

Sea Ten plagues were made to afict the Egyptians Ten

. .

t imes the Jews o ffended God in the Wilderness .

Ten times did the Shekinah come down into the world
.a t the Garden of Eden at the Tower of Babel at Sodom
'

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 ;

.

s
G ideon took 1 0 servants to destroy the Altar o f Baal ; Boaz
c hose 1 0 w itnesse for his marriage with Ruth J oa bs armo u r

wa s
.

borne b y 1 0 young men Jes u s speaks of 1 0 talents .

,

1 0 cities 1 0 pieces o f silver

,
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

, ,

fo r m an s life Ecclus 3 9 2 6

. . . .

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
;z are h referred t o by Eliphaz L evi and coll ected from the
p
Z Oha r of Knorr von R o s
,

en ro t h and translated into Engl i s h ,

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 ;
First a s
,

t hey are periodical incarnations o f the God the .

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F ish Ma t sya 2 Kurma the Torto i se ; 3 Varaba t he

Boar ; 4 N aras
.
, .
, ,

i ngha the Man L i on ; 5 V am an a the

.
,
-
.
,

Dwarf ; 6 Parasu Rama 7 Rama Chandra ; 8 Krishna ;

.
-
. .

9 .Buddha ; and the 1 0 t h Kalki the Horse is ye t t o , , ,

c ome These Avatars are susceptible o f a mystical explana

.

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

s s
.

h h

4 In
'
the Yoga V a i t a Maha Ramayan a o f Valmiki
will be found an es
,

. edited by Vihar i Lala Mitra say on ,

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

;, s yllable O M or A U M

.

Aum _mani padm ehum means literally O h the j ewel

in thy m us and is t aken In y s
, ,

t i c ally to mean the spark o f
e D ivi ne wi thin me a s wa s
,

th ,
fully explained by Blava t sky
,

t o her E SO t CI l CCTlO H o f Theosophists

i

.
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T H IS seems t o have been the type o f a number with an

evil rep u tation among all peoples The Kabalists co n
t ra s
.

t ed i t with the perfection o f the Dec ad and j ust as the

Sephiro t i c number i s the form o f all good things s
,

o eleven
is
,

the essence o f all that is sinful harmful and imperfect ; ,

with the Ten Sephiroth they contrasted the Eleven Averse

Sephiroth symbols o f destruction vi olence defeat and
, , ,

dea t h O n the oldest Tarot cards the trump called t he

.
,

Tower struck by Lightning number XVI shows the Ten , ,

Divine Sephiroth on o n e side and the Eleven Averse

Sephiroth on the other s i de ; modern Tarot des igns are
very much debased .

John Heydon says that b y it we know the bodies of

Devils and their nature ; the Jews understand by i t Lilith
Adam s rs t wife a s
,

he devil dangerous t o women i n
-

s tval s A D M
, ,

h
'

; hence they wro t e o t l

co n n e m en t n e

C hVH C hv o L ILI T that is

"

Adam E ve o u t of door s
, , , ,

Lilith .

Jesus in Matt xii 4 3 plainly allows the doctrine t ha t

, . .
,

evil spirits may haunt el ds which Grotius says the Jews ,

think ; and their word Demon and Field are similar being ,

ShD I M ( elds ) and ShD I M (evil deities ) ; the Siddim

,

are mentioned in Psalm cvi 3 7

I t is
. .

called the N u m b

er o f S i ns

an d t he

Peni t ent

because it exceeds the number Of t I I e Co rri m an d m ent sand

-

i
,
"
W
- '

is less than twelve which is the number of Grace and

,

Perfection But sometimes even eleven receives a favour

from God as in the case o f the man who wa s
.

, called in the
 1 02

TW E LV E . 12 .

T H IS num b er has a perfect and no t ab l e charac t er and

wa s
,

highly es t eemed by most nat ions of antiquity Almost .

all the t welves will be found t o be allied either Ob vi ously ,

o r in a concealed man ner with the Signs of the Zod iac

, ,

twelve s igns o r partiti ons of the great circ l e o f the heaven s

twe l ve t imes thirty degrees formin the per fect cycle f
g o

3 6 0 arithmeti c al degrees o f the circle : each sign wa s further

s u bdivided into three d ec a n s T here are many o f the
-
.

learned who b el i eve the twelve sons of Jaco b and ,

t welve founders o f tri b es are allegorical only We may

,
.

mention the Twelve Grand Points o f Masonry wh i ch ,

used t o form a part o f the lectures in t he Craft degrees .

Twelve events in the ceremony o f i ni ti at i on referred t o t he ,

sons of Jacob are g iven by Mackey :

,

1 To Reuben was referred the O pening o f t he Lo dge

he wa s the rs s
.

t b om on
-
.

2 .T o Simeon the preparation o f t he land he p repared

,

the destruction o f the Shechemites .

T L evi the repor t signal h gave the S ignal in

3 . o , o r e
the attack on the men of Shechem .

4 .T o Judah the
,
entrance of the land that t ri b e rst
entered the promised land .

5 .T o Zebulun the prayer

,
the prayer and blessing o f
his father fell on him in preference t o Issachar .

6 T o Issachar
.

the circumambulation a n indolent
,

t ri be who required a leader

, .

7 . T o Dan the advance to the A lta r

,
for a c on t rast t o
their rapid advance to i dolatry .
 1 03

8 . To Gad t he obligation
,
on accoun t of J
. ep ht hahs

:

vo w
s
.

9 To
. Asher the entrusting ,
w i th rich Mason i c blessing
resem b led the Fathers o f their land .

1 0 T o Naphtali the investment and declared Free
.
,

the tribe o f N ap ht ali had a peculiar f reedom give n

b y Moses .

1 1
T o Joseph the N E co m er because Ephraim a n d
.
, .

Manasseh (grandsons) represented h i m newes t ,

comers .

1 2 T o Benjam i n the closing of the L odge as b

.
,
eing
the las t son o f the Patri arch
The following associations of Birds An i mals and Flowers
.

with heavenly bod i es ha s

, ,

the authority of the Greco Roman -

mythology
G reek . La t i n . Bi rd . A ni m al
. V egetable .

P allas Minerva O wl She goat-

O live
A phrod i te Venus Dove H e goa t
-
Myrtle
Helios Cock B u ll Laurel
Hermes Ibis Dog Hazel
Zeus Jupiter Eagle Hart Horse ches t nut:
-

Demeter Ceres Sparrow Sow Apple

Hephaistos Vulcan Goose A SS Box
Ares Mars Magpie Wolf D og wood -

Artemis D i ana Daw Hind P alm

Hestia Vesta Heron Lion Pine
Hera Juno Peacock Sheep Thorn
Poseidon Neptune Swan Horse Elm
The astrologers associated colours wi t h the t we l ve Signs; "

of the Zod i ac thus ,

With Pisces white ,

Aquarius blu e ,

Capricorn black or brown ,

Sagittarius yellow o r green ,

Scorpio brown
Li bra black o r crim s
,

on ,

Vi rgo black and blue ,

 1 04

With Leo red and green

,

Cancer green and brown

,

Gemini red ,

Ari es white
,

Taurus whlt e and yellow

,

The Zodiacal Signs are also associated with Sex and t he ,

c ontrast of Day and Night .

Pisces Female Nocturnal

Aqu arius Male Diurnal
Capricorn Female Noct u rnal
Sagittarius Male Diurnal
Scorpio Female Noct u rnal
Libra Male Di u rnal
Virgo Female Nocturnal
Leo Male Diurnal
Cancer Female Nocturnal
G emini Male Diurnal
Ta u rus Female Nocturnal
A ries Male Diurnal
And again there are other characters which astrologers
, ,

deem o f importance thus ,

Pisces Water Northern Common Fr u itful

Aquari us Air Western Fixed
Capricorn Earth So u thern Cardinal
Sag i ttarius Fire Eastern Common
Scorpio Water Northern Fixed Fruitful
Libra Air Western Cardinal
Virgo Earth Southern Common Barren
Leo Fire Eastern Fixed Barren
Cancer Water Northern Cardinal Fr u itful
Gemini Air Western Common Barren
Ta u r u s Earth S o uthern Fixed
Aries Fire Eastern Cardinal
Lastly the twelve signs are allotted to the planets as their
,

houses
 1 06

The Rabbis sai d t ha t at the rst revelation the True

Name o f Go d was a word o f 1 2 letters Kiddushi n 7 1 I .
, . .

The Mishna narrates the events of t he rst 1 2 hours ;

Adam fell in t o s
in in the tenth Hour wa s j udged in the
eleventh and was cast o u t o f the Garden in the twelfth ; s
,

, o
he abode not even o n e day i n his dignity Sanhedrin 3 8 .
, .

2 Compare t he N u c t em ero n of Apollon iu s of Tyana

given by Eliphaz Levi in hi s R i tuel de la Magie Paris
.
,

, ,

1 86 1 .

The Stones the Priest s Breast pla t e were

1 2 of H igh
-

named Sardius Topaz Carbuncle Emerald Sap phire , , , , ,

Diamond Ligure o r Jacinth Agate Amethyst Beryl

, , , , ,

O nyx and Jasper, See Heb rew Ancient Version Exodus .

,

xxv m .

The 1 2 Foundations o f the Heavenly City given I n ,

Revelations xxi are Jasper Sapphire Chalcedony Sardius

.
, , , , , ,

Sardonyx Emerald Topaz Beryl Chrysolite Amethyst

Jacinth and C hry s ras
us
, , , , , ,

oph .

The 1 2 Hebrew Months were Ab ib o r N izan ( March

April ) Iyar o r Zi f Sivan Thammuz Ab Elul T isri Bul
Chis
, , , , , , , ,

leu Tebeth She b at Adar ; and the inter calary month

, , ,
-

V e Adar-
.

The 1 2 E gyp t ia n Months were Pachon Paoni E piphi

M es
, , ,

o ri Thoth P haOphi A thyr Choiak Tobi Mechir

, , , , , , ,

P ha m en o t h and Pharmuthi the las t beginning on March

2 7t h
.

The 1 2 Sons o f Jacob were re l ated to the 1 2 Signs o f

t he Zodiac by the Rosicrucians in a correct order ; other
schemes o f at tri bution are given by Athanasius Kircher
and others .

That by Sir William Drummond is Aries to Gad ,

Taurus to Ephraim Ge m ini t o Benjamin C ancer t o , ,

Issachar Leo t o Judah Virgo t o N apht ali Libra to Asher

, , , ,

Scorpio t o Dan S agittary to Manasseh Capri corn to Zebulun

s
, , ,

Aquarius t o Reuben and Pisces t o Simeon and Levi ,

.

The 1 2 Apo tles of Jesus were Simon Pe t er Andrew , ,

James and John the sons of Zebedee Philip Bartholomew

Thomas Ma t thew al so called Levi James son of Alphaeus
, , ,

, , ,
 1 07

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

Westcott o n t he Zo diac in So c R o sReports give s

, . .
, ,

p 21 1
. . . .

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 -

God H I H H V V H V I H I H mean i ng-
fui t est cri t
-
or
He wa sis will be
, , , , , ,
m m W

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

be fam iliar with A B B E N V R U C h H QD s h A hBen ve - -

Ruach ha Ko d es
,
-
h meanin g Father So n and Holy Spirit
-

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

Akrab Kes
, , , , ,

B et hu leh M az a n ai m ,
it h Gedi Deli and
, , , , ,

D agi m In Arabic ; A I Hamal Al Thaur Al Tauman Al

.
, , ,

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

, ,

p i n gh precious vase ; and Shang Y u

,
t wo shes , .

The o ld Sanskrit Hindoo names used by as t rologers at

the presen t time are ; Mesha R i s hab a Mi t h u n a Ka t akam

S i mha Kanya Tulam Vri s hchika D han u s M akaram

, , , ,

, , , , , ,

Kumbha and M i nam .

The 1 2 simple letters of the He b rew Alphabe t have

 1 08

afniti es with the Zod i acal Signs bu t the order o f relati on

is a R os
,

I c rU CI an private doctrine

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 shing 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 nd

the cardinal points if the time i s , correct and the sun i s ,

visible Lay the watch at and point the hour hand to the
s
.

u n and then the south will be h

, alf way be t ween that hour
J
an d the gure 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
Indifferent 6 8 1 8 21
5 1 2 I 5
Very bad 24 2
5 2 8 29
3 0
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SO M E H I N D OO U S E S O F N U M B E R S .

IN ancient Indi a in the Sanscrit language certain words

, ,

were used as equivalent to the low numbers : for O ne they

s
s
aid Moon o r Earth : for Two t hey used many words of
t hings in pair such as eye wing arm : for Three they used
, ,

Rama re o r guna for they knew of 3 Ramas 3 kinds of

, , ,

re and 3 gunas o r quali t ies : for 4 they used Veda age or

ocean : for 6 they used Seas
,

ons : for 7 t hey used Sage o r

v owel : for 1 2 they said Sun or Zodiac ; and for 2 0 they

used nails meaning those of hands and feet Edward B

, . .

Tylor .
 1 1 1

OT H E R H I G H E R N U M B E R S .

TH E 4 days
1 o f Burial in the Mas t er s degree : 1,4 pa r ts

i nto which the body o f O siris was divided : a type o f Chr i st ,

sacriced on the 1 4 th day o f the month : an amule t o f 1 4

points has been used to cure the sick .

There are 1 4 Books o f the Apocrypha ; they were wri tten

originally in Gggek never in Hebrew An Israelite had t o
, .

partake of 1 4 meals in the Booth during the Feast o f Tab er

n acle s .

The Israelites k illed t he Paschal Lam b o n the 1 4 th day

o f the Month Ni an s .

In Matthew chap i we nd the genealogy o f Jesus

, . .
,

rec ited in three series o f 1 4 nam es the rst under Patri

archs and judges the s
,

eco nd under kings and t he third

, ,

under priests and governors .

The ancien t physicians considered tha t t he 1 4 th day was

the crisis o f fevers .

The Moon waxes and wanes each for 1 4 days , .

1 5 was the number o f Pa i rs o f The [E ons o r Hol y

Principles in the Gnostic scheme o f Valentinu s
,

1 5 is t he number by Gematria o f the 8 t h Sephira H o d

,

H UD .

There were 1 5 s t eps in the Temp l e bet ween t he ante

cour t o f Israel an d the Women s Court and i n t hese were
,

sung the 1 5 Ps alms o f Degrees ; Psalms cxx c xxxiv 1 5

is the number of Jah a name of God ; s
. .

o the Jews w
, ho
wrote letters for numbers never wro t e J H 1 0 5 fo r 1 5 , , , , ,

but T V 9 6 1 5 , ,
:
.

The great day o f j oyful recreation for Jewish Maidens

 1 12

wa s s
t he 1 t h day o f the month Ab The De l uge covered
the hills t o the depth o f 1 5 cubits
.

A Jewish boy i n t he olden time was

.

ordered t o begin the

s t udy o f the Gemara when 1 5 years o f age .

1 6 means Felicity ; a square number There are 1 6 .

Court Cards in a Tarot pack .

1 7 In the treatise De Iside et O s i ride Plutarch says
.

,

O siris was killed o n the 1 7 th day of the moon and henc e

when the moon w s
,

a at the full and from that reason the

Egyptians abominate the number 1 7 and s o did the

Pythagoreans they called in A n t iphra xis(obstruction )
,

,

because it falls between the square number 1 6 and t he

oblong number 1 8 .

1 8 was deemed a protection against thieves .

1 8 Isaiah made 1 8 denunciations against Israel At 1 8

. .

years of age a girl S hould go t o the N u ptial Canopy The

Golden Candlestick o f the Temple was 1 8 hands breadth s
.

tall There are 1 8 Blessings in the Hebrew Liturgy

. .

There were only 1 8 High Priests during the existence of

the Fi rst or Solomonic Temple at Jerusalem .

1
9 The number 1 9 is famo u s as being the num b er o f
years in the Metonic Cycle ; the cycle o f the revolution s
.

o f the moon after which s ,

he returns t o have her change s
o n the same day o f the solar year Meto lived 4 3 3 B C . . .

he was an Athenian ; he published his discove ry at the

O lympic Games in the above year The exact period is .
,

however 1 8 years and 1 0 days The Calippic period of

, .

four cycl es o r seventy six years was invented by Calipp u s

,
-

, ,

B C
. .
33 0 t o correct
,
Meto John Heydon says
. that t he

number 1 9 facilitates births and menses .

20 The Kiddushin 2 9 2 says God may curse a man who

.
,
.
,

does not marry at least when 2 0 years o ld fo r his life is a ,

constant transgression A woman marrying before 2 0 may

.

bear C hildren up t o sixty ; at 2 0 until forty and after forty ,

will have none Bava Ba t hra 1 1 9 2 T o die after 2 0 days

.
, . .

diarrh oea is t o die pure

A hen sits 2 1 days and the Almond is ripe 2 1 day s
.

21 .
,

after the ower falls .

 1 14

W e The name s and symbols c an b e obta i n ed in S a nskrit

P roctor believes
.

l a nd in Arab i c . 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
s
. .
,

6 degre f north latitude and at a perio d wh n Taurus

1 3 e o e
was the rs
,

t constellation o f the Zodiac

The Rosh H a s han ha s ays the perio d o f t he M oo n s
.

29

R evolution is 2 9 days and s ix hours

.

and forty minu t es .

3 0 A me a l o f Lentils once in 3 0 days keeps o ff the

s
.

Q u insy At 3
. 0 years of age Jesus b e g an h i m i nistry ;
J oseph was 3 0 ye ar s o l d wh e n he stood bef o re Pharaoh ;
David wa s 3 0 y e ar s o ld when he b egan to reign 3 0 pieces
o f silver was the price Judas received and Jair had 3 0 sons , .

The num b er of El God = AL

3 1 1 3 0

s
. . .
,

3 1 Jo
. h u a did n o t comp le te the conquest o f C anaan
u nti l he had slain 3 1 ki n gs .

3 2 The
. number o f the Paths o f Wisdom o f the S e p h e r ,

Y et z ira h being 1 0 Sephiro t h and 2 2 le tt ers o f the Hebre w

,

a lphabet .

33 The
. years of the l i fe o f Jesus : K i ng David re i gned
i n Jerusalem 3 3 years : the number of ver t ebrae in the
human spinal column .

35 The number o f Agla A G LA a c omposite Ka b a

li s
.
, ,

t i c wonder working name -

See page 2 7 . .

3 6 . Abaj i said ther e are never less t h an 3 6 h oly men

o f any generation upo n whom the Sheki nah does not
r est .

3 6 . P lu tarch De Iside e
, t O siride c alls the Tetr a ct , ys
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
,

rst four even and the rst four od d numbers ; fo r I and

3 and 5 and 7 are 1 6 ; add 2 and 4 and 6 and 8 a n d ,

o btain 3 6 .

39 . The number o f Artic l es o f t he Protestant Chr i s t ian

C hurch belief .

4 0 . Up to 4 0 years of age eating is b est for a man aft er ,

4 0 drinking s u its b e st He who has passed 4 0 days w i t h

is
.

o u t ah afict i on has had h reward in this life .

 1 1 5

F o r 40 daysthe F lood lasted fo r 4 0 days the spi es

s ea rched t he promi s
,

ed land for 4 0 days Go li ath c hallen ged

,

Israel 4 0 days o f E zekiel s penitence the Jews were 4 0

,

,

years in t he Wi l derness 40 days of waiting before em b alm

,

i n g t he dead Genesis 1 3 ; fo r 40 days the woman s
purica t ion l asted aft er child b irth ; fo r 4 0 days Mos es
.
,

fasted tw i ce ; for 4 0 day s Elijah fasted and for 4 0 days ,

J esus f as t ed in the Wilderness and 4 0 days elapsed be t ween

the Resurrec t ion and Ascension o f Jesus Moses wa s
,

4 0

s
.

y ears in Egyp t 4 0 , in M i d i an and 4 0 in the W il derne, s .

The Israelites were 4 0 years among the Phili stines

s
.

4 2 i no t able b e cause o f the 4 2 lettered name o f G o d -

,

t augh t by the Kabalists : there were 4 2 J u dges i n the Judg

ni ent Hall o f O s i ris See Bet t an y The World s Religions
.
,

,

p 1 6 6 o n the even t s o f t he 4 z u d day after death

s
.
, .

4 2 The Ta l mud o f Babylon i n Kiddu hin 7 1 mentions

the 4 2 le tt ered Name and it i s
.
,
-
g iven by Ignatz Stern as
,

c omposed of the Divine Names o f the Bib l e thus E hei eh

asher eheieh A I Jah Jehovah E loh i m Jeh ovah Sa bao th
s
, , , , , ,

E l Cha i and Adona i A H I H A hR A H I H ; I H ; I H V I H ;

.

A L ; A LH I M ; I H V H T ZBA V T ; A L C hI ; A D N I , or 4 , 3 , 4 ,
2 : 5 : 2 : 5 4: 5: 2 : 2 :

s 3 ,

It i very curious that t he Ten Seph i roth which deno t e

the attrib utes o f God w i ll show, when the e letters are s
added together, and a V ad ded fo r a nd before the last o n e,
s
t hi same num b er 4 2 if Chesed be called Gedu la h, a wa ss
c o mmon among Kabali sts .

4 5 The num b er o f Adam A D M

s
. .
,

45 . The world i preserved for the sake o f 4 5 righteous

persons C hu lli n 9 2
.
, .

4 8. There have been 4 8 prophets in Israel : 4 8 cities

were assigned t o the Levi tes .

4 9 Moses rece i ved 4 9 reasons for the clea n ness and

uncleanness o f each thing : s
.

o says T h e Talmud .

5 0. The number o f the Gates of Binah ( B IN H ) t he

Understanding The Kabalah states that even Moses o nly
.

reached the 4 ot h See my Sepher Y et z i ra h Third

.

,

E dit i on ,
 1 16

5 8 Noah N C h
.
,
.

60 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

.
,

o f wines the sow bears her litter in 6 0 days .

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 .

7 0 The . number o f SU D Sod a secret doctrine and

, ,

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
, , ,
.

7 0 T h e
. Rabbis considered that there were 7 0 nations ,

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 .

7 1 The . number of the Members of the Sanhedrin .

has a large number f mystic references t the

7 2 o o 7 2

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 , .

7 2 It is
. said that Ptolemy King o f Egypt collected 7 2
, ,

Hebrew Rabbis and conned 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 .

73 The . number o f C ho k m a h ( C h K M H ) Wisdom the , ,

2 n d Sephira .

7 8 The . number of cards in a Taro t pack : 4 0 numerals ,

r6 court cards and 2 2 Trumps .

 1 18

2 00 .num b er of the bon es

T he i n he human bod y .

207 This is the number o f Ai n Su ph A I N SVP t he

.
, ,

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 The cu b e o f 6
. 21 6 ye ars t he period o f t he ,

Pythagorean Metemp sychosis .

m

221 The Cup o f David in heaven con tains 2 2 1 l ogs of

.

wine : (about 2 0 gallons ) says the Talmud .

23 1 The sum o f the numbers 1 t o 2 1 t he Gat es of the

.
,

Sepher Y et z ira h .

24 3 Circles o f Zo ir A m pin the number of t he permu t a

.

ti ons without reversal o f the Hebrew Letters Kalisch

,
. .

2 48 There are 2 4 8 members o f the body says Talmud

.
,

E i ru vi n 5 3 2 and an anathema enters into all o f them

, .
, .

The word ChR M acc u rsed is 2 4 8 but so is R ChM Mercy

, , , , .

2 52 It is said that the disciples o f Rabb i Ishmael once

.

d issected a low woman and found she had 2 5 2 mem b e rs , ,

but it does not say what the extra ones were .

2 70 Worlds o f the Idra Rabba or Greater Holy Assem bly

.
, .

271 The Talmud in Niddah says tha t t he He b rew

.
, ,

woman s pregnancy lasted 2 7 1 2 7 2 o r 2 7 3 days

, .

28 0 days the term f natural pregnancy hum an

o t en ,

times the Lunar 2 8 day period .

284 The number o f Theos God i n Greek l e tt ers

.
, , .

2 94 Ekklesia The Church and R O D O N t he Ros e and

al so M elchi s
.
, , ,

ed ek King o f Salem

s
.
,

3 0 0 M i thra
s s
. .

3 0 0 The
. riches o f Kora h we re o va t-

th at i t t ook 3 0 0

mules t o carry them .

There were 3 0 0 sorts of devils in Sichin .

The Veil o f t he Temple required 3 0 0 pries t s t o d raw I t

aside and 3 0 0 to cleanse it
,
.

3 14 The
. number o f Sha d d a i Sh DI and o f Meta t r o n , ,

MT TR U N .

31 8 Helios the Sun

.
, .

3 45 This is the number o f E 1 Shadda i A L ShD I Go d

Almighty ; and of ShM H ( Shem ah) the Name of the A bs
.
, ,

o ,

lu t e God : also of M ShH Moses and ShI LH Sh iloh , , , .

 1 19

35 8 T he num b er of Messiah M ShI Ch and N Chs h

as
.
,

n ac h h the Serpent sy m b ol o f life

s s
.
,

6
3 4 The
. name S atan t h e S h a th a n H h T
, h N con t a i n , , ,

6
3 4 ,
and all these days o f each year he can tempt man b u t ,

n o t o n the 3 6 5 t h the Day of Atonement

s
, .

6
3 5 The
. Greek numeration o f A b raxas a Gno t ic t alis ,

man ic word
s
.

6
3 5 Days
. o f the year Negat i ve Jewish precepts
, Duke ,

o f Babylon and Streets in the City of Rome

, .

37 0 . Directions o f the thought o f Microp r osopus S ee .

Idra Rabba 5 5 3 7 , . .

3 73 . L ogos .

7 Sh M Solomon
3 5 . L H , .

39 4. T h ere were this number o f l aw cour t s in t h e -

Jerusalem o f the kingdom peri o d .

4 0 0. The body o f Joseph was carried 4 0 0 m i les to bur i al .

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 .

4 1 0. The F i rst Temple sto o d 4 1 0 years and the Second ,

Temple 4 2 0
4 74 . The num b er o f B aath D O T Secret Wisdom t,h e , ,

u nion o f C h okm ah and Binah .

49 6. The num b er o f M alk u t h ( M L K T ) the Kingdom , ,

the 1 o t h Seph i ra .

5 0 0. Kosmos .

5 3
4 The num b er of the mystic name A h e i e asher A h e i e
I am that I am ( A H I H A s
.
,

hR A H I H ) .

55 0. S h M I R the Shamir
, the mag i cal insec t wh ,i ch cut t he

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 , ,

holy name is of 3 letters which num ber ,

In
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
Tyre T R C h i s
. . . . . .
, .

8 2 00 60 8 . also an example o f 6 0 8
, ,
.
 1 20

61 2 Zeus
The words Moses o u r Rabbi M s
. .

61 3 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

eleven and Isaiah to s
.
, ,

,
i x and later t o t wo 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 ve 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 ,
a

o r ight of Mahomet from Mecca from which year t be x ,

M ahometans reckon their calendar .

V
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 , ,

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

.
,

A L H I M being 1 , 3 0
5 1 0 6 0 0 ; o r avoiding t h e use o f
nal Mem we get 1 3 0 , 5 1 0 + 4 0 neglecting the tens
1 +
3 + 5 + I + 4 and placing these gures, in a c i rc le we , ,

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 ,

M enes and Bacch u s

,
Noah in Hebrew is N VCh or 6 4 .
, , .

6 5 1 T ele ai , the Greek Ancient Mysteries and Epist em e

t
Sc i enCe .

666 is the pet number of God frey Higgins as referred to

R as
,

i t ( R SVT ) which he insists means

,

W isdom o r as most believe Beginning o r Principle :

T he rst words of Genesis are oe r a si i In the beginning -

,
.

6 6 6 The number of the Beast the n u mber o f a Man

.
, ,

has been associated with Sa tan Maho m et the Pope and a

, ,

hundred others It is also the n u mber of SVR T the Hebrew

.
,

word for the Sun It occurs in Revelations xi i i 1 8 . . .

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num b ers d id n ot mean o u r solar years but years o f ve

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 .

999 m u dgrn en t alth eu b t here be 99 9 who c on

i gm n a man he s
.
,
hall be saved n e plead for him
S
e 1 0 00 headed serpent i s
.
m

1 0 00 .
-
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 .

,
. .

I n 1 0 00 .

1 cent ira ,

t he Sun Beauty Microprosopus Su n God

, , ,
-
.

1 2 63 The number o f the word Gnosis

H E G N O SI S The Gnosis and St a u ros
. .

1 271 .
,
the cross o f , ,

Jesus .

1 322 Firs t year o f Egyptian cycle of Sothis B C

.
, . .

Rameses 1 1 came t o the throne in th i s year B C

.
, . .

1 3 78 The reputed year o f the birth of Christi an Rosen

.

kreutz founder o f the Rosicrucian philosophy

Chris tian R o s
.
,

1 40 8 . enkreu t z founded his arcane society

in Germam a .

1 45 9 T he d ate o f the writing o f the Hermetic Romanc e

.

of t he Chem i cal Wedding by C R ,

. .

1 46 1 The Egyptian So t hic Period calculat ed by t he

.
,

hel ia cal ris ing o f Sirius the D og Star at t he solstice

, , .

1 480 Chri s tos i n Greek nume ration : meaning A noi n ted

.
,
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a 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
sci entic 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
s
,

p ries t ly a tronomers o f E gyp t

Chri stian R os
.

1 48 4 en kreu t z died : the Vau l t clo sed over

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

The Fama Fra t ern it a t i s R os as
.

1 61 4 ae Crucis w p ri n t ed
Grand Lod ge of Fr eemas
. .

1 71 7 . ons d

New Y ear s D

ch aii ed
f

i 2
W
.

" ay g
Jan
W
crucian Societ
t er Ro b e rt Wen t wor t h L i ttle founde d t he Rosi
Freemasons of E ng l and in itsg es en t
M
,
e

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

This year A D i s
. . . .
I

1 91 1

. 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

The Geeek number o f I es ou s

. .
, .

23 68 . Christos .

3 0 00 R av. H a

m m u n a h says tha t Solomon sp o ke 3 0 00

proverbs A t the mourn i ng fo r Moses 3 0 00 prec ep t s

.

were forgotten .

3 1 0 2 In B
. C 3 1 02 . i n. February , the Kal i Yuga the ,

B l ack Age o f humanity began according t o the Brahmins ,

.

37 6 1 The . Jew i sh Era was cal c ula t ed t o c ommence 37 6 1

years before the Christi an E ra .

4 32 1 Years after t he dispersion sai d Rashi t he Jews , ,

will be restored t o their o wn l an d .

4 9
2 1 After
. these years t he w a rs o f Go g and Magog w ill
cease says the Tal mud
, .

5 8 8 8 The number o f verses in the Pen t ateuch says

t he Ki d du s h i n : b u t t hey are usually coun t ed as
.
,

8
5 45 .
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6 0 00 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 so 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 .

3 4 59
1 1 the value o f 71
, the ratio o f diame t er t o circum ,

ference o f a circle .

Bode s Law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical

problem

Take the series of numbers 0 3 6 1 2 24 4 8 9 6 1 9 2

A dd 4 t o eac h o f t hem 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

And we obtain the numbers 4 7 10 1 6 28

5 2 1 00 1 9 6

These show the relation o f the anc i en t planets to the Sun

as
,

to distance in the order Mercury Venus Earth Mars

, , , , ,

Jupiter Saturn Uranus The planet corresponding t o 2 8

is mi s
, , .

sing and seems t o be replaced by the asteroids

, .

Uranus was discovered in 1 7 8 1 .

The Platon ic Year o r great Period according to Tycho

years ; R i cc i olu s
, ,

Brah e is , years ; Cassini , ,

years Norman Lockyer now gives years .

It is the period o f time determined by the revol u tion of

the eq u inoxes or the space of tim e wherein the stars and
,

constellations retu rn t o their former places in respect t o

the eq u in oxes by means of a constant precession The .

equ inoxes moving backwards o r westwards meet the ,

S u n constantly earlier In the time of the oldest Greek .

O bservations the eq u i n o xi al points were in the rst stars o f

,

Aries and Libra respectively ; they are now in Pisces and

V i rgo
. When these names were given t he s u n entered
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THE A P O CA LY P T I C N U M B E R S .

I s
t Resurrect i on , Reve lati on xx .
5 .

2n dDeath xx 1 4 , . .

2 Witnesses xi 3 , . .

8;:Si ifs
e
b efore t hrone o f God o f t he E art h xi 4
l
. .
,
c
2 Horned Beas t who spoke like a Dragon xiii 1 1 ; hi s
-
, .

number is 6 6 6 .

3 Woes ix 1 ,2 . .

part o f
Vege tat ion killed vii i 7 do o f Sea b ecame , . .

, .

Blood and do o f F i sh died vi i i 8 d o o f Wat ers became , . .

b i tter viii I I d o o f Sun Moon Stars viii 1 2

,

. .
, , , . .

3% days Bodies , lay unbur i ed xxi 9 , . .

4 quarters o f the E arth xx 8 , . .

4 Beasts full o f eyes and have 6 w i ngs iv 6 9 Beas t s
s
-
, , .

hould be li vi ng hi nge W )
4 Horses White Red Pale Bl a ck
, , , ,
.

4 Horns o f the golden altar before G o d i x 1 3 , . .

4 Angels o f the Euphrates ix I 4 , . .

4 Angels o f the Winds of the 4 corners o f t he Earth v i i 1 ,

. .

Months the Locusts had power t hurt Men i x

5 o 5 1 0 , . .

6 Wi ngs of the Beasts ( l i ving beings ) full of eyes i v 8 , ,

. .

7 Churches i 2 0 , . .

7 Candlesticks i 2 0 Represent , the 7. Churches . .

7 Stars i 2 0
, ; i.i 1 Represent 7 angels
. o f the .Churches .

7 Angels of the Churches i 2 0 ,

. .

7 Lamps stand near t he Throne iv 5 , . .

7 Seals v 5, opened . by the

, Lam b produce 4 horses e tc , , .

7 Trumpets viii 2 Given

, to 7 Angels
. . .

7 Thunders utter their voices x 3 ,

. .

7 Plagues held by 7 Angels xv 1 , . .

7 Vials o f Wrath xv 7 , . .

7 Spirits o f God V 6 ,
. .
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7 horned
-
a n d 7 eyed L a mb v 6 near -
the Throne a re , .

t he 7 Spirits o f God
s
.

7 head-
ed and r o hor n ed S c arle t Be a st o n wh
-
i ch i a ,

W oman xvii 3 , . .

7 headed
-
and I o horned Dragon with 7 Crowns
-
x i i 3 ,
. .

7 headed
-
a n d I o horned Beast rose o u t o-
f Sea xii i I ,
. .

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
Sca rl et Beast with 7 heads o n which wa s
-
. .
,

I o horned -
a ,

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

1 2 Angels guarding them

xxi 1 2
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 4 1 0 , , .

-
.

4 2 months the Gentil es tread over t he outer court o f

T emple xi 2 , . .

4 2 mon t hs t he 7 he a d ed Beast t o have power

-
to
b laspheme xii i 5 ,
. .

1 4 4 cubits t he heig h t of t he Walls o f the N ewJerusal em

, ,

xxr
.

. 1 7 .

6 6 6 , t he number The Beast of .

1 000 years the Dragon bound for xx 2 3

, , .
-
.

1 000 years Souls o f the Faithful t o live and reign xx 4

, ,
. .

1 2 60 days the t wo Witnesses prophesy xi 3

, , . .

1 2 60 days the Woman t o be in the wilderness xii 6

o f each Tribe cho s
. .
, ,

en .

furlongs length o f the S ides o f t he New Jeru sal em

, ,

xxi . 1 6 .

chosen from the whole o f the Tri b

es .

or ten thousand times ten thousand Angels ,

ro und the Throne v 1 1

, . .

P R I NT E D BY N E I LL A N D CO . , LT D . , E D I N BU R G H .