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CONTENTS.

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to

the

First

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Second

Edition Edition

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and

his

PART Pythagokean

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VIEW

Numbers

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Bible,

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Talhuds,

Magicians,

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Numbers

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Chaldbans,

RoHANS,

ROSICRDCIANS

II.

III.

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PART Pkofektibs

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NUMBBKS

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PART Kabaustic

I.

the

IV. according

Pythagoreans,

Egyptians,

Hermetic

to

the

Hindoos,

Students

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and

Medithe

!"

1. Monad 2.

Ttjad

3. Triad 3i. Three and

a

Half

4. Tetrad

5. Pentad 6. Heud 7. Heptad 8. Ogdoad 9. Ennead 10. Decad 11.

Highei

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PREFACE

TO

THE

FIRST

EDITION,

rSga

Seven years have passed since this essay was the MSS. pages have been lent to many

written, and friends and It is only students of mystic lore and occult meanings. at the earnest request of these kindly critics that I have

The to are contents consented publish this volume. have been necessarily of a fragmentary character, and collected from an immense ; the original number of sources has been intentionally matter reduced to the least possible

inclusion of the utmost amount of ancient, quaint and occult learning. It is impossible to give even list of works which an approximate have been consulted ; direct quotations have been acknowledged in numerous instances, and (perhaps quantity,

so

as

to

obtain

space

for the

naturally)

a statement many m^ht have been equally well quoted from a the book of a contemporary author, a mediaeval monk, Roman to historian, a Greek Adept: poet, or a Hindoo

author would not be fair to give the credit to the modem the ancient sage, to refer the reader to a Sanskrit tome cases of only loss of time and waste would be in most My great difficultyhas been to supply information paper. to match the ideal of the work, and yet mystic enough to convey not so esoteric as truths which Adepts have still

concealed. apologise for the barbarous appearance of foreign found practicable to supply Sansknt, not words, but it was Coptic, Chaldee and Greek type, so the words have had I must

be transliterated. Hebrew and Chaldee should of be read from right to left,and it was at first intended

to

course so

to

print them in their converted form, but the appearance of Hebrew in English letters reversed was too grotesque ; is daleth, Aleph, a ADtn nun, representation of the jrod, of "Adonai," but imda have been sheer barbaiity: would in the case the of Hebrew words I have often added pronunciation, The Blavatsky, a work of Secret Doctrine of Mme. a vast fund of archaic doctrine, has erudition cont^ning If any readers desire supplied me with valuable quotations. a deeper insight into the analogies between and numbers "

"

ideas, I refer them in addition to the works of Eliphaz L^vi, Athanasius Kircher, Godfrey Higgins, Michael Maier, and

John

Heydon

and Thomas

; I have

quoted from each of these authorities, Taylor's "Theoretic Arithmetic has supplied "

with a great part of the purely arithmetical notions of Pythagoreans, the the elucidation of which was mainly due In conclusion, I request my readers, to him. me

"

W.

Wynm

396 Camden

author will be pleased to suggestions from earnest students. The

Wkstcott, Road, London,

N.

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PREFACE

THE

TO

SECOND

EDITION.

The

firstedition of this little book has been long out of print, and for several years I have been asked to enlarge it, but until the present time sufficient leisure has not been found to collect the additional matter which seemed desirable. This essay

IX, of appears as Volume Series entitled Collectanea Hermetica," of which it my to form a hopeful that it may seems suitablepart, and I am be as well received by students of mystic philosophy as the in the Hermetic previous volumes which treated of Alchemy, on

Numbers

now

"

Arcanum, Metzareph

Hermetic

; the Dream

the Pythagoreans,

the

Art,

Euphrates

and

of Scipio and the Golden Fymander of Hermes and

Aesch verses

of Egyptian

Magic. I have added in this edition many on the notions notes of the Rabbis of Israel, both from those who contributed Geinara to the Mishnah Talmuds the and of of Jerusalem a and of Babylon, and from the Rabbis who made special Kabalah. few have Only Talmudic a treatises study of the in the

English language,

hardly any Kabalistic tracts, except three from the Zohar or Book of Splendour, viz., the Siphra Dtzenioutha, the Idra Rabba A few others are to be read in German and the Idra Suta. Talmudic translations. Many and French and Kabalistic be found in J. P. Stehelin's quotations may, however, as

yet appeared

and

Rabbinical Literature of 1748 j in Allen's Modem

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Franck the Kabalah by Adolphe and in works on and has published Hebraic lore in his Ginsbui^, while Hershon Miscellany," and "Talmudic "Genesis according to the Talmud." Other Talmudic be authors, whose works may Eisenmenger, occasionally found, are Ugolini, Wagenseil, Schottgen, Meuschen, Lightfoot, Deutsch, Munk, Schwab, and Delitsch. The Midrash ha 2^har of D. H, Joel,Leipzig, 1849, narrates the relation between the Kabalah and Flatonism, Neo-Platonism, Greek the Zoroastrian philosophy and doctrines of the Parsees, and it comments on the Kabalah of Franck.

Perhaps the oldest extant Kabalistic Book is the Sepher Yetzirah, or Book of Formation, English translation of an from the Author's own which has appeared in two editions The fundamentals pen. of the numerical Kabalistic ideas on creation are laid down in that treatise; it has also been printed both in French and German, and there is an American edition. Upon the mathematical aspect of Numbers, readers may consult for further detail the works of Gauss, Disqulsitiones arithmeticje, 1801 ; Legendre, Theorie des Nombres, 1830, W. G. O. Smith, Reports on the Theory Numbers, in of the Transactions of the British Association, 1859; James Ozanam, Mathematical Recreations, 1710, translated by Hutton in 1814; Snart, The power of numbers; and Barlow's investigationsof the Theory of Numbers. For further information on Hindoo philosophy, see The Glossary of H. P. Blavatsky, the works of Theosophical Tukaram Tatya, and translations of the Vedas, modern Puranas and Upanishads, and Rama Prasads, Nature's finer forces. in Tibet, 1895, by Lamaism Dr Laurence Austine Waddell, is a very learned work ; it contains a vast store the numerical occult lore of the Lamas of information on and Buddhists. Upon Egyptian Numbers consult the works of E. A. Wallis Budge ; Flinders Petrie ; Wilkinson ; Life in Ancient

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Egypt, by Erman Egyptian Belief. on ; and James Bonwick Mystics wilt find much food for thought in the Yi-King, a very curious product of ancient Chinese lore. The Gnostic philosophy has a deep numerical basis, and the works King be suitably of C- W. may and G. R. S. Mead studied. Nineteen

volumes of Bijou Notes and Querieshave been published by S, C. Gould of Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A., and these are fullof numerical ideas. I am prepared to find that criticswill declare this volume to be an undigested collection of heterogeneous information, still I prefer to leave the data in their present form ; for there is a scheme of instruction running through it, which will be recognised by students of certain schools, and others of will be able to find a basis for a general knowledge from the numbers standpoint of occult science. viewed Wm.

Wvnn

Supreme Magus

Past Master Lodge

Westcott, Soc. Jiosic.in Anglia,

of the Quatuor Coronati of Freemasons,

2076.

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NUMBERS THEIR

OCCULT

PYTHAGORAS,

POWER

HIS

TENETS

AND

AND

MYSTIC

HIS

VIRTUES

FOLLOWERS.

Pythagoras,

one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Europe, was the son of Mnesarchus, He was an engraver. bom about the year 580 b.c, either at Samos, an island in Sea, or, as some the jEgean say, at Sidon in Phcenicia. Very littleis known the fact that of his early life, beyond he won Games. prizes for feats of agility at the Olympic

Having

attained manhood, and feeling dissatisfied with the he left his to be gained at home, amount of knowledge native land, and spent many years in travel, visiting in turn most History narrates of the great centres of Learning. that his pilgrimage in search of wisdom extended to Egypt, Hindostan, Persia, Crete, and Palestine, and that he fresh stores of information, gathered from each country in becoming and succeeded with the well acquainted Esoteric Wisdom as exoteric well as with the popular knowledge of each. He returned with his mind well stored and his jut^ment to his home, intending to open there a Collie matured, learning, but this he found to be impracticable owing to of Failing in the opposition of its turbulent ruler Polycrates.

Crotona, a noted city in Magna Grsecia, which was a the colony founded by Dorians on here South coast of Italy. It was that this evei-famous Society of Students, Philosopher founded his CoUege or known the civilized world as the which became all over

thisdesign, he migrated

to

central assembly of the learned of Europe ; and here it was in secret conclave that Pythagoras taught that occult wisdom Gymnosophists from the which he had gathered and Brahmins

of India, from the Hierophanis of Egypt, the Oracle of Delphi, the Idjean cave, and from the Kabalah For nearly Magi. Rabbis and Chaldean of the Hebrew forty years he taught his pupils, and exhibited his powers

J but

himself

an

end

was

put

forced to flee from

was

to

his

wonderful institution, and he

the city, owing

to

a

conspiracy

on account of a quarrel and rebellion which arose between the people of Crotona and the inhabitants of Sybaris : he succeeded in reaching Metapontum, he where is said to have died about the year 500 b.c. Among we derive our the ancient authors from whom knowledge of the life and doctrines of Pythagoras and his

the following

successors,

are

notable:" who speaks of the mysteries of as similar to those of Orpheus. of Tarentum, who left a fragment

B.C.

Herodotus, 450. the Pythagoreans

B.C.

394.

"

Archytas

"

Pythagorean

upon

Arithmetic,

B.C.

3i:'o. Theon

B.C.

three books of this author 370. itisbelieved that Plato compiled his book Timseus ; he was probably the firstwho committed to writihg the doctrines of Pythagoras. " Aristotle. Refer Metaphysica," to his 322.

B.C.

B.C

of Smyrna. Philolaus. From

"

"

"

" Nicomachean Magna," Ethics." "Moralia and Nicomachus of Stagyra was his father. Eratosthenes, author 276. of a work entitled " " Kokkinon Cribrum," a Sieve to separate or Prime from Composite Numbers." " Cicero. Refer to his works De Finibus " 40. "

"

B.C.

"

"

"

and

De

natura

Deorum."

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13 A,D.

50 300

340

Nicomachus

"

of Gerasa ; Treatises

and Harmony. Porphyry A.D. of Tyre, a great sometimes named in Syriac Melekh the pupil of Longinus and Plotinus. "

A.D.

"

"The "

of Gerasa,"

metic Arith-

philosopher, King, was

or

mysteriis," "De Arithmetic of machus NicoThe Theological Properties

"De

Jamblicus wrote

vita Pythagorica,"

on

and

of Numbers." " Works Proclus, in his commentary on the 450 A.D. " of Hesiod, gives information concerning and Days the Pythagorean views of numbers. on 560 A.D," Simplicius of Cilicia, a contemporary "

Justinian. Photius of Constantinople has left a Bibliotheca of the ideas of the older philosophers. times, the following down to more Coming recent Meursius, Johannes, 1620; authors should be consulted: Meibomius, Marcus, 1650; and Kircher, Athanasius, 1660. 850

A.D.

"

"

They

collectedand epitomized allthat was extant of previous The authors concerning the doctrines of the Pythagoreans. follower of Pythagoras was Aristjcus, who first eminent married Theano, the widow of his master ; next followed Mnesarchus, the son of Pythagoras; and later Bulagoras, Tidas, and Diodorus the Aspendian. Afterthe originalschool dispersed, the chief instructors became Clinias and was Eurytus Fhilolaus at Heraclea; Theondes at Metaand pontum ; and Archytas, the sage of Tarentum. The

school of Pythagoras Every new member

had

several peculiar characteristics. to a pass obliged period of in perfect silence ; the members was

five years of contemplation held everything in common, and rejected animal food ; they believers in the doctrine of metempsychosis, and were were inspired with an ardent and implicit faith in their founder did the element of faith enter into and teacher. So much their training,that them

"autos

epha"

"

^"

He

said it"

"

was

to

proof. Intense fraternal affection between the also a marked feature of the school ; hence their

complete

pupils

was

"..".,Cc,ogl.

14 " 3ayin" iny friend is my other self,"has become a by-word The teaching was in a great measure to thisday. secret, and were allotted to each class certain studies and knowledge instruction : merit and and grade of ability alone sufficed to enable anyone to pass to the higher classes and to a knowledge of the more recondite mysteries. No person to writing any tenet, or secret was permitted to commit doctrine, and, so far as is known, no pupil ever broke the rule untU after his death and the disf)ersionof the school. We are on thus entirely dependent the scraps of information have been down from to handed us his which successors, and from his and their critics. A considerable amount of uncertainty, therefore, is inseparable from any consideration of the real doctrines of Pythagoras himself, but we are on surer ground when we investigatethe opinions

of his followers; It is recorded

that his instruction to his followers was formulated into two great divisions the science of numbers The former division included and the theory of magnitude. two branches, arithmetic and musical harmony ; the latterwas further subdivided into the consideration of magnitude at "

astronomy. ms^nitude in motion The most striking peculiaritiesof his doctrines are dependent on the mathematical conceptions, numerical ideas, and impersonations upon which his philosophy was founded. The principles governing Numbers were supposed to be the principles of all Real Existences ; and as Numbers are the primary constituents of Mathematical Quantities, and at it to same the time present many analogies various realities, further inferred that the elements of Numbers was were Realities. To Pythagoras himself it is the elements of believed that the natives of Europe owe the firstteaching rest

"

geometry,

and

"

of the principles of music, of the properties of Numbers, is and of physics ; but there evidence that he had visited Central Asia, and there had acquired the mathematical ideas which form the basis of his doctrine. The modes of introduced by Pythagoras, and followed by his thought successor Jamblicusand others, became known later on

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titles of

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"

Italian school,"

schooL" The followers of Pythagoras to pupils, fitted by selectionand secret;

but

or

the

"

Doric

delivered their knowledge by training to receive it,in

by numerical and mathematical names Hence they called forms, numbers; a point, line,the dyadj a superficies,the triad; and

to others

and notions. the monad ; a a solid, the tetrad. Intuitive knowledge

type. referred to the Monad Dyad Reason and causation type. " " Triad Imagination (formor type. rupa) Tetrad type. Sensation of material " objects" Indeed, they referred every idea and planet, man, object, to some or other, in a way essence number which to most seem must curious and mystical in the highest modems degree. "The numerals of Pythagoras," says Porphyry, who lived "were hieroglyphic symbols, by means about 300 A.D., the nature of whereof he explained all ideas concerning was

"

"

things," and the same is once nature again

method of explaining the secrets of being insisted upon by the new Blavatsky, revelation of the Secret Doctrine, by Madame " Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered, "

race; all systems evolution of the present human based The are upon of religious mysticism numerals. begins with the Great First Cause, sacredness of numbers the One, and ends only with the nought or zero" symbol " boundless infinite Unveiled," Isis universe, and of the iL vol. 407. Tradition narrates that the students of the Pyth^orean school, at firstclassed as Exoterici or Auscultantes, Usteners, were privileged to rise by merit and ability to the higher grades of Genuini, Peifecti, Mathematici, or the most coveted titleof Esoterici.

and

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VIEWS

OH

NUMBERS.

foundation of Pythagorean Mathematics was as follows : is into even The firstnatural division of Numbers and is being divisible into ODD, an EVEN one number which between them. two equal parts, without leaving a monad The ODD number, when divided into two equal parts, leaves The

in the middle between the parts. All even the dyad" two numbers also (except which is be divided into two equal parts, simply two may the monad

"

unities)

and also into two unequal parts, yet so that in neither division will either parity be mingled with imparity, nor imparity with parity. The binary number be two cannot divided into two unequal parts. Thus

divides into 5 and 5, equal parts, also into 3 and 7, both imparities, and into 6 and 4, both parities ; and 8 divides into 4 and 4, equals and parities,and into 5 and 3, both imparities. is only divisible into uneven But the ODD parts, number is imparity a one an the other part ; part also parity and and into in both or 2, cases thus 7 4 and 3, 5 and unequal, lo

and odd and even. to be " odd," and The andents also remarked the monad be divided "odd number," because itcannot to be \\\efirst Another into two equal numbers. reason they saw was that the

monad, added but if evens number, even number.

to

an are

even

added

number,

became

to

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Aristotle, in his Pylhagoric

treatise, remarks

that the

partakes also of the nature of the even number, to it the even, the when added and odd makes to the even the odd is formed. added Hence it is called "evenly odd." ArcbyCas of Tarentum

monad because

was

of the

same

opinion. then, is the firstidea of the odd number ; " " two first as the and so the Pythagoreans speak of the idea of the indefinite dyad," and attribute the number 3 to that which is indefinite,unknown, and inordinate in the to all that is definite world ; Justas they adapt the monad and orderly. They noted also that in the series of numbers from unity, the terms are increased each by the monad once added, and so their ratios to each other are lessened ; thus 2 is 1 + I, or double itspredecessor ; 3 is not double a, but 2 The

Monad,

"

sesquialter; 4 to 3 is 3 and the monad, and the monad, and the ratio is sesquitertian ; the sesquiquintan 6 to 5 is less also than itsforerunner, the sesquiquartan 5 and 4, and so on through the series. is one half of the They also noted that every number total of the numbers about it,in the natural series; thus 5 is half of 6 and 4. And also of the sum of the numbers is below this thus pair ; 5 also half of 7 and again above and alone has 3, and so on tillunity is reached ; for the monad below and one above ; it has one above it not two terms, one source of all multitude." only, and hence it is said to be the " is another term applied anciently to one Evenly even Such are those which divide into two sort of even numbers. equal parts, and each part divides evenly, and the even division is continued untilunity is reached; such a number in a duple ratio from is 64. These numbers form a series, "Evenly unity; thus i, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. odd," applied to even an number, points out that like 6, 10, 14, and 28, when divided into two equal parts, these arc found to be indivisibleinto equal parts. A series of these numbers is formed by doubling the items of a series of odd numbers, "

"

thus: I.

3i 5. 7' 9 produce

a,

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be parted into two equal may numbers divisions, and these parts again equally divided, but the process does not proceed until unity is reached; such are 24 and 28. numbers Odd numbers also are susceptible of being looked upon Unevenly

from

even

three points of view, thus

incomposite";

"Firstand

;

are

3, 5,7, II, 13, 19, 23, them but unity; they are but are generated from

such

29, 31 ; no other number measures of other numbers, not composed unity alone. " " indeed are Second and composite

"

odd," but contain from other numbers ; such are 9, 15, ai, and are composed have parts which are denominated 25, 27, 33, and 39. These or from a foreign number, word, as well as proper unity, thus 9 has a third part which is 3; 15 has a third part fifthpart 3 ; hence as containing a foreign which is 5 ; and a it part, itis called second, and as containing a divisibility, is composite. The Third

Variety of odd

numbers is more complex, and but is of itself second and composite, with reference to another is firstand incomposite ; such are 9 and 25. These divisible,each of them that is second and composite, are thus 3 which divides the 9 measure; yet have no common does not divide the 25. Odd numbers are sorted out into these three classes by a " Sieve of Eratosthenes," which is of too device, called the a nature complex be. as this must

to form

part of

a

monograph,

so

discursive

have also been divided by the ancient numbers sages into Perfect, Deficient and Superabundant as are i3 Superperfect or Superabundant and such Even

24.

Deficient

are

such

as

8 and

14.

6

and 28 ; equal to the number of their parts; as 28" half is 14, a fourth is 7, a seventh is 4, fourteenth part is 2, and the twenty-eighth Is i, which a Perfect

are

quotients added

such

as

together

In Deficient numbers,

are

such

28. as

14, the parts

are

surpassed

"9 by the whole ;

one

seventh

is

i,

a

half is 7,

a

fourteenth is

the aggregate is 10, or less than 14. In Superabundant, as 13, the whole surpasses the aggregate its is fourth is a 2, a thus the of parts ; 3, third is sixth 4, a half is 6, and a twelfth is i ; and the aggregate is 16, or more than 12. Superperfect numbers they looked on as similar to Briareus, too numerous; the hundred-handed the giant : his parts were deficient numbers resembled Cyclops, who had but one I ;

have the temperament eye ; whilst the perfect numbers of a middle limit, and are the emulators of Virtue, a medium between excess and defect, not the summit, as some ancients falsely thought. Evil

is indeed

opposed

however,

Good,

is

never

to

evil, but

opposed

both

to

good,

to

one

but

good. to

two

evils. The

Perfect numbers are also like the virtues, few in whilst the other two classes are like the vices number; inordinate, and indefinite. numerous, "

There

is but

is 6; only one between 100 to,ooo

and

between i and 10, that perfect number between 10 and 100, that is zS; only one that is 496; 1000 and 1000, and between one

only

one,

that is 8128.

Odd

because, being added numbers they called Gnomons, figures as in Geometry : see to squares, they keep the same Simplicius, liber 3. A number which is formed by the multiplication of an odd together they called Hermaphrodite, number and an even or

"

arrenothelus."

In connection on parity and imparity, with these notes it is to be noted that the definite and indefinite numbers, imbued deeply were old philosophers with the union of Nature in its ideas common with numerical acceptation, essences or and also to the natures, substrata of things. definite, that of evil The to them was nature of good indefinite the nature indefinite; and the more of the evil, "

the

worse

it was.

indefinite. In

Goodness the human

alone

can

soul exists

define a

or

bound

the

certain vestige of

divine goodness (Buddhi) and moderates the ; this bounds indefiniteness and inequality of its desires. It may be demonstrated that all inequality arises from equality, so that obtaining, as it were, the power of a mother and a root, she pours forth with exuberant fertilityall sorts of inequality J and did space and time allow, it could be also shown that all inequality may be reduced to equality. in his treatise on the Arithmetic of Nicoare throws another light on numbers ; he says some

lamblichus, machus,

like friends,they are Amicable numbei^, as 284 and 220. Pythagoras, being asked what a friend was, said inpoi I." Now to be the this is demonstrated cyto="another case

in these numbers

; the to

each other, according Ozanam, a French

are

parts of each

the nature

generative of friendship. of

A.D. mathematician, 1710, gives examples Recreations" in his Mathematical of such Amicable Numbers. He remarks that 220 is equal to the sum of the "

thus

aliquot parts of 284; 284 i +

is equal 2 +

4 + S+

to io

the +

sum it

+

1 +

2

+ 4 +

71 + 142

of the aliquot parts of 20

+

22

+ 44 +

55

=

220: 220

and ; thus

+

110=284. are 17,296 and 18,416. such pair of numbers curious speculations as to the relation between and marriage, and the character of offspring from

Another Very

Numbers it, are to be found scattered through the writings of the Plato, in his Republic, has a passage conPhilosophers. cerning divinely a geometric number, which generated, will be fortunate or unfortunate. Nicomachus also speaks of this same number, and he calls it the Nuptial Number; and he passes from itto state that from two good parents only bad parents only bad ; ; from two good offspring can come he and from a good and a bad parent only bad ; whence orderly warns the Republic against wedlock in a confused or disfrom which, the pr(^eny being depraved, manner, discord will result. Simplicius, in his commentary on the " that 2nd Book of Aristotle, On the Heavens," remarks Pythagoras and his followers claimed to have heard the Music of the Spheres, to have heard an harmonic sound by from the the the sound planets, and motion of produced

have calculated by numbers the ratio of distance and Venus To this size of the Sun, Moon, and Mercury. Aristotle objected,but perhaps the difficulty might be mensurate, solved : in this sublunary sphere all things are not comis everything sensible to every body alike. nor Animals can be scented, and theirpresence definitelyknown, by dogs when at great distances from them, and when man is in complete ignorance of their existence. Some of the to

ancients thought the soul had three vehicles the terrestrial body, an aerial one in which it is punished, and an ethereal in which the soul abides when luminous and celestial, one, in a state of bliss. It may be that some one, by purification by hereditary magical power, or by probity, of the senses, or by the sacred operations of his may perceive, rel^ion, to us, body laid imperceptible a terrestrial with aside,things and hear sounds inaudible to us stillin bondage ; or with "

or truth-seeker may partly unfolded, some .adept invisible to mortals, perceive, with eyes upraised, sights to both. his deaf beyond us ears the are whilst yet sounds For why do we see the stars, while yet we hear not their

mantle

morion

"

:

Why

angels from the realms of glory To visitearth, as in the days of old ? Is heaven more distant Or has earth grown cold ? come

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nations of antiquity made use of the letters of their alphabets as substitutes for any independent signs to typify It is with the Hebrew letters as numerical conceptions. are that we numerals chiefly concerned, and to a smaller Ancient extent that the with the Greek. records show Greeks used their numbers almost exclusively for everyday purposes ; while the JewishRabbis added to their practical to value special peculiar purposes, and looked to them furnish deeper views of nature, existence and doctrine. No doubt can exist that the ancient Egyptians were fully aware are of the wondrous able to mysteries which numbers disclose,so, considering that Greece, and neither Judea nor Babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient Egypt, it is a curious fact how littleknowledge of the d"%mas of the Hierophants of Sais, Memphis Greek literature and Thebes has transmitted to us. The Jewish Rabbis

much of interest and importance behind the merely superficialvalue of numbers, and of words as their representatives,that they gradually developed a complete conceptions science of numerical from name mathematics apart ; this took the of Kabalah or Qabalab,Cabbala, or even Cabala, words variously misspelt from QBLH the Received doctrine, from the root QBI^ discovered

so

"

meaning to Receive. The Greeks as aforesaid did not

lettersas numbers

for mental

develop

nor

use

their

conceptions, yet in the Middle

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23 Ages we letters used to transliterate often find Greek Hebrew formed a bastard Greek similars, and so there was Kabalah on the Hebrew type. It must be constantly borne in mind that all Hebrew words or numbers are read from right to left,or the reverse of English words ; but in their English transliterationthey here in English order. are The corresponding numerals, Greek and Hebrew letters, here given with their EngUsh are names, and the English synonym

lettersare also added.

Al^h

Beth

Alpha

Beta

Ch

Th

Heth

Teth

Gimel

Gamma

I Vod

or

or

'

Eta

Theta

Iota

Dalelh

He

Delta

Epsilon

J

K Kaph 3

Kappa

Zeta

Epis"

L Lamed '7

Lambda

N

M Mem

Nun

D

3

Mu

no that there were proper Greek Letters for 6, or 90, and goo, so they used special symbols efnsemon (vau, bau, digamma) for 6 ; koppa for 90 ; and sanpi for 900

Note

"

"

At

some

hundreds, hundreds

for the not used periods the five finals were but instead Tau was written for 400 and other Another thus 500 was TQ. added; point

importance is that the Jews never Jah for write JH r5, because it is a Deity title,they use instead 9, 6 thus TV, teth vau : the Kabbalists did use JH because they desired in the to call attention to the holy name number. find the Greeks to have used their In some cases we of

letters in direct order for purposes of numeration, be seen in some (the24 copies of very old poems

as

may

books

of Homer's stanzas

Iliad and Odyssey, for in which the example), bear the letters consecutively, in a similar manner

letters heading the portions of the 119th the Hebrew Psalm in our Bibles. Kabalab includes the Hebrew The Doctrines of word Cosmogony Theology as the Science well as and of Numbers. The former is specified as Dogmatic the to

Kabaiah, the latter as the Literal Kabalab. By means of associating the ancient doctrines of Numbers

25 with the letters of the alphabet, the Planets, Stars, Zodiacal signs and other astronomical terms, a form of divination became to the professors attempted practised, by which foretell the future, life and death, good and evil Fortune, detection of theft,etc, an ample explanation of which may

be studied by the curious in the "Holy

Guide"

of

John

Heydon. With

is associated this system Astrology, the divination of Fate by

the

of pure Heavenly of the

practice

means

bodies, especially the formation of the so-called Horoscopes of the Planets at the moment schemes of the arrangement of Birth, from which all the important phases of the life be inferred by some Kabalah can few persons. The became from one a means of handing down generation to "

"

another hidden truths, reUgious notions, secrets of nature, ideas of Cosmogony, and facts of history, in a form which

unintelligible to the uninitiated ; and the revealing of the secrets, and the methods of interpretation were veiled in mystery, and only to be approached through Religion. The involved in more practical part of the system was the three processes of : Gem ATRIA, NoTARicoN, and Temura. was

"

Gematria, a method depending on the fact that each letter had a numerical value. When Hebrew the sum of letters a was same the numbers of the the composing word as

of the letters of another word, however different, them, and considered perceived an analogy between have Thus to a necessary connection. certain

the

they them

sum

numbers and not manner; 2,

we

got

to

words thus,

be well known only, but

as

as

meaning

sentences

were

an

example, referring find the words, "and lo, three

certain things ; treated in this

to Genesis men,"

xviii.v. Vehennah,

in numbers ShLShH; this set down shalisha, VHNH becomes 6, 5, 50, 5, 300, 30, 300, 5, which amount to 701 : now the words, "these are Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael," "Alu Gabriel ve Raphael," Mikhael ALV MIKAL GBRIAL 30" 3i

V ^t

iOQ,

RPAL 10,

1,

converted 30, 6, zoo,

are

i,

80,

I,

30, 6, 40,

10,

ao,

30, also amounting

i,

26 the Rabbis argued thai these two sets of three beings were identical. Some Christian Kabbalists point Shiloh," that in Genesis xlix.v. 10 we find "Yebah out " Shiloh shallcome," YBA to 358 ; ShILH, which amount " Messiah," MShYCh is 40, 300, 10, 8, and that the word or 358; but so is also Nachash, the Serpent of Moses, to

701, and

50, 8, 300 ; and I

NChSh,

translate ShILH,

must

lemark

that the claim to

MSS. write it,ShLH, by "Shiloh," in the sense of JesusChrist,is farfetched. The word is simply "rest," or "peace," in its simplest meaning, but also is the Scorpio of the Chaldean or,

as

some

ancient Hebrew

Nachash, and "Judah," of serpent); is in talking the Jacob whom prophecy, is the sign of the (theChaldean zodiac; Leo for "Judah is a lion's whelp" " In as a lion." zodiac has a lion couchant),he crouches this sense, then, "the sceptre shall not depart from Judah," i.e., power shall not leave Leo, until Sheiah, Shiloh or

zodiac

to (related

Scorpio shall come

teaches that as up or rise. Astronomy Leo passes away from the meridian, Scorpio rises. The " " Menachem," title Comforter," MNChI^ 40, 50, 8, 40,

Branch," applied to 138, and the title"The the Messiah in Zechariah iii.v. 8, namely, TzMCb, 90, 40, 8, also 138, are of the same Metatron, the great number. "Almighty," translated angelMTHRTnN, andShaddaiSHDI, are both 314. The letterShin, Sh, 300, is used as a glyph RUCh Elohim of "the spiritof the living gods," Ruach ALHIM, into 200, 6, 8, r, 30, 5, 10, 40, which transmutes amounting

to

=

or

300. Notariam,

a

word

derived

from

the Latin notarius,

a

the construction of a word from the shorthand writer,means initial or finallettersof the several words of a sentence ; or "Dietversa the construction of a sentence of which each word in order begins with the several letters composite a given word ; processes of contraction and expansion, therefore. Refer to Deuteronomy xxx. v. la, and find that Moses the initialsof asks, "Who shall go up for us to heaven?" LNU HShMYMH, the words of the sentence, MY YOLH " My yeolah lenu hashemimha," form the word MYLH read

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Mylah,"

"

Circumcision," and the final or IHVH, Jehovah,YHUH suggesting that Jehovah pointed out the way, by circumcision, to heaven. Again the firstsix letters of the book of Genesis, BRAShIT, but Berasit, translated "In the b^inning,"

or

which lettersform the word

"

more

properly RAH BRAShIT

means

In wisdom,"

ALHIM

are

the initialsof the words

ShYQBLU

IShRAL

TURH,

"Berasit

Israel torah," rauah Elohim shyequebelu In the beginning, God saw that Israel would which mean accept the Law." The famous Rabbinic name is "AGLA," of power, formed of the initialsof the sentence, "Tu potens in ATH GBUR LOULM ADNI, Ateh sseculum Domine," " " The word Amen is from AMN, gibur loulam Adonai. ADNI MLK namen," the initialsof "Adonai melekh " NAMN, The Lord and faithfulKing." meaning Temura Permutation ; sometimes means the letters of a

read

"

word are transposed according to certain rules, and with certain limitations; at others each letter of a word is replaced by another according to a definite scheme, forming a new word, of which permutation there are many recognised forms. For example, the alphabet of 22 letters is halved the other in reverse and the two sets placed one over order, thus

: "

B

G

D

T

Sh

R

Q

is changed

H Tz

V

Z

P

O

Ch S

Th N

Y M

K L

T, and V to P, and so on ; so Babel BBL becomes Sheshak i.e., ShSmK used by Jeremiah it This form is called Atbash AT-BSh; XXV., V. 36. or will be seen that there must be 21 other possible forms, and in order, thus, Albat, Agdat, etc.; the these were named complete set was called "the combinations of Tziruph," Other Permutations were Rational, Right, Averse named and Irregular; these are produced by forming a square and subdividing itby 2 1 lines in each direction into 484 smaller

then

A

A

to

=

squares, and then writing in each square a letter in order successively from right to left,or from above down, or the The most popular mode of permutation has howreverse.

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28 been the form called " Kabalfih of the Nine Chambers," horizontal and two produced by the intersection of two vertical lines, forming nine spaces, a central square, and 4 ever

three-sided figures, and 4 two-sided figures, to each are even of several modes allotted certain letters; there are is a mystical mode this arrangement, and there of allottii^ is figure, but a Rosicrucian secret. the Sephiroth to this this This method in in Mark is used a superficial manner Master Masonry. A further development of the Numerical Kabalah consists of arithmetical processes of Extension and Contraction ; is considered as Y 10, H 5, V 6, H 5, thus Tetragrammaton 6, HA or 20, 26, but also may be spelled in full YVD W

6, or 44. Again, the Kabalists extended a number by series. Zain Z or 7 becomes i and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7, After another manner or they contracted, as 28 was 28. Again, Tetragrammaton equal to 2 and 8, or 10. 26 became 12,

and 6,

HA

8,

was every number reducible to a primary In this manner, numeral. within certain restrictivelaws, had analogies with certain others ; thus AB every word father i aiid 2 are Jehu 10 and 5 and 6 are 21, 2 3, IHV and I are 3. AL ShDI, A1 Shaddai, God Almighty, i, 30, 2

or

so

12, 345, becomes and then 2 and i are 3 ; Hoa or 5, 6, i, are 12, and then 3; and GDVLH Gedulah 3, 4, 6, 30, 5 are 48, and are 12 and 3, Another method of substitution leading to results of an opposite character is the substitutionin any word of similar lettersof another group, hard for soft, or sibilantfor dental ; thus in TM perfect,exchange Th for T, and obtain ThM, defiled; ShAN, SAN, secure, tranquil, becomes meaning battlej ShKL, foolish. In the SKL, wisdom, becomes word Shaddai, ShDI, Alm^hty, with soft sibilantand soft dental or Shiddah, a wife; if we replace with a hard dental, Sittah, an is effected, ShThH, a partial change of meaning

300, HVA

4,

10,

or

=

adulterous wife; both letters hardened completely change STh, Seth, a fallen man, backslider; SThN, the sense, a Satan, adversary.

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without Hebrew letters,explain well the change of sound in the Shin Sh, from Sh to S, but it is marked by a dot over the right or left tooth of the three teeth of the cannot,

letter. A deep mystery is concealed In the Genetic account of ABRM, into Abram, Abraham, the conversion of the names of ABRHM, his into Sarah, that and of wife Sarai, .ShRI, SHRH, Genesis xvii. v. s-15, on the occasion of the see or YShChQ, from the root conception of Isaac, YTzChQ ShChQ or TzChQ, "laugh," when Sarah was 90 and Abraham 100 This on was the occasion of the years old.

made by Jehovah with Abram, and the institution here we of circumcision of males in token thereof. Now have the addition of an H or 5, the essentially Female Letter, to the name of Abraham, and a conversion of a into Yod He, Y into H, in the case of Sarah ; and then is destroyed. their sterility Some learned men to be a conversion consider Abraham The Deity. name the Hindoo of Brahma, splits up AB is father, BR is is like AM OM or son, curiously. AUM, "he is liftedup." adeilic name of Power; RM meant Blavatsky remarks that Abraham identical and Saturn were in Astro-symbology ; the Father of the Pharisees was Jehovah, and they were of the seed of Abraham. The number of ABRM is 1, 2, zoo, 40, or 243, the figure, Seir Anpin, representing Micronumber of the man covenant

prosopus. Read Pistorius," Ars Cabalistica,"for the effect of adding H s to men's names, see page 969 ; also Inman, "Ancient Faiths," articleAbraham ; "Secret Doctrine," i.578, ii 77 ; The Gnostics." also C. W. King, Sarah also has a curious set of similars in The name SRH, flesh ; SOR, Hebrew" gate ; SChR, princess ; SAR, black; SOR, hairy seir; SRT, incision; SR and SRR, is Sara-swati,watery ; navel ; and note the Sacti of Brahma Sara refers to SRI, Lakhsmi, Aphrodite, and all are related Sophia of the Gnostics, and the to Water and Luna, Vach ideal Holy Ghost, idl feminine. "

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30 becomes The 243 of Abiam 248 by adding H, and Sar^ 510 becomes 505 by taking 5 off,putting H for Y, and the is unalter"J, being 753 ; 248 is the total of the two names of the members of Mlcroptosopus and of RChM, number rechem or Mercy. a reference must be made to Before leaving this subject, Squares, of the Planets, etc. ; to each planet the Magic belongs a special unit, and secondarily other numbers. Thus the Square of Saturn has three compartments each is In i to a unit, 9, so arranged each subdivision way, and that the columns The being 45.

add up to Square of

way, and the total has a Jupiter side of four

15 every

divisions,total 16 ; each line adds up to 34, and the total is 136of Mars is given here as an example, side 5, total squares 25, each side counting 65, and The

Square

each total

3*5-

n 10

23

21

5

13

18 6

I

14

19

2

9 22

IS

Similarly the four several numbers of Sol are 6, 36, in, 666. Of Venus, 7, 49, 175, raas. Of Mercury, 8, 64, 260, 2080.

Of Luna, 9, 8r, 369, 3321. a

name.

Each number then becomes T^ce the case of Mercury ; 64 is alike DIN and DinandDoni; 260 is Tiriel,TIRIAL ; and ao8o is

DNI, Taphthartharath, TPTRTRT. in his volumes RawUnson,

on

the Ancient

Monarchies)

that the Chaldeans associated mystic numbers with their Deities; thus to Anu, Pluto, 60; Bel, Jupiter, 50; Hoa, Neptune, 30 ; Shamash, the Sun, 20 ; 40 ; Sin, the Moon, Beltis or Nei^al (Mars), Mylitta, 15; and Nin is 12; and states

Saturn, 10. It will be noticed that the great number

of Sol is 666,

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31 the number of the Beast, about which called Sorath, SURT, folly has been written. One famous square of five so much in most directions to 666, is times five divisions,amounting formed of the mystic words sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas. Of these the first,third, and last number 666, but opera its

The 608 is only 356. number the sun 500, 100, 8 ; and in notable, being in Coptic, PhRE, Greek we find VHS, 400, 8,200, which becomes IHS in Latin, for the Greek Upsilon changes to Y and I in Latin, and so " lesus hominum Salvator." we of obtain the anagram Kircher points out a Greek of magic squares ; example and

the

number

reverse

names

Mary,

Jesusand

and lESOUS

MARIA

have

a

888. 70, 400, 200 curious relation. lesous is 10, 8, 300, Now Set 152 in 1 10, take Maria, 40, i, 100, 152. Magic Square of Three, i.e.,nine compartments, a thus, 2, 1, I 3 2 I 5 5 5, then the totals are all 888. =

=

"

"

"

The

"

letters of

"

"

lesous

also make divisions,adding every way to 888.

a

magic

square of 36 " Arithmo-

Consult the

logia " of Kircher. ^

Remember

"ilHus

meminit

Sybilla de

nomina ejus dekades, onoma Vatidnando," monades, ekaton fades " tuum 8 unitaies, 8 denarii, 8 centenarii" nomen oklo," or See St. Augustine, De Civ. Dei. Note the mystic word Abraxas is i, 2, 100, 1, 60, 1, 200 "

sou

"

=

365 in Greek

letters.

X for 10 is two V's, curiosity, note that the Roman are each 5; C, or, squarely drawn, C, for 100 which L's which are each 50. Priscian says I for consists of two 1 was taken from i in the middle of the Greek mia, female V for 5 because it was the fifth vowelof eis, 1, and To remember Hebrew A, I, Q= i, 10, 100 ; note numerals and in Greek A, I, R, A= i, lo, 100, 1,000. As

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INDIVIDUAL

THE The

number

mathematician

NUMERALS.

MONAD,

One or the Monad Theon of Smyrna

i.

has been as

defined by the

"the

principle and be lessened element of numbers, which wtule multitude can by subtraction, is itself deprived of every number and " firm hence it is indivisible, as number ; remains stable and it remains immutable, and even multiplied into itselfremains itself only,

since

once

is still one,

one

and

the monad

multiplied by the monad

t0 remains the immutable monad infinity. It remains by itself among for no numbers, be taken from it,or separated from its unity. number can is the world itself;the Proclus observed : "The firstmonad is the inerratic sphere; then thirdly succeed the second

spheres of the planets, each a unity; then lasdy are the " ; and these spheres of the elements which are also Monads as they have a perpetual subsistence are called wholenesses holotetes in Greek. The Unity, or the number One Monad, received very Fhotius tells us that the Pythagoreans numerous meanings. : gave it the following names "

"

I.

z.

God, the First of all things, the maker Intellect,the source of all ideas.

3. Male

Female

of all things.

both

together produce all things ; both the odd proceed odd and even. last development of universality. 4. Matter, the and

"

from

3. Chaos, which resembles the infinite,indifferentiation. 6. Confusion. S. Obscurity, because 7. Commixion.

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33 in the Ineffable principleof things, of which all is confused, vague and in darkness. 9. A Chasm,

as

it is the im^e,

a

void. Tartams, from its being at the lowest extremity, is dissimilarly similar to God, at the highest end of the series. The Styx, from its immutable 11. nature. Horror, the ineffable, is perfectly unknown la. and is 10.

therefore terrible. 13. Void of Mixture, from

the simplicity of the nature

of

the ineffable. 14 Lethe, oblivion, ignorance. 15. A Virgin, from the purity of its nature. 16. Atlas, it connects, supports, and separates all things. The Sun, Apollo. ij. 19. Pyralios, dweller in fire. 18. Morpho. zo, 21. The Axis, sa. Vesta, or the fire in the Reason. centre of the earth, 24. "The aj. Spermatic

point within

a

"

circle,"

the Central

Fire Deity."

25. The

lingam, an upright pillar. The Monad being esteemed the Father of numbers is the in favour of Odd Numbers for the universal reason prejudice Even over ones, which are but copies of the firsteven or the Dyad, the father being number universal Mother; esteemed than the mother, for "Might" Odd given to the greater Gods, and even numbers were to the inferiorand terrestrialdeities. ones is represented in the Roman The number one and Arabic systems, by an upright simple line, but in many old systems find that almost their letters, we whose numerals were to commence universally the letter A, from being chosen the set of letters,had the task of representing the Monad. In Numeration, note that the Romans with lines, Angle V for I, II, III, nil, and then followed the Acute 5, then for ten this was doubled X, for fifty the angle was L, for a hundred, two fifties, laid down and became one inverted became C, for five hundred C and L became D. more

b^an

Hermias, the Christian philosopher, author of " Ridicule of the Gentile Philosophers," quotes from the Pythagoreans :

34 "The

Monad

panton he The

is the Beginning

of all things"

" "

arc/it tan

monas."

figure of

one

signifiesidentity, equality, existence

and preservation, it signifies "living man" alone among " " on a head we erect ; animals addii^ make of it P, the sign of creative Power (paternity, phallus, Pan, the Greek gods and Priapus, allcommencing with the vocable P). Another dash added, and we have man walking, advancing, foot in R, forward, letter the set with which signifies "iens," "itunis," or "advancing." Compare Unity, solus, alone, the unique principle of Soi, Sun God, the emblem of supreme power ; good ; with Uiey identical. are and The in Berachoth Talmud vi. r says that the Shekinah One pang shall rest even upon One who studies the Law. is of more of remorse avail for reformation than many -

stripes. The Hebrew word for One is AChD, achad, and is God's One voice to man is the Bath often put for God; Kol, the echo or daughter of the Divine Voice. One thii^ obtained with difficultyis more valued than hundred obtained with ease. a It is indiscreet for one to sleep in a house alone, man for fear that he may be attacked by Litith,who was said firstwife ; she is the Night Spectre, to have been Adam's infants who are not newly-bom and has also power over Amulet. by an protected day before thy Rabbi Nathan One exhorted ^Repent death; a wise maxim inculcating the duty of being ever prepared ; every day some advance in knowledge and goodness " for be the attained ; ever work and ever pray, should road winds upward

all the way."

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also

was

objects and

2.

of different said to represent a large number ideas; things indeed dissimilar that a so

is at his wits' end

modern

DYAD.

to

understand

how

such

plicity multi-

arose.

first it is the general opposite to the monad, the interval between dissimilitude, cause the multitude and of figures, Of the monad. those which are characterised by have relation to the Monad ; but sameness equality and And

are those in which inequality and difference predominate Monad are also called allied to the Dyad. and Dyad Bound Infinity. and It 1. was called "Audacity," from its being the earliest from the to separate itself from the Divine One; number Silence," as the Chaldean "Adytum of God-nourished

oracles say.

being definite and the as called "Matter" cause of bulk and division. 3. I^"is called "the interval between Multitude and the it is not yet perfect multitude, but is because Monad," parturient with it Of this we see an image in the Dyad of Arithmetic, for,as Proclus observes, "The dyad isthe medium 2.

It

was

unity and number, for unity by addition produces by addition promore than by multiplication,hut number duces less than by multiphcation ; whilst the Dyad, whether produces the same. added to itselfor multiplied by itself, " " Fountain Harmony," 4. of Symphony," and like Love, and 5. Erato, because it attracts the Monad, another number is formed. between

6. Patience, because

it is the firstnumber that endures separation from the Monad. 7. Phanes, or IntelligibleIntellect 8. It is the fountain of all Female divinities, and hence Nature, Rhea and Isis. 9. Cupid, justas Erato, fron 'desiring its opposite for a partner. In Astronomy,

speak of : nodes. Caput and Cauda Draconis ; and in Astrolt^ of 2 aspects of the planets, In Masonry Benefic and Malefic. we especially note 2 Pillars,and 2 parallellines. The Chinese speak of Blue, as the colour of Heaven, because Black, Female; made and up of Red, Male, the passive ; the brilliant and the of the active and obscure. The followers of Pythagoras spoke of two kinds of ment. enjoyFirst, lasciviousness and indulgence belly, the of like the murderous songs of Sirens ; second, honest and justindulgences, which bring on no repentance. Hierocles says 2 things are necessary to life,the aid of kindred and benevolent sympathy. A notable ancient Egyptian Ueroglyphic was fonned of we

serpents in connection with a globe or ^g, representing Another the worid. celebrated pair, in connection with worship, is the association of a tree and a serpent, referring ledge as some account say to the Mosaic of the Tree of Knowhave Serpent. Some and the Tempter supposed "on itis Belly thy that only since the condemnation shalt " has Serpent been limbless, thou go that the and two

obl^ed

to crawl.

Note, it has been ai^ued, and by a great churchman too, that the whole tale rests on error, and that for serpent we " Ape " (Adam Clarke). This is substituting should read tor another, in my opinion. one error In the orgies of Bacchus Mxnades, the worshippers had " hair Eve, Eve, snakes twined in their and danced, singing by Alexandrinus, came the sin." See Clemens whom Protrept. 9.

37 the fatal alternativeto Unity or Good, namely EVIL; other human and and to many night and day, light and darkness, wet natural contrasts health and disease, truth and error, and dry, hot and having fallen from his high male and female, which man estate from spiritto matter, cannot avoid associating himself is a number fortunes and Death, miswith. Two of Mourning History of England, are apt to follow; turn to our see the unhappiness of Kings numbered the second of each William II,, Edward II.,and Richard II, of Engknd name" dedicated the and month The Romans were all murdered. to Pluto, God of Hades, and on the and day of it they

Duality introducesus

to

"

col""

Pope John XIX. instituted offered sacrificesto the Manes. Souls' Day) on November the Ffetedes Tr^pass^s (All and,

of Autumn. The two Talmuds of the Jews,among other quaint notions, have the following ideas of the number Two. It is not every man who deserves to have two tables ; that very few deserve to have the best of the this meant next life,as well as the good things of this one. bed There important things; first,that one's two are

the second month

should be placed north to south, and that one should pray in front of his bed. There are two ways before a man, one to Gai-hinnom, leads to Paradise and one the place of punishment. There are only two laws, the written law of Moses, and the oral law of the Kabalah. Every Jew who goes from the Synagogue to his house on by two angels, one the eve of the Sabbath is accompanied good and one bad, and ifthe house is allin order the good angel confirms a blessing,but if it be in disorder the good to the condemnation spoken by the angel has to say Amen

evil angel. better than three ; this means youth is better than old age with its staffof support. two There were women notorious for their pride, and were their names wasp, and contemptible ; Deborah meant believe Many Hulda that a weasel. persons nowadays Two

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somehow affects a. person, as a name given is prophetic of their nature. but Speech may be worth one Selah (a Jewish coin), silence is worth Two. had two wives, one A certain man youi^ and one old ; when he was forty and inclined to become grey, the young one pulled out all the grey hairs,and the old wife pulled he became bald. Which thii^ out all his black hairs; so adorn a tale. Given two dry lirebrands of wood and one of green, the dry will destroy the green. Two dogs once killeda lion,so the minority must at last always give way to a majority. The Talmud say ai^ues that Adam had two faces ; some before and one behind, while others say one looked to one both was rightand one to the left. Others say that Adam Others say that Eve was made from a male and a female. his thirteenth rib, and was not drawn out from his head, lest she should be vain ; not from his eyes, lest she should be wanton ; not from his mouth, lest she should talk too much ; not from his ears, lest she should be an eavesdropper ; not firomhis feet, lest she should be a gadabout ; and not from his hear^ lestshe should be jealous : yet in spite of alt has developed allthese faults. these precautions woman Of two who quarrel, he or she who firstgives in shows the noblest nature. Two n^atives or affirmativesare as good as an oath. Shevnoth, 36. t. point

a

moral

as

well

as

The Twos of the 2 Testaments are two Tables of the two two Law; the Disciples were sent out and two; by fetch discipleswere sent the ass's colt ; two to Jesusto disciples buried Jesus; make ready the Passover ; two

Caleb and Lot;

Joshuawere

the two

two

angels rescued witnesses of the Resurrection, and spies;

two there were two of the Ascension. The Revelations speak of two Witnesses, two olive trees and two candlesticks. If a dream was dreamed two times

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39 it foretold a truth ; as in Genesis xli.,Judgesvi.,First Book of Kings, 9 and 1 1 chapters. 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 known but the truth was ovum, of old to philosophers of India, Egypt and the Gnostics, in whose lore we find human generation to spring from the Serpent and the E^.

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THE Photius energy,

TRIAD.

3.

observes that the Triad is the firstodd number in is the first perfect number, and is a middle and

analogy. The Pythagoreans

referred it to Physiology ; it is the cause of all that has the triple dimension. It is also the cause of good counsel, intelligence, and

knowledge, Geometry,

Mistress of Music, mistress also of in authority pertains to possesses whatever Astronomy of the heavenly and the nature and knowledge bodies, connects and leads them into effects. Every from

and

is

a

virtue also

is suspended

from

it, and

proceeds

it.

In Mythology

it is referred by Nicomachus to : I. Saturn, Time, past, present, and future. 2. Latooa. hymnia, the nurse 3. The Horn of Amalthea, of Jupiter.4. Polythe Muses. among Number being more increased by multiplication than it is by addition, the number 3 is, properly speaking, the first are so increased. number, as neither the Dyad nor Monad It is a Middle and Analogy," because all comparisons "

consist of three terms,

at

least ; and

analogies

were

called

by the ancients "middles." It was considered the Mistress of Geometry because the triangle is the principal of Figures. With regard to the Heavenly bodies, the number Three is important ; there are 3 quaternions of the celestialsigns, the fixed, the movable, and the common. In every Zodiacal sign also there are 3 faces, and 3

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41 decans,

the 3 lords of their Triplicity; and among Fortunes Infortunes; planets there are 3 and 3 according to the Chaldeans also, there are 5 ethereal worlds prior to and

the sphere of our Fixed Stars. On account of the perfection of the Triad, oracles were delivered from a Tripod, as is related of the Oracle at Delphi. With r^ard to Music, 3 is said to be Mistress, because Harmony the Diapason, the contains 3 symphonies, Diapente, and the Diatessaron. Ezekid xiv. v. 14 mentions 3 men a creation, saw who destruction, and a restoration; Noah of the whole world, Daniel of the Jewish world Jerusalem, and Job of his "

private world. Note Brahma,

Trinity of Brahma, the Hindoo who consists of Vishnu Preserver, Siva; Creator, and and Changer : in India each has stilia special sect of worshippers, who the Vaishnavas

mark are

themselves much

the

with

most

particular emblems;

numerous.

The living were of old called " the 3 times blessed " (the dead 4 times blessed). There were Three citiesof Refuge on each side of the

Jordan. Three Fates : Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos. Furies : Tisiphone, Alecto, Megsera. " Graces : Euphrosyne, Aglaia, Thatia, says Hesiod. Juc^esof Hades : Minos, .lEacus, RhadamantlJus. " Eunomia Hone ; Hesiod (Order), says they were " Dike (Justice), Eirene (Peace), "

Jupiter's thunder

is

"

Hecate

is always

that the Sword

of Death

triformis."

called "triple." Neptime's spear is a trident,and so has Siva the Trisula. Pluto's dog Cerberus had 3 heads. There Three founders of the Roman Empire : were Romulus, B.C. 7S3, Camillus, B.C. 389, expelled the (^uls; the hordes who overOirew and Caius Marius, B.C. loz, of Cambrians and Teutons.

The

Jewish Rabbis say

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42 drops of Gall, one from the second turns

the

carcase

dies" drops in the mouth and the man comes the pallor of death, and the third to dust. See Purchas, "The Pilgrimage,"

1613. A letterYod

within an equilateral triangle was a symbol Jehovah and was so used by the Jews, of the ineffablename The have pointed out that this form suggests moderns Other the idea that they knew something of a triune God. also triple; thus 3 rays, and of Jehovah were monograms in a triangle. the Shin, and three yods Under the number 3 also we may in passing mention the Royal Arch sign, the "Triple Tau," three T's united; the manner of its explanation, and the ideas which itrepresents. Note also fit matters for description in this work. are not ; 3 Veils ; 3 stones of the arch, 3 Principals and 3 Sojourners and in the Craft Lodges, 3 officers,3 d^rees, 3 perambulations.

In

the

Roman

3 is of number Virgil, Eclogue see

Cultus, the

constant

8, The for example Pharmaceutria ; the priests used a cord of 3 coloured strands, and an image was carried 3 times round an altar. " Terna tibihsec primum triplicidiversa colore." The Druids also paid a constant respect "0 this number; in are their poems noted as being composed and even occurrence,

Triads. Indeed

as

it is impossible

to

study any single system of the world, without being stiudc by the worship throi^hout in regard to. peculiar persistence of the triple number divinity; whether as a group of deities,a triformed, or 3headed god, a Mysterious Triunity, a deity of 3 powers, or a family relationship of 3 Persons, such as the Father, Mother Osiris,Isis and Horus. and Son of the Egyptians, And again in the various faiths we see the chief Dignity in given in turn to each person of the Triad : some rejoice in the greater glory of the Son, the patriarchal Unity, some and others again lavish all their adoration on the Great in trinitiesof coequal males, each has his Mother ; even own the special worshippers ; note this especially among

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43 for example are the followers of Vishnu where Vaishnavas in too, : to complicate maners this case called has deity his female each potency or sakti, and these also have their own adherents. Under this notice of the Triad we may refer to the emblem l^s of the Isle of Man, three united at the hips ; this is supposed to have been derived from SicilianMariners at is found at Palermo in an early date, for the same emblem

Hindoos,

Sicily,and this design is there to be building. Sicily was anciently named

seen

on

an

old public Trinacria, from its

three promontories. There is a notable number in the mythology of the Norseman, the great Ash-tree Yggdrasil supported the world ; it had three roots ; one extended into Asgard, the abode of the home of the Giants, and the Gods ; one into Jotenheim, The the third into Nifleheim, the region of the Unknown. three Noms (Fates) attend to the root in Asgard. The

Tatmuds are crowded with quaint conceits concerning the Triad, and many are very curious. The ancient Hebrews said there are three night watches, in the firstthe ass brays, in the second the dog barks, in the third the mother suckles her infant and converses with her husband. He who is three times daily repeats the 114th Psalm sure of future happiness. Three precious giftswere given to the Jews ; the Law of Moses, the Land of Israel, and Paradise. In three sorts of dreams there is truth ; the last dream of the morning, the dream which is also dreamed by a neighbour, and a dream twice repeated. Three things calm a man; melody, scenery and sweet improve a man some : thjee scent things ; a fine house, a handand wife, and good furniture. He who is bom on the Third day of the week willbe rich and amorous. Three despise theirfellows; cooks, fortune-tellersand dogs. Three

love their fellowsj proselytes,slaves and

ravens.

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44 Three persons livea lifewhich is no life; he who lives at table, he who is ruled by his wife, and be another man's who is incapable from bodily affliction. Orthodox Jews were very particular about the cuttings buries them, an orderly man from the nails ; a pious man bums them, but he who throws them away is wicked j for ifa woman step over them, mischance may follow, Moed Katon, i8. i. The nails should be trimmed on a Friday and never There

on

a

Thursday.

keeps to himself, and can which no man gain nor use ; the key of life,the key of Taanith, rain and the key of the resuscitation of the dead. a ; I and a. The

are

three keys which

Jewish butcher

God

use

must

slaughter the animal, another

to

to three knives ; one cut it up, and a third to

the suet which was unlawful food ; as pork is. Three he attend the High Priest when acolytes must in to worship ; one at his right, one went at his left,and had to hold up the gems on the train of his vestment one The father gives the There are three parts of a man. '

remove

white parts, bones, nails, brain and the whites of the eyes ; the mother gives the red parts, skin, flesh,etc. : while God gives the breath, soul, mind and senses. The Sanhedrim three could order as a punishment degrees of Excommunication for an separation undefined days, for 60 for time, exclusion 30 days. and execration Moed Katon, 17. i. is of three letters,A, D, and M : The name of Adam these are the initialsof Adam, David and Messiah, and the Soul of the firstpassed to David and then to the Messiah. "

Nishmath Chajin,152.

2.

his spiritinto Korah, The Soul of Cain passed to Jethro, Valkut Reuben, 9. 18. 24. and his body to an Egyptian. The Soul the of Eve passed to Sarah, to Hannah Shunamite, and then to the widow of Zarepta- The Soul of The Rahab Soul of Jael the Kenite, passed to Heber Eli. Some Souls of pious Jews pass into the passed to for Israel. persons of the Gentiles, so that they shall

pl^id

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45 souls have passed into animals, as that evil Hebrew into the she-ass of Balaam, and later into the of Ishmael Soul of a slanderer ass of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair. The may be transmigrated into a stone, so as to become silent; Some

and

the Soul of

a

murderer

into

water.

Bmeh

Hemelech,

diseases on three causes of dropsy, depending of the breast, the liver and the kidneys. There are three forms of coma, that is insensibility; There

due

are

brain

to

disease and brain poisoning. of death, beginning either at the

brain injury,

There

are three modes brain, the lungs or the heart

Bichat, Physiol"^ie. One Zodiacal Sign, that of Scorpio, has three emblems; the eagle in the highest symbolism, the snake, and the scorpion in evil aspects only. Astrologic Natal Figures are often erroneous by reason of being incorrect birth are : there the alleged moment of of Rectification, two are ancient, the Animodar ; and there is one of Ptolemy, and the Trutine of Hermes method, the Natal Epoch of W. R. Old. modem find the In both the Old and the New Testaments we three modes

Day

and four night The watches. mediaeval occultists divided the days into Planetary hours, the scheme of alternation occupied a week, 7 days X 34 hours ""i6S hours, so 168 hours are di^ible the Seven Planets, each day begiiming with its own among differentone ; see Harleian MSS- 6483, and " The Herbal,"

divided

was

into three

day

watches

Culpepper, There

related Among

Margas

1814. is also another

scheme

in which

the planets

are

six-hour period by Ragon and Blavatsky. the Brahmins there were three great Vedas ; three or thjee Gunas, the Satva, ways of

to a

salvation; Three decay. Tamas, desire ; and quiescence ; Rajas, Lokas, Swarga, Bhumi and Patala; heaven, earth and hell. Dharma Three Jewels of wisdom, the Tri-ratnas, Buddha, The three Fires being the three aspects of the and Sanga. human There were Buddhi three soul, Atma, and Manas.

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At the oblation of the

drops of chalicecrossings Marriage

in the Celtic Church, 3 Wine and 3 drops of water were poured into the In the present Christian Church we notice 3 with water at Baptism, 3 Creeds; the Banns of in tion benedicBishop are a times ; and published 3 elements

makes the s^ of the Cross 3 times. In civil hfe the usher of a court 3 times repeats the Oyez, Oyez, Oyez, "hear" or warning which word means "listen,"

Note also the emblem which is the Trefoil. The

of the Irish nation, the Shamrock,

Trigrams

of Fo-hi should be studied in The Yi-King, a book of Ancient China said to have been the production The great Confucius wrote of King Wan and his son, Kau.

supplement to it. This book is a mystical work on Symbolism referring to Cosmt^ony, to Man, and to the purposes of life. The initial symbols are the Yang, mate, and the Yin, female. a

Then

8

follow

lines ; trigrams, formed of emblematical they are ; khien, tui, li,chan, sien, khan, kan and kwan ; long and two short lines. each expressed by figures of one "

Some

A later these symbols. Mystic expanded the system into 64 figures, each composed of 6 lines of whole and half lines. With these were ated associtwo diagrams formed the River of circles, named

Horse,

say that

and

one

the Writing of modem

East, The

Fo-Hi

invented

of Lo

these will repay the contemplati occultists- See Sacred Books of the :

Yi-King.

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THREE

AND

A

HALF.

3j.

being of F. Shaw as calls attention to the number typifying present mystical importance, as the half of seven, famine in the with future joy. The sufferingas compared Israel was time of Elias, when and persecuted by Ahab W.

3J

lasted Jezebel, 3J years, the church

Antiochus

Epiphanes

Forty-two

persecuted

or

months, years. 3^ years, are symbolical of times of trouble. Jesuspreached 3J years. In the Revelations, the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, suffers days in the wilderness, being a time, times, and a 1260

half. Rev. trodden

3J

xii. 6-14.

under

foot

Again

the Holy

forty-two months,

City is said or

3^

years.

to

be

The

witnesses testify 3J years, and their dead bodies remain unburied 3 J days : so also the scattering of the holy people in Daniel xii. 7 is for three times as mentioned and a half, by which we were to understand a period of suffering. two

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THE The

TETRAD.

4.

said Nicomachus, call the " " four a God the greatest miracle," after another "a divinity," the "fountain of Nature," manifold Pythagoreans,

"key

bearer,"

permanency mascuhne" is Mercury,

It is the

"introducer

number manner,"

and

cause

and

discipline." of the Mathematical " and and robust "j-fitis Hercules

It is

of "

its the

most

j"olus.

It

Vulcan,

Muses, Among the and Bacchus. They also called it Feminine, Urania. effective of Virility, and an Exciter of Bacchic fury. In harmony, it was said to form by the quadruple dis-diapason. ratio the symphony They called it Justice, as the firstevenly even number. Deity, know As a type of Hebrew we all of the famous title Tetra-grammaton

IHVH as

a

name Jehovah unpronounceable disclosed by the Kabalisttc Rabbis was : this name hide their secret to blind to the populace, and

or

tenets.

of Antiquity possessed a name for Deity consisting of four letters, and of them many considered 4 to be a Divine number, thus : Yehovah IHVH, Hebrew and IHIH called Eheie, and Almost

all the peoples

"

AHIH

called Aheie.

Assyrian

ADAD.

Egyptian AMUN. Persians SYRE Greek

or

SIRE.

ThEOS.

DEUS. Latin Samarian JABE, Egyptian TEUT,

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49 In Sanchoniatbon we find the Ddty called lEVO, In Clemens Alexandnnus JAOU. " ,, " in The Tetractys says, Theo Smyrna, the edition of of Ismael Bullialdo, 1644, page 147, was not only principally

honoured

by the Pyth^oreans because all symphonies exist within it,but also because it appears to contain the by him who nature of all things, hence their oadi,"Not delivered to our souls the Tetractys" (that is Pythagoras), this tetractys is seen in the composition of the firstnumbers 1. X.

3. 4. But the and Tetractys of odd and

tiplication arises from the increase by mulbeginning from even the numbers

Monad. The

3rd subsistsaccording to Magnitude. The 4th is in simple Bodies, Monad-Fire, Dyad-Air, Triad-Water, Tetrad-Earth. The s^h is of ^^^ figures of Bodies, Pyramid-Fire^ Octahedron Icosahedron-Water, Cube-Earth. -Air, The 6th of Vegetative Life, Seed-Monad or point ; if it increase in length dyad-line ; in breadth triad-superficies ; in thickness" tetrad-solid. The Street, House, as Man, 7th is of Communities; "

"

City. The

Sth

is the

Judicialpower:

Intellect, Science,

Opinion, Sense. The 9th is of the parts of the Animal, the Rational, Irascible and Epithymetic soul, and the Body they live The summer,

loth Tetractys is of the Seasons of the Year, spring autumn, winter. rithTetractysisof the Agesof Man, the infant,the

The lad, the

and the senex. to another, and hence they And all are proportional one said "all things are assimilated to number." They also gave a four-fold distributionof goods to the Body, to Soul and Temperance, the Soul, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice ; and to the Body, Acuteness of senses, Health, Strength, Beauty. man,

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so The

Objectsof

desire

are

viz., Prosperity, Renown,

4:

Power,

Friendship,

The here:

celebrated 4 Causes of Aristotle may

Divinity as the cause Matter from which ; "

by which ;

"

Form

through

"

which ;

or

be mentioned

mr

w

or

"f ou

or

81' ou

up

ou.

ex

ou.

di

oa

Effect with reference to which; or tt/mk ov pros ou. The Dead the also are called 4 times Blessed; and Living but thrice blessed. The of the quaternary 4 being the completion number group of point, line, superficies and body, has also this "

up character that its elements i, 2, 3, and 4 when summed is so can are equal to 10, which go no perfect that we further, but to increase we must return to the Monad. It was also called Kosmos, the World, because it formed the number thus combined : 36, when itsdigits were 1

+

2=

3

3 + 4=

7

11 5 + 6 7 + 8-iS =

36 being the sum first four of the odd four even numbers. Plutarch, De

numbers

with the first

Anim.

Procr. 1027, says the world consists of a double Quaternaryj 4 of the intellectual World, Psyche T'Agathon, Nous, that is Supreme and Hyle;

Wisdom Goodness, Mind, Soul, Matter, and four of the or Fire, Sensible world, forming the Kosmos of Elements, Air, Earth and Water ; pur, aer, ge and udor, mip, ayp, yq. is the number of the moons and Uranus. The Arabians analysed Female Four

or

satellitesof

Beauty

Jupiter

into nine fours ;

eyebrows, eyelashes, eyes, legs. white of the eyes, teeth,

See Lane's edition of the Arabian Nights. In the Rosicrucian writings of Behmen, Fludd, and Maier, find the occult dogma that the four elements are peopled we by spirits,beings who may have influence on the destiny of Man; inhabited by Gnomes; thus the Earth was the Air inhabited by Sylphs ; the Fire was inhabited by Salamanders; was and

the Water "

commonly

by

Elementals." called W. Michael Godwin;

Undmes; "

See M^er;

these are now Lives of the mancers," Necro-

Jacob

Behmen's

Works. existence of Elementals, scoffed at by the educated of places in classes, is really suggested in a lar^e number both Old and New Testaments, the inspired volume of the Christians : examine, for example. Judges ix. 33 ; i Samuel The

xvi. 14 ; Psalm Ixxviii.49 ; Acts xvi. 16, xix. 13, xxvii. 23 ; Ephesians vi. 12, ii.2. Animals, Francis Barrett mentions the 4 Consecrated Lion, Eagle, Man on and Calf, emblems of the Kerubim the terrestrial plane ; 4 Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael; note, all end in the Deity name, el, i.e.,AL, of the Hebrews. of the Canticle above all consider the meaning " in the book of Common Prayer, Benedicite omnia opera *'0 ye stars, O ye showers and dew, O ye fireand heat, 0 and hills, ye winds, 0 ye green things, O ye mountains bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him for ever." These phrases are either folly, or else they recognise the beings inherent in the elements and or spiritual essences Ancient 269 in Hymns created things. Again, read hymn Principalitiesand a most orthodox volume. and Modem, hours," and hymn powers, watch for thy unguarded 91, But

"

"

52 "Christian, dost thou see them, on the holj' ground, how If these are thee araund." the troops of Midian compass not the evil elementals, wluit are they? The Gnostics said that all their edifice rested on a 4fsllared Basis ; Truth, Intelligence,Silence, Bathos, Note the earth was formed on the 4th day, according to " the allegory found in the Jewish Genesis," and is the 4th world in a chain of spheres, say the Hindoos. The figure of 4-, as Ragon remarks, is the upright man, parrying the triangle or Divinity, a type of the Trinity of Godhead. On the Hebrew Magical word the Kabalah, page 37.

AGLA,

see

the chapter

on

Note

4 elements, 4 sides of a square and 4 angles ; 4 qualities, cold, hot, dry, damp, 4 humours ; horizon of the year ; 4 quarters of the 4 seasons ; 4 Rivers of Eden ; Euphrates, Gihon, Hiddek

Pison; 4 Rivers of the Infernal Regions according to the Greeks ; PhlegethoD, Cocytus, Styx and Acheron ; 4 elements of Metaphysics ; Being, sssence, virtue, action. 4 Masonic virtues. Mark, Luke, John. 4 Evangehsts and Gospels ; Matthew, One of the abstruse dogmas concerns the of the Kabalah Four Worlds of Emanation ; Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and but Assiah ; these are not worlds in any ordinary sense, and existence, the former the rather planes of development diaphanous and exalted, the others becoming more most concrete and manifest; the ten Sephiroth exist and more on each plane, those of the higher planes being more sublime than those of the lowest ; each world has a secret name

and number.

Vulcan

on the 4th day of gave Apollo and Diana arrows Browne, is the Gentile their Nativity : this, says Sir Thomas on the 4th equivalent to the Creation of the Sun and Moon day. lays down the law as to a woman's The Talmud drinking, is good for her, two do her harm, three saying one cup of wine

S3 demoralize

hei, and

the fourth

converts

her into a female littlebetter than

animal. There are 4 persons who are dead ; the blind, the leper, the pauper and

he who

has

no

sons.

There

is easily than he provoked and is as easilypacified,he loses more gains ; he who is not readily provoked and is difficultto than he loses ; the pious man, appease, he gains more who is not easily provoked but is easily pacified; and he who is easily provoked and is with difficultyappeased, he is a wicked man. There are 4 sorts of pupils in occult science ; he who leams and then will not teach ; he who wants to teach and does not learn ; he who leams and then teaches ; and lastly, he who listensand won't learn and can't teach. Four things deter a man from sin ; the thought of whence are

4 sorts

of passionate

men

; he

who

he comes, the fear of where he may go, the conception of who his judgewillbe, and what his fate may be at the Judgment. Four persons should offer up thank offerings ; he who safe from a sea voy^e, he who 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 sin, the work of the

returns

Serpent, for they themselves did no ill; Benjamin, Amram the father of Moses, Jessethe father of David, and Chilah Sabbat 55, 2. the son of David. At the end of the Passion Fast every Hebrew should drink 4 glassesof wine, even ifthe price robs him of other necessaries. The Talmud

had entered Paradise (Pardes, the state of the Garden of Holiness) ; this meant supernal communion with God, the Beatific Vision, by profoimd abstraction of mind. These were the Rabbis Ben Azai, Ben Zoma, Asher and Akiva. The tractate Yoma three says God will pardon a man times for a sin, but the fourth occasion isfatal. The Jewish Sanhedrin had power to order 4 sorts of death penalty; by burning stoning, beheading, and says that only 4

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54 ceased with strangling : the Sanhedriti as a Court of Justice the Second Temple, but the Rabbis taught that if a man incurs the death penalty of either form he stilldies in these ways fortuitously,as if he would have been executed by strangling,he will be found to die of drowning or some other form of suffocation. See Sanhedrin, 37. 2. Job had four entrances to his house, north, south, east and west; so that the poor might enter and find relieffrom whichever quarter they came. Four things God repented that he had made ; man's evil

passions, the Ishmaelites, the Chaldeans and the Captivity. God has made only 4 women perfect in beauty ; Sarah, Abigail, Rahab and Esther; Eve is not included because Esther is said to have had not born of woman. she was golden coloured hair. Of the 4 Cardinal points, God left the North Pole unfinished finish it be let him "if there any my equal saying like the others," This corner is the home of demons, ghosts, devils,and storms. Pirke of Rabbi Eleazar, cap. 3. The 4 is related to Jacob,the Lesser Light, number Jacob was spelled lOQB, and its which is the Moon. initials OUShH are those of epithets lUTzR, the Former; the Possessor, and BVRA, the Creator. the Maker, QUNA See Amos

vii.2, Jacob,called the "small." In Christiandogma, Christ the triple Deity on the Cross of 4 limbs, is the descent of Spirit into Matter : or, as the Theosophists say, the Triad of " Atma-Buddhi-Manas descends into the Quaternaryof personal Man, the Kama, Prana, Linga and Sthula Sarira." The 4 Cabeiri, or great deities of Syro-Phenicia, were Axieros, Axiokersos, Axiokersa and Kasmillos, children of by Sanchoniathen by Sydyk, are named and quoted Eusebius. In the ancient ^yptian form of burial,while the body was the internal organs of the made into a swathed mummy, "

removed and preserved in 4 jars^ dedicated to the often called the Canopic Jars;they were at times called 4 Genii of the Cardinal points, who were

chest and

abdomen

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55 Amset, Amesheth in it or were put man-shaped, and the stomach and lai^e intestines ; in the jarof Hapi, or Ahephi, the North, dog-headed, were the small intestines; in the jarof Tuamutef or Toumath-path, the East, jackalheaded, were in the jar of the heart and lungs, and Khebsenuf or Kabexnuf, hawk-headed, the West, were the liverand gall bladders. These Vases appear in tombs of the iSth dynasty, and remained in use until the 36th dynasty ; according to Budge. The Mummy. These 4 Genii of the Dead in Amenti were guarded by 4 Goddesses, viz.,by Isis, Nephthys, Neith and Serquet The Squares of the Periodic times of the Planets are the Cubes of their mean distance from the Sun. The Christian Church recognises 4 great Councils, those of Nicsea in a.d. 325; Constantinople, 3S1 ; Ephesus, 431; and Chalcedon in 451. The Western Church recognises 4 great Doctors; St. Ambrose, St. Jerome,St. Augustine, and St. Gregory the Great; and the Eastern Church St. Athanasius, St. 4, Basil, St, Gregory of Nazianzen, and St. John Chiysostom. There is a vast fund of mystic lore, known to some Fratres Rosse Crucis, concerning the Chariot of Ezekiel described in the Mosheh Merkavah or Vision of EzekieL The Chag^ah of the Talmud better never to says it were have been bom than to pry into the 4 sides thereof,what is above and below, before and behind it. The Ancient Legend of the Four Crowned Martyrs, who were masons, who refused to disclaim their Christian faith time to the and refused to build an idol, has led in our own Coronati Lodge consecration of the Quatuor of Freemasons, has a corresponding Membership which of 2500 brethren : the present author is a Past Master of this Lodge of literary

the

Children of Hoius. Mestha, the South, was

The

jar of

"

masons.

Magic

Squares were firstknown by the work of a Greek, Emanuel Moscopulos, stillexisting in MSS. of the i6th century in the National Library of Paris. Cornelius Agrippoi

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56 then gave the Planetary Squares, which have been many From a more times copied in subsequent books. mathematical have been studied in much point of view, they France by M. Bachet and M. Frenicle, M. Poignard of Brussels, and de la Hire. M. de la Loubere gives information of the use of Magic Squares by the Indians of SuraL To the number 4 belong the several forms of the cross, Maltese, Greek, Passioned, St. Andrew's and the Fylfot cross the Swastika. Hermetic philosophy teaches how to from a magic square of 5, giving view the last as composed 35 squares, of which the Fylfot takes 17, referring to the Sun, Signs and Elements. There is a quaint Hebrew Tetragrammaton, IHVH, association between the name formed in his image, for if Yod, ', the God name, and man Heh, n, Vau, 1, Heh, n be drawn one over the other, the Yod will look like the head above, the Heh will look like the two arms, the Vau will be upright body, and the final Heh willshow the two legs. It is stated in some ancient Persian works that 4 bright "

placed as guardians at the 4 cardinal points. At the beginning of the Kali Yuga, at Crishna's death at 3102 stars were

say that Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus, at the equinoctial and Antares, the heart of Scorpio, were Regulus, heart Leo, the points, and of and Fomalhaut, the B.C.,

the

astronomers

of the Southern Fish, this was 5003 years ago. eye

were

near

the solstitial points :

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PENTAD.

S

Extracts From Nicomachean we derive our the doctrine of the numtier knowledge of the Pythagorean five. It

is

and circular number, eminently spherical in every multiplication it restores itself and it is change is found the terminating of number; Quality,because it changes what has three dimensions by moving into the sameness of a sphere circularly " is light hence Light : and producing and referred to the an

because

"

number Also

5. "

Privation of Strife,"because it unites in friendship the two forms of number the even and odd; into Also Justicefrom 2 throwing things the and 3. it is the

light.

Also which

the may on

Also

the

"

"

from a geometrical reason unconquered be found in Alexander mentaries Aphrodisiensls, Comthe ist Book of Aristotle's Metaphysics, " Smallest extremity of Vitality,"because there

of Life, vegetable, psychical, and rational ; and as the Rational is arranged according to the hebdomad, and the Psychical according to the hexad, so the Vegetative power fallsunder the control of the Pentad. are

three powers

Proclus

on

Hesiod

Justice,"because

gives

two

reasons

for its semblance

to

equalit inwrong, and takes away also equalizes what is less, to

it punishes

of possession,

and

benefit" Also manner

Nemesis, for it arranges in an named all things celestial,divine and natural.

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Venus,

dual, odd

and

because the male even

are

3 triad and the female 2 or times conjoinedin it; Venus was some-

considered hermaphrodite, and was bearded as well as full-bosomed. And Gamelia, that is referringto marriage. And Andr(%ynia, being odd and masculine, yet containing female an even part. Also a Demi-goddess," because it is half of the Decad, " Didymus," because it divides which is a divinity. And Decad into two equal parts. But they called it Pallas, the because Pallas presides over the Ether, or and Immortal, (akasa)which is indestructible,and is not Sth Element And Cardiatisor Cordialis, material to our present senses. because like a heart it is in the middle of the body of the "

numbers, thus

:

"

1 a

4

7

S

8

369

The ancients had a maxim, the balance," that is be not

"Pass cause

"

let the

in

above the beam

of for they said, ; of injury Thus, a Stance Beam. not

members series form when a weight depresses the Beam, an obtuse angle isformed by the Depressed Vertical, and an side and the Tongue it is worse Hence to do than to acute angle on the other. suffer injury, and the authors of injurysink down to the infernal regions, but the injured Since, rise to the gods. however, necessary

a

injustice pertains which

is

to

effected

inequality, equalization is

by

addition

and

traction. sub-

Plutarch, in his treatiseon

the Generation of the Soul " according to Plato, states that the Pentad is called trophos," which equals Sound, because the firstof the intervals of a Tone which is capable of producing a sound is the fifth; it is also a type of " Nature." The Pentalpha or s-pointed star, an endless complex set of

angles,was the emblem of Health, Hygeia ; itforms 5 copies It is also called the Pentacle, and of the capital letter A.

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erroneously the Seal of Solomon, and was said to be a device Grand Master of the Mysteries. on the signet of the Ancient

Kenneth

Mackenzie

remarlcs that, being formed

by the

of the firstodd and even numbers, 5 was considered or Talisman ful powerof peculiar value and used as an Amulet a to preserve from inscribed on portal, evil, and when union

could keep out evilspirits; it is found almost everywhere in Greece and Egypt. Diodonis calls five "the union of the four elements with There are 5 orders of Architecture; and 5 Senses Ether." body now known and described of the human commonly is technically called {butthe whole are seven). Geometry the 5th Science. In Masonry the grand scheme is the 5 points of Fellowship, and note also 5 Brethren can hold a Fellowcrafts lodge. It is also called the Pyramid, from the thus three below, then two, then of Monads, arrangement Note the system of 5 regular Euclidean one above them. hexahedron bodies, tetrahedron, or cube, octohedron, dodekahedron and icosahedron. Emblem Pentacle, the The of health and safely. The to Stukely), was Masons' signet mark (according the device borne by Antiochus Soter on a war-banner, to which waa ascribed the signal victory he obtained. for Ancients as a measure The this number esteemed drinking ; they mixed 5 parts of water with their wine, and Hippocrates added ^ of water to milk as a medical draught. Phintys, the daughter of Callicrates, describes the Five bodily purity ; abstaining virtues of a Wife : mental and in dress; staying at home; from excess ing refrainof ornament as

females then did, from

celebrating public mysteries ;

piety and temperance. In Roman marri^e ceremonies itwas customai7 to light 5 tapers and to admit the guests by fives; see Plato in Leg. IV.

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6o

Jewishreferences

to five are

many

"

5 gifts to the priests, Not to in the camp.

might only be eaten fiveyears old. The trespass eat fruitfrom a tree until it was offering imposed on the Philistines,5 golden emerods and 5 golden mice. Joseph gave Benjamin 5 suits of raiment Joseph presented only 5 of his brethren to Pharaoh. David took 5 pebbles when he went to fight GoUath, The Jews classed a Bride's attendants by fives" five wise and five foolish virgins. faith There are Five Articles of Belief in the Mahometan in Allah, in Angels, in the prophet, the day of judgment, 5 things which

"

"

and predestination. The Five duties of

a

Member

of the Christian church keep holy the festivals ; to

stated by the Fathers : To observe the fasts; to attend public worship ; to receive the Sacraments; to the customs of the and adhere to church. St. Paul said he preferred to speak 5 words in a language in an unknown imderstood by his hearers than 10,000 tongue. In arranging an Horoscope some astrologers use only 5 were

the opposition, aspects of the planets the conjunction, or sextile,trine and square; and the evil good fortune of to depend on them. the person seems Among Romans display a the of 5 Wax Candles indicated being celebrated ; and special prayers that a Marriage was were also made on such occasions to these 5 deities,JupitCT, Juno,Venus, Pitho, and Diana. See Rabelais, 3. 20. One of the two main divisions of Flowering Plants is characterised by a predominance of the numbers 4 and s i have these planets almost a total absence of the numbers 3 in 6 the component and parts of their flowers. These are or Dicotyledons ; on the Exogens the other hand the Monocotyledons or Endogens have a constant predominance of the numbers 3 and 6, and a total absence of 4 and 5 "

-

symmetry. There

are

mentioned

5 kinds of intercolumniations in Architecture, by Vitnivius, determined by the proportions of

6i height and diameter, viz., Pycnostyle, sy style, eustyle, diastyle,and aerostyle. The Triad Society of China, concerning which we find an Keview, 1845, p. 165, articlein the J-reemasotts' Quarterfy boasts of great in some antiquity ; it resembles Freemasonry points

:

five is a chief mystical number

seal is pentangular,

TOO KIN

or

or

on

MUH

Saturn,

Venus,

its angles

and HO

or

or

in its concerns.

Its

are

5 characters representing SHWUY or Mercury, Jupiter,

Mars.

In the Infernal World are g terrors and torments ; Deadly bitterness,horrible howling, terribledarkness, unquenchable heat and thirst, and a penetrating stench; says old John

Heydon,

quoting

some

mediieval father of the Church.

He

Adept among the Fratres Rosse Crucis, but was never the MagistrL received among Five styles of architectural columns described; are Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. Sir Thomas Browne, an ancient Greek 165S, notes division of v^etables into five classes : was

admitted

an

"

Dendron, Thamnos, Phruganon,

Arbor,

Tree ; Frutex, Bush ;

SufTrutex, herb ;

Poa, Herba, grass ; and Askion or gymnon, fungus, mushroom and sea weed. Note the Quintuple section of a Cone" Circle, Ellipse, Agathe Parabola, Hyperbola, and Triai^le. tuche, that is Good fortune, is the old title of Astrologers for the 5th house in an Heavens, as (succedent) of the shown in Astrological Figure, and which refers to offspring, success hazardous schemes of fortune or pleasure, and wealth. found Joshua hanged 5 kings on 5 trees, they were hidden in a cave, and were the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron,

Jarmuth,Lachish was

Every

important

5 or There

a

and

Eglon.

measurement

of the

Jewish Tabernacle

multiple of 5. were 5 principal parts of Solomon's Temple. David Blesses the Lord 5 times in Psalms 103, 104. The Talmud says that there are 5 tittlethings which

are

62 5 strong things ; the mosquito to the Uon ; the fly to the scorpion; gnat to the elephant; the ichneumon the fiycatcher bird to the eagle, and the stickleback to the leviathan. Lewisohn, Zoology of the Talmud, Five things have in them a one-sixtieth part of 5 other things ; fire is one-sixtieth of hell ; honey one-sixtieth after the Sabbath one-sixtieth of the Sabbath hereof manna; ; sleep of death ; and a dream one-sixtiethof prophesy. Talmud, Berachoth, 57. 2. Even on the Sabbath you may kill 5 things the fly in Egypt ; the wasp in Nineveh ; the scorpion of Hadabia ; Talmud, the serpent of Israel,and the mad d"^ anywhere. Sabbat, 121. 2. In the First Temple of Solomon were $ things which were Temple in Cherubic Ark ; the the not ; the second Shekinah ; the Holy Spirit,and the Urim and Thummim. Talmud, Yoma, 31. z. Rabies in the dog has 5 symptoms ; its mouth gapes ; it drops spittle; its ears hang down ; it carries its tail between its legs, and it keeps to the side of any path. Yoma, 83, 2. For suckling mothers there are 5 things which are injurious; garlic,cucumber, melon, leeks and onions: said Rashi. If one study 5 years and then has found no profitin it; he will never Chullin, 24. i. profitby it. Talmud, Five isthenumberofexpiationand the number of sacrifice, of the passions, and the 5 wounds of Christ. These were inscribed on the Altai commemorated anciently by 5 crosses on himself at the tables, and the Priest made 5 crosses a terror to

"

W. F. Shaw. in the Liturgy. Jesuss times foretold His passion, and gave 5 particulars concerning it,and received 5 wounds. The Brahmins ; speak of 5 skandhas, or attributesof men they are rupa, form ; vidana, perception ; sanina, consciousness canOD

__

; sanskara, action ; and vidyana, knowledge. The sth Element, the Quintessenceof the Alchymist, was At first the Ens, derivable from the four, by progression. "

63 Contraries, then the Three Principles, then the Two Elements. Separate the pure from then the Four the impure, gently and with judgment, and so you obtain the Similarly note the the Son of the Sun. Quintessence, The man, God. old progression ; stone, plant, animal, authors sed

added,

Quod

"

Talk

si

jungerepossis,sit tibi sciresatis,

scis, nescis.

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THE

HEXAD.

6.

" callsit the form of fomi, the only number adapted to the Soul, the distinct union of the parts of the universe, the fabricatorof the Soul, also Hannony," and it " Venus herself. is properly It is also Zygeia and Nuptialia, and the Androgynse who Pliny tells us were African tribe who had "dextra an laeva muliebris." Among mamma the Fates it is virilis, Lachesis. Among it is Thalia. the Muses Six is also Benevolence, Peace, and Health, Acmon, one an of the Cyclops {akmon, and Truthanvil), it was called " the Perfection of By the Pythagoreans

NicoMACHUS

"

parts." As to

"

Marriage," itis a number is

equal

to

its parts, and production of

to sanction the ceremony offspringsimilar to the parent It is formed by the multiplication of the first(beyond it resembles the odd number and the first even,

marriage

a

unity)

union of Male and Female, as in Marriage or in Androof itssymmetry. gyneity, Health and Beauty, on account It was called "all-sufficient,"Travapma, panarkeia. According to the Pythagoreans, after a period of 216 is the cube of 6, all things are reyears, which number generate and they said this the Metempsychosis.

was

the periodic time

of

multiplied into itself,hke the pentad, six has also always itselfin the unit place, thus, 6, 36, 216, 1296, 7776. On the 6th day Man was created according to Genesis. On the 6th day of the week Jesusdied on the cross. When

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6! In

a

Freemason's

there

are

6

Jewels,three

of lie in for lodge the the and which open Brethren to moralize upon, while the other three jewelsare Brother to another at the periodical transferable from one changes of officers. " " In the Hebrew Book Sepher of Creation," the is spoken Yetzirah," the Hexad of; the units representing North, South, East, and the four quarters of the World; West, and also height and depth, and in the midst of all is the Holy Temple. See my translation, cap. i. v. ii, on are

"

Lodge

immovable

page 17, and notes The Druids had

on

p. 37.'

religiousmysterious preference for the 6. They performed their principal ceremonies on number the 6th day of the moon, and on the 6th day of the moon b^an 6 together to gather the went their year. They in monuments and plates 6 find tt^ether. of their priests grouped often

sacred mistletoe now

extant

See Mayo,

we

a

(misseltoe), and

ii.339.

An

astronomical period of 600 years, spoken of as the Naros," the Cycle of the Sun, the Luni-Solar period or Sibylline year, consisting of ji periods of 19 years, and one on the of II years, is often referred to in old works by the Chaldeans to have been known M]rsteries. It seems and ancient Indians ; it is a period of peculiar properties. declares it the most Cassini,a great astronomer, perfect of "

all astronomic periods. If on a certain day at

noon,

a

new

moon

took

place at take place agun place and time,

any certain point in the heavens, it would at the expiration of 600 years, at the same and with the planets all in similar positions. It is supposed recurrence that one of this period is of Virgil, the poem, which, referred to in the 4th Eclc^e

is weD known, has been spoken of as an allusion to the Messiah, Jesus. Sibyl has now "The anived, period sung by the Cumsean occurs the and grand series of ages (that series which again in course a the of mundane and again revolution) as

b^ns

'

Stpher Yelarah,

Second Edition, 1893.

5

66 vii^in Astraea returns, the reign of Saturn commences, progeny descends from heaven." and a new by the iate Dr, It has been calculated by some savants, Kenealy in particular,that a Messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus : Adam, to our on race the firstmessenger from the Gods afresh. The

"

earth,

Enoch, the second, 600 years after. Fo-hi, the third,to China in particular. Brigoo, Brighou, a Hindoo prophet. Zaratusht, Zoroaster, the fifth, to Persia. Thoth, Taautus, or Hermes TrismegJstus, Egyptians.

to

sent

the

Amosis, or Moses the Jewishlaw-giver, the seventh, Lao Tseu, a second to China, 600 b.c., the eighth. Jesusthe ninth, to the Jews firstand then to the Gentiles. Mohammed the tenth, he flourished about a,d. 600.

Chengiz Khan Who

the eleventh,

the special messenger

of

conquered Persia. was, the author is

1200,

a.d.

r"oo

ignorant. The Great

torial of the Naros, the Apocalypse, and the Mediasacrifice have been considered the secrets of the Circumcision was Mysteries. possibly an outward secret

sign of Initiation. Jesus,at any rate, writes the author God," appeared at the 9th Naros, and that such

a

too,

enough

"now

^itur""

was

messenger

mentions

was

no

i46r

"

v.

can

a8, "Nona

which

years,

one

of deny

Juvenal,oddly

expected.

in Satire XIII.

is the ninth age" he knew it is a mystery.

though how The Sothiac Cycle lunations.

of the "Book

indeed

aetas

it

containing

was,

r8,ooo

is not to be confused with "Saros," a cycle known to of r8 years and 10 days, which was of the moon the Chaldeans and Greeks, a period after the expiry of recur similarly: itconsists which the eclipses of the moon N.B.

"

Naros

of 223 lunations. The

circumference of

a

globe has

been

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6; degrees, six sixties; tKe hour divided into 60 minutes, each The Tartars had a period of 60 days, the of 60 seconds. Chinese also; and the Asiatics generally a period of 60 years. The

Babylonian great period was 3600 years, the Naros " " Lily which in all the old Annunciation multiphed by 6. The pictures Gabriel presents to the Virgin has 6 leaves, and the flower shows 6 petals all alike,around a central three-headed stigma, as is botanicalty correct. One of the three main divisions into which plants are arranged by Botanists,is typified by a predominance of the numbers 3 and 6, in all parts of the flowers,6 leaves forming a perianth, 6 stamens, and a 3-lobed stigma with a 3- or 6celled ovary is the

common

arrangement. Priests, mentions three of the Sossus 60 Naros, Neros, a a or of years ; of periods of time, 600 years, and the Saros, 3600 years. There seems some here Saros days. 10 confusion of 18 years and with the " Astronomie Ancienne," Bailly,in his p. 31, says; The Berosus,

one

Chaldean

60 and 3600 in computing used the numbers The The Brahmins Chaldeans also did so. have time. also an Antediluvian period of 600 years- The Tartars and Chinese also used a period of 60 years in theircomputations of time. Brahmins

Under

the number six, too, we must not omit to mention the symbols of the double triangle or Hexapla ; used at Arch in present as a sign in the degree of the Royal England be confused with the Pentalpha It must not

; the true Solomon's

seal

alpha: the Pentalpha is the Pythagorean sign of Hj^eia, Health. In Christian Churches we find this symbol used to natures, deemed express the union of the Divine and human Testament The the Christ of the New exist in Jesus, blending of the two triangles has also been used to typifythe to

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68 union of Fire and Water ; for the early symbol of fire was the triangle apex upward, and that of Water the same apex downward : the symbols of Air and Earth were two similar a cross bar. triangles,each with The Talmud says : "

Six things are

di^raceful

; to walk alone at wise man night ; to scent oneself for walking by day ; to talk with a in the street; to talk at table with the strai^e woman ignorant; to wear ragged shoes, and to be late at the house to a

of prayer. Berachoth, 43. 2. Six things lay up capital for hereafter,and also bear interest in this world ; hospitality well ordered ; comfort to the sick ;

prayerful meditation ; early instructionof children ; training in the Mosaic law, and charitable treatment of a neighbour. Sabbat. 127. r. have 6 characters ; like men Evil Demons they take food and drink, they b^et and they die; like angels, they have .

end of the world to the other, wings, they pass from one and they can learn the future. Talmud. is called by six names; Solomon, Jedidiah, Solomon The Fathers Koheleih, son of Jakeh, Agur and Lemuel. by Rabbi Nathan. firewhich eats and There are 6 kinds of Fire, common does not drink ; hre that drinks and does not eat, as fever ; fire that eats and drinks, that of Elijah, i Kings xviii, 38 ; "

both moist and dry ; the fireon the Altar which consumed the fire of Gabriel which other fire, and the consumed Essential fireof God which consumed evil angels. Yoma, 21.

a.

The Tables of Moses were said to have been 6 handsbreadths long, 6 wide and 3 thick. Talmud ; Nedarin, reckons that if cut out of Sinaitic stone, 38. 8. Hershon each Table would have weighed 28 tons, but he is in error, reckoning hands-breadths as ells,as 18 inches instead of 4 inches. The Angel of Death had no power over 6 holy persons ; Bava Isaac, Jacob,Moses, Aaron and Miriam. Abraham, Bathra, 17. r. These died by the Divine Kiss of death,

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so

definitelystated in the

case

6{ Miriam, for

feai of scandal. The in the Book Lion has 6 names of Job; ARI, ShChL, KPIR, LISh, LBIA and ShChTz. The Serpent has 6 names OKShUB, APOH, ; NCHSh, ShRP. Nachash TzPOUNI, TNIN the Brazen and Serpent, Okeshub, an asp. Psalm cxxiv. 4 ; Opoh, an adder, Isaiah xli. 24; Tzephounl, the basilisli,Isaiah xlv. 29; Tanin, as serpent or crocodile; and Seraph, a serpent of fire. See Rabbi Nathan, cap. 29. Six blasts of the Horn were blown on the eve of the Sabbath and then the Sabbath had bt^n. W. F. Shaw says that 6 is the number of temptation and for 6th hour 6th day the first temptation at the sin, of the into the world. Six is the number came of toil and work, for 6 days the Israelites had to collect manna ; at the 6th

hour of the 6th day Jesuswas sentenced to death, and in the Revelations the 6th seal, trumpet and vial were all Flood Noah The came was emblematic of woe. when 600 years old. The number 666

was an emblem of the Great Wicked identification, but he is implied in a One, still without Hamor, ben is 666 by prototype, Shechem whose name Gematria, ShKM BN ChI^VR, he was the corruptor of Dinah. See Genesis xxxiv. verse 2. The Jews expected that the end of the present dispensation of the world would arrive after 6000 years, and St. Barnabas repeats this as a reasonable belief of the ancient Christian Church. The Ancient Egyptians had for their highest Priests a College of 6, of which hardly any information has come down to us ; but one Asesbra is mentioned as Master of the Mysterious Words of the 6, and a statue has been found of Ei-meii, whose engraved titleis Chief of the Dwellii^ of one the Great Six.

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THE The

Heptad,

HEPTAD.

7. "

say the followers

of

Pythagoras,"

was

so

"

(and from called from the Greek verb sebo," to venerate ShBO, seven, or the Hebrew satisfied,abundance),being " " " " Septos, Holy," divine," and Virgin," motherless," and a " From Nicomachus learn that it was called Minerva," we being unmarried and virginal, begotten neither by a mother, from a father, i.e.,odd number : but ""., even number, nor of the Father of all thii^s, the proceeding from the summit Monad head as Minerva ; even sprang all armed from the Foreof Hence

Jove or

Zeus.

also Obrimopatrfi, or daughter of a mighty father, Glaucopis, shining eyed, and aurp-mp and and aytkcia, Ametor and Ageleia, she that carries off the spoil. And " Fortune," for it decides mortal afFairs"

Voice," for there -are seven tones in every voice, human and instrumental : because they are emitted by the seven planets, and form the Music of the Spheres. Also Tritf^enia, because there are 3 parts of the Soul, the Intellectual, Irascible, and Epithymetic (desiring), and And

Justas of the three 4 most perfect virtues are produced. intervals, length, breadth, and depth, there are four boundaries in corporeal existence point, line, superficies "

and

solid.

It is called "Agelia" from Agelai, herds, stars were called by the Babylonian s^es, over

ruled 7 angels. Also Phylakikos, because

the Seven

as

of herds

groups

which

tfivXaKuoK preserving, "guardian," =

Planets direct and

guide

our

universe.

71 Also

^gis,

from

Minerva, the bearer of the breast-plateor aegis,also Telesphoros, leading to the is prohfic ; and Judgment, end, because the 7th month because their Physicians looked for a crisis on the 7th day in many diseases. Among other curious problems and speculations, the Pyth^orean philosophers attempted to prove that offspring bom or were at the full term, 9 months, at 7 months, 8 be reared, but not at those bom viable, i.e., might because

Pallas Athene,

or

8

{male consists of two odd numbers 5 and 3 ; but in 9 and 7, male and female numbers only) are 9 and 4 + 3 7, whilst eight can only united, as 5 + 4 be divided into two odd or two evens, I'.e., simUar sexed months,

=

=

numbers. In respect to life and its divisions, they remarked the by the number ages are measured 7. In the first7 years the teeth are erupted. on second 7 years comes abilityto emit prolificseed. third 7 years, the growth of the beard as manhood. fourth 7 years, strength reaches its maximum.

fifth7 years is the season for marriage. sixth 7 years, the height of intelligence arrives. seventh 7 years, the maturity of reason. eighth 7 years, perfection of both. ninth 7 years, equity and mildness, passions become gentle. tenth 7 years, the end of desirable life. Athenian

Lawgiver, and Hippocrates the physician, also used this 7 year division of life. The Pleiades, a group of seven stars in the constellation Solon

the

of mighty power over earthly destiny ; seven there were also of the Hyades, daughters of Atlas ; stars which guided the sailors. Ursa Major, and the seven locate the Saptarishi,seven in which the Hindoos sages of first importance and primitive wisdom, are a group of the Taurus,

are

was

thought

easily recc^nised. in his Astro-Theology, gives 7 stages of lifewith Duncan,

,.ib,.Cooglc

Lucina; hood, Childplanets j thus, Infancy, Moon, Mercury, Knowledge ; Youth, Venus, Love; Manhood, Sol ; Full Strength, Mars ; Maturity of Judgment, Jupitei ; Old Age, Saturn. and Some philosophers have said that our souls have 7 foci in the material body, viz., the five senses, the voice, and the

assodated

generative

The

power.

has seven obvious parts, the head, chest, two legs and two arms. abdomen, internal organs, stomach, liver, heart, There are seven lungs, spleen and two kidneys. The ruling part, the head, has seven parts for external use,

two

body

eyes, two

ears,

two

nostrilsand a mouth. body, interval, magnitude There are seven things seen, colour, motion and permanency. inflectionsof the voice, the acute, grave, There are seven circumfiex, rough, smooth, the long and the short soundsThe hand makes seven motions ; up and down, to the right and left,before and behind, and circular. There are seven evacuations ; tears from the eyes, mucus "

of the nostrils, the saliva, the

semen,

two

excretions and

the

perspiradon.

Modem

medical knowledge corroborates theancient dictum that in the seventh month the human offspring becomes viable. in seriesof four times seven Menstruation tends to occur days, and is certainlyrelated to Luna in an occult manner. The lyre has 7 strings, corresponding to the planets. There are 7 vowels in English and some other tongues. Theo

of Smyrna also notices that an adult's intestine is 28 feet,four times

average length of an seven, and 28 also is

a

perfect number. The number 7 is also associated with Voice and Sound, with Clio the Muse ; with Osiris the Egyptian deity ; with Nemesis, Fate, from; and Adxastia, not to be escaped with Mars. As to the sacredness of the number the 7, note among by Hebrews, oaths were seven confirmed witnesses ; or by "

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seven

to swear.

admitted into the ark by the unclean only in paiis. come The Goths had 7 Deities from whom Tuisco, Woden, of week days; Sun, Moon,

Clean beasts

were

Seatur, corresponding, of course, Apollo, the Sun God, had sevenfold. Persian The sacred to him.

Mithras,

a

to a

our

Thor,

whilst names

Friga,

the planets, Greek title Ebdom^os, had

God,

Sun

sevens,

the number

7

Ladder of 7 steps ascent Eloah, Love of side Oheb and 7 steps descent, the one love of the neighbour: Kerobo, God; the other Oheb this is referred to in the Masonic grade of Kn^ht of Kadosh. Plato, in his Timseus, teaches that from the number was seven generated the Soul of the World, Anima Mundana Kadosh

the Mysterious

Note

(Adam Kadmon). The

seven

wise

Bias who Chilo

of Greece

men

said,

bad," b.c. 550. Most men are Consider the end," b.c. 590. "Avoid Extremes," B.C. 580. is impossible to persever"Nothing ance,"

" "

Cleobulos,, Periander,,

B.C.

Pitticus

;

were

"

"

600,

Know Know

thy opportunity," B.C. 569. Solon thyself," B.C. 600, " Thales "Suretyship is ruin," B.C, 550. " The Seven Wonders of the World are thus enumerated : 1 Pyramids of Egypt. Gardens for Amytis. 2. Babylon, King of Caria, built by of Mausolus, 3. Tomb "

"

.

Artemisia, his 4. Temple of Diana was

Queen. at

Ephesus,

552

b.c.

Ctesiphon

the chief architect.

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74 image an of the sun 5. Colossus of Rhodes, god, Apollo, of brass, 290 b.c. 6. Statue of Zeus, by Fhidias. Philadelphus, 7. Pharos of Egypt, built by Ptolemy of white marble, 283 B.C. ; is sometimes substituted-

the PaJace of Cyrus

or

Sanskrit lore has very frequent reference to this number

;

note

Sapta Rishi, Sapta Loka,

seven

sages,

seven

worlds. holy

Sapta Dwipa, islands. Sapta

seven

Samudra,

Sapta Kula, 7 castes. Sapta Para, 7 cities. Sapta Arania, 7 deserts. Sapta

Pama,

7

principles. Sapta Vruksha,

seven

human

holy

7

trees. holy seas. The Assyrian Tablets also teem with groups of sevens of earth ; 7 gods 7 gods of sky ; 7 gods of fiery "

spheres.

Seven gods maleficent ;

seven

phantoms

; spiritsof

seven

heavens, spirits of seven earths. have been that 7 was a to The Chaldean notion seems holy number nefast under which became certain conditions. The opposite sides of a die added together are always seven in total numeration, so

the

4

opposite

3, 6

opposite

i,

and

on.

It used to be asserted, says seventh Male bom without any

John

Heydon, that every between, female coming

the King's Evil, by Word, or Touch. St. James iii.v. 17 gives the 7 characters of wisdom. After Birth the 7th hour decides whether the child will live, in 7 days the cord falls off, b twice 7 days the eyes

can

cure

light,thrice 7 days turns the head, 7 months gets firmly, b^ins to teeth, twice 7 months thrice sits 7 months talk, after 4 times 7 months walks strongly.

follow

a

After 7 years, teeth of second set appear. After 14 years is the arrival of generative power. is completed. After 21 the hair of Manhood

After 28

we

cease

to grow,

at

35 is the greatest strength.

75 at 49 is the greatest

discretion,and 70 is the natural end of

Life, The

Moon

passes

through

stages of 7 days

in increase,

full,decrease, and renewal,

Naaman was ordered by Elisha {an adept)to lake seven dips in Jordan,to cleanse himself from Leprosy, Note the seven of years for Repentance ; 7 churches Asia (orAssiah), 7 Angels with Trumpets, 7 candlesticks of the Holy Places, 7 seals,7 trumpets, 7 kings, 7 thousands slain, 7 vials of wrath to be poured out, pace the Apocalypse, 7 memhers make a lodge perfect, although 5 may hold one. Francis Barrett, in his "Magus," 7 Birds, catalt^ues Fishes, Animals, metals, stones, and members of the Body, It has been to

correspond There

said there

are

seven

apertures

of the skull

with the planets.

Seven Degrees in the Oriental Order of Sikha B'HAI ; but I have doubts of {7 Brothers) and the SAT the Brahmanic authenticity of the present order of the Archer. name, which was introduced by J, H. Lawrence From the relative length of their courses the ancients Symbols, thus : constructed a Planetary Ladder, with Vowel Moon Venus Mars Sun Merc. Jupit. Saturn i a u e ee o 00 These symbols were used in mysrical knowledge, as an Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi shows, where " I meant Planet, i.e..Sun and the Sun and its nearest Mercury; was often represented as a Dog, and Mercury following a Sun Man. The Oracle of Claros (Macrobius, Saturnalia, r. 18) said that lAn (the Gnostic Deity)was the Sun and the first last of the planetary set, hence the 7 Concentric and are

spheres.

Duncan Heavenly Moon,

to assigns these Minerals and Animals to the ancient world. Bodies known Mars, Wolf, Iron Bull, Silver

Mercury, Serpent, Venus, Sun,

Dove,

Eagle, Quicksilver Jupiter,

Copper

the

Pewter

Saturn, Ass, Lead

Lion, Gold

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76 ment Note also the number of 7 pipes in the Musical instruat the mouth of the old deity Pan, the Great Whole, a Sun God (notthe later Rural Pan). An ancient symbol of the universe was a Ship with seven pilots,in the centre of the ship, a Lion ; possibly from an idea that the Sun hrst rose in Leo. Note Aries supplanted Taurus, as the constellation in was the Sun rises at the Vernal equinox; Taurus which the sign at the early fabulous periods of the earth" it was displaced about 300 B.C. The sign becomes changed

by the precession of the equinoxes: Pisces has now followed Aries ; but the Sun is stiltsaid to enter the sign Aries at the Vernal Equinox about March Its actual position in March Omega 1 900 was near 3TSt. every

2150

years

Pisces.

T. Subba Row describes the Seven Primary Forces of Nature as six powers in a seventh. These are resumed (."., called Sakti (Mahamaya) and are related to Kanya, Vii^o, as the 6th Zodiacal Sign : they are Parasakti, force of light and heat ; Inanasaktt, intellect; Itchasakti, cause movements of voluntary of will ; ; Kriyasakti, energy life force in Kundalini the sakti, shown attraction and Mantrika sakti, the power repulsion, positive and n^ative; of sounds, vibration, music, words and speech; these are in Daivi prakriti= the Light of the Lc^os. summarized known Our physical senses as 5, are an incomplete set, there

are

indeed

7 forms

or

modes of perception, as appears in the highest developments of the "Chabrat zereh aur bokher," and as described in the oldest Sanskrit occult science of the Upanishads ; smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing and 6th, Mental perception, with 7th, spiritual latter dwarfed were not understanding : the two and into in ftfth Race this of materialized noticeable organs beings, to which Man belongs. For a fuller explananow tion " Secret Doctrine Mme. Blavatsky. The see the of Archaic scheme recognized Seven States of Matter; geneous, homo"

"

"

"

aeriform,, nebulous

fiery elemental,

or

curdUke, atomic, germinal lastly that which is vapoury, and fourfo]^

77 cold

and

dependent

nn

a

vivifyii^ Sun

for

l^ht and

heat

Our Earth, symbolised by Malkuth of the Kabalah, is the seventh of a series, and is on the Fourth plane ; it is generated by Jesod,the foundation the Sixth World, and of the after complete purification will in the 7th Race become Logos Cycle 7th and in re-united to the Spiritual Our earth has been already the end to the Absolute.

kings (asof and each cycle sees seven b.]).Seven is the key to the Mosaic creation, to the symbols Seven as are of every religion. There Planes of being, the upper three are and unknowable

thrice changed, Edom [h,p.

subjective

to

may

be so

:

mankind, contemplated there

are

the

the

by seven

lower man

four as

are

objectiveand abstractions and the of four at

metaphysical Principles in Man,

upper triad are parted from the lower group dissolution. The Seven Principles constituting Man are variously by by Esoteric Buddhism, Vedantic the the named scheme, idea ; in tut by they correspond other philosophers, and first from above come Atma, a ray from the Absolute; Buddhi, spiritualsoul ; and Manas, human soul ; these are deatii from the the superior triad,which separates at human lower tetrad of principles. The lower four are Kama rupa, Sarira, the astral body; Frana, life the passions; Linga essence ; and Sthula Sarira, the lower body ; see the dogmas of Esoteric Buddhism. The Kabalah divides these into four planes of the Soul, which are further separated by adepts; these are Chiah, Kuach, to Neschamah, which correspond and Nephesch, the symbolical worlds of Atziluth, Briah, Yetzixah, and Assiah. There is an occult reference in the Seven stars in the head of Taurus called the Pleiades, six present and one hidden said to be daughters of Atlas, who, pursued by Orion, were changed by Zeus in mercy into pigeons (peleia). is Metope, The who married the mortal missii^ one Sisyphus, and hides herself for shame. "

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left the Rabbis who it, three had Greater Holy Assembly ; ten had formed See Macthe "Sod," SVD, passed away from mystery. was

the

number

"

of

the

"

Gregor

Mathers,

in

Greater his translation of The and Lesser Holy Assembly, or the H IDRA RBA QDIShA and H IDRA ZUTA QDIShA. Athanasius Kircher the Jesuit states that the ancient Egyptians associated numbers to the planets as follows : "

Saturn

3,

9,

ij,

45

Jupiter

4, 16,

136

Mars Sol

34, 65,

6,36,111,

S, 25,

Venus

.

.

.

.

325 666

7, 49, 145, 1225 8, 64, 260, zoSo 9, 81, 369, 3521

.

Mercury Luna

also F. Barrett, The Magus. names of the 7 Gods and planets and are; Saturn, of the Ancient Egyptians

In this matter see The later Coptic

Genii of the World Rephan, God Jupiter,Picheus, God of life; of time; Mars, Moloch, God Sol, Phri or Fire, of destfcction; Holy Lord ; Venus, Souroth, lady of love ; meaning Mercury, Hermes, Ermanibis, God of speech ; and Luna, Piooh, lady of the waters. The Hindoos speak of 7 Tatwas,

the abstract

principles and physical, the subtle elements

of existence, metaphysical and the corresponding human So there are yet developed.

only five are five exoteric, Akasa, Vayu,

senses,

of which

Tejas,Apas

and Prithwi ; the firsttwo esoteric yet unknown The One, Ani and Anupadaka. first name means are Unity, the Atom, the latter of BTahma; and is a name means parentless, self-existent. The first five are referred to primeval Aether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth ; and to Hearing, not

Hearing. The Sanscrit

Astrology

Kuja Sukra

for

Sight, Taste and See Rama Prasad,

Touch,

are

names

Surya

Mars,

for Venus,

Smell;

note

is

Air

of the Seven Planets used in Hindoo for the Sun, Chandra for Moon,

Budhan and

for Mercury,

Shani

for Saturn

Guru :

for

then

Jupiter,

there

are

79 Rahu,

the

Lunar

upper

is also Jupiter

Node, Brihaspati.

named

and

Ketu

for the lower.

is word Septemtriones refers to the north, and its reference to the 7 stars of Ursa Major, so called from in the Zodiac of Denderah also called the Plough, and seen as the Thigh. The Talmudic Berachoth, 14. 1, says he who passes 7 The

nights without dreaming

be called wicked. The JudaicHell was given seven by the Kabalists ; names Sheol, Abaddon, Tihahion, Bar Shacheth, Tzelmutb, Shaari Muth, and Gebinnom. Seven things were formed before the world ; Law, Repentance, Paradise, Gehenna, that is Gai hinnom, the Throne of Glory,

the

and

deserves

Messiah.

formed these were Talmud, Pesachim,

2000

The

to

Taigum

Yerushalmi

says before World's the years creation.

54. i. Seven things were hidden from man ; the day of death, the time of the resurrection, the final judgment, the opinion of his fellow man, the time of the Jewish restoration,and the

Fall of Persia {whatever that may mean). Pesachim, 54. 2. in Chagijah names The Talmud cultists 7 Heavens, and Oc; Raquie, recognise 7 Planetary Heavens Maon, Sagun, Ghereboth, and Shamaim.

Makun, In

Zebul,

Micah,

g, we read that 7 shepherds chapter v. verse Adam, Assyria; the Talmud says they were shall waste Jacob and Methuselah, Abraham, Jacob and Moses, Succah. 52. 2. aiid David. Of Prophetesses there were 7 ; Sarah, Miriam, Deborah, "

Hannah, In

Abigail, Huldah

the

Talmud

and

Esther.

17, i, it is SEud that it is look into his wife'sface for 7 days

Kethubotb,

permissible to the Jew to after marriage ; after this it is presumably wrong, in their opinion. Adar, Moses On the 7th day of the month died and the rain of manna ceased, says the Talmud, but this appears to be contradicted in Joshua v. verses bom He lo-ia. was on

the

The

same

Bava

day of the Kama

same

month. that says after 7 years

a

male

hyjena

bat, in another 7 years a Vampire, after another If a and after another is turned into a demon. failsto pray devoutly for 7 years, his s["ne after death man becomes a serpent Besides those who 7 prophesied for Israel, there were Beor, Balaam, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zoliar, Job, other prophets, Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzzite. and Bava Bathra says that 7 men form an unbroken ""^"The by Methuselah, then was seen series to this day. Adam Shem, Jacob, Amram, Ahijahthe Shilonite, and Elijah, becomes a Thorn,

who

saw

a

him, and Elijah is still alive until to-day. a man 7 years of pestilence will not cause

Even before his allottedtime. This dictum of the treatiseSanhediin

is

a

to

die

statement

of

predestination has but one voice while alive,but after death his A Ram his horns make two body makes trumpets, 7 sounds; his thigh bones two pipes, his skin will cover a drum, the large intestinesare formed into strings for the lyre, and the small intestineswill make the small stringsfor the haqi. In the Sabbat, 152. 2, ofthe Talmud itis said that the Soul .

Compare tliis watches over his corpse for 7 days. of a man Theosophic teaching that the Linga Sarira broods with the over the body for a week after death. Rabbi Nathan says that 7 good qualities avail at the

Judgment;

wisdom, righteousness, good opinions, mercy, Seven epithets are applied to the truth, grace, and peace. Aretz, Adamah, Earth in the Hebrew Arequa, tongue; The Charebah, Yabeshah, Cheled and ThebeL mystical flowed all the week, but was River Sambatyon stUl on the Hershon, Talmudic Miscellany, 154. 7th day, says Rashi. Seven is the token of Union between God, who is Triune, and Man, who is Quaternary.W. F. Shaw. The Holy Ghost is said to impart a 7-fold gift; 7 Lamps bum before the Throne of God. The Council of Aries declared that 7 Bishops take part in the Ordination of a Bishop. There

was

a

ought to

7 years' probation for admission to the Celtic

Order

Culdees.

There

Vestments

of the Christian priesthood, and Bishops 7 others, should wear Sandals, Dalmatic, Rational, Mitre, Gloves, Ring, and Staff. The Coptic Gnostics represented the Jehovah of the Hebrews by a curious arrangement of the 7 vowels, without H a consonant ; thus lEOOUA (the is the Greek eta, long long O, e ; and the first0 is the Greek omega.) In the Zoro^strian theology we read of the highest beings source the the 7 Amshaspands of lifej Bahman, ; Ormuzd, king of this world ; Ardibehest, fireproducer ; Shahrivar, the former of metals ; Spandarmat, queen of the earth (the Gnostic Sophia) the ruler of times and seasons ; ; Khordad, Below Amexdad, over and vegetable world. ruling ,the by Mithras Izeds,. over there are the 27 ; in opposition ruled to these were powers of darkness, the 7 arch devs, and the 27 devs, or devils as we call them. The historiccity of Rome, pagan before it was Christian, built upon Seven Hills; the Palatine, Ccelian,Aventine, was Viminal, Quirinal, Esquiline, and the Capitol, In Latin of

the

are

7

old authors called Urbs Septicollis. Some for Rome. speak of Valentia as a secret name The BijouNotes and Queries, vol. xiv" p. 235, says that the 7 days of the week have all been used as sacred days ; by the Greeks; Tuesday by Sunday by Christians; Monday 6y the Assyrians ; Thursday by the the Persians, Wednesday

times it

was

,

Egyptians ; Friday by the Turks ; and Saturday by the Jews.Tlie number 7 was curiously related to H. P. Blavatsky " Lucifer was firstpublished and the Theosophical Society. in r887, and 1877 is the sum of 17 hundreds, 17 tens, and Road, and 17 17 units; H. P, B. lived at 17 Lansdowne "

Street; 7 Duke first 7 volumes were completed at her death; Colonel Olcott her at 7 Eeckman Street, and later at 71 Broadway, met New York. Anna Kingsford was elected president firstof veiled T. S. Lodge on the London 7th January 1883; Isis Unwas of the published in 1877, and the Third volume Secret Doctrine was published in 1897, after her death. Avenue

Road;

Lucifer

was

published

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THE Is the

first cube

OGDOAD.

of enei^,

S.

and is the only evenly

even

The Greeks thought it an allnumber within the decad. they had a Proverb "^ things are powerful number; eight." Camerarius, in his Nicomachus' Arithmetic, calls it Universal because musical ratios are distinguished Harmony,

by this number. The Ratio of 9 to 8 is sesquioctave, this forms a is attributed to the Moon. I z to 9 is sesquitertian Mercury. .

to 8 is sesquialter 16 to 12 is sesquitertian 1 2

18 to

iz

is sesquialter

18 to 9 is duplex 2 1 to

.

tone

and

^ "

Venus.

ISun.

.

Mars.

9 is duple sesquitertian

34 to iS is sesquitertian 24

to 12

duple

\ Attributed to

24 to 8 is triple

18 to 13

12

to 8

f

Jupiter.

sesquialter "

53 to 34 sesquitertian 32 to 8 quadruple. 36 to 34 sesquialter 36 to 18 duple 36 to 8 quadruple

.

24 to 18 sesquitertian

" Saturn.

Are ascribed to the

8th

or

Ineira-

ticSphere which comprehends all the rest.

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Harmony

was

Cadmus

meant

Eight

says.

Dindymene,

wa^

"

Cadmeia," because looked upon as the wife of Cadmus; and Sub-lunary World, Olympiodonis as the called also Mother, and Rhea, Cybele and

the ogdoad

from

was

also called

being the first cube, and

a

cube

senting repre-

the eartheight persons

saved from the flood of Xisuthrus are octaves synonyms of many of gods, such as the 8 Cabiri Bryant and Faber on see this great gods of Samothrace; myth. There are 8 Beatitudes of the Christian rel^on,Matthew, The

cap.

V-

Eight is the number of the Moons of Saturn. There have been several Masonic orders concerned with Ogdoad, as the Prussian masons, Knights of this Noachite the Royal Axe, or Prince of Libanus, the Noachites, and the Royal Ark Mariners, which is a subsidiary order to the Mark Master Masons. Macrobius says the Ogdoad because it consists of evenly even

the

was

numbers,

type and

of on

Justice, account

of its equal divisions. John Heydon tells us that 8 Events befall the Damned, and that there are 8 rewards of the Blessed. 8 is sacred to Dionysos, who bom The was at number Naxos to isle dedicated him 8th was the ; the month of and

it was of Naxos, that their children granted to the women bom in the 8th month should live, whereas it is usual for such to die, although those bom in either the 7th or the gth are usuaUy reared. month to practise Circumcision on The Jews were accustomed the 8th day. Feast of Dedication lit8 or The Jews at the Chanucah candles, and it lasted 8 days. This is the Engkainia of

John

X.

22.

As

to

the ancient Jews, it that Levi played with S

conjuringamong

is said in Talmud, Succah, 53. i, knives ; Samuel in the presence of the King Sapor of Persia used 8 cups, and Abaji before Rabbi Rava used 8 ^gs. Eight prophets ware descended from Rahab the Harlot,

Jeremiah,Hilkiah, Hanneviz.,Neraiah, Seraiah, Maasiah, Note also that Huldah the prophetess meel, and Shallum. was the grandchild of Rahab. The last 8 verses of the Law, the Pentateuch, were written by Joshua, Bava Bathia, 14. 1. Rabbi Nathan 8 sects of the that there were states Pharisees

:

but

Babylon)name

both only

of

seven.

the Talmuds {Jerusalemand It is prophesied that the Harps

will be played on earth before the Messiah will have 8 strings. Erachin, 13. 2. As seven Creation, so 8, was the number of the ordinal be considered as the Day generat says W, F. Shaw, may of ReEight souls were saved in the Ark of Noah, 8 NVCh was and Noah was the 8th in descent, his name which

=

times 8 888

=

64.

is the special number

of

Jesus Christ

as

"

He

who

is the Resurrection and the Life." He is the great opponent of the 666, the number of the Beast, the number of a Man.

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THE

ENNEAD.

9.

The

Ennead is the firstsquare of an odd number, it was said to be like the Ocean flowing around the other numbers within the Decad ; no further elementary number is possible, hence it is like the Horizon because all the numbers are bounded by it We find that it was called Prometheus, because the and "Freedom from Strife,"and "Vulcan," of numbers is as far as 9, justas the ascent of things decomposed by fire is as far as the sphere of Fire (thesummit ascent

of the air is arranged according to the novenary system, and "sister " and wife to Jupiter from itsconjunction with the Monad. " " And Telesplroros to an or "Bringing end" because the of the

and Juno, because air),

tiie Sphere

human

offspring is carried 9 calendar months by the parent. And teleiosor perfect for the same reason, and also called "Perfect" because it is generated from the Triad, which is *' called Perfect" Attention iscalled to itsbeing an emblem of Matter, which, destroyed; so the number ever 9 when varying, is never by itself, t hus : multiplied any number always reproduces 9 times 2 are 18 and 8 plus 1 are nine : and so on as below : 2 + 1=9 9X3=37; 9Xiz=io8; 1+8+0=9 7 + t + i=9 9x4=36; 9X13=117; 3+0=9 6+2 + 1=9 4 + 5=9 9x5=45; 9X14=126; 9x6=54; 5+ 3+ ' 9 5+4=9 9Xi5='35; "

=

9x7=63; 9X8=73; 9x9=81; 9X10=90; 9X11=99;

6+3=9

9X16=144;

7 + 3=9 8 + 1=9

9x17=153;

9 + 0=9

9x18=162; 9X19=171; 9X3o=i8o;

4+4+1=9 3 + 5 + 1=9

3+6+1=9 1 + 7 + 1=9 8+1+0=9

"..".Co",glc

In

John Heydon's

Holy

Guide,

1662,

we

find that he

9 to have other curious properties: If writ or engraved on Silver, or Sardis, and carried with becomes invisible,as Caleron, the Brotherone, the wearer in-law of Alexander, did, and by this means lay with his Brother's concubines as often as he did himself. Nine also And the 9th hour our obtaineth the love of Women. Saviour breathed his last; on the 9th day the ancients asserts

the number

"

"

buried their dead; after 9 years Numa received his laws from Jove; note the 9 cubits stature of Og, king of Basan, who is a lype of the Devil, and there are 9 orders of DeviU in Sheol (what we call Hell). It prevails gainst Piques Long lifeand Health, and by itPlato and Fevers; it causes that he died

age of nine times 9." There are nine orders of Angels, says Gregory, a.d. 3S1, in Homily Thrones, Dominions, 34 Seraphim, Cherubim, Virtues, Powers, Principalities,Archangels, and Angeb. so

ordered

From 1.

2.

a

events

at the

Christian point of view the numbers

Unity of the Godhead. The hypostatic union of

Christ. 3. Trinity, 4. Evangelists. 5. Wounds of Jesus. 6. Is the number of sin. Gifts 7. of the spirit Rev. i. la; and Jesus 7

times

represent : spoke on the "

cross.

S. Beatitudes. 9, Orders of Angels. ro. 11.

Commandments. Apostles beside

Judas.

Original Apostolic College, by 13. College completed St. Paul, The Nine Muses of ancient Greece were called daughters (Memory),and were Calliope, of Zeus and Mnemosyne tragedy; Euterpe, poetry; Clio, history; Melpomene, ; Terpsichore, music ; Erato, love, inspiration and pantomine la.

dancing; The Santa,

Urania, astronomy; Thalia, comedy, hymnia, and Polyeloquence. Novensiles are cules, the nine Sabine Gods : viz. HerRomulus, Bacchus, Vesta, ^neas, "

Fortuna

with the Romans

jEsculapius, The and Fides.

about 366

Sabines

became

merged

B.C.

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Nine gods of the Etruscans were Juno, Minerva, Vulcan, Mars, Saturn, Hercules, Summanus, and Etruscans Vedius; became the also united with the Romans. " Note in Macaulay's Horatius," " Lars Porsena poem of by the nine gods he of Clusium Porsena led the Etruscans ; they from

Etruscans

the

the Romans

swore," were

in 596 then most

took

much

of

Lars

B.C.

powerful : their law,

custom,

and superstition. It is by nines that Eastern presents are given, when they would extend their magnificence to the greatest degree, as mentioned in Comte de Caylus' Oriental Tales, 1743Barrett's Magus notes also 9 precious stones, 9 orders devils, he from John Heydon. of 9 choirs of angels copies Note in this connection the Nundinals of the Romans, "

letters into parcels of 8 days, and left their pursuits and went on every gth day the people to market to the towns the jocular Latin saying, ; hence Tres mulieres Nundinas faciunt. These ate a nundinals

who

the days by

marked

Dominical letters,a set of the 8th days. The Romans also held on the 9th day male infants on type of

our

seven

marking

out

mony purification cerehence life, the of Nundina. was presiding goddess of this rite called The Nones were one of the sets of days composing each in feast The Roman Novennalia was a calendar month. memory

of

dead

the

celebrated occasional Roman

a

every

9th

year.

The

Catholic fast to avert the R.C. system of Neuvaines. calamities, from this arose " There is a Masonic Nine Elected Knights," order of in which 9 roses, 9 lights and 9 knocks are used. Mahometans have 99 names The of the deity. Some Jews have taught that God had 9 times descended to earth ; 1st in Eden, and at the confusion of tongues, 3rd at the Novendiale

was

an

destruction of Sodom, and 5th at 4th to Moses at Horeb, Sinai, 6th to Balaam ; 7th to Elisha ; 8th in the Tabernacle j at Jerusalem ; and that his loth and 9th in the Temple coming The

as

the Messiah

ancients

had

would be final. fear of the number a

Nine

and

its

multiples, especially S i ; they thoi^ht them of evil presage, indicating change and fragility. At the 9th hour the Saviour died. Nine is also "the earth under evil influences." John Heydon, " Holy Guide," and Ragon, in his Magonnerie Occulte, thus associate numbers with the Planets. Sun

I

Moon

and 4 2 and 7

and I

2

5 Cancer 9 Scorpio

Saturn

8 9

5

the Zodiacal Signs thus Leo

6

Mars

Jupiter3 Mercury

Venus

Aquarius

6 Taurus Virgo 10

: "

3 Capricomus 7 Aries 11

Pisces

Sagittarius 8 Libra Gemini. iz 4

both First and the Second Temples of the Jews were Ah. destroyed on the 9th day of the Jewish month On the Talith and Jews do not wear the 9th day of Ab modem ITie day should be spent in Phylacteries until evening. tears, and no good comes of work done on that day. in Soteh, 20. i, says that a woman The Talmud prefers The

Nine Enoch,

of fun to 9 of Pharisaic professional goodness. persons have entered Alive into the Jews'Paradise ; Elijah,Messiah, Eliezer, the servant of Abraham,

Hiram,

king of Tyre,

one

measure

Ebed

Meiek

the Ethiop, Jabez the son of Johuda the Prince, Bathia daughter of Fh^'aoh,and Some Rabbis add Sarah Rabbi the daughter of Asher. Levi, bet he Yoshua son of entered not at the door, but over the wall. See Kethuboth, 7. 2. chmbed for praising God. In the i4Sth Psalm we find 9 reasons Great Eleusinian Mysteries were The the successors' of Isis Osiris, Mysteries Egyptian the of celeand brated and were Eleusis Athens, honour in at and possibly also at of Demeter Ceres; they occupied 9 days, and were or commenced on the fifteenth day of the third Attic month,

Boedromion,

September:

they

took

place

once

in every

five years. The Lesser Mysteries in the month were performed Elaphebolion, March, Agne Ilyssus in on at the River honour of Persephone or Proserpine, daughter of the former heroine. in the Candidates Mystse: after reception became Greater Mysteries they became Epoptse. The ceremonies in use were called Teletai, perfectings. They remained for rSoo years, and were the only ceased in the time d Emperor Tbeodosius, A.D. 395.

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Decad,

"All

complete"

number

DECAD. ten,

Pantbleia,

or

"fully

or

la

accomplished,"

meant which is the grand

reached can not be passed; we must retrograde to the Monad. were entranced with its virtues and Eternity and the Sun. called it Deity, Heaven, being the recipient or receptacle of all numbers Ten hence was receive, and called Decad, from dechomai=\o of numbers, to increase the sum The Pythagoreans

summit

Heaven, Like

which

once

which was ordained to receive all the Deity it is a Circle, with visible

circumference too vast for sight It is the sum of the units of the number

men.

centre,

four

as

but its

previously

holy and Deistic number, thus 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 thus ten gains splendour from its parentage. is infinite life, Also spoken "Eternity," of as which is because it contains every number in itself,and number infinite. It is also called Kosraos, that is the " Universe." Proclus is mundane also, it is the world which says: The decad receives the images of all the divine numbers, which are imparted to it. supematurally because if It is called "the fountain of eternal nature," we take the half, five as the middle number, and add 6 below, together the next above and the next viz., and 4,

mentioned, are 10, and

we

are

make

10,

loj

and

a

the next

and so

on

result. All nations reckon

8

and

two 2

in

and

a

7 and 3 similar manner 9 and j give the same

by the Decimal

scale of notation, to

91 which they were no doubt led from the convenience of counting the ten digitsof the hands. It is also spoken of as Kleidoukos, that is, "having custody of others," the magazine of the other numbers, because other numbers are branches from it: also called Fate, which comprises all sorts of events: ^e, Power; Atlas, because it supports the lo spheres of Heaven; Phanes; Memory; Urania; and "The first Square, because itconsistsof the firstfour numbers." Two old conceitswere that the Tenth Wave of the Sea is always largerthan others; and that Birds laidthe loth ^g of a largersizethan the others. The word Ten was used by the Hebrews, insteadof "a large number," so that care must be exercisedin translating this,and thus Nehemiah inter["ets"ten generations"of Nehemiah "for ever." v. 3 to mean Deuteronomy xxiii. The Kabalists called 5, 6 and 10 circular numbers, because when squared,the resultshows the same number in the unit figure,thus: 5 times 5 6 times 6 10 times 10

are

25

are

36

are

100

and

5 times 35 6 times 36 ro times 100

are are

135 216

are

1000

old periphrasismentioned by Shakespeare is,"I'd Commandments in your face," meaning the set my Ten fingernails,for scratching. See z Heiuy VI. i. 3, The Mahometans say that ten animals are admitted to Paradise. r. Kratim, the dog of the Seven Sleepers. 2. Ass of Balaam. 3. Ant of Solomon. An

4. Whale

of

Jonah,

5. The Calf offeredto Jehovahby Abraham Isaac (notRam). 6. The Ox of Moses. 7. The Camel of the prophet Salech.

insteadof

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92 8. The

Cuckoo of Belkis. Ram of Ishmael.

9. The Al 10.

Borek,

the animal

which

Mahomet

conveyed

to

heaven. from to Noah, 10 generations from Adam The 10 spiritualgraces of Christianity Shem to Abraham. Love, joy,peace, long-suffering gentleness, goodness, are faith, prudence, meekness, and temperance," says Dr. G. Oliver; although where he gets 10 generations from Adam to No^, I know not. angle, TriUnder 10 also falls the mention of the Pythagorean Tetractys, consisting of an equilateraltriangleenclosing YoDS : thus the ten upper is the Monad, Dyad, the third the the second line the / '\ Triad, and the fourth the Quartemary or Tetrad: representing /" the four forms of A line, At t 1 point, and solid. similar superficies tX '*" ' form isgiven by Hebform Kabalists to rew 72, the deity number, by placing in a trianglefour Yods, three Hehs, two Vans and one Heh final,being the letters IHVH of the Tetragrammaton ; or they may be put conversely. Note that ten is used as a sign of fellowship, love, peace, and Union, in the masonic third token, the union of two five points of Fellowship. "We

find

10

~

^\ .

"

In the Bible to

which

we

notice

Jewish Psalms

Psaltery, and that the after the Ascension.

10

i\

' "'

Commandments, were

Holy

10

instruments

strings in the sung, 10 ten Ghost descended days

Tucer,

Rabanus Lully associate the and Raymond numbers 8 to Air, 5 to Fire, 6 to Earth and 1 z to Water. Aputeius it was Egyptians that states the among customary to fast 10 days before sacrificing,and Budge says that they used a lo-day week. Ten Sephiroth form The the d"^matic Kabalah, a which

subject

essence

is too

of vast

the Hebrew and

complex

A be entered up in this volume on mere numerals, Deity of the Absolute glance at the Sephirotic emanations from be the mathematical point of view is all that can to

93 Unveiled of Mathers attempted; the Kabalah should be studied. From Passive Negativity, AIN the Absolute proceeds AIN SOPH SOPH AUR the Limitless, and then AIN Boundless Light which concentrates in the firstmanifestation is KTR, Kether : Crown, Sephirolh, the of the which from Kether proceeds ChKMH, Chochmah, Wisdom, an Binah, Understanding, active masculine potency, and BINH, a passive feminine power. The fourth and These three form the Supernal Triad. fifth are Mercy, ChSD, Chesed, active and male, and GBVRH, Geburah, Strength, passive and female. The Tiphereth, sixth Sephira is the notable TPART, Beauty, the central sun, the Lc^os, the Manifested Son : this second triangle, the reflection of the former. Number is NTzCh, Netzach, Victory, active,and seven Hod, Splendour, passive; the ninth the eighth is HVD, is YSVD, Yesod, the Foundation, completing the third a

completes

trinity,or triangle. Sephira, completes Tenth the is Bride Microprosopus Son, She the the the emanations. of is Mother, Sun, Logos, she the Inferior Queen, and the The Ten Manifested Universe. are as whole viewed Four Worlds or Planes of Existence; there reigning over are the Worlds of Aziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiah. Malkuth on the plane of Assiah alone is the visibletangible MLKT,

Malkuth,

universe. These

ten

the

Sephiroth

are

the

prototypes

of everything spiritual,and also of every part of creation : they are traced in the angelic host and in our universe ; three superior, and seven are succedent exist in all things ; the lower seven

.

obvious to the uninitiated, but in these manifestations the supernal triad is veiled to the profane. Some occultistsphrase it thus" three are and subjective to seven are man; unattainable hensible objectiveand compre; thus we

known But in some have

seven

archangels

only of cases

even

seven

are

commonly

great planets of

the whole

of

seven

named, our are

and

system.

unknown

;

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94

acknowlet^ebut

we

five senses

in

but there

man,

two

are

more

awaiting comprehension. These Ten Sephiroth are not only viewed as triads from below, but are in three columns above also imaged entitled the Pillars of Severity,and Mercy, with the median is not for this But this scheme of Benignity or Mildness. the Sephirotic alliance with the Planetary treatise,nor can and the Book symbols, the angelic host, the divine names, be here described ; these of Thoth, or Tarot

subjects

present mine concealed in the private rituals " Hermetic Students," of the order now partly known as the bokher," from the Kabalistic "Chabrath zereh aur whose have Fraternities Rosicrucian the stem also may parent arisen. These Rituals contain a more complete scheme the than of exists in any medifeval occult symbolism Other form, and we believe that it would not be possible for a

anyone extant

of wisdom

to

reconstitute Uterature.

so

complete

a

system

out

of all

Grades in the Rosicrucian philosophy; they are Zelator, Theoricus, Practicus, Philosophus ; Minor, Majorand Exempt Adept ; Master, Magus and King : some Magi are known, but very few persons know of a Rex. Rosicrucian private rituals alone can give the correct Kabalistic heavens of the Ten names spelling of the and World of Assiah, which is the material universe. Hebrew follows: as lo references are and Talmudic men were necessary to form a legally-convened meeting at as much as a year has the synagc^e : in London ;^iooo for this been spent in providing spare men du^. Ten Talmud, Eiruvin, curses were pronounced against Eve. There

are

lo

"

loo.

z.

created during the twilight of the first Sabbath eve. Consult Pesachim, 54. i. Ten facts proved the presence of a Supernatural Power in Ten

things

were

Yoma, 21. 1. the Temple. The Rabbis taught that if for 10 years she had no At

fun^als, condolences

a

man

should

offspring. were recited by

divorce his wife, 10

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95 including the bridegroom. Ten cups weddings by lo men drunk at a funeral party three before supper, tiireeat were "

supper, and four after the meal at the recitationof the four blessings. Abraham was tested lo times ; lo Miracles were performed in Egypt to help the Children of Israel, and lo at the Red Sea. Ten plagues were made to afflictthe Egyptians, Ten times the Jews offended God in the Wilderness. down into the world ; Ten times did the Shekinah come at the Garden of Eden ; at the Tower of Babel ; at Sodom ; in Egypt, see Exodus iii.8 ; at the Red Sea, Psalm cvili.9 ; in the Pillar of Cloud; Sinai j at the Temple; Mount on on the Mount of Olives, see Zechariah xiv. 4; the loth is omitted in the originalreference, Avoth d' Rabbi Nathan, cap. 34.

There for

are

Joy.

10

Sodom

Hebrew was

words to des^nateIdols, and to be spared for 10 righteous men

10

;

destroy the Altar of Baal ; Boaz Gideon took 10 servants armour chose 10 witnesses for his marriage with Ruth ; Joab's borne by 10 young men. was Jesusspeaks of 10 talents, to

10

cities,10

pieces of silver,and gave a parable of 10 Vii^s. The Tabernacle has many 10 dimensions. There are 10 Bible names of God, 10 Canticles, and 10 necessaries Ufe. Ecclus, 39. z6. for man's Virtues of Initiation,and the There were 10 Pythagorean Buddhists teach to Paramitas of Perfection. In the Alchymico-Kabalistic tract called Aesch Metzareph referred to by Eliphaz L^vi, and collected from the Zohar Rosenrotb and translatedinto English, and von of Knorr IV. of my Collectanea Hermetica, will be forming Volume for Gold found 10 names the Old all extracted from Testament; they are there related to the Sephira Geburah. Puranas The Hindoo tell us of the 10 Avatars of the Religion ; God Vishnu, the Preserver of the Brahmanic First as the they are periodical incarnations of the God, Kurma, a. Fish, Matsya; the Tortoise; 3. Varaha, the Man-Lion; Boar; the the 4. Narasingha, 5. Vamana, Dwarf;

6. Parasu-Rama;

7. Rama

8. ChaJidra;

Krishna;

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96 9- Buddha;

and

the

loth, Kalki, the Horse,

is yet

to

com"

In the Y(wa Vasishtha Maha Rama^ana edited by Vihari Lala Mitra, will be found

Om-Tat-Sat, on-id-est,and this contains infonnation syllableOM

on or

the lo AUM.

numerals

as

some

related

to

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ELEVEN. This

to

have

been

II.

the

type of a number witli an The Kabalists conevil reputation among all peoples. trasted it with the perfection of the Decad, and justas the Sephirotic number is the form of all good things, so eleven is the essence of all that is sinful, harmrul and imperfect ; seems

with the Ten Sephiroth they contrasted the Eleven Averse Sephiioth, symbols of destruction, violence, defeat, and death. On the oldest Tarot cards, the trump called the Tower XVI, shows the Ten struck by Lightning, number Divine Sephiroth on Averse one the Eleven side and Sephiroth

on

the other

Taiot

side; modem

designs

are

debased. very much John Heydon says that by it we know the bodies of Devils and their nature; by it Lilith, the Jews understand first wife, a she-devil, dangerous in to women Adam's on they wrote the walls : ADM ; hence confinements Eve, out of doors LILIT, that is, Adam, ChVH ChVO "

"

Ulith." zii. 43, plainly allows the doctrine that haunt fields,which Grotius says the Jews evil spirits may think ; and their words Demon and Field are similar,being ShDIM ShDIM the Siddim (evildeities); and (fields),

Jesus,in

Matt.

mentioned in Psalm cvi, 37. " It is called the " Number Penitent," and the of Sins Commandments, because it exceeds the number of the and is less than twelve, which is the number of Grace and Perfection. But sometimes even eleven receives a favour firom God, as in the case of the man who was called in the are

"

7

98 eleventh hour to the vineyard, who pay as the others.

Rabbi

Jochanan

by God mentioned for holy incense.

yet received the

says that eleven sorts of spices were Sinai as suitable Mount on to Moses

the number of the Disciples of the fallof Judas Iscariot, Language the word eleven was In the Hebrew Osher, ot One and Ten. as Achad Eleven

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TWELVE.

12.

has a perfect and notable character, and number highly esteemed by most nations of antiquity. Almost was all the twelves will be found to be allied,either obviously in a concealed manner, or with the Signs of the Zodiac, twelve signs or partitionsof the great circleof the heavens forming the perfect cycle of twelve times thirty d^ees 360 arithmetical degrees of the circle : each sign was further are of the many sub-divided into three decans.,- There believe the twelve sons learned of Jacob, and who founders are twelve may of tribes, allegorical only. We Grand Points Masonry," mention the "Twelve of which This

"

used to form Twelve events sons

a

part of

Craft degrees.

the lectures in the

in the ceremony

of initiation,referred to the of Jacob,are given by Mackey : Reuben was referred the opening of the Lodge I. To he was the first-bom son. Simeon, the preparation of the land he prepared 1. To the destruction of the Shechemites. 3. To Levi, the report or signal he gave the signal in the attack on the men of Sbechem. that tribe first 4. To Judah,the entrance of the land entered the promised land. the prayer and blessing of 5. To Zebulun, die prayer his father fellon him in preference to Issachar. Issachar, the circumambulation 6. To indolent an tribe,who required a leader. for a contrast to 7. To Dan, the advance to the Altar their rapid advance to idolatry. "

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8. To

Gad,

the obligation "

on

account

Jephthah'a

of

vow.

Asher, the entrusting ; with rich Masonic

9. To

blessings

resembled the Fathers of their land. To Naphtali, the investment and declared "Free" the tribe of Naphtali had a peculiar freedom given by Moses. because Ephraim and To Joseph,the N.E. comer Manasseh (grandsons) represented him, newest "

10.

11.

"

"

being as closing of the Lodge the last son of the Patriarch. ' The following associations of Birds, Animals, and Flowers, with heavenly bodies has the authority of the Greco-Roman 12.

To

mythology

Benjamin,the

"

:

"

W. W. W.) associated colours astrolc^ers(incorrectly, with the twelve Signs of the Zodiac, thus : With Pisces, white Aquarius, blue " Capricorn, black or brown " Sagittarius,yellow or green " Scorpio, brown " Libra, black or crimson " Virgo, black and blue "

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With Leo, red and green Cancer, green and brown " Gemini, red " Aries, white " Taurus, white and yellow "

And, again, there are other characters which deem of importance, thus :

astrologers

"

Pisces Aquarius Capricorn Sagittarius Scorpio Libra Virgo

Water

Northern

Common

Air

Western

Earth

Southern Eastern

Fruitful

Air

Western

Fixed Cardinal Common Fixed Cardinal

Southern

Common

Barren

Leo

Earth Fire

Eastern

Cancer Gemini

Water Air

Northern

Barren Fruitful Barren

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Earth Fire

Southern Eastern

Fixed Cardinal Common Fixed

Fire Water

Northern

Western

Fruitful

Cardinal

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Pisces the night house of Jupiter Aquarius the day house of Saturn (Uianus) Capricorn the night house of Saturn Sagittarius^ the night house of Mars Libra the day house of Venus Vii^o the night house of Mercury Leo the sole house of Sol Cancer the sole house of Luna Gemini-^the day house of Mercury "

"

"

"

"

"

"

the night house of Venus Aries the day house of Mars. This is very fully explained by Coley in his Astrology, and also by John Middleton in his Astrol"^, 1679. Taurus

"

"

Herodotus of

a

tells us that the Egyptians founded the system certwelve-God theology : Euterpe iv. The Hebrews tainly

seven the Sun, Moon, times worshipped planets, Zodiacal Signs: see 2 the Star Rulers of the Twelve

at

and Kings

Dunlop, in his xxxviii. 32. Vest^es," of the twelve months remarks that of the names in use among identical the Jews, several are of with names Ab, Elul, Bui. Deities, as Tammuz, Groups of twelve Gods are to be noticed in the religions of many of the ancient xidii. 5, and

Job

"

nations, as the Chaldeans, Etruscans, Mamertines,

Romans,

etc.

In Scandinavia the great Odin had 1 2 names personified attributes. The Kabalists esteem 12 the of the permutations IHVH, VHIH, Tetragrammaton, HVHI, HIHV, IHHV, VIHH, HHVI, IVHH, HVIH, HHIV, HIVH, VHHI. The Talmuds say :" No deceased person is at heart lost to his relatives until "

see the Treatise Berachoth. months; the Witch was of Endor able to bring up Samuel ? To this question Rabbi Abhu answered, by necromancy because he had not been dead 13 months : after that time have been possible, for then the body is it would not has gone destroyed and into the next the Soul up

after 12 How

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103 The Rabbis saidthat at the firstthe True Name of God was a word of 12 letters. Kiddushin, 71. i. The Mishna narrates the events of the 12 firsthours; Adam fell in the tenth Hour and was judgedin the ; so eleventh, and was cast out of the Garden in the twelfth he abode not even one day in hisdignity. Sanhedrin,38. 2. Compare the Nuctemeron of ApoUonius of Tyana, given by Eliphaz Levi in his " Rituel de la Magie," Paris,1861. The 12 Stones of the High Priest'sBreast-platewere named ; Sardius,Topaz, Carbuncle, Emerald, Sapphire, Agate, Amethyst^ Beryl, Diamond, Ligure or Jacinth, See Hebrew Ancient Version,Exodus Onyx, and Jasper. "

The 12 Foundations of the Heavenly City, given in Sardius, Revelationsxxi.,aTe, Jasper, Sapphire,Chalcedony, Sardonyx, Emerald, Topaz, Beryl, Chrysolite,Amethyst, "

Jacinth and

Chrysophrasus.

Hebrew Months were Abib or Nizan (March12 lyar April), or Zif,Sivan, Thammuz, Ab, Elul, Tisri,Bui, Chisleu,Tebeth, Adar; and the inter-calaryVeThe

Sheba^

Adar. The 12 Egyptian Months were Pachon, Faoni, Epiphi, Mesori, Thoth, Phaophi, Athyr, Choiak, Tobi, Mechir, Phamenoth' and Pharmuthi, the lastbeginning on March 27th. The 12 Sons of Jacobwere related to the 12 Signs of the Zodiac by the Rosicniciansm a correct order; other are given by Athanasius Kircher schemes of attribution and others. is; Aries to Gad, That by Sir William Dnimmond Cancer to Taurus to Ephraim, Gemini to Benjamin, Leo to Judah, Virgo to Naphtali,Libra to Asher, Issachar, Dan, Sagittary to Manasseh, Capricorn to Scorpio to Zebulun, Aquarius to Reuben, and Pisces to Simeon and "

Levi. The

Simon Peter,Andrew, Jamesand Johnthe sons of Zebedee,Philip,Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew also calledLevi,Jamesson of Alphteus, 12

Apostles of

Jesuswere;

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I04 and Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite, The Venerable Bede proposed to rename the Signs with the names of the apostles, and a scheme of allotment is to be found in "The sphere of Marcus Manilius," by Edward Sherbume, London, 1675. Vol. Manchester, See Notes U.S.A., Queries, xiv., and in Soc. Ros. Reports gives Westcott Zodiac an. on the p. the Christian allusions to the Zodiac. In an ordinary pack of Playing Cards there are 12 Court Cards, but in the Tarot Pack there are also four Cavaliers. The Kabalists greatly esteemed the i2-]etteredName of God, HIH-HWH-VIHIH, "fuit, est, erit,"" meaning, is,will be. or, was, Less esoteric was IHVH the Triple Tetragrammaton,

Judascalled Lebbxus and Judas Iscariot.

"

thrice written. All fratres of the Rosicrucian Society of England will also BEN V RUCh H QDSh, Ab-ben-vebe familiar with AB ruach-ha-kodesh ; meaning Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Rosicrucian Society has a scheme The of distriburing 12 the Zodiacal Signs, but this shades of Colour among have been is a secret matter; many erroneous schemes published. Signs of the Zodiac are in Hebrew, named Sartan, Ariah, beginning with Aries ; Taleh, Shur, Thaumim, Mazanaim, Akrab, Kesith, Gedi, Deli, and Bethuleh, Dagim. In Arabic ; Al Hamal, Al Thaur, Al Tauman, Al Sartan, Al Asad, Sunbul, Al Zubena, Al Akrab, Al Kaus, In Chinese, Pe yaugh, the Al Gedi, Debi and Al Haut, sheep ; Kin nieu, golden bull ; Shang huing, two brothers ; Kin hiai, crab ; Sin, lion ; Sha niu, the house girl; Tien tchingh, the claws of a scorpion ; Tien Kie, the scorpion ; horse; Mu Thien, the hill sheep; Pao Gun Ma, the man pingh, precious vase ; and Shang Yu, two fishes. The old Sanskrit Hindoo names used by astrologers at Rishaba, Mithuna, Katakam, the present rime are ; Mesha, Ranya, Simha, Tulam, Vrishchika, Dhanus, Makaram, Kumbha and Minam. Alphabet have The 12 simple letters of the Hebrew The

ti

,ib,.C,oogIc

I05 affinities with ttie Zodiacal Signs, but the order of relation is a Rosicrucian private doctrine. There

death ;

recorded Appearances of Magdalene, to the Galician

1 2

were

Mary disciples, to Peter, to ten to

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women,

apostles, to eleven apostles, to seven fishing,to 500 brethren at apostles and others when to James the Less, to eleven apostles, to Stephen at once, to his martyrdom, Paul at his Conversion, and to the

apostle

John.

watch face can be used to find the cardinal points, if the time is correct, and the sun is visible. Lay the watch flatand point the hour hand to the sun, and then the south will he half way between that hour aiid the figure XII. The

12

hours marked

in

a

^he

author of the Hymns of Orpheus, the Scholiast on Hesiod, and Porphyry state that the 12 Labours of Hercules are said to be emblems of the sun in its passage through the 12 signs, and this is repeated by the Mystagogus Poeticus, have been allottedas follows ::" to Aries, the i6S3i and they quest of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides ; to Taurus,

the slaying of the Cretan Bull ; Gemini, Hercules and his twin brother strangle the serpents; Cancer, the taking of the herds of Geryon ; Leo, the slaying of the Nemaean Lion ; Virgo, the victory over the Amazon Queen ; Libra, boar ; Scorpio, the death of the death of the Erymanthean Hydra ; Sagittarius, the shooting the Lernsean of the Stymphalian Birds ; Capricornus, taking of the Hind alive Aquarius, cleaning the stables of Augeas; to Mycenx; Pisces, the capture of the horses of Diomedes. Janusof the Romans is the God of the 12 months, and is drawn with 12 altars beneath his feet. He is the same Assyrian Ain, Ion, Jan; ON as of Eastern nations "Vestiges," (Dunlop's John Heydon gives theToIlowingstatements :

3i)0

"

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Indifferent Very bad

numbers ,, "

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are

i

2

16

17

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22

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THIRTEEN.

13.

Thirteen was the sacred number of the Mexicans and people Yucatan; North Indians, American twelveof many tribesof of as of so many nations of antiquity : this had an astronomical to them. Gods connection, because the Stars and Son were The method Priests was the Mexican of computation among " Vestiges." by weeks of 13 days; consult Dunlop's Their

year contained 28 weeks of 13 days and i day over, justas day over. Thirteen ours contains 52 of 7 days and one years formed an Indiction, a week of years, the 13 days over Four times 13, or 52, years was forming another week. Gods" there were (see their cycle. In Yucatan 13 "Snake

Stevens' "Yucatan," 13 is the number unity.

Old

and Gama's "Ancient of the Hebrew word

agreement

that

state

authors

13

is

a

Mexicans"). (AChD),

Achad

number

used

to

among

married people. lore does the number 13 as not reckon ancient unlucky ; this idea did not arise until after the Last Supper of Jesus,but since then the notion hj^ been prevalent among all Christians. The 13 cards of each suit of a pack of Tarot cards for are sometimes applied to the 13 lunar months purposes of divination. procure

Hebrew

The

Gnostics gems are often inscribed with a 13-lettered Name for God, ABLANA Th ANALBA. Rabbi Eliezer on account of a serious drought proclaimed 13 fasts, at the end of which rain fellat once. The Temple used 13 collecting horns; and in itwere 13 tables,and 13 devotional full service. When

b^an The

a

Hebrew

boy

reached

to fast for the full time

word Covenant Circumcision. The

reverential bows

Bava

Metzia

the

age

girl b^an

were

used in the

of 13 years he

twelve years. is written 13 times in the chapter on :

a

at

good breakfast In the Hebrew Liturgy are found the 13 logical rules for interpreting the law. Hershon, Talmudic Miscellany, 167. gives 13

reasons

for

a

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OTHER

HIGHER

NUMBERS.

14 days of

which

Burial, in the Master's d^ree : 14 parts into divided : a type of Christ, the body of Osiris was

sacrificed on the 14th day of the month points has been used to cure the sick. 14, There

are

14

Books

of

the

existed only in Greek, not in Hebrew. in the Booth to partake of 14 meals of Tabernacles. The Israeliteskilled the Paschal Lamb

an

:

amulet

Apocrypha;

Hebrew during the A

on

of 14 they

had Feast

the 14th day of

Nisan. the Month In Matthew, cap. i., we find the genealogy of Jesus archs the first under Patrirecited in three series of 14 names, and judges,the second under kings, and the third The governors. ancient under priests and physicians fevers. day The was the crisisof considered that the 14th Moon

waxes

and

wanes,

each for 14 days.

it is the number 15 is a token of spiritualascensions: by Gematria of the 8th Sephira Hod. between the were 15. There 15 steps in the Temple Court, and in these ante-court of Israel and the Women's Psalms cxx.-cxmv. were sung the 15 Psalms of D^rees; 15 is the number of Jah, a name of God ; so the Jews who letters for wrote wrote JH, 10, 5, for 15, numbers, never but TV, 9, 6=15, The great day of joyful recreation for Jewish Maidens Ab, The Deluge the isth day of the month covered hills depth to the the of 15 cubits. Ague is likely to be caught by sleeping in the open air on was

,.ib,C,oot^l

io8 the night before the 15th dxiy of the is full), the moon

A

boy

when

was

ordered

to

b^in

summer

months

(when

the study of the Geraara

15.

There Felicity; a square number. are 16 in Tarot a court cards pack. In "Delside the treatise et Osiride,"Plutarch says 17. Osiris was killed on the 17th day of the moon, and hence was the at the full and from that reason when the moon did the so Egyptiansabominate the number 17, and Pyth^oreans it Antiphraxis (obstruction) they called because it falls between the square number 16 and the 16

means

"

"

obloi^ number 18. 1 8 was deemed a protection against thieves. 18. Isaiah made 18 denunciations gainst Israel. At 18 The years of ^e a girl should go to the Nuptial Canopy. Golden Candlestick of the Temple was 18 handsbreadths Litutgy. tall. There are t8 Blessings in the Hebrew There were only r8 High Priests during the existence of 3ie First Temple. 19. The number 19 is famous as being the number of years in the Metonic Cycle ; the cycle of the revolutions after which she returns to have her changes day of the solar year. Meto lived 433 B,c. ; on the same he was he published his discovery at the an Athenian; Olympic Games in the above year. The exact period is, however, Calippic period of 18 years and ro days. The four cycles, or seventy-six years, was invented by Calippus,

of the

moon,

Meto. John Heydon 330, to correct says that the facilitates b irths mensesnumber 19 and The Kiddushin, 29. 2, says God may curse a man 20. who does not marry at least when 20 years old, for his life is a constant transgression. A woman marrying before 20 may bear children up to sixty; at 20 until forty, and after forqr B.C.

BavaButhra, To die after zo days' will have none. 119. 2. diarrhoea is to die pure. is ripe 21 days A hen sits21 days, and the Almond 21. after the flower falls.

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22.

years. From

Barachoth,

55.

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in

Tukaram

on

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22

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may

be deferred

12

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of Hermes Human the

Tatya's

Dream

good

the Works

22

1887. There

a

realization of

Trismigistus are Will; they can

Guide

to

Theosophy,

abstracted be found Bombay,

in a pack of ancient Tarot Cards, Eliphaz L^vi, in his " Clef des

used for Divination ; Myst^res," says that the numbers i of Occult Science, and that numbers

to

19 refer

to

the Keys the Keys

19 to 22 are of Nature : the relation of letters to these are not correctly printed in his books ; by intention as a blind. 23. In the Sanhedrin 23 judges were required to try

punishable by death. 33. This day of September

cases

is notable because the moon to the full within a fortnight of it is called which comes the harvest moon, which rises three days in succession at the same time, instead of getting daily later. 24 is an

referrii^to Cain, QIN, but not of his numeration, which is 100+10+50=160, or ebe 100+ 10+700=810. are 24. There 24 birds unclean as food ; 24 ribs both in man and woman. 26. The number of Jehovah,IHVH, 10+5+6+5. In English language, uses the 26. a6 tetters, it is which in very different proportions. found that the letters occur In a fair example English it has been calculated of modem that the proportion between the frequency of the use of the letters was, of a, 85; b, 16; c, 30; d, 44; e, f, 25; g. 17; h, 64; i.So; j,4; k, 8; 1, 40; m, 30; 120; 80; p, 17; q, S; r, 62; s, 80 j t, 90; u, 34; v, n, 80; o, 12;

w,

20

evil number,

;

K,

4 ; y,

20

; and

z,

2.

number of the Zoroastrian Izeds and Devs, of the 28. A division of the Zodiac into 28 mansions into 12 moon, was probably earlier than the solar division parts. The names and symbols can be obtained in Sanskrit Proctor believes that Solar Astronomy of and in Arabic. in ex., a arose the 12 signs coimtry of about about 2170 27. The

no

Taurus 36 degrees of north latitude,and at a period when was the firstconstellation of the Zodiac. Rosh Hashanha says the period of the Moon's 29. The Revolution is 29 days and six hours and forty minutes.

30. A

meal

Quinsy. Joseph was David

was

of silver was

At

Lentils

of 30

years of

in 30

once

age

Jesus

days began

keeps

off the

his ministry;

he stood before Pharaoh; years old when he began to reign ; 30 pieces 30 years old when the price Judas and Jairhad 30 sons. 30

received^

i +30. number of El, God=AL. the conquest 31, Joshua did not complete of Canaan until he had slain 31 kings. 32, The number of the Paths of Wisdom, of the Sepher Yetzirah, being 10 Sephiroth and 22 letters of the Hebrew

31. The

alphabet. 33, The years of Jesus: the number human spinal column. of Agla number 35. The listicwonder-working name. 36. Abaji said there are

of any

generation

upon

of vertebras in the

(AGLA),

a

composite

Kaba-

See page 27. never

whom

less than the

36 holy Shekinah does

men

not

rest. " De Iside et Osiride," calls the Tetractys 36. Plutarch, the greatest the power of the number 36, and on this was denominated ; and it was oath of the Pythagoreans sworn the World, in consequence of its being composed of the

firstfour

even

and 5 and obtain 36, 3

40. Up

and the firstfour odd 7 are 16; add 2 and

numbers 4

and

; for

6 and

i

and

8, and

years of ^e eating is best for a man, after best. He has drinking days 40 suits who passed 40 without has had his in an this life. affliction reward days Flood lasted, For 40 for 40 days the spies the searched the promised land, for 40 days Goliath challenged to 40

Ezekiel's penitence, the Jews were 40 Wilderness, in days before the 40 years of waiting embalming dead, Genesis 1. for days the the woman's 40 3 ; Israel, 40

days

of

purification lasted after childbirth;

for 40.

days

Moses

'

fasted twice ; for 40 days Elijah fasted, and for 40 days Jesusfasted in the Wilderness, and 40 days elapsed between the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus. Moses was 40 in Egypt, in Midian, and 40 the Wilderness. 40 years in The Israeliteswere the Philistines, 40 years among of the 42-lettered name of God, 42 is notable because taught by the Kabalists : there were 42 Judges in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. 42. The Talmud of Babylon in Kiddushin 71, mentions the 42 lettered Name, and it is given by Ignatz Stem as composed of the Divine Names of the Bible ; thus Eheieh asher eheieh, Al, Jah, Jehovah,Elohim, Jehovah Sabaoth, AShR AHIH El Chai and Adonai. AHIH ; IH ; IHVIH ; TzBAVT; ChI IHVH AL AL; ALHIM; or ; ADNL 4". 5, 2, 5, 4, 5, 2, 2, 4 Sephiroth which denote It is very curious that the Ten the attributes of God will show, when these letters are added tc^ether, and a V added for and before the last one, this same 42 ; if Chesed be called GeduJah, as was number Kabalists. common among (ADM). 45. The number of Adam 45. The world is preserved for the sake of 45 righteous Chullin, 92. persons, 48. There have been 48 prophets in Israel, for the cleanness and received 49 reasons 49. Moses 4. 3- 4.

3,

uncleanness of each thing. of the 50. The number

=

Gates

of Binah (BINH) the Understanding Book Concealed (see Mathers, of Mystery," i, 46). This number is a blind ; there are only "

49 gates. 60. Aristotle stated that the Crocodile lives naturally 60 years, and sits60 days upon 60 eggs. The Chinese have a time cycle of 60 years, and call it Kya-tse. The people of Malabar call this period Chi-tam. 60, The Talmud refers to 60 deadly drugs, and 60 sorts of wines ; the pig bears in 60 days. 61, The number AIN, Negative existence of the Deity. 65. The number of Adonai, translated "Lord" (ADNI.)

67- The

nuoibei

of Binah,

Supernal

Mother,

the 3rd

Sephira. 70. The

Rabbis considered th^ there were 70 nations, is said to have known Mordecai 70 langus^es. and The Jewish 70 years of the captivity are reckoned from by Nebuchadnezzar to the accession of their conquest Cyrus. 71. The

of the Members of the Sanhedrin. to the 72 of mystic references 72 has a lai^e number derived from Exodus of God angels bearing the names xiv. 19, 30, 21, by the Kabalists ; there is an important set number

"

"

of 72 pentodes which, placed in pairs, forms a series of 36 Harleian MSS.) ; talismans (seeDr. Rudd, the Lemegeton, it is also the number (ChSD) the Sephira, of Chesed Mercy. 72. It is said that Rolemy,

king of Egypt, collected 72 Hebrew Rabbis and confined each in a separate room, and Mosaic Law, to by the write out the and that ordered each help of God each wrote out the same M^illah of words. the Talmud, 9. i. is similar to that of Josephus and Aristseus, This accomit Septuagint. but differentto that of Philo : hence the name 73. The number and Sephira.

of Chokmah

(ChKMH),

Wisdom,

the

of cards in a Tarot pack : 40 numerals, 16 court cards and 22 Trumps. 80. The number of Yesod, foundation, 9th Sephira. 80. The venerable Rabbi Hillel had 80 pupils. of AMN and of Tetragrammaton 91 is the number Adonai (IHVH, ADNI). have 99 names attributed to God. 99, The Mahometans is This 100. the number of MDVN, which means strife, beginning law itis 100 the of suits. and The Jerusalem Talmud, Bava Metzia, 85, ", says that Rabbi Zira fasted 100 times to enable him to forget the 78. The

number

Talmud of Babylon, in favour of the Talmud of Jerusalem.! as Obadiah was a prophet, because considered worthy 100 he concealed prophets in a cave.

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by

Google

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family of Herod

Asmonseus

ruled

Jewry

103

years. For

years the secret vault of Christian Rosenkreutz remained unopened, as he had ordered. The Shemaneh Esreh, the 18 Blessings,were composed by 120 Elders, J20,

120

Adam 130. The Rabbis said that after the curse This number is referred to 130 years as a penance. ALIHV, these and to the word prophet, HNBIA;

fasted

Elijah, names

of letters. The Kabalists make a Mystical Square (rectangle) Kamea or of ALIHV of 130 permutations; ten by thirteen. for Mary of Maria, the Greek name 152. The number 1 = ro, the Virgin, being 40, i, 100, 152. number

120,

add

10

to

this,the number

of the great fishes caught in an unbroken net by the Apostles after the Resurrection. The number body, zoo. of the bones in the human SVP, the of Ain Suph, AIN 207. This is the number Boundless, and Aur, AVR, Light, and of Adonai Olam, ADNI Lord of the Universe. OVLAM,

153. The

216. The Pythagorean 221.

The

number

316 years, the period of the cube of 6; Metempsychosis. l(^s Cup of David in heaven contains zai

says the Talmud. of wine; (about20 gallons) of the permutations, 243, Circles of Seir Anpin ; the number Letters. Kalisch. Hebrew the without reversal of Talmud are of the body. 34S. There 248 members into all of them. Einivin, 53. 2, and an anathema enters

accursed is 248. word ChRM 252. It is said that the disciples of Rabbi Ishmael once dissected a low woman, ; and found she had 252 members were. but it does not say what the extra ones Greater Holy or 270. Worlds of the Idra Rabba, The

Assembly. Talmud, in Niddah, says that the Hebrew 271. The woman's pregnancy lasted 271, 272 or 273 days. ten of natural pregnancy, human; 280 days the term times the Lunar 28 day period. "

,lbyC,OOgIC

114 300. The

riches of Korah to can7 them.

mules There The

were

so

vast that it took

300 sorts of devils in Sichin. Veil of the Temple required 300 priests to

300

were

it

draw

aside, and 300 to cleanse it. of Shaddai, Almighty (ShDI). 314. The number ShDI, of El Shaddai, AL 345. This is the number God

Almighty; and

Absolute

of ShMH

(Shemah), the

Name

of the

God.

MShICh of Messiah, number and 358. The Serpent life. nachash, the symbol of Satan, The name the Shathan, H.ShThN, 364. 364, and all these days of each year he can tempt not on the 365111, the Day of Atonement Greek a of Abraxas, numeration 365. The talisman ic word. 365. Days of the Year, of Babylon, and Streets in 370. Directions of the Idra Rabba, 5. S37were this 394. There

Negative

NChSh contains but man, Gnostic

Jewish precepts,

Dukes

the City of Rome. thought of Microprosopus.

See

in the of law courts number Jerusalemof the kingdom period. 400. The body of Joseph was carried 400 miles to burial. David is said to have had a guard of 400 young men who rode in golden chariots at the head of his army. 410. The First Temple stood 410 years, and the Second Temple

420.

474. The

number

of Daath,

DOT,

union of Chokmah and Binah. 496. The number of Malkuth the loth Sephira. of the mystic 543- The number " I am that I am (AHIH AShR 608 is a very notable number, "

Secret Wisdom,

(MLKT), name

Aheie

the

the

Kingdom,

asher Aheie,

AHIH).

representing the Sun. Martianus Capella, of the 5th century, says : " The Sun is Sol'; at the Nile, Serapis; at called in Italy the 'God Osiris; he is also Attis ; Adonis at Byblos ; and Memphis, Ammon in Libya; also Typhon, Mithras, and Pluto; his

"5 holy

is or three letters, which number In 608. 608 is Cham, Chaldee and Hebrew Ham or (ChM), " In heat." Y.H.S. from Greek U.H.S. means, which also Tyre + 100=608. (TRCh) is also an example =400+8 name

of 608. 613. The

RBINU; words Moses our Rabbi, MShH and Lord God of Israel, IHVH ALHI both number by IShRL Gomatria 613. The 613 Precepts of the Jewish law were delivered to Moses. David, it is said, reduced them to to Habbakuk eleven, and Isaiah to six,and later to two. One, viz., The justshall live by Faith. 613 also refers to the holy garment which had 600 fringes,eight threads and five knots. 6zo. The number of Kether (KTR) the Crown, or 1st Sephira. 623 years from the Christian era is the date of the H^ira, from from which Mecca, or flight of Mahomet year the Mahometans

their calendar. 632 years A.D. is the foundation of the Persian mode of reckoning years, from their king Yezdegird. 640 is Shemesh, is water ; the Sun (ShMSh) ; Mem place the three letters one above the other, and we get Sh, fire,sun, rising above and sinking below the waters. 646.

The

(ALHIM),

reckon

total

being of final Mem,

of

numeration

Elohim,

or

Aleim

+ 10+600 ; or avoiding the use we + 10+40; get 1+30+5 neglecting in a figures the tens i+3+5+i+4" these and placing circle,we get the sequence 31415, notable as the value of IT, or the relation of a diameter to circumference of every circle. 650 has been referred by Godfrey Higgins to Noah, Menes, and Bacchus. Noah, in Hebrew, is NVCh or 64. 666 is the pet number of Godfrey Higgins, as referred to Rasit (RSVT), 200+60+6+400, which he insists means Wisdom believe Beginning Principle: or as or most Genesis begins with be-rasit,in the 666. The Number of a Man, of the Beast, the number has been the Pope and a associated with Satan, Mahomet, "

1+30+5

"

b^inning.

"n,vl.

Ii6 It isalso the number

hundred others.

of SVRT,

the Hebrew

It occurs in Revelations xiii.18. word for the Sun. 700. The Talmud says there are 700 species of fishes, in Eiruvin, 18. i, it says that God plaited Eve's hair and into 700 braids. is the number 801 of alpha and omega, i4-8oo, the

Peristera or Dove, vehicle of dieHoly Ghost ; being 80 + 5 + 100+10+200-1-300+5+ 100-4-1=801. 813 is the numeration ARARITA, a of very important Kabalistic word, its letters being collected from the initials " One principle of his unity, one beginning of the sentence, it is or so of his individuality, his vicissitude is one," Mathers the Kabalistby MacGregor 888. The number of lesous, Jesus,the great contrast with 666. in Berachoth, 8. i, says that there Talmud 903. The kinds of Death, for by Gematria are 903 of the word TUTzAUT, "outlets," see Psalm Ixviii.20; which means this number is obtained, thus T, 400 : V, 6 : Tz, 90 : A, i : V, Death 6: T, by Divine kiss is the 400 903. the euthanasia ; death from quinsy is said to be the worst rendered

=

form,

a

sort of suffocation long

drawn

out.

this number 974. There were of generations from the writing of the Law by the Holy One before he created Man in the World. there be 999 who con999, At the Judgment,although demn he shall be saved if One plead for him. a man,

1000-headed serpent is Sesha or Ananta, the Hindoo emblem of eternity. The dai^hter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon married, 1000, forms of musical instruments and taught told him of 1000 is the cube of Ten, him the chants for all the idols. 1000 1000.

a

The

symbol of perfection. Potiphar*s wife tempted

Joseph

vrith

1000

her personal charms failed to move silver,when The thickness of the earth's crust is 1000 ells: is an abyss of 15,000 ells. Succah, 53. z. If you have a secret, tellit only to One in 1000,

talents of him. below this

117 io8i. The number of Tiphereth, the central Sephira, the Sun, Beauty, Microprosopus, Son-God1312, First year of Egyptian Rameses II. came to the throne.

cycle of Sothis,

B.C. ;

1378. The year of the birth of Christian Rosenkreutz, founder of the Rosicrucian philosophy. 140S. Christian Rosenkreutz founded his arcane society at an unknown place in Germania. 1459. The date of the writingof the Hermetic Romance of the Chemical Wedding, by C- R. 1484, ChristianRosenkreutz died : the Vault closed over his body and the secrets of the Order. 1604. The Vault of C, R. opened by his successors after 120

years. The Fama FratemitatisRoste Crucis was printed. 1614. 1902. This year a.d. is the 4994.th year of the Kali-Yuga of the Hindoo, sages; this Yuga is to continue 432,000

years. was 2000 Sabbath day's journey paces. Rabbi Gamaliel had a tube made which, when he looked through, he could see at 2000 cubits distance; this is the objects earliestsuggestion of the telescope. Eiruvin, 43. 2. 30Q0. Rav Hammunah says that Solomon spoke 3000 2000.

A

3000 precepts proverbs. At the mourning for Moses foigotten. were 3102- In B.C. 3102, in February the Kali Yuga, the Black Age of humanity began, according to the Brahmins. 3761. The

3761 JewishEra was calculatedto commence Era. before Christian the years Years 4231 after the dispersion,said Rashi, the Jews land. will be restored to their own After these years the wars of Gog and Magog will 4291. cease, says the Talmud. in the Pentateuch, says 5888. The number of verses but the Kiddushin; they are usually coimted as 5845. 6000. The World was intended to last 6000 years ; 2000 years of Disorder; 2000 of the Law ; and 2000 more before Messiah should come; but his Coming has been

"..",CcK,gle

_

iiS delayed by

our

Sanhedrin, 97.

iniquities;so

says the Talmudic

treatise.

i.

3''4iS9. the value of 11, ratio of diameter to circumference of a circle. Bode's Law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem : Take the seriesof numbers 03 6 13 14 48 96 193 Add 4 to each of them 4 4 "

.444444

And

we

obtain the numbers

4

7

10

16 zS 52

100

196

These show the relation of the ancient planets to the Sun, Earth, Mars, as to distance,in the order Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus. The planet corresponding to 28 Jupiter, to be replaced by the asteroids. is missing, and seems Uranus was re-discoveredin 1781. The Platonic Year, or Great Period, according to Tycho Brah4 is 25,816 years; Ricciolus, 25,920 years; Casstni, Lockyer now 24,800 years ; Norman gives 34,450 years. It is the period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space of time wherein the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes, by means of a constant precession. The equinoxes moving backwards or westwards, meeting the Sun constantly earlier. In the time of the oldest Greek observations,the equinoxial points were in the first stars of in Pisces and Aries and Libra respectively; they are now

Virgo. When

these

names

were

given the

sun

entered

Aries at the Vernal equinox, and sign and constellation coincided ; now they do not, so do not be confused by our still callingthe firstsign of spring Aries, although the Sun is reallyat such time in Pisces : every 2160 years the sign Precedent to Aries the Sun at the Vernal is changed. equinox entered Taurus.

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Beast 2-Homed number is 666. 3 Woes,

ix.

who

NUMBERS. xx.

$.

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of the Earth, xi.4.

like

xlii.u;

spoke

a

Dragon,

his

13.

do. of Sea of Vegetation killed,viii,7 Blood, and do. of Fish died, viii.8 do. of Waters bitter,viii.11 do. of Sun, Moon, Stars, viii.i3. days, Bodies lay unburied, xxi. 9.

1/3 part

"

"

became became

"

3J

4 quarters of the Earth, xx, 8. 4 Beasts, full of eyes and have 6 wings, iv. 6-9 should be living tiings.^W.). 4 Horses, White, Red, Pale, Black.

("Beasts"

4 Horns of the golden altar before God, ix. 13. 4 Angels of the Euphrates, ix. 14. of the Earth, vii.i. 4 Angels of the Winds of the 4 comers 5 Months the Locusts had power to hurt Men, ix. 5-10. of the Beasts 7 Churches, i. 30.

6 Wings

7 Candlesticks, i. 30.

fullof (living things), Represent

eyes, iv. S.

the 7 Churches.

Represent 7 angels of the Churches. Stars,!. 30; ii.i. Angels of the Churches, i. 30. Lamps stand near the Throne, iv. 5. Seals, V. 5, opened by the Lamb, produce 4 horses, etc. Given to 7 Angels, Trumpets, viii.2. Thunders utter their voices, x. 3. 7 Plagues held by 7 Angels, xv, i.

7 7 7 7 7 7

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7 Vials of Wrath, 7 Spiritsof God,

xv. V.

7. 6.

v. 6 ; near are the Throne 7-homed and j-eyed Lamb, the 7 Spiritsof God, 7-headed and lo-horned Scarlet Beast, on which is a Woman, ivii. 3. 7-headed and ro-horned Dragon with 7 Crowns, xii.3. 7-headed and 10-homed Beast rose out of Sea, xiii.1. Crowns on Ten horns of beast which had 7 heads, xiii.i. 10 Dragon lo-homed with 7 heads, xii.3. lo-borned Beast with 7 heads rose out of sea, xiii.1. Scarlet Beast with 7 heads, on which was a lo-homed

woman, 12

12 I a

xvii.3. Tribes of Israel. Apostles of the Lamb,

xxi. 14. Gates of the New Jerusalemt ; ,, , Angels guarding them ^ x. Foundations of the Walls of the New Jerusalem, Stars on the head of the Woman, xii. i. the Tree of Life, xxii.2. sorts of Fruits on Elders around the Throne, on 24 seats, iv. 4-10. ,

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12

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24

Gentiles tread

months the Temple, xi. 2. 4a

the 42 months Blaspheme, xiii.5, 144

7-headed

the outer

over

Beast

to

have

cubits, theheight of the Walls of the New

666, number

court

power

of to

Jerusalem,

of the Beast,

years, Dragon bound for, xx. 2-3. years. Souls of the Faithful to live and reign, xx. 4. days, the two Witnesses prophesy, xi. 3, to be in the wilderness, xii.6. days, the Woman

1000 1000

1260 iz6o 12, 000 r 2,000

of each Tribe chosen. furlongs, length of the sides of the New

Jerusalem,

xxi. 16. 144,000 100,000,000,

round

chosen or

the Throne,

from the whole of the Tribes. ten thousand times ten thousand v.

Ai^els,

2.

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