C O LLE C TA NE A H E R

TI CA

N U MBE R S
O C C U LT PO W E R A ND

MYST I C VI RT U E S

BY

SU P RE M E M AG US

W YNN
OF T H E

W E ST CO T T

R O S ICR U CIAN
AU

TH OR

S O CIETY

OF

OF

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

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

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

THE

I SI A C

EN G LAND

T H I R D E D I T IO N

LO N D O N

T H E O S O P H I C A L P U B LI S H I N G S O C I E T Y
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DITI O N
SEC O ND E DITI O N
T HIRD E DITI O N
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N U M B ER S

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KABA L I S TIC VI E w N N U M BER S
PA R T I V
PR O P ERTIE S OF THE N U M BER S ACC O RD I N G T O THE
BI B L E THE T A L M U D S THE PY THA G O REAN S THE
R O M AN S C H A L DEAN S E G Y P TIAN S H IND OO S M EDI
[EV A L M A G ICIAN S H ER M ETIC ST U D ENT S AND THE
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the M SS pages have been lent t o many friends and
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students Of mystic lore and occult meanings It is only

at the earnest request Of the e kindly cri tics that I have
consented t o publish this volume The contents are
necessarily Of a frag m entary character and have been
collected from an immense number Of sources ; the original
matter has been intentionally reduced t o the least possible
quan tity s
o as t o Obta i n space for the inclus i on Of the
ut m ost amount Of ancient quaint and occult learning It i s
impossible t o give even an approximate list Of works which
have been consul t ed ; direc t quotations have been acknow
ledged in numerous instances and (perhaps naturally )
many a s t atement might have been equally well quoted from
t he book Of a contemporary a u thor a medi aeval mon k a
Roman historian a Greek poet or a Hindoo Adept : t o
give the credit to the m odern author would n ot be fair t o
the ancient sage to refer the reader t o a Sanskrit tome
would be in most cases only loss Of time and waste Of
paper My great di fculty has been to supply information
mystic enough t o match the i d eal Of the work and ye t
not SO esoteric as to convey truths wh i ch Adepts have still
conce aled
I must apologise for the barb arous appearance Of foreign
words but it was not found prac t icable to supply Sanskrit
Coptic Chaldee an d Greek type s
o t he words have had

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

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

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

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

-n

n u n c i at i o n

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

erudition containing a vast fund Of archaic doctrine has
supplied me with valuable quotations If any readers desire
a deeper insight into the analogies between numbers and
ideas I refer them in add ition t o the works Of E l iphaz Levi
Athanasius Kircher Godfrey Higgins Michael Maier and
John Heydon I have quoted from each O f these authorities

and Thomas Taylor s Theoretic Arithmeti c has

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

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rs t ed itn
thi s li t tl e b ook has
b een long o u t Of
i
print and for s
1 years I have been asked t o enlarge i t
e
n o t been
but until the presen t t i me suf ci ent le i sure ha s
found t o collec t t he add itional matt er which seemed
desirable
Th i s essay o n Num bers n o w appears as
Vol ume I X Of

my Seri es en t it led Colle ct anea H erm et ica O f which it

seems to form a su itab le part and I am hopeful that i t may
be a s
well received b y s t udents of mysti c philosoph y a s
the
previous volumes which t reated of Alchem y in the Her
metic Arcanum Hermeti c Ar t E uphrates and Aesch
M et z arep h; t he Dream Of Scipi o an d t he Go l den verses O f
th
e P yt hagoreans the P ym an d er O f Hermes and E gypt i an
Mag i c
I have added in this editi on many notes o n t he notions
O f t he Rabb i s Of Israel b oth from those who cont ri buted
to the Mishnah and Gemara O f the Talmuds Of Jerusalem
and Of Babylon and from t he R abb is who made a specia l
study Of the Kabalah O nly a few Talmudic treatises have
as yet appeared i n t he E ngli s
h language and hardly any
Kabal i stic tracts except three from the Zohar o r Book O f
Splendour viz the Si phra t en i ou t ha the Idra Rabba
and the Idra Su ta A few othe rs are to be read in German
and French t ranslations Many Talmudic and Ka bal istic
quota ti ons may however be foun d i n J P St ehelin s
Rabb inical Literat ure o f 1 7 4 8 ; in John Al l en s Modern
THE

'

Judaism 1 8 1 6 and in works On the Kabalah by Adolph

ho n has pub
Franck and Chri s
tian Ginsburg while H ers

li s
hed Hebraic lore in his Talmudic Miscellany
and

Genesis according to the Talmud

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

narrates the relation between the Kabalah and P latonis m
Neo Platonism Greek philosophy and the Zoroastrian
doctrines Of the Parsees
Perhaps the Oldest extant Kabalistic Book is the Sepher

Y et z ira h O r Book O f Formation an English translation

Of which has appeared in three editions from the A u thor s
own pen The fundamentals O f the numerical Kabalistic
ideas o n creation are laid down in that treati se ; it has also
been printed both in French and German and there is an
American edition
Upon the mathematical asp ect Of Numbers readers may
cons ult fo r fu rther detail the works Of Gau ss D i s
i
u
s
i
t
i
o
n
s
e
q

1 8 0 1 ; Legendre
Thorie des Nom b res
A ri t hm et i c ae

1 830
W G O Smith Reports o n the Theory Of Numbers

in the Transactions Of the British Associatio n 1 8 5 9

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

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

and Barlow s Investigations O f the Theory Of Numbers

For further information on Hindoo philosophy see The

Theosophical Glossary Of H P Blavatsky the works Of

T u kara m
Tatya and modern translations O f the Vedas

Puranas and Upanishads also Rama Prasad s Na t ure s

Finer Fo rces

Lamaism in T ibet 1 8 9 5 by Dr Laurence Austine

Waddell i s
a very learned work ; it contains a vast store O f
information o n the numerical occult lore O f the Lamas and
B uddhists
Upon Egypt i an Numbers cons ult the works Of E A
Wallis B u dge ; Flinde rs Petrie ; Sir John Gardner Wilkin

Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman ; and

s
on ;

Egyptian Belief by James Bonwick Mystics will nd

m u ch food for tho ught i n the Y i King a very curious
product o f ancient Chinese lore The Gnos t ic philoso phy

has a deep num erical basis and the works O f C W K i ng

and G R S Mead may be suita bly s tud i ed
Many volumes Of Bijou Notes and Queries have b een
ublished
by
S
C
Gould
Of
Manches
t
er
and
these
p
are full O f numerical i deas
I am prepared to nd that critics w ill decl are this volume
t o be an undigested collecti on O f heterogeneous i nformation
st ill I prefer t o leave the data in their present form ; fo r
there i s a scheme Of instruction running thro u gh it whic h
will b e recogn i sed by students Of certain schools and others
will be able to nd a basis for a general knowledge Of
nu m bers vi eW d from the standpoint Of occult sci ence
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PR

EF A C E

TO TH E

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

have been added many o f these have bee n supplied by my
pupils and fellow students O f t he Rosicrucian S ociety
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T H E I R O C C U LT PO W E R A ND

PART
P Y T HA GO RA S ,

H IS

T ENE T S

MY ST I C VIRT U E S

AND

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

E urope , wa t he on Of M n e arc hu

H IS F

O LL O W E RS

philosophers O f ancient
s s
s san engraver He was
born about the year 5 8 0 B C e i ther at Samos an island in
ay
the n ean Sea o r as some s
at Sido n in Ph oenicia
Very little i s
known Of hi s
early life , b eyond the fact that
he won prizes for feats Of ag ility at the O lympic Games
Having attained m anhood and feeling dissatised w i th the
amo u nt Of knowledge t o be gained a t home h l eft hi s
nati ve land and spent many years in travel v i siting i n turn
most O f the great centres Of Learning History narrates
that hi s pilgri mage in search Of wisdom extended t o Egypt
Hindo s
t an Persia Crete and Palestine and that he
gathered from each country fres
h stores Of i nformati o n
and su c ceeded in becom i ng well acquainted with the
Esoteric Wi sdom as well a sw it h the popu l ar exoteric
knowled ge Of each
He returned with hi s
mind well s t ored and hi s
j udgmen t
matured t o his home intending to open there a College
o f learning b u t th i s he found t o b e imprac t ica b le owing to
/
t
r
u
l
i
u
n
t
the O pposit i on Of t s b e ru ler Polycra tes Failing in
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this design he migrated t o Cro t on a a no t ed city in Magna

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

O
f
South coast
Italy It was here that this e v er famous
Philosopher founded his College or Society Of Student s
which became known all over the civilized world as the
central assembly Of the learned O f Europe and here it was
in secret conclave that Pythagoras taugh t that occult wisdom
which he had gathered from the Gymnosophists and
Brahmins Of India from the Hierophants Of Egypt the
ala h
O racle of Delphi the Id aean cave and from the Ka b
Of the Hebrew Rabbis and Chaldean Magi F o r nearly
forty years he taught his pupils and exhibited his wonderful
powers ; but an end was put t o his instit u tion and he
himself was forced to ee from the C ity owing to a c o n
r
s
i
a
f
c
and
rebellion
which
arose
on
account
a
quarrel
O
p
y
between the people Of Crot o na and the inhabitants Of
Sybaris : he succeeded in reaching M et apo nt u m where he
is said to have died about the year 5 0 0 B C
Among the ancient au thors from whom we derive o u r
knowledge Of the life and doctrines Of Pythagoras and his
successors the following are notable

B C 450
Herodotus who speaks Of the mysteries O f
the Pythagorean s
as similar to those Of O rpheus
B C 3 9 4 Archytas O f Tarentum wh
o left a fragmen t
upon Pythagorean Arithmetic
Theon Of Smyrna
B C 38O

B C 3 7O
Philolaus From three books O f th i s author
it is believed that Plato compiled his book T i m m u s
he was probably the rst who committed t o writing
the doctrines Of Pythagoras

i ca
M et aphy s
Aristotle
Refer t o his
B C 322

Moralia Magna and Nicomachean Ethics

O f St agyra was h i s father
N i co m a c hu s

Eratosthenes author O f a work entitled

B C 2 76

Kokkinon or Cribrum a Sieve to separate

Prime from Composi t e N u m bers

Cicero Refer to hi s
works De Fin ibu s
B C 4O

and De natura D eo ru m
,

0
5

A D
.

N i co m achu

sO f

Treatises O n Arit h

Gerasa

me t ic and Harmony
Porphyry Of Tyre
A D
a great philosopher
sometimes named in Syr iac M elekh 0 r K i ng was
the pupil o f Long i nus and P l o ti nus

m
i
i
A D
m
l
s
t
r
wro
t
e
De
De
a
b
i
cu
e
s
s
y
J

v ita
P y t hago ric a
The Ari thmetic O f N ic o

m ac h
us
0 f Gerasa
and The Theo l o gi ca l P ro

t
i
r
e
s
O
f
Numbers
e
p

A D
P roclus in his commen tary o n t he Works

and Days O f Hes iod gives information concern

i ng
an views Of numbers
A D
O f Cilicia a contemporary Of
.

0
0
3

0
34

0
45

6
0
5

Constantinople has l eft a Bi bli

ot h
eca Of the idea Of the Older philosophers
Coming down t o more recent times the follow ing

i u sJohannes 1 6 2 0
authors should be consulted z M eu rs
Marcus 1 6 5 0 ; and Kircher Athanasius 1 6 6 0
M ei b
om iu s
They collected and epitomized all that was extant Of previous
author s
The
c oncerning the doctrines O f the Pyth agoreans
t wu swho
rst eminent follower o f Pythagoras was A ri s
married T hean o the widow O f his master : n ext follo wed
on Of Pythagoras ; and later B u la go ra s
u sthe s
M n es
arch
n di an
h
Tidas and D io d oru sthe A s
e
After
t
original
e
p
school was dispersed the chief i nstructors became Cli n i as
and Philolaus at Heraclea T heori d es
and Eurytus at Meta
and
Archytas
the
sage
Of
Tarentum
n
t
u
m
o
;
p
The school Of Pythago ras had several peculiar c haracter
is
t i c s Every new member was obliged to pass a period Of
v e years Of contemplati on i n perfect silence ; the m embers
held everything in common and rej ected animal food they
were believers in the d octrine Of metempsychosis and were
inspired with an ardent and Impl i cit faith in their fo u nder
and teacher SO much did the element Of faith enter into

H e said it
their training that a u tosaf ka
was to
Intense fraternal affection between the
t hem complete proof
pup il s was also a marked feature O f the school ; he nce t heir

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saying m y fri end i s my

se lf has
b ec ome a by word
The t each ing was i n a great measure secret and
t o this day
certain studies and knowledge were allo tt ed to each C lass
and grade Of instruction : meri t and ability alone su f ced
to enable anyone t o pass to the higher Classes and t o a
know l edge Of the more recondite mysteri es N o person
was permitted t o commit t o writing any tene t o r secret
doct ri n e and , SO far as is known n o pup i l ever broke t he
rule un t il after his death and the dispersi on O f t he school
We are t hus entirely dependent on the scraps Of i n for
mation which have been handed down t o us from hi s
successors and from h i s an d their critics A considerable
amount O f uncertain ty therefore i sinseparable from any
consideration Of t he real doctrines Of Pythagoras himself
but we are on su rer ground when we investigate the Opinions
Of his followers
It is recorded that hi s
instruction to h i s followers was

for m ulated i nto t wo great div i sion s the science O f numbers

and the theory O f magnitude The former divi s i on included
two branches arithmetic and musical harmo ny ; the latter
was further subdivi ded into the Consideration of magnitude

at rest geometry and magnitude in m otion astrono m y

The most s t ri king peculiarities of hi s
doctri nes are depen
dent O n the mathematical concep ti ons numerical ideas and
impersonations upon which his philosophy wa s
f o u n d ed
governing Num be rs were supposed t o be
T he p ri n ci ples
the prin ciples
Of all Real Existences ; and as Numbers are
the primary constituen t s Of Mat hemat ical Quantities and at
the same tim e present many analogi es t o vario u s realities it
was further inferred that the elements Of Num b ers were
the ele men t s O f Realities T O Pythagoras himself it i s
be lieved that the natives of Europe o we the rst teach i ng
Of the principles Of music
O f the properties O f Numbers
at he had visited
an d Of physics ; but there is evidence t h
Central Asi a and there ha d acquired the mathem atical
ideas which form t he bas i s O f his
doc tri ne The m odes O f
thought introduced by Pythagoras and fol l owed by his
successor J am bli cu s
and others became known later o n

o ther

b y t he ti tl es

sh
c

the

of

Itali an s c hoo l

or

t he

Do ri c

ooL

The fo ll owers o f Py t hagoras deli vered t he i r knowl edge

t o pupi l s tted b y sel ec t ion and b y t ra in i ng t o rece i ve it I n
secret ; b ut to others by numerica l and mathematical names
and notions Hence they cal l ed forms num bers a point
the monad a l ine t he dyad ; a s
u per c i es
t
he
t
riad
and
,
;
a so l id the tetrad
Intu i tive knowledge was
referre d t o t he Monad t ype
Reason and cau s
ation
Dyad type
Imagi nation (form o r ru pa)
Triad type
Sensation of ma terial O bj ec t s
Te tra d t ype
Indeed they
c t pla net m an idea and
essence to some
i n a way wh i ch t o most
moderns mus t 5
m y s ti cal i n t he h i ghest
degree

The numerals 0f Py thagoras says Porphyry who live d

about 3 0 0 A D
were hieroglyphic sym b ols b y means
whereof he explai ned all i deas
concerning the na t ure O f

things a n d t he same method Of explaining the secrets O f

na t ure i sonce a gain b eing insisted upon in the new

revelat ion O f the Secret D o ct rine b y H P Blavat sky

Numbers are a key t o t he ancien t vi ews O f cos m ogony
in it s
broad sense spiri tually as
well a s
phys i cal ly considered
and t o t he evolution Of the present human race ; al l sys t ems
Of religious m ystic i sm are based upon numerals The
sacredness o f numbers begins with the Great First Cause

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

O f t he inni t e and bo un dl ess universe

Isis Unvei led
v o l ii 40 7
Tradition narrates that the studen ts O f the Pyt hagorean
school at rst cl assed a s
E xoter i ci o r A u s
l is t eners
c u lt a n t es
were privil eged t o ri se by merit and ability to the h igher
grades Of G enuini Perfect i M at hem at i ci o r the most
coveted ti tl e O f Eso t eri ci
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PART

II

P Y T HA G O R EAN V I E W

S O N NU M BE R S

found a tion of Py thagorean Mathematics was as follows :

The rst natural division o f Numbers i s i nto E VEN and
an E V EN number be ing o n e which is divisible into
OD D
two equal parts withou t leaving a monad between them
The O D D number when d i vided into two equ al parts leaves
the monad in the middle b etween the parts

All even numbers also ( except the dyad two which i s

simply two u nities ) may be divi d ed into t wo equal parts
and also into two un equal parts yet s
o that in neither
division will ei ther pari ty be mingled with imparity nor
imparity with parity The binary number two cannot be
divided into two unequal parts
Thus 1 0 divides into 5 and 5 equal parts also into 3 and
8
oth
impari
t
ies
and
into
6
and
both
p
rities
and
a
b
4
7
divi des into 4 and 4 equals and parities and into 5 and
both
imparities
3
But the O D D number is Only divisible into uneven parts
and o n e p a rt is also a parity and the other part an imparity
thus 7 into 4 and 3 or 5 and 2 i n both cases unequal
and Odd and even

The ancients also remarked t he monad t o b e odd and

t
Odd number because it cannot be divided
t o be the rs
into two eq u al numbers Another reason they saw was that
the monad added to an even number became an o dd
number, b u t if evens are added to evens the result is an
even number
THE

even num b ers may b

e part ed i nto t wo equ al
d i visions and these parts agai n equally d ivi d ed b u t the
process does no t proceed until unity i sr eached ; such
numbers are 2 4 and 2 8
O dd numbers al so are suscepti b le o f b eing looked upon
from three po i nts of view t hus :

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

2
1
no
other
number
measures
t
hem
but
unity
they
are
;
9 3
not composed o f o t her numbers but are generated from
unity al one

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

and are composed from other numbers ; such are 9 1 5 2 1
2 5 2 7 3 3 and 3 9
These have parts which are denominated
from a foreign number or word as well as
proper uni ty
thus 9 has
1
has
a
third
part
a third part wh ich i s
3 ; 5
which is 5 and a fth part 3 hence as con t ain i ng a foreign
part it i s call ed s
econd and as
contain i ng a divis i bility it
is
composite
The Third Vari ety o f od d num bers i s more complex and
i s o f itself second and composite b u t wi th reference t o
another is rst and i ncomposite such are 9 and 2 5 These
are divis ible each of them that i s
second and composite
yet have no common measure ; t hus 3 wh i ch d ivides the 9
does n o t divide the 2 5
Odd numbers are so rt ed ou t in t o these t hree c l asses by a

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

complex a nature t o form par t of a monograph s
o discurs i ve
as this must be
Even numbers have al so been divi ded by the ancient
sages into Perfec t Deci ent and Superabundant
Superperfec t or Superabundan t are such a s1 2 and
U nevenly
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24

Decien t are such as 8 and 1 4

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

2
8
their parts ; as
half i s
1 4 a fourth i s
7 a seventh is 4
2
a fourteen t h par t i s
and the twenty eighth is I whi ch
q u otien t s added together are 2 8
In Decien t num be rs such as 1 4 the parts are surpassed
.

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

the aggregate is 1 0 or less than 1 4
1
In Superabundant a s1 2 t he whole surpasses the aggre
gate Of its parts thus the sixth is 2 a fourth is 3 a t hird is
1
6
i
1
i
6
r
a
half
is
and
a
twelfth
s
and
t
he
aggregate
s
o
4
more than 1 2
Superperfect num b ers they looked on as similar t o Bri areus
the hundred handed giant : hi s
parts were too numerous the
deci ent numbers resembled Cyclops who had bu t o n e
eye wh ilst the perfect num bers have the t emperament o f a
m i dd l e li m it and are the emula t ors Of Virtue a med ium
between excess and defect n o t the summit as some ancients
falsely t hought
E vil is i ndeed Op
t o evi l
but both t o o n e good
Good however i s
opposed t o go od but t o t wo
evils
The Perfect num
l ike the vi r tues few in
num b er ; wh il s
t t he other t wo Classes are like the vices
numerous i nord i nate and inde nite
There i s
b ut one perfect number be t ween I and 1 0 tha t
6 ; on l y o n e b etween 1 0 and 1 0 0 t hat is 2 8 ; only o n e
is
be t ween 1 0 0 and 1 0 0 0 that is 4 9 6 ; and bet ween 1 00 0
and
on l y one that i s
8 1 28
O dd num b e rs they ca l l ed Gno m o n s because b eing added
t o squares t hey keep the same gures a s
in Geome t ry : s
ee
S i mpl i cius l i b er 3
A number which is formed b y the multiplica t ion o f an Od d
and an even num ber to ge t her they called Hermaphrodi t e
,

or

a rren ot h
elu

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

den i te and inde nite numbers it is to be noted that the
Old philosophers we re deeply imbued with the union o f

numerical ideas with Nature i n i t s

c ommon acceptation
and also t o the natures essences or s u bstrata Of things
T he nature of good t o them was denite that o f evil
inde nite ; and the more indenite the nature o f the evil
the worse it was Goodness alo ne can dene o r bound the
indenite In the human soul exists a cer t ain vestige o f
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d ivine goodness ( Buddhi) ; thi s b ounds and moderates the

i n d e ni t en es
and inequality o f its desires
s
It may be demonstrated that all inequality arises from
equali ty so that Obtaining as i t were the power of a mother
and a root s
he pours forth wi th exuberant fertil ity all sorts
o f i nequality ; and did space and time allow
it could be
also shown that all inequality may be reduced t o equality
I am b
li c hu sin his treatise o n the Arithmet i c o f Nico
m ac h
us
throws another light o n numbers ; he says some are
like friends they are Am icable numbers as 2 8 4 and 2 2 0
Pythagoras being asked what a friend was said r epos

e w =
ano
her
I
Now
this
is
demonstrated
to
be
the
t
y
case in these numbers ; the parts of each are generative o f
each other according t o the nature o f friendship
a French mathematician A D 1 7 1 0 gives ex
Oz an am

amples in hi sMathematica l Recreations o f such Amicable

um
Numbers He remarks that 2 2 0 is equal t o the s
o f the
aliquot parts o f 2 8 4 ; thus I 2 4 + 7 1 1 4 2 2 2 0 : and
2 8 4 is equal t o the sum o f the al i quot parts o f 2 2 0 ; thus
.

'

Another such pai r of numbers are

and
Very curi ous specula t ions a st o the relation bet ween
Numbers and marriage and the character of o ffspri ng from
it are t o be found scattered through the writings o f the

Philosophers Plato in hi s R epublic has

a passage c o n
cerning a geom etric number which divinely generate d will
be fortunate o r unfortunate N i c o m achu s
also speaks O f
th i s same n u m ber an d he calls it the Nuptial Number ; and
he passes from it to state that from two good parents only
good o ffspr ing can come ; from two bad parents only bad ;
and from a good and a bad parent only bad ; whence he
warns the Republic against wedlock in a confused o r dis
orderly manner from which the progeny being depraved
discord will result Simplicius in his commentary o n the

O n the Heavens
remarks that
z u d Book o f Aristotle
Pythagoras and his followers claimed to have heard the
Music o f the Spheres t o have heard an harmonic sound
produced by the motion of the planets and from the sound
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"to

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

size o f the Sun Moon Venus an d Merc u ry T 0 this
Aristotle objected but perhaps the di fculty might be
solved : in this sublunary sphere a ll things are n o t co m
mensurate nor i s
every t hing sensi b le t o every body alike
Animals can be scen t ed and t heir presence den i t ely kn own
by dogs when at great distances from them and when man
i s i n complete ignorance o f thei r existence Some o f the

ancients thought the soul had three veh i cles the terrestrial
body an aerial one i n which it i s
punished and an ethereal
o n e luminous a nd celestial in which the soul abides when
in a state of bl i ss I t may be that some one by purication
o f the senses by hereditary magical power o r by prob i ty
o r by the sacred
ns
religion may perceive
O f hi s
with a terrestrial b
aside things impercept i ble to u s
and hear soun
us still in bondage ; or with
mantle partly unfolded some adept o r t ruth seeker may
perceive with eyes uprai sed sights invisible to mortals
whilst yet hi s
ears are deaf t o the sounds bey ond us both
R OI why do we s
ee the s tars wh i le yet we hear n o t their
motion :
,

,
.

Why come n o t angels from the realms

To visi t earth a s
in the days of old ?
Is heaven more distant
O r has
earth grown cold ?
,

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glory

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PART I II

NU M BE R S

KA BALA K O N

TH E

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

alphabets as substi tutes for any independent s igns to typify
numerical conceptions It i s
with the Hebrew l etters as
numerals tha t we are chiey co n cern edh a nd t o a smaller
extent with the Greek Ancien t records S how tha t the
Greeks used thei r numbers almost exclusively fo r everyday
purposes while the Jewish Ra bbis added t o t hei r practical
value special pecul iar purposes and looked t o them to
furnish deepe r vi ews o f nature exi stence and doctrine N o
doubt can exis t t hat the ancien t E gyptians were ful ly aware
to
o f the wondr o us mysteries wh i ch numbers are ab l e
disclose s
o considering that Greece and neither Judea nor
Babylon succeeded to the empires o f ancient Egypt it i s
a curious fact how l i ttle knowledge o f the dogmas of the
Hierophants of Sais Memph i s and Thebes Greek li t erature
has transmitted t o u s
The Jewish Rabbis discovered s
o much o f in t erest and
impo rtance behind the merely supercial value of numbers
and o f words as their representatives that they gradually
developed a complete science o f numerical conceptions
apart from mathematics ; this t ook the name o f Ka bala h o r
Qabalah Cab bala or even Cabala words variously m i sspe l t
from Q BLH t he Received do c trine from the root Q BL
meaning t o Receive
The Greeks as
aforesaid did n ot deve l op n or use their
letters as numbers for mental conceptions yet in the Middle
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Ages we often nd Greek letters used to transl i terate

i m i larsand s
Hebrew s
form e d a ba stard Greek
o t here w
as
Kab
ala h o n the Hebrew type
It must b e constan tly borne i n m i nd t hat all Hebrew
words o r num b
ers are read from right t o left o r the reverse
o f Engl i sh words ; but in the i r E ng l ish t ransl i teration they
are here i n E nglish order
The corresponding numerals , Greek and Hebrew letters
are here given w i th the i r Engl i sh names and t he Eng l ish
synonymous le t ters
are al so added
,

A
Aleph

B
Beth

D
Dal eth

Beta Gamma

Ch
Heth

Th
Teth

H
Heh

Delta

or

or

Y od

Eta

Theta

Iota

Kappa

S
Samekh

Ay i n

60

0
7

Xi

O micron
o

Zain

Zeta

L
Lamed
5

Kaph
20

5
E pSi lo n

I o

U or V
Vau

Alpha

G
Gimel

M
Mem Nun

La m bda
A

Tz
P eh T z a dd i
3

80
Pi

0
9

11

0
4

O
5

Mu
p

Qoph

R
Resh

'

Kapp a
I2

Nu

'

I OO

2 00

R ho

Sigma

01 ;

Sh
Shin

K
Final Kaph

M
Final Mem

c:

'

Final Nun
I

0
0
3

00
4

0
0
5

6 00

0
0
7

T au

Upsilon

Phi

Chi

P i

<>

'

Fi nal Peh

Tz
Final T z ad d i

Dot t ed Aleph

8 00

0
0
9

1 000

Om

ega

Alpha dashed

71)

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

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

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

'

I1

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

h u ndreds but instea d Ta u was written for 4 0 0 and other
hundreds added ; th u s 5 0 0 was T O Another point o f
importance is that the Jews never write J H Jah for 1 5
e instead 9 6 th u s TV
beca u se it is a Deity title they u s
teth va u The Kabalists used J H only when they desired
to call attention t o the Holy Name in the n u mber
In certain K abalistic n u merical computations many
Rabbis deemed it permissible t o add an Aleph o n e and
this they called the C olel
In some cases we nd the Greeks to have used their
letters in direct order for purposes o f n u meration as may
be seen in some copies of very O ld poems (t he 2 4 books of
Homer s Iliad and O dyssey for example ) in which the
stanzas bear the letters consecutively in a similar manner
to the Hebrew letters heading the portions of the 1 1 9 t h
Psalm in o u r Bibles
The word Kabala h includes the Hebrew Doctrines o f
Cosmogony and Theology a swell as the Science of
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Alu Mikhael Ga briel ve Raphael A LU M I KA L GBR I A L V

R P AL converted are I 3 0 6 4 0 I O 2 0 I 3 0 3 2 2 0 0
2
1
10 I
0
8
0
also
amountin
to
and
0
6
0
0
1
0
3
3
7
g
the Rab bis argued that these t wo sets o f three beings were
identical
Some Christian Kabalists point o u t that in

Genesis xlix v 1 0 we nd Y eba h Shiloh VBA ShI LH

Shiloh shall come wh i ch amount t o 3 5 8 ; and that the

word Messiah M ShY Ch is 4 0 3 00 1 0 8 o r 3 5 8 ; b u t s

o
h the Serpent o f Moses N Chs
is a lso N achas
h 5 0 8 3 00 ;
and I must remark that the claim t o translate ShI LH or

as
some ancient Hebrew MSS wri te it ShLH by Shiloh
in the sense of Jesus Chris t is far fetched The word is

simply rest o r peace in its simplest meaning but also

is
the Scorpio of the Chaldean zodiac (rela t ed to Nachash

serpent ) ; and Judah of whom Jaco b is talking in the

prophecy is
the sign of the zodiac ; Leo for Judah is a

lion s whelp (the Chaldean zodiac has

a lion couchant)

he crouches as a lion
In this sense then the S ceptre

shall not depart from Judah

power shall not leave
Leo until Shelah Shiloh or Scorpio S hall come up o r
rise Astronomy teaches that as Leo passes away from

the merid i an Scorpio ri ses

The title
Comforter

Menachem M N c hM 4 0 5 0 8 4 0 amounting t o I 3 8

and the title The Branch applied t o the Messiah in

Zec hariah iii V 8 namely T ZMC h 9 0 40 8 also I 3 8 are
of the same n u m ber Metatron the great an gel M T hR T hN

and Sha dd ai ShD I translated Almighty are both 3 1 4

The letter Shin Sh = 3 o o is used as a glyph of the

spiri t o f the living gods Ruach Elohim R U Ch A LH I M

which t ransmutes into 2 0 0 6 8 1 3 0 5 1 0 4 0 or
,

00

l d ered the un i ts to refer

The Kabalists somet i mes Con s
t o Divine Beings the tens to celestial bodies hundreds to
things of eart h and thousands to future even t s
N ot a rz con a word derived from the Latin not a ri a sa
shorthand wr it er means the c onstruction o f a word from the
initial o r nal let t ers of the several words o f a sentence ; or
a the construction o f a sen t ence of which each word
vice ver s
.

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27

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

word : processes o f contraction and expansion therefore
Refer t o Deuteronomy xxx v 1 2 and nd that Moses

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

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

read My y eola h l enu has

hem i m ha form the word M Y L K

Circumcis i on and the nal

M yla h which means
or
letters form the word Jehovah Y H U H o r I H V H suggesting
that Jehovah po i nted ou t the way by circumcision t o
hea ven Again t he rst s
i xletters o f the book of Genesis

B R A ShI T B era s
it trans l ated
In the beginn i ng but more

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

R A H A LH I M ShY QBLU I s
hR A L T U R H read
Bera s
i t raua h

hy eq u eb
E lohim s
elu Israel torah
whi ch mean In the

begin ning God s

a w tha t Israel would accept the Law

T he fa m o u s
power
AGL A
is

formed o f the
tence
Tu po t en sin

ATH
s aeculum Domine
G BU R LO U LM AB NI Ateh

i
b
r
l
l
u
Adon
a
i
The
word
Amen
is
from
o
u
a
m
N
A
M
g

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

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

T em u m
means Permutation ; sometimes the le t ters o f a
w ord are transposed accord i ng t o certain rules a nd with
ce rtain lim itations ; a t o thers each letter o f a word i s
re
l
a

c
e
t
a
her
according
a
denite
scheme
formi
g
d
n
o
o
n
t
y
p
a new word o f Whi hpermutation there are many recognised
forms F o r example the alphabet o f 2 2 letters is halved
and the t wo sets placed o n e over the other in reverse order
thus
A
B G D H V Z Ch Th Y K
T Sh R Q T z P O S
N M L
then A i schanged to T and V t o P and s
o on
s
o Babel
= B BL b ecomes Shes
hak
ShShK used by Jeremiah

xxv v 2 6
Th i s form is called Atbash or A T Bs
h; i t
will be seen that there must b
e 2 1 other possible fo rms a nd
thes
e were named in ord er thus Albat Agdat etc ; the

compl ete s
called the combinat ions o f T z iru p h
et wa s
O ther Per m uta tions were named Ra t i onal Right Averse
.

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28

and Irregular these are produce d by forming a square and

subdividing it by 2 1 lines in ea ch direction into 4 8 4 smaller
squares and then writing in each square a letter in order
successively from right to left o r from above down or the
reverse The most pop u lar mode o f perm u ta tion has how

ever been the form called Kabalaho f the Nine Chambers

produced by the intersection of two horizon t al and two
vertical lines forming n i ne spaces a central square and 4
three sided gures and 4 two sided gures to each of which
are allotted certain letters there are s
e veral modes even o f
this arrangement and there is a mystical mode of allotting
the Sephiroth to t hi s
gure but this is a Rosicrucian secret
This method is u sed i n a supercial manner i n M
ark
Master Masonry
A fu rther development o f the Numeri cal Kabalah consists
o f arithmetical processes o f Extension and Contraction ;
thus Tetragrammat on i s
considered as
Y 10 H 5 V 6 H 5
or 2 6
but also may be spelled in full Y VD 2 0 H A 6
,

VV

1 2,

6,

or

Again the Kabalists ext ended a number by series Zain

Z o r 7 becomes 1 and 2 an d 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7
After another manner they contracted as 2 8 was
or 2 8
eq u al to 2 and 8 o r 1 0 Again Tetragrammaton 2 6 became
2 and 6 o r 8 so every number was reducible to a primary
numeral In this manner within certain restrictive laws
every word ha d analogies with certain others thus A B
father I and 2 are 3 I H V Jehu 1 0 and 5 and 6 are 2 1 2
and I are 3 A L ShD I Al Shadd ai God Almighty I 3 0
1
2
becomes
2
and
then
and
are
0
o
r
1
1
0
0
4
345
3 ;
3
6 1 are 1 2 and then 3 ; and G D VL H
H V A o r Hoa 5
Ged u lah 3 4 6 3 0 5 are 48 and are 1 2 and 3
Another method o f substitution leading to results o f an
opposite C haracter is the substitution in any word of similar
letters of an other group hard fo r soft o r sibilant fo r dental ;
thus in T M = perfec t exchange T H for T and obtain T hM
meaning d e led : ShA N secure tranquil becomes SAN
battl e ; ShKL wisdom becomes SKL foolish In the
word Sha d da i ShD I Almighty with soft sibilant and soft
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29

dental is Shi d d ah a w ife ; if we replace w i th a hard den t al

a partial Change o f meaning i s
effected ShT hH Sittah an
adulterous wi fe ; both letters hardened completely change
the sense ST h Se th a fallen m an a b ackslider ; ST hN
Satan a dversary
I cannot without Hebrew letters explai n well the change
of sound in the Shin SH from S H t o S bu t it i s marked by
a do t over the right o r l eft tooth o f the three teeth o f the
letter
A deep mystery i s concealed in t he Gene t ic account of
the conversi on o f the names of A b ram A BR M into Abraham
and that o f his wife Sarai St
into Sarah
A BR H M

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

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

laugh
when Sarah was 9 0 and
ShChQ o r T ZC hQ
A b raham 1 0 0 years
5 was o n the occasion of the
covenant made by Jehova
bram and the institution
of circumcision of males
thereof Now here we
have the addition o f an H o r 5 the essent ially Female
Letter t o the name o f Abraham and a conversion o f a
Y o d into H e Y into H i n t he case of Sarah ; and then
their steril i ty is destroyed
Some learned men c onsider Abraham to be a con version
Brahma the Hindoo Deity
The name splits up
of
o n A M is like O M o r
curi ously A B is father B R i ss

he i s lifted up
A U M a d ei c name o f Power ; R M meant
Blavatsky remarks that Abraham and Saturn were identical
t rO symbology the Father o f the Pharisees was Jehovah
in A s
and they were Of the seed o f Abraham
The number o f A BR M i s
I 2 2 0 0 4 0 o r 2 4 3 the number
o f the man gure Seir A n pi n representing Microprosopus

Read Pistorius Ars Cabalistica for the effect of add i ng

H 5 to men s names see page 9 6 9 ; also Inman

Ancient

Faiths article Abraham

Secret Doctrine i 5 7 8 ii 7 7

also C W King The Gnostics

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

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

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

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3

Sac t i o f

and no t e t he
Brahma is Sara swa ti wat ery ; S ara
m i
re fers t o SR 1 Lakhs
Aphrodi t e and all are related t o
Water and Luna Vach Sophia o f t he Gnostics and the
ideal Holy Ghost all fem inine
The 2 43 o f Abra m becomes 2 4 8 b y add ing H and Sa ra I
0 becomes
1
0
by
taking
o
f
ff
pu
t
ting
H
Y
and
the
or
5
5
5 5
to t al Of the two names is unaltered b eing 7 5 3 2 4 8 is the
number o f the members o f M i croprosopus and o f R ChM
rechem or Mercy
Before leaving t hls
su bj ect a reference must be made
to the Magic Squares o f the Planets etc to each planet
belongs a special unit and secondari l y other numbers
Thus the Square of Saturn has t hree compart ments each
way and in each subd i vision is a unit I t o 9 so arranged
that the columns add up t o 1 5 every way the total
b eing 4 5 The Square o f Jupiter hasa side of four
divisions total 1 6 each line ad ds up t o 3 4 and the to tal is
-

6
3

The Square o f Mars i s

i
ven
here
as
an
examp
l
e
each
g
ide 5 total squares 2 5 each s id e coun t ing 6 5 and to tal
s
.

25

4
1

7
25
1 3

24

1 1

5
8

1 0

3
1 6

21

22

23

20

Simi l arly the four several numb ers o f Sol are

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

6, 3 6,
8, 6 4,

III

2 6 0,

2 0 8 0.

Each number then be comes

Luna 9 8 1 3 6 9 3 3 2 1
a name Take the case of Mercury ; 6 4 i s alike D I N and
T i ri el T I R I A L ; and 2 0 8 0 i s
B N I Din and Doni ; 2 6 0 i s
Of

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

Rawlinson in his volumes on the Ancient Monarchies

states that the Chaldeans as
sociated mystic numbers with
their Deities th u s to Anu P luto 6 0 Bel Jupiter 5 0 ; Hoa
,

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

Nergal ( Mars ) 1 2 ; and Belt i s o r Mylit ta I 5 ; and Nin is
Saturn 1 0
It w ill b e no t iced t ha t t he grea t number o f Sol i s 6 6 6
called Sorat h S U RT t he num b er of the Beas t a bout wh i ch
o much folly h
as
s
been wri tt en O ne famous square of ve
t imes v e divisions amounting in most directions t o 6 6 6 is
formed of the mystic words Ta tar a repa t enet op era rot a s
O f these the rst third and l as t num b er 6 6 6 b ut op era
and its reverse number only 3 5 6 The num ber 6 0 8 i s
notable being in Copti c P hR E the s
and in
un 5 00 1 00 8
Greek we nd VH S 40 0 8 2 0 0 wh i ch b ecomes I HS i n
L at i n for t he Greek Ups il on changes t o Y and I in Latin

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

S alvator
m ple o f mag i c squares ;
Kircher poin t s o u t
I E SOU S M A R I A have a
the names Jesus and
curious relation
8 2 00 7 0 4 0 0
1 00
Set 1 5 2 i n
1 0
N ow take Mar i a 4 0 1
a Magic Square of Three
n i ne compar t men t s t hus

1
2
1
1
2
2
t
hen
the
to
t
als
are
all
8
8
8
5
5
5
The l etters o f I es
ou s
also make a mag i c square of 3 6
d i vis i ons adding every way t o 8 8 8 Consu lt t he A ri t hm o

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

'

Sou

en em a
Okla,

or

720m

ta u m

am

'

s8

ta z e

See S t Augustine, D e

ea a a e

'

sk

a ekaa e

fa de

e a l an

D ef

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

6
i
n
Greek
let
t
ers
3 5
As
a curiosit y not e that the Roman X fOI 1 0 i s
two V s
wh i ch are eac h 5 ; C o r squarely drawn E fo r 1 0 0 con
sists of t wo L s
wh i ch are each 5 0 Pri sci an says I for I
t aken from i in the m i ddle o f the Greek m i a , female
wa s
I and V for 5 because it wa s
of
the fth vowe l T o
remember Hebrew numerals note A I Q I 1 0 1 0 0 ;
and in Greek A I R A = 1 1 0 1 0 0

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

,

2
3

a Ves
ica pi scis (t he gure for m ed by t he I ntersec t ion o f
two equal circles) whose dimens i ons are 2 6 and 1 5 is a
symbol o f t he hidden rule or canon by which Natural laws
were repres ented to Initiates in the secret wisdom of the
Ancient Mysteries The Greek god Zeus Jupiter and
Apollo t he Sun god have t he same n umerical relation
,

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

the i mage
all i s
confused vague and in darkness
A
Chasm
as
a
void
9
1 0
Tartarus from its being at the lowest extremity is
dissimilarly similar t o God at the highest end o f the
series
1 1
The Styx from i t s
i mmutable nat u re
1 2
Horror the ineffable is perfectly unknown and i s
therefore terrible
1 3
Void o f M i xture from the S implic ity o f the nat ure of
the ineffable
1 4
Lethe obl i vion Ignorance
1
A
Virgin
from
the
purity
of
its
nature
5
1 6
Atlas it connects supports an d separates all things
1 7
The Sun 1 8 Apollo 1 9 P yrali o sdweller i n re
20
Morpho 2 1 The Axis 2 2 Vesta or the re in the

centre of the earth 2 3 Spermatic Reason 2 4

The

point withi n a circle

the Central Fire Deity
The lingam an upright p illar wa s
its Hindoo symbol
The Monad being esteemed the Father o f numbers is the
r eason for the universal prejudice in favour o f O dd N u mbers
over Even ones which are but C opies o f the rst even
number the Dyad or universal M other ; the father bei ng

more es t eemed than the mother for Might

O dd num b ers were given to the greater Gods and even
on es t o the inferior and terrestrial deities
The number one is represented in the Roman and Arabic
systems by an upright simple line but in many old systems
whose numerals were their letters we nd that almost
universally the letter A from being chosen to commence
the set o f letters had the tas k of representi ng the Monad
In Nume ration note that the Romans began with lines
I II III 1 1 1 1 and then followed the Acute Angle V f o r
w
as
f
o
then
ten
this
doubled
X
for
fty
the
angle
r
a
s
w
5
laid down and became L fo r a hundred two fties one
inverted became C for ve hundred C and L became D
Hermias the Christian philosopher author of Ridicule

quo t es from the Pythagoreans

o f the Gentile Philosophers
,

35

of

The Monad is the Beginning

a rd on

lz e

m am a

all thi gs
n

a re/ze

t on

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

and preservat i on it signies

living man alone among

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

sign o f creative Power (patern i ty phallus P a n the Greek
gods and Priapus al l commencing wi t h the voca ble P )
A nother dash added a n d we have man walking a dvan c
ing wi t h foot s
et forward
in t he le t ter R wh i ch sign i es

i en s i t u ru so r advanc i ng
ola salone
Co m pare Unity s
t he un i que principle o f
good ; w i th Sol Sun God the emb l em of supreme power ;
and they are identical
The Hebrew word fo r O ne i s A c bD achad and i t i s
often put for G
O ne voice t o man is the B a t/i
Kolf t he echo
he Divine Voice
The Talmud in
v i 1 says that the Sheki n ah
S hall rest even upon O ne who s tudies the Law O ne pang
o f remorse i s o f m o re avai l for reforma t ion t han many
stripes
t ai n ed wi t h di f culty i s
O ne thing o b
more valued than
a hundred obtained with ease Talmud
It is indiscreet for o n e man to S leep in a house alo ne \
for fear that he may be at t acked by Lilith who was said
to have been Adam s rs t wife ; she i s
the Night Spectre
and has also power over newly b orn infants who are n o t
protected by an Amulet

Rabbi Nathan exhorted

Repent O ne day before thy

death ; a wise maxim inculcating the duty o f being ever

prepared ev e ry day some advance in knowledge and good
ness should be at t ained

Ever work and ever pray

for the road winds upward all

the way as
the Lord Buddha taught in ancient In dia
,

THE

DY A D

was the case with

s

the Monad so t he Dyad also was

sai d
t o represent a large num b er of di fferent o bj ec t s and i deas ;
things indeed so dissimilar that it i s
di fcult to understand
how such multiplicity o f opinion arose
And rst it is the general opposite to the Monad the
cause of dissimilitude the interval between m ultitude and
the Monad O f gures those which are characterised by
equality and sameness have relation to the Monad but
those in wh i ch ineq u ality and di fference predominate are
allied to the Dyad Monad and Dyad are also called
Bound and Innity

I It was
called Audacity from i t s
being the earl i est
number t o separate itself from the Divine O ne ; from the

Adytum o f God nourished Silence as the Chaldean

ay
oracl es s

It was called Matter as b eing denite and the

2
cause o f bulk and d i vis i on

It
is
called
the
interval
between
Multitude
and
h
t
e
3

Monad because it is not yet perfect multitude but is

parturient wi th it O f this we see an image i n the Dyad of
Arithmetic for a s
Proclus observes The dyad is the med i um
between un i ty and number for unity by addition produces
more than by m u ltiplication b u t number by addition pro
duces less than by m ultiplication ; whilst the Dyad wheth er

added to itself or multiplied by itself produces the same

Foun
t
a
i
n
of
Symphony
and
Harmony
4
Erato
because
it
attrac
t
s
t
he
Monad
like
Love
and
5
another num b er is formed
A

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

separation from the Monad
Phanes
or
Intelligible
In
t
ellect
7
8 It is the fountain of all Female d i vi ni ti es and hence
Nature Rhea and Isis
i
t
Cupid
j
ust
Era
t
o
from
desiring
s
o
posite
for
as
p
9
partner
In Astronomy we speak o f 2 nodes Cap u t and Cauda
Draconis and in Astrology o f 2 aspects o f the planets
B en e c and M alec
The Two Pillars I KI N an d B oz at the entrance of King
Solomon s Temple are notab le sym bols of Strength and
Stability ; they are comparable t o the T WO Beings Kra t o s
and Bia who appear i n the Play by fE s
as
a m ale and
chylu s
a female potency who ind Prometheus
as the colour of Heaven
T he Chinese speak 0
becau se made up of Red Male and Black Female ; o f the
active and the pas
s ive ; the brilliant and the obscure
The followers of Pythagoras spoke o f t wo kinds of enj oy
ment First lasc i viousness and indulgence of the belly
like the murdero u s songs o f Sirens ; second honest and
just indulgences which bring o n no repentance
says 2 things are necessary t o life the aid of
H iero cles
kindred and benevolent sympathy o f o ne s neighbours
A notab le anci ent Egyptian hieroglyphic was formed o f
t wo serpents in connection with a globe o r egg representin g
the world Another cele b rated pair in connection w i th
worship is the association of a tree and a serpent referring
ay to the Mosaic account o f the Tree o f Know
as some s
ledge and the Tempter Serpent Some have supposed

that it is only S ince the condemnation on thy Belly shalt

thou go that the Serpent ha s

been limbless and oblig ed
t o crawl
Note it has been argued and by a great churchman too
that the whole tale rests o n error and tha t for serp ent we

should read Ape ( Rev Ad am Clarke) This i s

ti
s
ub
s
t u ting o n e error for another
In the orgies o f Bacchus M aenades the worshippers had
6

'

8
3

snakes twined in their hair and danced singing Eve Eve

in
by whom came the s
See Clemens Alexandrin u s
,

P ro t rep t 9
.

,
,

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

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

natural contrasts night and day light and darkness wet

and dry hot and cold health and disease truth and error
male and female which man having fallen from his high
estate from spirit to m atter cannot avoid associating hi m self
with Two is a number o f Mo u rning and Death m is
fort u nes are apt to follow turn to our History of England
s
ee the unhappiness o Kings num b ered the second of each

name William
Edward II and Richard I I o f England
were all murdered
The Romans ded i cated the 2 n d month to Pluto God o f
Hades and on the z u d day of it they o ffered sacrices to
the Manes
Pope John XIX instituted t he Fete des Trpa s
All
s
s
(
Souls Day ) on November 2 n d the second month of
Autum n
The T wo Talmuds o f the Jews among o ther quaint notions
have the following ideas of the number Two
It is not every man who deserves to have two tables ;
this meant t hat very few deserve to have the b est of the
next life as w ell as the good things o f this o n e
There are two impo rtant things ; rst that one s bed
should be placed north to south and that o n e should pray
in front of his bed There are two ways before a man one
leads to Paradise and one to Gai hinnom the place o f
punishment
There are only two Jewish laws the written law of Moses
and t heoral law o f the Ka ba la h
Every Jew who goes from the Synagogue t o his ho u se on
the eve of the Sabbath is acco m panied by two angels o n e
good and o n e bad and if the ho u se is all in order the good
angel conrms a blessing but if it be in disorder the good
angel has t o s
a y Amen t o the condemnation spoken by the
evil angel

39

Two are be tter than thre e ; this means youth i s better

than old age wi th i t s
sta ff o f support
There were two women notorious for t heir pride and
their names were contemptible De b orah meant wa s
and
p
Many persons nowadays believe that birth
el
H u lda wea s
names somehow affect their owners as names g i ven are
prophetic o f the nature and fate o f the person
Speech may be worth o n e Selah ( a Jewish coin ) but
silence is worth T wo
A certain man had t wo w i ves o n e young and o n e o ld
when he was forty and i n clined to become grey the young
o n e pulled o u t all the grey hairs and t he o ld w i fe pulled
out all his black ha i rs s
Wh i ch th i ngs
o he became b ald
point a moral as well as adorn a tale
o f wood and o n e of green the
.

sthe minority must at las t

always give way t a majority
The Talmud a gues that Adam had t w faces some s
y?
before and
b ehind while others s
one
looked
t
y
right and one t t he left O thers s
that
Adam
both
w
s
y
a male and a female O thers s
that
Eve
was
made
from
y
his thirteenth rib and was not drawn t f
head
hi s
h should be vain
lest s
not from his eyes les t s
h should
on ,

one

one

ou

ro m

be wanton ; not from his mouth lest S he S hould talk too t

much not from his ears lest she should be an eavesdropper
not from his feet lest she sh o uld be a gadabout and n o t
he should be j ealous : yet in spite o f all
from hi s
heart lest s
Y
these precautions woman has developed all th ese faults
O f two who quarre l he or gpg w
o rst
ives
i
n
shows
g
h
oblest
nature
h
e
t n
Two negat ives or afrm a t ives
are a s
good as an oath
,

Shev u o t h, 3 6

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

Law the Disciples were sent out two and two two
discipl es were sent by Jesus to fetch the ass s colt two to
m ake ready the Passover ;
t wo disciples buried Jesus
Caleb and Joshua were t he two sp i es ; two angels rescued

0
4

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

two of the Ascensio n
The Book of Revelation o f St John the Divine speaks of
Two Witnesses two olive trees and t wo candlesticks
dreamed two times it foretold a truth as
( If a dream wa s
in Genesis xli Judges V i First Book o f Ki ngs chapters
ix and xi
The animal kingdom shows all sexual generation to arise
from pairs of contrasted beings the male and female ; the
microscope now discovers to us the spermatozoon and the
ovum b u t the truth was known o f old to philosophers of
India Egypt and the Gnostics in whose lore we nd huma n
generation to spring from the Serpent and the Egg
,

2
4

d ecan

an d

Lords
of
their
Triplicity
and
among
the
3
planets there are 3 Fortunes and 3 Infort u nes according
to the Chaldeans also there are 3 Ethereal words prior t o
h
e S phere of our Fixed Stars
t
O n account o f the perfection o f the Triad oracles wer
e
delivered from a Tripod as is related o f the O racle at
,

elp h
i

P With
.

regard t o Music 3 is said to be Mistress because

Harmony contains 3 symphonies the Diapason the
Diapente and the Diatessaron
Ezekiel xiv v 1 4 mentions 3 m en who saw a creation
destruction and a restoration ; Noah of the whole world
Dan i el of the Jewis h world Jerusalem and Job o f his
personal world
Note the Hindoo Trinity of Brahma who cons i sts
o f Brahma
Vishnu and Siva ; Creator Preserver and
Changer : in India each has still a special sect of wor
shippers who mark themselves with p articular emblems ;
the Vaishnavas are much the most numerous

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

dead 4 times blessed )
There were Three cities of Refuge on the East side of the
Jordan : Bezer Ramoth Gilead and Gozan ; and T hree on
the West : Hebron Shechem and Kedesh N a pht ali
Thre e Fates : Clotho Lachesis Atropos
Furi es : Tisiphone Alecto Meg aera
Graces : E u phrosyne Aglaia Thalia says Hesiod
z
J u dges o f Hades : Minos z E ac u s
Rhadamanth u s
Horae : Hesiod says they were Eunomia ( O rder )
D ike ( Justice ) Eirene ( Peace )

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

triple
Neptune s spear is a trid ent and so has Siva the Tris ula
Pluto s dog Cerber u s had 3 heads
There were Three founders o f the Roman Empire :
Romulus B C 7 5 3 Camillus B C 3 8 9 expelled the Gauls ;
and Caius Marius B C 1 0 2 who overthrew the hordes of
Cambrians and Te u to ns
,

43

The Jewish Rabbis s

a y that the Sword of Dea t h h
as
3
drops of Gall o n e drops in the mouth and the man dies
from the second comes the pallor o f death and the third

turns the carcase t o dust See Purchas

The P i lgrimage
,

61 3

A letter Yod within an equ ilatera l triangle was

a sym b ol
o used by the Jews
o f the ineffable name Jehovah and wa s
s
The m oderns have po i nted o u t that t his form suggests
the idea that they knew something of a Triune God O ther
monograms of Jehovah were also triple ; thus 3 rays and
the Shin and three yods in a triangle
Under the number 3 also we may in pass i ng m enti on the

Royal Arch sign the Triple Tau three T s

uni t ed : the
which it represents
his work Note also
are n o t t ma t ters
l
i
Sojo
u
rners
Veils
stones
of
the
arc
s
and
a
3
3
3
p
and in the Craft Lo dges 3 of cers 3 degrees 3 p era m
bu lat io n s
In the Roman Cultus the num b er 3 i s of cons t ant
occurrence as for example see Virg il Eclogue 8 The
P harm a Ceu tria
the priests used a cord o f 3 coloured
strands and an image was carried 3 times round an altar

Terna tibi h aec primum triplici diversa colore

The Druids also paid a constant respect t o this number ;
and even their poems are noted as bei n g composed in Triads
It is not necessary here t o enlarge upon the transcendent
importance of the Christian Trinity In Old paintings we
often s
ee a Trinity o f J esus with John and Mary

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

called

Theos God Logos The Word and Psyche the S o ul

Indeed it is impossible to study any single system of
wo rship througho u t the world w i thout being struck by
the peculiar persistence of the triple numbe r in regard t o
divinity ; whether a s
a group of deiti es a triformed or 3
headed god a Mysterious Triunity a deity of 3 powers or
a family relationship o f 3 Persons s u ch as the Father M o ther
and Son o f the Egyptians O siris Is i s and Horus
And again in the various faiths we s
ee t h
e chief Dignity
.

"

44

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

the patriarchal Unity some in the greater glory of the Son
and others again lavish all their a doration o n the Great
Mother ; even in tri nities o f coequal males each has his
n special worshippers ; no t e this especially among t h
e
ow
Hindoos where for example the followers o f Vishnu are
called Vaishnavas : to complicate matters t o o in this case
each deity ha s
his female po t ency o r sakti and these also
have their Own adherents
Under this notice of the Triad we may refer t o the em
b lem of the Isle of Man three legs united at the hips this
is supposed to have been derived fro m Si c ilia n M ari n ers
at
an early date for the same emblem is found at Palermo in
Sicily and this design is there t o be seen on an old public
building Sicily was anciently named T ri n acria from its
three promontories
Three i sa notable number in the mythology o f the
Norseman : the great Ash tree Yggdrasil supported the world ;
it had three root s o n e extended into Asgard the abode of
the Gods one int o J o t en hei m the home o f the Giants and
the third into N i eheim the region of the Unknown The
three N orn s
Fates
attend
to
the
root
in
Asgard
they
were
:
(
)

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

future
,

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

ing the Triad and many are very curious
The ancient Hebrews said there are three night watches
in the rst the a s
sbrays in the second the dog barks in
the third the mother suckles her in fant and converses with
her husband
He who three ti mes daily repea t s t he 1 1 4t h Psalm is sure
o f future happiness
Three precious gifts were given t o the Jews the Law o f
Moses the Land of Israel and Paradise
In three sorts o f dreams there i s
truth the last drea m of
the morning the dream w hich i s
also dreamed by a n eigh
bo u r and a drea m twice repeated
.

45

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

s c en t : and three th in gs i m prove a man ; a ne house a
handsome w i fe and good furni t ure
H e who is b orn on t he Th i rd day o f the week w ill be
rich and amorous
Three desp i se their fe llows gp s
and do gs
Three love thei r fel lows prose yt ess l aves and raven

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

ano ther man s tab le he who is rul ed by his wi fe and he
i ncapab l e from bod ily af ic t ion
who i s
O rt hodox Jews were very particular about the cu t tings
from t he nails ; a pious man buries them an orderly man
burn s t hem b ut he who throws them away I S w i cked ; for
if a woman step over them mischance may follow Moed
Katon 1 8 I The
should be tr i mmed o n a Friday
and n ever o n a Th
T here are three k eys
God keeps to himse l f and
which n o man can gain nor use the key o f life the key o f
rain and the key o f t he resusci t ation of the dead T aan it h
2
I and 2
The Jewi sh butcher o f Kosher meat must use three kn i ves
one t o slaught er the an i mal another t o cut it up and a th i rd
t o remove the suet which was unlawful food
as
pork is
Three acolytes must attend t he High Priest when he went
in to worship o n e at his right o n e at hi s
left and o n e had
t o hold up t he gems o n the train o f his vestment
There are three parts of a man The father glves
the
\
white parts bones n ails brain and the whites o f the eyes
the mother gives the red parts S kin esh etc : while Go d
ives
the
breath
soul
mind
and
senses
g
The Sanhedrim could order as a pun i shment three

degrees o f Excommunication separation for an undened

time exclusion for 6 0 days and execration for 3 0 days
Moed Katon 1 7 1
The name o f Adam is o f three letters A D and M :
t hese are t he initials of Adam David and Messiah and the
Soul of the rs t pa ssed to Davi d and then t o the Messiah
hm at h Chaj i m I 5 2 2
Ni s
,

s
"

"

6
4

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

and his body to an Egyptian Y alku t Reuben 9 1 8 2 4
The Soul of Eve passed t o Sarah t o Hannah the
The Soul of
Shu n a m i t e and then to the w i dow o f Za rep t a
Rahab passed t o Heber the Keni t e The Soul o f Jael
passed to Eli Some Souls of pious Jews pass into the
o tha t they shall p l ead fo r Israel
persons o f the Gentiles s
Some evil Heb rew souls have passed in t o animals as that
he as
so f Balaam and lat er into the
o f Ishmael into the s
ass of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yai r The Soul of a slanderer
t o become s i lent
may be transmigrated into a stone s
o as
and the Soul of a murderer into wat er E m eh H em elech
,

2.

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

of the breast the liver and the kidneys
There are three forms o f coma that i s insensibility
due to brain inj ury brain d i sease and brain poisoning
o f death beginning either at t he
There are three mode s
brain the lungs or the heart Bichat Physiologie
O ne Zodiacal Sign that of Scorp i o has three emblems
the eagle in the highest symbolism t he snake and the
scorpion in evil aspects only
Astrologic Natal Fi gures are often erroneous by reason of
the all eged momen t o f bir t h being incorrect : there are
three modes of Rectication t wo are anc i ent the A n i m o dar
one
o f Ptolemy and the Trutine of Hermes ; and there i s
modern method the Natal Epoch of W R Old
In both the O l d and the New Testaments we nd the
Day was divi ded into three day watches and fo u r night
watches The m ed i aeval occultists divided the days in to
Planetary hours the scheme of al ternation occupied a week
=
=
8
6
1
1
6
8
x
hours
hours
s
o
hours
are
divisible
2
a
s
d
4
7
y
n
among the Seven Planets each day beginning with it s
ow

ee Harle i an MSS 6 4 8 3 and

di fferent o ne s
The Herbal
Culpepper 1 8 1 4
There is also ano t her scheme i n which t he planets are
related t o a six hour period by Ragon and Blavat sky
,

47

Among the Brahmins t here were t hree great Vedas t hree

Margas o r ways o f salvation ; three Gunas the Sat va
quiescence ; Rajas des i re ; and Tamas decay
Three
Lokas Swarga Bhum i and Patala ; heaven earth an d hell

Three Jewels of wisdom the Tri rat n asBuddha Dharma

and Sanga The three Fires being the three aspects o f the
human soul Atma Buddh i and Manas There were three
prongs of the trident and three eyes in t he forehead of
Siva Note also the 3 syllabled Holy Word A U M
At the O blation of the Elements in the Celtic Church 3
drops o f Wine and 3 drops of wa t er were poured into the
chali ce In the present Chris t ian Church we notice 3
crossings wi th water at Baptism 3 Creeds ; the Banns of
M arriage are published 3 t i mes ; and a Bishop in bened i c
tion makes t h
he Cross 3 times
In Ro man
churches the Angel us Bell i s
rung
three times a
times 3 for the heavenly
hierarchies o f angels : Po pe John XXI I ordered that the
faithfu l shou l d s
ay
on each occas ion
In civi l life the usher o f a court 3 times repea t s the

warning O yez O yez O yez wh i ch word means hear o r

listen
Note also the emb l em o f the Irish na t ion the Shamrock
a eez os
ella
which has a three lobed leaf the Oxa lz s

The Trigrams of F O hi should be studied in The Y i King

a b ook o f Ancient China said t o have been the production
of Kin g Wan and his s
Kau The great Confucius
on
wrote a supplement to it This book is a mystical work on
Symbolism referring to Cosmogony t o Man and to the
purposes of life T he initial symbols are the Yang male
and the Yin female Then follow 8 trigrams formed o f

emblematical lines ; they are z khien tui 1i C han sien

khan kan and kwan each expressed by gures of one long
and t wo S hort lines Some say that one F o H i invented
these symbols A later Mystic expanded the system into
6 4 gures each composed o f 6 lines o f whole and half
line s With these were associated two diagrams formed

of C ircles named the R iver Horse and the W ri t i ng o f

,

'

8
4

Lo
these will repay t he con t emplation of modern
occultists Yang male i s also associated with Heaven
the Sun Light and 2 5 t he t otal o f the o d d units Y i n
female w i th the Moon the Earth darkness and the number

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

Books of the Eas t ; The Vi King

T H E TE TR A D

i
ythagoreans
said
the
number
N
co m a c h
u scall
P

four the greatest m i racle

a God after another manner

a manifold divinity the fountain of Nat ure and its

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

permanency o f the Mathematical discipline

It is most

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

is Mercury Vulcan and Bacchus Among the Muses
Urania They also called i t Feminine e ffective of Virility
and an Exciter of Bacchic fury In harmony it was said to
form by the q uadruple ratio the symphony dis diapason
They called it Justice as the rst evenly even number
a type o f Deity we all know o f the famous Hebrew
As
title Tetrag rammaton o r unpronounceable name we call
Jehovah I H V H : this Name was u sed by the Kabalistic
Rabbis to hide their secret tenets of the Divine Essence of
the Creator Go d
Almost all the peoples o f Antiquity possessed a name
for Deity consisting of four letters and many of them
considered 4 to be a D i vine nu m ber thus
In Hebrew we nd also I H I H called E heie and A H I H
called A hei e
Assyrian A DAD Egyptian A MU N Persians S Y R E or S I R E
Greek T hE o sLatin D E U S German G OTT French D IE U
Turkish E S A R Tartar I T GA Arabian A LL H Allah Samaritan
T
H
A
E
Egyptian
T
EU
T
T
AU
T
h
B
T
O
J
In San c ho n iat ho n we nd the Deity called I E V O
In Clemens Alexandrinus
A
O
U
J
Attention should be paid t o the Sanscrit holy phrase
TH E

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S

aspirati on o r prayer o f Four sylla b les

Aum m
p adm e

meaning
hum
literally
O h the Jewel i n the 135 q
(
t e Di vine spark wi thin man
Theon o f Smyrna in t he edition o f Ismael B u lli ald o 1 6 44

page 1 4 7 says
The Tetractys was not only principally
honoured by the Pythagoreans b ecause all symphonies
exist withi n it but also because it appears to contain the

nature of all things hence their oath

Not by him who

delivered to our souls the Tetractys ( that is Pythagoras )

this tetrac t ys is seen in the C O M P O S I T I O N o f t he rst numbers
'

But the

of

T I P LI C A T I O N

b
l o na d

Tetractys ari ses from the i ncrease by MU L

o d d and even num b ers beginning from the

2 nd

T he 3 rd su b s i s t s
The 4t h is in

to Magni t ude
od i es Monad F ire Dyad Air
.

Triad Water Tetrad Earth

The 5 t h is o f the gures o f Bod i es Pyramid F i re
ah
O ctahedron Air I cp s
edro n Wa t er Cube E arth
The 6 t h of Vegeta tive L i fe Seed Monad o r point ; if i t

increase in length dyad l i ne ; in b readth triad s

u p er ci es

i n thickness tetrad solid

The 7 t h is o f Commun i ties ; as Man House S t reet
City
The 8 t h i s the Judic i al power : In t ellec t S ci ence
O pinion Sense
The 9 t h is of the parts of the An i mal the Rational
Irascible and Epithymetic soul and the Body they live in
The ro t h Tetractys is o f the Seasons o f the Year S pri ng
summer autumn W i nter
The r 1 t h Tetractys is of the Ages o f Man t he infant the
lad the man and the senex
And all are proportional o n e t o an o t her 3 n d hence they

said all things are assim ilated to number

They also gave a four fold distribution of goods t o the
Soul and Body to t he Soul Prudence Temperance
Fortitude Justice ; and t o t he Body Acuteness o f senses
Health Strength Beauty
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5

The O bjects of des i re are 4 : viz Prosperity Renown

Power Friendship
The celebrated 4 Causes of Ari stotle may be mentioned
here :

Divin i ty a s
the cause by which ; or m r o n up o u

Matter from which ;

or
66
0 1)
ex ou

or
Form through which ;
av
di ou
o u pros ou
E ffect with reference to which ;
o r 1rp os
The Dead also are called 4 times Blessed ; and the
Living but thrice blesse d
The num b er 4 being the completi on o f the quaternary
group of point line s
and body has also this
u p erc i es
character that its elements 1 2 3 and 4 when summed up
are equal to 1 0 which is s
o perfect that we c a n go no
further but to increase we must return to the Monad
It was also cal led Kosmos the World because it formed
the n um b er 3 6 when its digits were t hus combined :
.

=
8
7+

6
3
o dd

bei ng the s
of the rs t four
num b ers with the rst
um
four even numbers

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

of
the
int
llect
u
al
World
e
o f a do u ble Quaternary ;
4
that is S u preme
T A ga t ho n Nous Psyche and Hyle
Wisdom or Goodness Mind Soul Ma tter and four o f t he
Sensible World forming the Kosmo so f Elements Fire
1
Air Earth and Water ; pur aer g and udor m m
7 7
.

3wp

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

and Uranus
The Arabians analysed Female Beauty into nine fo urs ;
.

F our Black Hair

Four Whi te Skin

eyebrows
eyelash es eyes
white of t he eyes t ee th
legs
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Four Red
Tongue
lips
cheeks
g u ms

Four Round Head

neck
forearms ancles

Four Long
Back
ngers
arms
legs
Four Wid e Forehead
eyes
seat
lips

Four Fine
Eyebrows
nose
lips
ngers

Four Thick
Buttocks
thighs
calves
knees

Four Small
Breasts
ears
hands
feet

See Lane s edition of the Arab i an Nights

In the Rosicrucian writings of Behmen Fludd and Maier
we nd t he occult dogma that the four elements are peopled
by spiri t s bei ngs who may have inuence on the destiny of
Man ; t hus the Earth was inhabited by Gnomes ; the Air
was inhabited by
by Sala
manders and t h
Undines these are now
commonly called
See L ives of the N ecro

m a nc ers W
Godwin Michael Maier ; Jaco b Behmen s
Works
The ex i s t ence o f E lem en tals
sco ffed at by modern educa
tion is really suggested in a large number of places in both
O ld and New Testaments the inspired volume of the
Christia ns : examine for example J u dges ix 2 3 ; 1 Samuel
xvi 1 4 Psal m lxxviii 4 9 ; Ac t s xvi 1 6 xix 1 3 xxvii 2 3 ;
Ephesians vi 1 2 ii 2
But above all consider the meaning o f the Canticl e

Benedicite omnia opera in the book o f Common Prayer

0 ye stars 0 ye showers and dew 0 ye re and heat 0
ye winds 0 ye gre en things 0 ye mountains and hills

bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever
These phrases are e i ther folly o r else they recognise the
spirit u al essences o r beings inherent in the ele m ents and
cre ated things Again read hymn 2 6 9 in Hymns Ancient
and Modern a most orthodox volume
Principalities and

powers watch for thy unguarded hours and Hymn 9 1

Christian dost thou s

ee them on the holy ground How

the troops o f Midian compass thee around ?

If these are
n ot the evil elementals what are they ?
Francis Barrett mentions the 4 Consecrat ed Animals
Lion Eagle M an and Calf emblems o f the Kerubim on
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the terrestrial plane ; 4 A rCha ngelS Michael Gabri el Uriel

Raphael ; note all end in the Dei ty name e1 z e A L of
the Hebrews
The Gnos t ics said that all their edice rested o n a 4
pillared Basis ; Truth Intelligence Silence Bathos
Note the earth was form ed on the 4t h day according to

the allegory found i n the Jewish Genesis and is the 4 t h

world in a chain o f spheres say the Hindoos
The gure o f 4 as Ragon remarks is the upright man
carrying the triangle o r Divinity a type o f the Trinity of
Godhead
O n the Hebrew Magical word AGLA see the chapter
alah page 2 7
o n the Ka b
Note 4 elements 4 sides o f a square and 4 angles
qualities
cold
hot
dry
damp
humours
4
4
f
f
seasons
the
year
quarters
the
horizon
o
o
4
4
Rivers
Eden
Euphrates
Gihon
Hiddekel
and
Pison
o
f
4
f
t
R
i
vers
the
Infernal
Regions
according
the
Greeks
o
o
;
4
Phl egethon Cocytus Styx and Acheron
f
elements
Metaphys
i
cs
Be
i
ng
essence
v
i
rtue
action
o
;
4
Masonic
v
i
rtues
4
Evangelists
and
Gospels
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
;
4
related to the Four Keru bic forms of the Man Lion B u ll

and Eagle and th u s to the Zodiacal Signs Aq u ari u s Leo

Taurus and corpio ( the relation of Aq u ila to Scorpio is a
Rosicrucian secret )
O ne of the abstruse dogmas o f the Kab
a la h concerns the
Fo u r Worlds o f Emanation A t z ilu t h Briah Y et z ira h and
ia h these are not worlds in any ordinary s ense but
s
As
rather planes of development and existence the former the
mo st diaphanous and exalted the others becoming more and
more concrete and manifest the ten Sephiroth exist on each
plane those of the higher planes be i ng more sublime than
those of the lowest each world has a secret name and number
Man displays 4 evil tendencies o n e in opposition to each
evil tho ughts evil
o f these 4 Worlds ; an evil inclination
words and evil actions ( Isaac Myer )
Vulcan gave Apollo and D i ana arrows on the 4 t h day of
,

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

the Gentile
eq u ivalent to the Creati on o f the Sun and Moon o n the 4 t h
day
The Talmud lays down t he law as t o a woman s dri nking
saying one c u p o f wine is good for her t wo d o her harm three
demoralize her and the fourth converts her into a female
animal There are 4 persons who are little better than
dead the blind the leper the pauper and he who has n o sons
There are 4 sorts o f passionate men ; he who is easily
provoked and is as easily pacied he loses more than he
n o t readily provoked and i s
gains ; he who i s
di fcult to
appease he gains more than he loses ; the pious man who
is not easily
but is easily pacied ; and he who
i easily prov ok
with dif culty appeased he is a
is
wicked man
There are 4 sor t s o f pupils in occu lt science ; he who
learns and then will n o t teach he who wants to teach and
does n o t learn ; he who learns and then teaches and lastly
he who listens and won t learn and can t teach
Four thi n gs deter a man from s
in : the thought o f whence
he comes the fear o f where he may go the conception of who
his judge will be and what hi s
fate may be at the Judgment
Four persons should o ffer up thank o fferings ; he who
returns safe from a s
ea voyage he wh
o has safely crossed a
desert he who has recovered from an illness and he who is
released from prison These are referred to in Psalm cvii
i n the work o f the
Four men have died from original s
Serpent for they thems elves did n o ill ; Benjam i n Amram
t he father o f Moses Jesse the father o f David and Chilah
o n o f David
the s
Sabbat 5 5 2
At the end of the Passion Fast every Hebrew S hould
drink 4 glasses o f wine even if the price robs him of other
necessaries
The Talmud says that only 4 men had entered Paradise
f
Pardes
the
Garden
o
Holiness
this
meant
the
state
f
o
(
;
)
superna l communion with God the B eat i c Vision by pro
found abstraction of mind These were t he Rabbis Ben
Azai Ben Zoma Ash er and Akiba
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5

The tracta t e Yoma sa y s

God will pardon a man three
times for a sin but the fourth occasion is fatal
The Jewish Sanhedrin had power to order 4 sorts
of death
penalty ; by stoning beheading burning and strangling
The Sanhedrin as a Court o f Justice ceased with the S econd
Temple b u t the Rabbis taught that if a man incurs th e
death penalty o f either form he sti ll dies in these ways
fortuitously as if he would have been executed by strang
ling he will be found t o die o f drowning o r some o t her
form o f su ffocation See Sanhedrin 3 7 2
Job had four entrances to his ho u se north south east
and west so that the poor might enter and nd relief from
whichever quarter they cam e
Fo u r things God repented that he had made ; m a n s evil
passions the Ishmaelites the Chaldeans and the Captivity
Go d has made only 4 women perfect in beauty ; Sarah
Abigail Rahab an d Esther ; Eve is not included because
she was not born o f woman Esther is said t o have had
golden coloured hair
God left the North Pole u n
5

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

like the others

This corner is the home o f demons ghosts
devils and storms P irke o f Rabbi Eleazar ca p 3
The number 4 is re l ated to Jacob the Lesser Light
which is the Moon
Jacob was spelled I O QB and its
initials are those of epithets I U T Z R the Former ; O U s
hH
the Maker QU NA the Possessor and BVR A the Creator See

Amos v ii 2 where Jacob is called the small

In Christian dogma Christ the triple deity on the Cross
o f 4 limbsis the descent o f Spirit into
Matter : or as

the Theosoph i sts say the Triad of Atma Buddhi Manas

d escends into the Quaternary of personal Man the Kama

Prana Linga and St hu la Sarira

The 4 Cabeiri or great deities o f Syro Phenicia were
i o kers
o sA x
a and Ka s
C hi ldren o f
A xiero sA xio kers
m i llo s
Sy dy k are named by Sa n c hon i at ho n and quote d by Eusebius
In the ancient Egyptian form o f b urial while the body
was made into a swathed mummy the internal organs of the
.

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5
1

th
century
compiled
a
His
t
ory
7

to

A D
.

61 6

Ire l and from

of

B C
.

2242

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

c o p u lo sstill existi n g in M SS
Emanuel M o s
of the 1 6 th
century in the National Library o f Paris Cornelius Agrippa
then gave the Plane t ary Squares which have been many
times copied in subsequent books From a more mathe
m a t i c al point o f V iew
they have been much studied in
France by M Bachet and M F ren i cle M Poignard o f
Brussels and de la Hire M d e la Lo u bre gives inform a
tion of the use of Magic Squares by the Indians o f S u rat
To the number 4 belong the several forms of the cross
Maltese Greek Passional St Andrew s and the Fylfot

cross the Swastika Hermetic philosophy teaches how to

view the l ast as composed from a magic square of 5 giving
25
square sof which the Fylfo t takes 1 7 referring to the
Sun Signs and E lem ents There is a quaint Hebrew
association between the name Tetragrammaton I H V H
:
the God name and man formed in his image for i f Yod s
Heh n Vau i Heh n be drawn one over the other the
Y o d will look like the head above t he Heh will look like
the t wo arms the V a n will be upright body and the nal
Heh will S how the t wo legs
It is state d in some ancient Persian works that 4 bright
stars were placed as g u ardians at the 4 cardinal points At
hn a s
the beginning of the Kali Yuga at Cri s
death at 3 1 0 2
B C
the astronomers say that Aldebaran the eye of Taurus
and Antares the heart of Scorpio were as the equinoctial
points and Regulus the heart of Leo and Fomalhaut the
eye o f the Southern Fish were near the solstitial points :
this was 5 0 0 3 years ago
The pack of commo n playing cards has 4 suits of diamonds
hearts cl u bs and spades ; the old Tarot o r Ta rocc hi
cards had 4 suits ; Wands Cups Swords and Pentacles
occult science relates these to the Yod Heh Va u Heh o f
the Tetragrammaton : the Tarot pack has also 4 Co u rt
cards Cavalier King Queen and Violet or Knave also
called Knight King Queen and Princess by some mystics
,

P E N TA D

THE

F R OM the Nicomachean Ext racts we

derive o u r
knowledge o f
Pythagorean doctrine of the number
ve
It is an em i
S pherical and circular number
because in every m u ltiplication it restores itself and
is found t erminati ng the num b er ; it i s C hange of
Quality because i t changes what has three dimensions
into the samen ess of a sphere by moving circularly

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

number 5

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

friendship the two forms o f number even and od d the
2
and 3 Also Justice from throwi ng things into t he
light

Also the Unconquered from a geometrical reason

i sCom
i en s
which may be found in Alexander A phro d is
m en ta ri es
on the I st Book of Aristotle s Metaphysics

Also the Smallest extremity o f Vitality because there

are three po ers of L ife vege t able psychical and rational :
and as the Rational i s
arranged according to the hebdomad
and the Psychical according t o the hexad s
o the Vegetati ve
power falls u n der the control o f the Pentad
P roclus o n Hesiod gives t wo reasons fo r its semblance t o

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

benet
Also named Nemesis fo r it arranges in an appropriate
manner all th i ngs
celestial d i vine and nat ural
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And Venus because t he mal e 3 triad and the femal e 2 or

dual odd and even are conj oined in it : Ven u s was s
om
c
ti
erm a h
ro di t e and w
B
ear
e
d
d

eIl
as
p
as full bosomed
Kn a Gamelia that is referring to marriage
A n d A n d rogy n i a being o d d and masculine yet con t ain
ing an even female part

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

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

the Decad into two equal parts But t hey called it Pallas
and Immortal because Pallas presides over the Ether o r
h
t
Element
akasa
which
is
indestructible
and
i
not
s
5
(
)
m a teri a l to o u r pr esent senses
And Card ia t i s
o r C o rd ia li s
b ecause like a heart it i s in the middle o f the body of the
numbers thus
,

'

-'

I
2

4
5

The ancient had a maxim

Pass not above the b eam o f

the balance that is be n o t cause of inj ury for they said

let the members in a series form a Balance Beam Th u s
when a weight depresses the Beam an obtuse angle is form ed
by the Depressed side and t he Tongue Vertical and an
acute angle on the other Hence it i s
worse to do than to
s u ffer inj u ry and the a u thors o f inj ury sink down to the
infernal regions but the inj u red rise to the gods Since
however injustice pertains t o inequality equalization is
necessary which is effected by add i tion and sub
traction
Plutarch in his t reatise on the Generation of the Soul

according to Plato states that the Pentad is called t ro phos

which equals Sound because the rst of the intervals of a
Tone which is capable of producing a sound i s the fth it

also a type of Nature

is
The Pentalpha or 5 poi n ted s tar an endless complex set o f
angles was the emblem of Heal th Hygeia ; it forms 5 copies
of the capital letter A It i s
also called the Pentagram and
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the Seal o f So l omon and is sai d to have been the device

o n the signe t ring o f th i s anc i ent Grand Mas t er o f the
Mysteries
Kenne t h Mackenzi e remarks that being formed by t he
union o f the rst o d d and even numbers 5 was considered
o f peculiar value and used as an Amulet o r Talisman power
ful t o preserve from evi l and when inscribed on a portal
could keep o u t evi l sp iri t s i t i s
found almost everywhere in
Greece and Egypt

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

D i o d o ru s

Ether
There are 5 orders o f Architecture ; a n d 5 Senses
o f the human body now commonly kn o wn and described
but
the
try
is
technically
called
(
the 5 t h
the grand scheme is the 5
h
po ints of F ello ws
note also 5 Brethren can hold a
F ello wcra ft s
lodge It is also called the Pyram i d from the
arrangement of Monads thus three below then two then
one above the m
N ote t he s y stem of 5 regular Euclidean
bodies tetrahedron hexahedron o r cube octohedron
do d ekahed ro n and icosahedron
The P entagram was t he emblem of safety The Pentacle
t he Masons S ignet mark (accord i ng to Stukeley ) was the
devi ce b orne by Anti ochus Soter o n a war banner to which
was ascribed the signa l victory he obtained
The Ancients esteemed this number as a meas
ure for
drink i ng they mixed 5 parts o f water with the i r wine and
Hippocrates added o f wa t er to milk as a med i cal draught
P hi nt ysthe daughter o f Callicrates descri bes the Five
Vi rtues of a Wife : mental and bodily purity ; abstaining
from excess of ornament i n dress ; staying at home ; refrain
ing as females then did from celebrating pu b lic mysteries
piety and temperance
In Roman marriage ceremon i es it was customary to light 5
tapers and to admit the gues
ts by ves s
ee Plato in Leg I V
Theology displays 5 modes o f the Conception of God
Pantheism Polyth eism Dualism Unitarianism and Trini
,

t aria n i m

Jewish references

t o ve

are

many

gif
t
s
5

to

t he pri es t s

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t
th
i
ngs
which
m
i
ght
nly
b
e
ea
t
en
in
the
camp
N
o
to
O
5
eat fruit from a tree until it Was
ve years old The t respass
O ffering imposed o n the Philistin es 5 golden emerods and
f
sui
t
s
raiment
golden
mice
Joseph
gave
Benjamin
o
5
5
Joseph presented only
h
f
i
b
rethren
to
Pharaoh
o
s
5
David took 5 pebbles when he went t o ght Goliath

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

and ve foolish virg i n s
There are Five Articles of Bel i ef i n the Mahometan fai th
in Allah in Angels in t he prophet the day of j udgment
an d predestination
The Five duties o f a Member o f the Chri stian church
were stated by the Fathers : To keep holy the festivals ; to
observe the fasts to attend public worship ; to receive the
Sacraments ; and to adhere t o the customs of the
church
St Paul sa i d he preferred t o speak 5 words in a language
understood by his hearers than
in an unknown tongue
In arranging an Horoscope some astrologers use only 5

i tion
aspects o f t he planets the conjunction the oppo s
sextile trine and square ; and the evil or good fortune o f
the person seems t o depend o n them
Among the Romans a display o f 5 Wax Candles indicated
that a Marriage wa s
being celebrated ; and special prayers
were also made o n such occasions to these 5 deities J u pit er
Juno Venus Pitho and Diana See Rabelais 3 2 0
O ne of the two mai n divisions o f Flowering Plants is
characterised by a predominance o f the numbers 4 and 5 ;
these plants have almost a total absence o f the n u mbers 3
and 6 in the component parts of thei r owers These are
the Exogens or Dicotyledons o n the other hand the
Monocotyledons o r Endogens have a co n stant predominance
o f the numbers 3 and 6 and a total absence of 4 and 5
symmetry
There are 5 kinds o f intercolumniations in Architecture
mentioned by Vitruvius determined by the proportions
o f height and diameter
vi z Pycnostyle systyle eustyle
diastyle and a ero s
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T he

Triad Society of China concerning which we nd

1 6
l
p
r
t
1
8
u
e
i
e
w
a
r
on s
e
R
v
an arti cle in the F r eem a s
Q
45
y
5
boas t s o f great antiquity it resembles Freemasonry in some
points ve is a C hief mystical number i n i ts concern s Its
seal is pentangular o n its angles are 5 characters represent
ing T o o or Saturn M U H o r Jupiter ShW U Y o r Mercury
KI N o r Venus and H 0 or Mars
In t he Infernal World are 5 terrors and torments Deadly
bitterness horrible howling terrible darkness unquencha b le
heat and thirst and a penetrating stench ; says old John
Heydon quoting some medi aeval father o f the Church He
wa s
admitted an Adept among the Frat res
Ros ee Crucis b ut
was never recei
the M agis
t ri
Five styles
columns are descri b ed :
c t u ra l
nth
i a n and Composite
Tuscan Doric
Sir Thomas Browne 1 6 5 8 notes an anc i ent Greek
divi sion o f vegetables into ve classes
Dendron Arbor Tree ; T ham n o sF ru t ex Bush Phru
ki o n o r
ganon Su ffru t ex herb P o a Herba grass and A s
m n o n fungus mushroom and seaweed
gy

Note the Quintuple section o f a Cone C i rcle Ellipse

Parab ola Hyperbola and Triangle A ga Me la c/ze that is
Good for t une is the old title of Astrologers for the 5 t h
house ( succedent ) o f the Heavens a sshown in an
Astrological Figure a nd which refers to o ffspring success in
hazardous schemes o f fortune or pleasure and wealth
Joshua hanged 5 kings o n 5 trees they were found
hidden in a cave and were the kings o f Jerusale m Hebron
Jarmuth Lachish an d Eglon
Every important measurement of the Jewish Tabernacle
was 5 or a m ultiple o f 5
The Hebrew letter H Heh 5 wa s
in occult Kabalah
always de em ed o f female potency
There were 5 principal parts of Solomon s Temple
David Blesses the Lord 5 times in Psalms C i i i C iv
The Talmud says that there are 5 little things which are
a terror t o 5 strong th i ngs ; the mosquito to the lion ; the
gnat to the elephant ; the ichneumon y t o the scorpion ;
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the ycat cher bird t o the eagl e and t he stickleb ack t o the

levi athan Lewisohn Zoology o f the Talmud

ixt iet h p art of 5 other
Five things have in t hem a o n e s

things ; re is o n e sixtieth o f hell ; honey o n e sixtieth of

manna ; the Sabbath one sixtieth of the Sabbath here
after sleep of death and a dream one sixtieth O f prophecy
Talmud B erac hoth 5 7 2
Even o n the Sabbath you may k il l 5 things the y in
E gypt ; the wasp in Nineveh ; the s c orp i on of H a d a b
ia
the serpent of Israel and the mad dog anywhere Talmud
Sab b at 1 2 1 2
In the Fi rs t Templ e o f Solomon were 5 th i ngs which were
not in the second Temple ; the Cher u bic Ark ; the
Shek i nah the Holy Spirit and the Urim and Thummim
Talmud Yoma 2 1 2
Rabies in the dog has 5 symptoms ; its mouth gapes
i t drops spittle
its ears hang down ; it carries its tail
between i t sl egs and it keeps to the si de of any path
Yom a, 8 3 2
For suckling mo t hers t here are 5 things which are
inj urious ; garli c cucum b er melon leeks and onions : said
Rash i
If one study 5 years and then has found no prot in it
he will never prot by it Talmud Chu lli n 2 4 1
Fi ve is the number o f expiation and of sacrice the number
and the 5 wounds o f Christ These were
o f the passio ns
commemorated anciently by 5 crosses inscribed on the Altar
tables and the Priest made 5 crosses on h i mself at the
canon in the Liturgy W F Shaw
Jesus 5 t i mes foretold H i s passion and gave 5 partic ulars
concerning i t and received 5 wounds
The Brahm ins sp eak of 5 skandhas o r attributes o f men
a m n a conscious
they are r upa form wa a a a perception s
ness s
a m ka r a action
and wdy a a a knowl edge
In China 5 means Shangti or Thian the God in Heaven :

the Chinese speak o f 5 Blessi ngs longevity riches health

virtue and a natural death

The ancient Chinese spo ke o f 5 E l emen t s earth wood

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H E XA D

N I C O M A CH U S calls it t he form o f form the on l y num b er

adapted t o the Sou l t he dist i nct un i on o f the par t s o f the

universe the fab ricator of t he Soul also Harmony and it

is properly Venus herself
It is also Zygeia and N u pt i alia and the Androgynae who

Pliny t ells u swere an African tribe who had dextra

a
e
m m a vi r i lis
n
l
va
mulie
b
r
i
s
Among
the
Fates
it
a
i
s
I
La chesis Among the Muses it is Thal i a
Six i s
also Benevolence Peace and Health A cmon o n e
o f the Cyclops ( a km on an anvil ) and Truth

By the Pythagoreans i t was

called the Perfecti on of

parts

to Marri age it is
a number equal to it s parts and
As
marriage i s
a ceremony t o s
anc t ion the produc tion o f o ff
spring similar t o t he parent
It is form ed by the multip l ication o f the rst ( beyond
it resembles t he
u nity ) odd num b er and the rst even
union o f Male and Female as in Marriage or in Andro
f
Heal
t
h
and
Beauty
o
n
account
o
its
symmetry
i
t
e
n
y
gy

wa va p xa a pa narkeia
u fci en t
It was called all s
According t o the Pythagorean s afte r a period o f 2 1 6
years which n umber i s the cube of 6 all things are re
generated and they said this wa sthe periodic time of
the Metempsychosis or the re birth o f man after each death
ix has
When multiplied int o i t self like the penta d s
also
always itse lf in the unit place thus 6 3 6 2 1 6 1 2 9 6 7 7 7 6
O n the 6 t h day Man was
created according t o Genesis
O n the 6 t h day of the week Jesus died o n the cross
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The Israelites had 6 c i ties

o f Refu ge
Num b ers xxxv v 6
ix t h i ngs hated by Jehovah
There were s
Prov vi v 1 6
The Seraphim of Isaiah had each 6 w i ngs
In a Freemasons Lodge t here are 6 Jewe l s three o f
which are immovable and li e open in the lodge fo r the
Brethren to moralize upon while the other three j ewels are
transferable from o n e Bro t her t o ano t her at the periodical
changes o f o fcers

In the Hebrew
Book o f Crea ti on
the
Sep her

Y et z ira h the Hexad is spoken o f t he un it s represent i ng

the four quart ers o f the World ; North South East and
West and als
t and dep t h and in the midst o f all
See my translati on ; cap i v 1 1
1
1
1
and notes
9
The Druids had a mysteri ous religious prefe rence for the
number 6 They performed their principal ceremon i es o n
t he 6 t h day of the moon and o n the 6 t h day o f t he moon
began their year They went 6 together t o gather the
s
elt o e) and in monuments and p l ates
s
acred mistletoe (I n i s
now extan t we oft en nd 6 o f the i r pries t s grouped t ogether
See Mayo ii 2 3 9
An astronomical period o f 6 0 0 years s
poken of as the

N aro s the Cycle o f the Sun the L un i Solar period o r

S i bylline year consisti ng of 3 1 periods o f 1 9 years and one
years is often referred to in old works on the
of 1 1
Mysteries It seems t o have been known by the Chaldeans
and ancient Ind i ans ; it is a period o f pecul i ar properties
Cassini a great astro nomer declares it the most perfect o f
all astronomic periods
If o n a certai n day at noon a new moon took place at
any certain point i n the heavens it would take place agai n
at the expiration of 6 0 0 years at the same place and time
and w ith the planets all in similar pos i tions
It i ssupposed t hat o n e recurrence o f this period is
referred t o in t he 4t h E clogue of Virgil the p o em which
as
is well known has been spoken of as contai ning an allusion
t o the Messiah Jesus

The period su ng by the Cum aean Sibyl has now arri ved
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and the gran d seri es o f ages ( t hat series which occurs agai n
and again in t he course o f a mundane revolution ) begins
afresh The virgin Astraea returns another re ign of Saturn

commences and a new progeny descends from heaven

It has been calculated by the late Dr Kenealy that a
Messiah or divine teacher has been sent to the world every
6 0 0 years thus
Adam the rst messenger from the Gods t o ou r race on
earth
Enoch the second 6 0 0 years afte r
F o hi the t hird to China i n par t icular
B ri ghou a Hindoo prophet
Ia
Za ra t u s
ht Zoroaster the fth t o P ers
Thoth T aau t u so r Hermes Trismegistus sent t o the
Egyptians
is
o r Moses the Jewish law glv er the seventh
A m os
Lao Tseu a s econd t o China 6 0 0 B C the eighth
Jesus the ninth t o t he Jews rst and then to the
Gentiles
Mohammed t he tenth he ourished about A D 6 0 0
C hen gi z Khan the eleventh A D 1 2 0 0 conquered Pers ia
Who the special messenger o f 1 8 0 0 was the author is
ignorant
o f the Apocalypse and o f the
The secrets of the N aro s
Mediatorial Sacrice have been considered t /z e secrets of the
Ancient Myst eries Circumcision was possibly an outward
sign of Initiation in the earliest times

Jes u s at any rate writes the Author o f the Book o f

God appeared at the 9 t h N aro sand no o n e c a n deny

that such a messenger was expected Juvenal oddly

enough t oo mentions in Satire X I I I v 2 8

Nona aetas
igit u r
now i s
the n i nth age
which indeed it was
though how he kn ew it is a mystery
The Soth i c Cycle wa s1 4 6 1 years containing
lunations

is n o t t o be c onfused with Saros a cycle

N aro s
AI R
o f the moon of 1 8 years an d 1 0 days which was known to
the Chaldeans and Greeks a peri od after the expiry o f
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wh ich the eclipses of the moon recur Si milar l y : i t consists

o f 2 2 3 l u nations
The circumference of a globe has been xed at 3 6 9
degrees six sixties the hour divided into 6 0 minutes each
The Tartars had a period of 6 0 days the
o f 6 0 seconds
Chinese also ; and the Asiatics generally a period o f 60
years The Babylonian great period was 3 6 0 0 years the
Naros multiplied by 6

The Lily which in all the old A n nunciation pictures

6 leaves and the ower
Gabriel presents to the Virgin ha s
shows 6 petals all alike around a central t hree headed
stigma
O ne o f the three main
a n i c ally correct
divisions
are arranged by Bo t anists i s
typied
o f the numbers 3 and 6 i n all
parts of t he owers 6 leaves forming a perianth 6 stamens
and a 3 lobed stigma with a 3 or 6 celled ovary is the
common arra n gement
Berosus o n e of the Chaldean Priests mentions three
periods of time a So s
a N aro so r Neros of
s
us
o f 6 0 years
6 0 0 years and the Saros 3 6 0 0 years
There seems some
confusion here with the Saros of 1 8 years and 1 0 days

Bailly in hi s Astronomie Ancien ne p 3 1 says : T he

Brahmins used t he n u m bers6 0 and 3 6 0 0 in computing
time The Chaldeans also did so The Brahmins have
also an Antediluvian peri od o f 6 0 0 years The Tartars and
Chinese also used a period o f 6 0 years in their computati ons
o f time
U nder the number Six t oo we must n o t omit t o menti on
the sym b ol o f the dou b
le triangle Hexapla o r H exa lpha
the Shield o f David it i s
used at present as a S ign in the
Degree o f the Royal Arch in England It must not be c o n
fused with the Pentalpha which is the true Solomon s seal
In Christian Churches we nd the H exalp ha used t o ex
press the union of the Divine and h u man natures deemed
to exist in Jes u s the Christ of the New Testament The
blending o f the t wo triangles has als o been used to typify
the union o f Fire and Water ; for the early symbol o f Fi re
was
the triangle apex upward and that o f Water the same
.

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

sim i lar triangles each w i th a cross b ar
The Talmud says
Six things are disgracefu l t o a wise man to walk alone a t
night to scent oneself for walking by day t o talk with a
strange woman i n the street ; to talk at table wi th the
ig n orant to wear ragged shoes and to b e late at the house
B erachot h 4 3 2
o f prayer
S i x things lay up capital for hereafter and also bear
interest in this world hospitali ty well ordered comfort to
the sick prayerfu l meditation early instruction of children
training in the Mosaic law and charitable trea t ment of a
neigh bo ur Sa b ba t 1 2 7 1
Evil Demons have 6 charac ters like men they t ake food
and drink they b eget and they die like angels they have
wings they pass from one end o f the world t o the other
and they can learn the future Talmud
Solomon is called by six names ; Solomon Jedidiah

Koheleth s
Agur and Lemuel : s
The
o n of J a keh
ee

Fathers
by Rab b i Nathan
Ab
ot h
There are 6 kinds o f Fire common re which eats and
does not drink re that drinks an d does not eat as fever
re that eats and drinks that of Elijah I Kings xviii 3 8
the re o n the Altar which consumed both moist and dry
the re of Gabriel which consumed o t her re and the
Essential re of God which consumed evil angels Yoma
.

21

of

The Tables
breadths long

Moses were said t o have been 6 hands

6 wide and 3 thick
Talmud ; N edari m
o n reckons that if cut out o f Sinaitic stone
H
rs
8
e
h
8
3
eac h Table wo u ld have weighed 2 8 tons but he i s in error
reckonin g hands breadths as
ells as 1 8 in c hes in s
tead of 4
inches
6
Angel
Dea
t
h
had
no
power
over
holy
persons
f
o
The
;
Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Aaron and M i riam Bava
These died by the Divine Kiss o f death
B at hra I 7 1
but it i s
not s
o deni t ely sta t ed i n t he c ase o f M i ri am for
fear o f scandal
.

,
,

names in the Book o f Job ; A R I

ShChL KP I R LI Sh LE I A and Shc hT z
hU B A P O K
The Serpent has 6 names ; N C H s
h O Ks
T ZP OU N I T N I N and ShR P
h the Brazen Serpent ;
N a cha s
hu b an asp Psalm cxxiv 4 ; O poh an adder Isai ah
Okes
xli 2 4 ; T z ephou n i the bas il i s k Isaiah xiv 2 9 ; Tanin
the serpent o r crocod ile and Seraph a serpent of re
See Rabbi Nathan cap 2 9
Six blasts of the Horn were b l own o n the eve of the
Sab b at h and then the Sa bb ath had begun
The Lion has
,

,
.

W F Shaw says that 6 i s

the num b er o f t emp t ation and
in for at
6 t h hour o f t he 6 t h day the rst temptati on
s
came into
world Six is the number o f to i l and work
for 6 days
ites had to collect manna ; at the 6 t h
hour of the 6 t h day Jesus was
sen t enc ed to death and in
the Revelations the 6 t h seal trumpet and vial were all
emblematic o f woe The Flo od came w hen Noah was
6 0 0 years old
The number 6 6 6 was an emblem o f the Great Wicked
O ne still wi t hout i dentication but he i s
imp l ied in a
6 6 6 by
pro totype Schechem ben Hamor whose nam e i s
Gematria ShKM BN ChMV R he was t he corruptor o f Dinah
See Genesis xxxiv verse 2
The Jews expected that the end o f t he present dispensa
tion of the world would arri ve after 6 0 0 0 years and St
Barnabas repea t s t his as a reasona ble bel ief o f the ancie n t
Christian Church
The A n cien t E gypt ian shad for the i r h ighest Priests a
College o f 6 o f which hardly any information ha scome
hra i s
es
down t o u sbut on e A s
Master of the
m entioned as
Mysterious Words of the 6 and a statue has
been found of
o n e E i meri whose engraved t itle is Chief o f the Dwelling
o f the Great Six
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T H E H E P TA D

Hep t ad say the followers of Pythagoras was so

called from the Greek verb sebo to venerate ( and from

the Hebrew ShB o seven o r satised abundance ) being

Septos
Holy
divi ne
and
motherless
and a

Virgin

From N i c o m achu s
We learn that i t was called Minerva
being unmarried and V irgina"begotten neither b y a mother
o d d number : b u t
even number nor from a father
proceeding from the s u mmit of the Father o f all things the
M onad ; even as Minerva sp rang all armed from the Fore
head o f Jove o r Ze u s
Hence also Obri m o pa t re or dau ghter of a mighty father
and Glaucopis shining eyed and a p nr wp and a y ehet a
he that carries o ff the spoil
A m et or and A gelei a s

And Fort u ne for it decides mortal affai rs

And Voice for th ere are seven ton es in every voice

human a n d instrumental : because they are emitted by the
seven planets and form t he Music of the Spheres
Also T ri t ogen ia because there are 3 parts o f the Soul
the Intellectual Irascible and Epithymetic (desiring ) and
most
perfect
virtues
are
produced
Just
as
f
the
three
o
4
intervals length breadth and depth there are fo u r

bo u ndaries in corporeal existence poi nt line s

u p er c i es
and solid

It is called Agelia fr om A gelai herds as groups o f

stars were called by t he Babylonian sages over which herds
r u led 7 angels

= res
n
Also P hylakiko svAa KI Kos
guardian
e
r
v
i
b
e
g
p
cause the Seven Planets direct and guide ou r universe

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associated planets ; thus Infancy Moon Luna ; Ch ild

hoo d Mercury Knowledge ; Youth Venus Love ; Manhood
Sol ; Full Strength Mars ; Mat u rity o f J u dgment Jupiter ;
and O ld Age Saturn
Some phil osophers have said that our souls have 7 foc i in
the material body , viz the ve senses the V oice and the
generative power
The body has seven obvious parts the head ch es t
ab
domen two legs and t wo arms
There are seven internal organs stomach l i ver heart
lungs S pleen and two kidneys
The ruling part the head has seven parts for external
use t wo eyes t wo ears two nostri ls and a mouth
There are seven things seen body interval magnitude
colour motion and permanency
There are seven inections o f the voice the acute grave
circumex rough smooth the long and the S hort sounds
The hand makes seven motions ; up and down t o the
right and left before and behind and C irc u lar

There are seven evacuations

tears from the eyes mucus
o f the nostrils the saliva the semen two excreti ons and the
perspiration
Modern med ical knowl edge corro borates t he ancient dictum
that in the seven t h mon t h the human o ffspring becomes
viable
Menstruation tends t o occur in series of four times seven
days and is c ert ainly related t o Luna in an occult manner
The lyre has
strings
corresponding
to
the
planets
7
There are 7 vowels in English and some other tongues
Theon o f Smyrna also notices that an average length of an
adult s intestine is 2 8 feet four times seven and 2 8 also i s
a perfect number
The number 7 is also associated wit h Voice and Sound
w i th Cli o the Muse ; with O siri s the Egyptian deity ; with

Nemesis Fate A dra s

t ia
not t o be escaped fro m ; and
with Mars
As to the sacredness o f the num b er 7 note amo ng the
Hebrew oaths were conrmed by seven witnesses ; o r by
,

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seven Vi c ti ms o ffered I n sacrice ; a ss

ee the covenant
between Abraham and Abimelech with seven lambs

Genes i s chap xxi W 2 8 2 1 2 8 the He b rew word seven

also Sh B o H i s
derived from o r is a s i milar t o Sh B o
t o swear
Clean beas t s were adm itt ed i n t o t he ark b y sevens whi l st
the unclea n onl y in pai rs
The Goths had 7 Deities from whom come o u r names
o f week da ys ;
Sun Moon T u i s
Wo tan Thor Friga
co
Seat u r corresponding o f course t o the planets
Apollo the Sun God ha d a G reek title E bdom ai o s
sevenfold
The Pers ian Mithras a Sun God had the number 7
sacred t o him
h Ladder o f 7 steps ascent
No t e t he My
Kad o s
and 7 steps de
the o n e side O heb Eloah Love of
God ; the o t her OhebKero bo l ove of the neighbour

Plat o , in his Tim aeus teaches that from t he number

seven wa sgenera ted the Soul of the World A m m a
M u n da n a (Adam Kad m o n )
The S even wise men of Greece were :

Bias who said Most men are bad B C 5 5 o

Chilo
Cons i der the end B C 5 9 0

ulo s
Avoid Extremes B C 5 8 0
Cleo b
Periander
Noth ing i simpossib l e t o persever

anc e B C 6 00

Pittacus
Know thy opportuni t y B C 5 6 9

Solon
Know thyself B C 6 0 0

Th ales
Suretyship is ruin B C 5 5 0
The Seven Wonders of the World are thus e numera t ed :
1
Pyram i ds o f Egypt
2
The hang i ng Gardens o f Babylon fo r Sem i ram ls
a
f
o
M
u
l
Tomb
King
Caria
at
Halicarnassus
s
o
u
f
O
3
built by Artemisia his Queen
Ctesiphon
4 Temple of Diana at Ephesus 5 5 2 B C
was
the c hief architec t
o
f
u
Colossus
Rho
es
an
i
mage
the
n
god
o
d
s
f
5
Apollo o f b rass 2 9 0 B C
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7

Statue of Zeus at Athens by Phidias

f
o
Pharos
Egypt
buil
t
by
Ptolemy
Ph
i
ladelphus
of
7
white marble 2 8 3 B C
o r the Palace o f Cyrus
which is sometimes substi t uted
Sanskrit lore has very frequen t reference t o this number :
note
Sapt a Rish i seven sages ; Sapt a Kula 7 castes ; Sapt a
Loka seven worl d s ; Sap t a Para 7 cities ; Sapt a D wip a
seven holy islands Sapt a A ran i a 7 deserts ; Sap t a Parna
S
a
t
human
principles
Samudra
seven
holy
seas
a
a
t
a
S
7
;
p
p
V ru ks
ha 7 holy trees
The Assyrian Table t s also teem with groups o f sevens
f
k
gods
earth
s
o
gods
gods
f
ery
spheres
:
f
o
o
;
7
7
y; 7
seven gods m alecent ; seven phantoms ; spirits o f seven
heavens spiri ts o f seven earths
a
The Chaldean notion seems t o have been that 7 wa s
holy n u m ber which became nefas t under certain conditions
The Opposite sides of a d i e added together are always seven
i n total numeration the 4 opposite 3 6 o pposite I and so on
It used t o be asserted says John Heydon that every
seventh Male born withou t any femal e coming between
c a n cure the King s Evil by Word o r To u ch
St James iii 1 7 gives the 7 characters o f wisdom
\
After Birth the 7 t h hour decides whether the chi ld will
live in 7 days the cord falls o ff i n twice 7 days the eyes
follow a light thri ce 7 days turns the head 7 months gets
teeth twice 7 months s i ts rmly thrice 7 months begins to
talk after 4 times 7 months walks strongly
Aft er 7 years teeth of second set appear
After 1 4 years is the arrival o f generative power
After 2 1 the hair o f Manhood is completed
A fter 2 8 we cease t o grow at 3 5 is greatest strength
at 4 9 is the greatest discret i on and 7 0 is the natural end of
Life
The Moon passes through stages of 7 days in increase
full decrease and renewal
Naam an was ordered by Elisha (an Adept) to take seven
dips in Jordan t o cleanse himself from Leprosy
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The Go l den Candl es t ick of Seven Branches was a no t a ble

emblematic ornament o f t he Tabernacle of Moses Exodus
xxv 3 1
Note t he seven years for Repentance ; 7 churches o f
ia h) 7 Ange l s w i th Trumpets 7 candlesti cks
Asia (or A s
s
o f the Holy Places 7 seals 7 trumpets 7 kings 7 thousands
S lain 7 vials o f wrath t o be poured o u t p a ce the Apocalypse
mem
b
ers
make
a
Freemasons
lod
e
p
e
rfec
t
althou
h
g
g 5
J
may hold o ne

cat al ogues 7 B i rds

Franc i s Barrett i n hi s Magus
Fi shes Animals metals stones and me m bers of the bo d y
It has been sai d there are seven apertures o f the skull
to correspond w i th the planets
There are Seven Degrees i n the O rien t al O rder o f S ikha
and the
I have doubts o f the
O rder of the name
,

From the relat i ve length of thei r courses the anc i ents

constructed a Plan etary Ladd er with Vowel Symbols thus :
Moon Merc Venus Sun Mars J u pi t Sa turn
o
a
e
i
u
00
ee
These sym b ols were used i n mys t ical knowledge as an
Inscripti on a t the Temple o f Apollo at Delphi shows where
E I meant the Sun and its nearest Planet
Sun and
Mercury ; and Mercury wa s
often represented as a Dog
following a Sun Man
The O racle o f Claros ( Macro b ius Saturnal i a 1 1 8 ) said
that I A O (the Gnostic Deity ) was the Sun and the rst
and last of the plane tary s
et hence the 7 Concen t ric spheres
Duncan assigns these Minerals and A nimals to the 7
Heavenly Bodies known t o the ancient world
Moon Bull Silver
Mars Wolf Iron
Mercury Serpent Quicksi l ver Jupiter Eagle Pewter
sLead
Ven u s Dove COpper
Saturn A s
Sun Lion Gold
Note also the number o f 7 pipes in the Musica l i n s
t ru
ment a t the mouth o f the o ld deity Pan the Great Whole
a Sun G o d ( not the later Rural Pan )
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7

An ancien t sym b ol of t he universe was a Ship wi th seven

p ilots in the centre of the sh i p a Lion po ss ibly from an
idea that t h e Sun rs t rose i n Leo
Note Aries supplanted Taurus as the constellation i n
which the sun rises at the Vernal equi nox ; Ta urus was the
S ign a t the early fa b ulous periods of the earth i t was
displaced about 3 0 0 B C The sign b ecomes changed every
2 1 5 0 years by the precess i on o f the equ i noxes : Pisces h
as
now followed Ari es ; bu t t he Sun is still said t o enter the
S ign Ari es at t he Vernal E quinox ab out March z rs
t
I ts
actual posi tion in March 1 9 00 wa near om ega Pisces
T Subba R ow describes t he Seven Primary Forces o f
i x powers resumed i n a seventh
Nature as s
These are
called Sakti ( Mahamaya) and are relat ed to Kanya
Virgo as the 6 t h Zodiacal Sign ; t hey are P ara s
akt i force
akt i
akt i
intellec t ; I t chas
cause
o f light and heat ; I n an a s
akt i
of voluntary movements ; Kriya s
energy of will ;
Kundalini sakti the l i fe force shown i n attraction and
repuls i on positi ve and negati ve ; M an trika sakti the power
of s
ounds vibrat ion music words and speech ; t hese are
summarized in D aivi p rakrit i = t he Light o f the Logos
et
O ur physical senses kno wn as 5 are an inco m ple t e s
there are indeed 7 forms o r modes o f percep ti on as appears
in the highest developments o f the Chabrat zereh aur

bokher and as descri bed i n the oldes t Sanskri t o c cult

science o f the Upanishads : smell taste sight t ouch

hearing and 6 t h Mental preception with 7 t h spi ritual

understanding : the two latter were not dwarfed and
ma t erialized in t o noticeable organs in t his fth Race of
beings t o which Man n ow b elongs F or a fuller explana

tion see the Secret Doctri ne o f H P Blavatsky The

Archaic scheme recognized Seven S t ates of Matter

homo
aeriform
nebulous
germina
l
o r cu rd li ke atomic
u
o
s
e
n
e
g
ery elemental fourfold vapoury and lastly that which i s
cold and dependen t o n a vivifying Sun for light and
heat
alah i s
O ur Ear t h sy m bol i sed b y M ALKU T H o f t he Kab
the seventh o f a series and is
on the Fourth plane ; i t is
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od
genera t ed b y J es
t he foundat ion t he S i x t h World and
after complete purication will in the 7 t h Race of the

Cycle
become
r
e
united
t
o
the
Spiritual
L
ogos
and
in
t
h
7
the end to the A b solute O ur earth hasb een al ready
thrice changed and each cycle sees seven k i ngs (a so f
E dom )
There were Seven Kings o f Edom Genesis x xxvi
types of pr i mordial
v 3 1 ; the Kabal ists consider these a s
worlds wh i ch failed t o survive t heir creati on Seven i s
the key
to the Mosa i c creation as t o the symbo l s of every rel igion
There are Seven Planes of be ing the upper three are s
ub
t
i
e
and
unknowable
t
mank
i
nd
the
lower
four
are
e
c
v
o
j
obj ective and may be contemplated by man as m etaphys i ca l
o there are the seven Princi p l es in Man and
a b stractions : s
d from t he lower group of four at
dissolution
The Seven
consti t u ti ng man are variously
named by the E so t eric Buddh i sm by the Vedan t ic scheme
and by other ph il osophies but they corres pond in idea ;
rst from above Come A t ma a ray from t he A b solute ;
Buddhi spiritual soul ; and Manas human soul ; t hese are
the superior triad which separates at human death from the
lower tetrad o f principles The l ower four are Kama rupa
t he pass i ons ; Linga Sari ra the as tral body ; Prana life
essence ; and St hu la Sari ra the l ower b ody see the dogmas
o f E soteric Buddhism
The Ka balah divides these int o four p l anes o f the Soul
which are further separated by adepts these are Chiah
ha m ah R u ach and Nephesh wh i ch corres
N es
po nd to
the symbol i cal worlds o f A t z i lu t h Briah Y et z ira h and
,

s
i h
s
a

There is an occu l t reference in t he Seven s t ars in the

head of Tau rus called the Pleiades s
i x present and on e

hidden said t o be daugh t ers of A tl as who pursued by

O rion were changed by Zeus in mercy into pigeons (pelei a )
The missing on e is Merope who married the mortal
Sisyp hus and h i des herself for S hame
Seven was the number o f t he Rabbis who left t he

Greater Holy Assembly ; t en had formed it three had

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passed away from t he Sod SVD mys t ery See The

Greater and
Lesser Holy Assem bly or the Ha Idra
ha and Ha Idra S ut a Qu a di s
ha
Ra b ba Qu adi s
Athanasius Kircher the Jesuit s t ates that the ancient
Egyptians associated num b ers to the plane t s a s
follows
I
Saturn
45
3
9
1
6
I
J u p i ter
6
4
3
34
2
2
6
Mars
3 5
5
5
5
6 66
6 36 I I I
So l
1
2
2
1
Venus
45
7 49
5
Me rcury
8 64 2 6 0 2 0 80
2
1
1
6
Luna
8
3 9 35
9

In this matter see also Fran c1s

Barre tt The Magus
The later Coptic names o f the 7 Gods and planets and
Genii of the World of the Ancient Egyptians are : Saturn
Rephah God of t ime ; Jup iter P i cheu sGod of life ;
Mars Moloch God o f destruct ion ; Sol P hre or Pire
meaning Holy Lord ; Venus Suroth lady o f love ;
is
Mercury Hermes H erm an u b
Go d o f speech ; and L una
P i oo h lady o f the waters
In China 7 is the num b er o f Death and t heir days of
mourning are 7 t i mes 7 : the Seven Star Plank is the name
of the bottom plank o f a co fn I n which they bore 7 holes
The Hindoos speak of 7 T a t wa sthe a b stract principles
of existence metaphysical and physical the su btle elements
and the corresponding human senses of which only ve are
yet developed So there are ve exo t eri c Akasa Vayu
Tejas A pas and P rit hwi the rst t wo esoteric yet unknown
are Ani and A n u pad aka The rst name means O ne
Unity the Atom and is a name of Brahma ; the latter
means parentless self existent The rst ve are referred
t o primeval Aether Air Fire Water and Eart h : and t o
Hearing Touch Sight Taste and Smell ; note Air is

not Hearing See R ama Prasad o n The T a t was

The Sanscrit names o f t he Seven Planets used in Hindoo
Astrology are S urya fo r the Sun Chandra for Moon
Kuj a for Mars Budhan fo r Mercury Guru for Jupiter
Sukra for Venus and Shani for Sat urn : then t here are
.

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b e con tradi c t ed i n Joshua ve rses

He was
born
on the same day o f the same month
e I he Bava Kama says tha t after 7 years a male hy aena
becomes a bat in another 7 years a Vampi re after an other
a T horn and after another is turned i nto a demon If a

man fails t o pray devoutly for 7 years hi s

spine after death
1
becomes a serpent
Besides those who prophes i ed for Israel there were 7
other prophets Beor Balaam Job E lipha z Bildad ZOhar
( a n d Elihu the son of Barachel the Buz i te
The Bava Bat hra says that 7 men form an unbroken
J series t o th i s day Adam was seen by Methuselah then
Shem
Jacob
Amram
Ahijah
the
Shilonite
and
E lij ah
i
a wh i m and Elij ah i s
still alive until to day
who s
E ven 7 years of pestilence will not cause a man t o d i e
efo re
his allo t ted time This dictum o f the treati se
is
a
statement
of
predestination
Sanhedrin
A Ram has b ut o n e voice while alive but aft er death his
e
body makes 7 sounds ; h i s horns make t wo trum pets
his thigh bones t wo pipes hi s
skin will cover a drum the
large intest i nes are formed into stri ngs fo r the lyre and
the small intesti nes will make the small strings fo r the
harp
E
In the Sab b a t 1 5 2 2 o f t he Talmud it i s
said that the Soul
o f a man watches over h i s co rpse for 7 days
Compa re t his
with the Theosophic teaching that the Linga Sari ra b roods
over the body for a week after deat h
Rabbi Nat han says that 7 good q ualities avail a t the
Judgment ; w i sdom right eousness good opinions mercy
truth grace and peace Seven ep i thets are applied to t he
Earth in the Hebrew tongue ; A ret z Adamah A requ a Gia
T z i ah Y a b
ha h C heled or T heb
The mysti cal River
es
el
at y o n owed all the week but w
still o n the 7 t h day
Sa m b
as
says Rashi H ers
hon Talmudic Miscella ny 1 5 4
The 7 Catholic Deadly Sins are Pride covetousness , lust
anger gluttony envy and sloth
The 7 Gi fts o f the Ho l y Sp irit Isaiah xi v 2 are
Wisdom Understanding Counsel Fortitude Knowledge
v

0
1
1 2

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33

P i ety and Fear of t he L ord t hese are seven o f the

Kabali stic Sephiroth
Seven i s the token o f Union be t ween God who i s
Tri une
and Man who is Qua t ernary W F Shaw
The Holy Ghost i s sai d to impart a 7 fo l d gift ; 7 L amps
burn before the Throne o f God
The Council of Arl es declared t ha t 7 B i shops ough t t o
take part in the O rd inati on o f a B i shop
There was a 7 years pro b a t ion for ad m I SSI On to the Ce l tic
O rder of the Culdees
There are 7 Vestments o f the
Christ i an priesthood and Bishops shoul d wear 7 others
Sandals D almatic Rational Mitre Gl oves Ring and Staff
The 7 Champions of Christendom were St George for
England St Denis o f France St James o f Spain St
Andrew
Davi d of Wales S t Pat rick o f
o f Ita l y
Ephesus ac c ording t o the monk i sh
legend were Christians who hid in a cave under the pers
ecu
tions of Deci us i n the Third Century ; they fell in t o a trance
and slept 2 0 0 years They awaked in A D 4 47 and going
t hey convinced h i m o f t he
t o t he Emperor Theodosius
truth of the Life beyond the grave : this done t hey returned
to the cave t o sleep until the Last Judgment
The 7 Dolours o f t he Virgin Mary is the name o f a Roman
Catholic Fast Day held on the Fri day before Palm Sunday
The 7 W ise Mas t ers were o fcers o f Ki ng Kurush who tell
stories t o save the l ife of the King s s
o n : they exist in Greek
S yriac Hebrew Pers i an and i n E ngli s
hare called The Book
a d edited by Clouston
o f Si n di b
The Coptic Gnos t ics represented the Jehovah o f the
Hebrews by a curious arrangement of the 7 vowels withou t
a consonant ; thus I E H O OU A ( the H i s
t he Greek e t a lo n g
e ; and the rst O is the Greek long 0 omega )
In the Zoroastrian theology we read o f the highest beings
the 7 A m s
has
a
f
n
d
o
f
O
rmuzd
source
l
i
e
Bahman
the
s
;
p
king of this world ; A rdi behes
t re producer ; Shahrivar the
former of metals ; Spa n d arm a t queen o f the earth ( the
Gnos t ic Soph i a) Khordad the ruler of times and seasons
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and A m erd ad ruling over the vegetable world Below

there are the 2 7 I z ed sruled over b y Mithras ; in Oppositi o n
t o these were powers o f darkness the 7 arch devs and the
2 7 devs o r devils as we call them
The historic city o f Rome pagan before i t was Chris ti an
was built upon Seven Hills the Palatine C oelian Aventine
Vim i nal Quirinal Esquiline and the Capitol In Latin
t imes it was called Urbs Sep ti colli s Some old authors
speak o f Valent i a as a secret n ame for Rome

The B ij ou Notes and Queri es vol xiv p 2 3 5 says that an

the 7 days o f the week have al l been used as sacred days ;
Sunday by Chri stians ; Monday by the Greeks ; Tuesday by
the Persians Wednesday by the Assyrian s Thursday by the
Egyptians Friday by the Turks ; and Saturday by the Jews
The number 7 was curiously related to H P Blavatsky
and the Theosophical Society
Lucifer wa s
rst published
t in 1 8 8 7 and 1 8 8 7 is the s
um
o f 1 7 hundreds 1 7 tens a n d
P B lived at 1 7 Lansdowne Road and 1 7
1 7 units ; H

Avenue Road ; Luc i fer was published at 7 Duke Street ;

volu
es
were
completed
at
her
death
Colonel
O
lcott
rst
m
7
1
1
Beckman
Street
and
later
at
Broadway
met her at 7
7
,
New York A n na Kingsford was elected pres i dent rst o f
the London T S Lodge on 7 t h Jan u ary 1 8 8 3
Isis U n
was
published
in
1 8 7 7 and the Third volume of the
v ei led
V

I
8
1
Secret Doctrine was published i n 9 7 after her death
,

O G D OA D

THE

sthe

rst cu b e o f energy and i s

the only evenly even
n u mber with i n the decad The Greeks thought it an

all powerfu l number ; they had a Proverb all things are

eight
f
i
n
his
edition
o
the
Arithmetic
f
o
i
N
co m a
C a m erari u s
,
a l Harmony because musical ratios are
chus
calls it
number
8 is s
u
i
c
es
o
t
av
e
t
his
forms
a
tone
and
q
is
attributed to t he Moon
1 2 to
is
sesquitertian
9
Mercury
1 2 to 8 is sesquialter
1 6 t o 1 2 is
sesquitert ian
V en u s
1 6 t o 8 is duple
1 8 to 1 2 i s
sesquialter
Sun
1 8 to 9 is duple
Mars
2 1 t o 9 is duple sesqu i tertian
2 4 t o 1 8 is sesquitertian
2 4 to 1 2 is duple
Attribu
t
ed
to
2 4 to 8 is triple
Jupiter
1 8 to 1 2 sesquia l ter
1 2 to 8
2
2
to
sesquitertian
4
3
Saturn
8
2
quadruple
t
o
3
Are
ascribed
t
o
the
t o 2 sesquialter
I

"

6
4
3
6
8
duple
t
1
o
3
8
to
qua
ruple
6
d
3
2 4 t o 1 8 sesquitert i an

i
I

8 th

or

I n erra

tic Sphere which

comprehends all
the res
t
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86

Hence the O gdoad was also call ed Ca dm eia because

Harmony waslooked upon as t he wife o f Cadmus and
Cadmus meant the Su b lunary Wor ld as O ly m pi od oru s
says Eight was called also Mother and Rhea Cybele and
Dindy mene from bei ng the rst cube and a cube repre
senting t he earth
The eight persons saved from the ood o f Xi s
are
ru s
ut h
synonyms o f many oc t aves o f gods such a sthe 8 Cabiri
great gods of Samo t hrace s
ee Bryant and F aber o n this
myth
There are 8 Beati tudes of t he Christ i an religion Ma tt hew
chap V
Eight is the num b er o f the Moons Of Saturn
There
have
been
several
Masonic
orders
concerned
with
1
t his N o a chi t e O gdoad a s
the Prussian masons Kn i ghts o f
h
L
A
x
R
t
o
a
f
L
a
n
i
e
e
or
Prince
b
the
Noachi
t
es
and
o
u
s
g
y
I the Royal Ark Mariners which i s
a subsidiary order to the
i M ark Master Masons
Macrobius says the O gdoad was the ty pe o f Justice
because it consists of evenly even nu m ber sand on account
o f i ts equal divis i ons
John Heydon tells us tha t 8 E vents be fal l t he Damned
and that there are 8 rewards of the Blessed
The number 8 was sacred to Dionysos who was born at
t he 8 t h month the isle of Naxos was dedicated to him and
i t was
gra n t ed to the women o f Naxos that their childre n
born in the 8 th month should live whereas it is usual for
such to die altho u gh those born in e ither the 7 t h or the 9 t h
month are usually reared
The Jews were accustomed t o practise Ci rc u m cI SI On o n
e 8 t h day after birt h
m ale infants upon t h
The Jews at the Chan u cah o r Feast o f Dedication lit 8
candles and it lasted 8 days This i s
the E ngkai ni a o f
John x 2 2 A s
t o conj uring among the ancient Je ws it
is said in Talmud Succah 5 3 1 that Levi played with 8
knives Samuel in the presence of the King Sapor of Persia
u sed 8 cups and Abaj i before R abbi Rava used 8 eggs
Eight prophet s were descended from Rahab the Harlot
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87

e
i
a
N
e
r
a
a
h
Sera
i
ah
Jeremia
h
H
i
lkiah
H
nn
M
i
a
h
a
a
,
,
,
,
,
,
m eel, and Shallum
Note also that H uldah the prophetess

was the grandch il d o f Rahab

The last 8 verses o f Deuteronomy , The Mosaic Law, The
Pentateuch , were wri t t en b y Joshua Bava B at hra, 1 4 1
Rabbi Nathan stat e that there were 8 sects o f the
Pharisees : but both o f the Talmuds (Jerusalem and
Babylon ) name only seven I t i prophes i ed that the Harps
v iz

which will be played o n earth before the Mess i ah wil l have

8 strings
Brac hi n 1 3 2
As seven was the num b er o f the original Creation so 8
says W F Shaw may be considered as the Day o f R e
generation Eight souls were saved in the A rk Of Noah
and Noah was
the 8 t h in descent his
name was c h= 8
t i mes 8 6 4

8 8 8 i s the s Cial number of Jesus Chris t as

He who

is t e es
u rrec
and the Life
He is the great opponent
o f the 6 6 6 t he
r o f t he B eas
t the number o f a Man
The anc i ent
e writings refer t o 8 musical s ound
the Pah yin (G Schlegel )
.

s
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88

THE

E NNE AD

TH E

Ennead is the rst square o f an odd number it was

said to be like the O cean owing around the other numbers
wi t hin the Decad ; n o further elementary number is possible
hence it is like the Horizon because all the numbers are
bounded by it We nd that it was called Prometheus

and Freedom from Strife and V u lcan beca u se the

ascent o f numbers is as fa r as 9 j ust as the ascent of things
decompo s
ed by re is as far as the sphere o f Fire ( the s
um
mit o f the air ) and Juno because the Sphere o f the air is

arranged according to the novenary system and sister

and wife to J u piter from its conj u nction with the Monad
ro s or
h
And T eles
Bringing
to
an
end
because
the
o
p
human o ffspring is carried 9 calendar months by the parent
And t elez osor p erfec t for the same reason and also called

Perfect because it is genera t ed from the Triad which is

called Perfec t
Attention is called t o i t s
being an emblem o f M a tt er whi c h
ever varying is never destroyed ; s
o the number 9 when
multiplied by any number always reproduces i tself thus
times
2 a re 1 8 and 8 plus I are nine
and
so
on
as
below
9
,

'

,\

9
9
9

X
X
X

27

5
3
= 6
4 3 3
=4 3 4+ =
5
5
S 9

=
6
x
7
33
9
= 72
8
X
5
9
= 81
X

9
9
9

X I O

X I I

9 3
0

99 3

I3

9
9

9
9

>< I

X I

X 1

II7

5 7+

=
4

1 26

=
7
8=

53 3

62 ;

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9

Santa F o rt u na and Fides The Sabi nes became merged

with the Romans about 2 6 6 B C
The Nine gods of the Etruscans were Juno Minerva
Tinia Vulcan Mars Saturn Hercules Summanus and
V edi u s the E truscans also became united with the
Romans

Note in Macaula y s poem o f Horatius

Lars Porsena

of Clusium by the n i n e gods he swore in 5 9 6 B C Lars

Porsena led the Etruscans ; they were then most powerful :
from the Etruscans the Romans took much of their la w
custom and superstition
by nines that Eastern presents are given when they
I t is
would extend their magnicence to the greatest degree as

1 7 43
mentioned in Comte de Caylus O riental Tales

Barrett s Magus notes also 9 precio u s stones 9 orders

of devils 9 choirs of angels he C opies from John Heydon

Not e in thi s connection the N u n d i n als
o f the Romans
who marked the days by letters into parcels of 8 days and
o n every 9 t h day the pe o ple left their pursu i ts and went
to the towns t o market ; hence the jocular Latin saying
T res
These n u n d in als
are a
m u lz eres
N u n di n a : f a ez a a t
type of our Domin i cal letters a s
et of seven marking out
the 8 t h days The Romans also held a purication cere
mony on male in fants on the 9 t h day of life hence the
presiding goddess o f this rite was called N undina
The Nones were one of the sets o f days compo sing each
calendar mon t h The Roman N oven n ali a was a feast in
memory o f the dead celebrated every gt h year The
Novendiale wasan occasional Roman Catholic fast to
avert calam iti es from this arose the R C system o f
Neuvaines

There is a Masonic order of Nine Elected Knights

in which 9 roses 9 lights and 9 knocks are used
The Mahometans have 9 9 names of the deity Some
Jews have taught that God has 9 times descended to earth;
I s
t in Eden 2 n d at the con fusion o f tongues 3 rd at the
destruction of Sodom 4 t h t o Moses at Horeb 5 t h at
Sinai 6 th t o Balaam 7 t h t o Elisha 8 t h in t he Tabernacl e
,

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1
9

and 9t h in the T emple at Jerusalem and tha t his ro t h

coming as the Messiah will b e n al
The ancients had a fear o f the number Nine a n d its
multiples especiall y 8 1 they thought them o f evil presage
indicatin g change and fragility
A t the 9 t h hour Jesus the Sav i our died

Nine is also the ear t h under evil i nfluences

Joh n Heydon in the Holy Guide and J M Ragon in

his M acon neri e O cculte thus associate numbers wi th the

Planets
.

Sun
Venus

6,

and 4 Moon
Sa turn 8 Mars

and

7,

Jup i ter

3,

Mercury

5,

and t he Zodiacal Signs thus

1

ius

Leo

Cancer
5
Scorp
i
o
9

3
7
II

6
10

agittari
u
s
S
4
ra
8 Li b

Capricornus
Aries
P i sces

1 2

Gemin i

The First and t he Second Temples o f the Jews were both

destroyed on the 9 1h day of the Jewish month Ab O n
the 9 t hday of Ab modern Jews d o no t wear the T ali t h and
Phylac t eries unt i l even i ng The day should be spent in
tears and no good comes of work done on that day
The Talmud in Sot ch 2 0 1 says that a woman prefers
o n e meas u re o f fun t o 9 of Pharisaic professional goodness
Nine persons have entered A li ve i nto the Jews Paradise
E noch Elijah Mess i ah Eliezer the servant o f Abraham
Hi ram kin g of Tyre Ebed Melek the Ethiop Jabez the
s
o n of J eh
u d a the Prince B at h
i a daughter o f Pharaoh and
Sarah the daughter of Asher Some Rabbis add Rab b i
Y os
hu a s
o n o f Lev i but he entered n o t at the door
but
climb ed over the wall See Ket hu bo t h 7 2
In the 1 4 5 th Psalm we nd 9 reasons fo r p ra i sing God };
The Great E l eusinian Mysteries were the succe s
sors o f
the Egyptian Mysteries o f Isis and O siris a n d were cele
brat ed at Eleusis and possibly also at Athens in honour o f
Demeter o r Ceres ; they occupied 9 days and were co m
.

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2
9

en c ed

the fteenth day of the third Attic month

Boedromion Sep t e m ber : they took place once in every
ve years
The Lesser Mysteries were perfo rmed in t he month
Elaphebolion March at Agree on the River I ly s
in
s
us
honour of Persephone o r Proserpine dau ghter o f Ceres
Candidates after reception became M y s
t ae : in the Greater
Mysteries they became E pOpt ae The ceremon i es were
called T elet ai perfect in gs They remai ned i n use fo r 1 8 0 0
years and were only ceased in the time of the Emperor
Theodosius A D 3 9 5
Mention o f 9 Worthies is found in literature ; they were
Hector son o f King Priam Alexander the
Gentiles
3

Great and Julius C aesar 3 Jews Josh u a David and Judas

Macca beus 3 Christians King Arthur o f Britain Charle

magne and G odfrey de Bouillon

tm

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THE

D E CA D

Io

T R E Decad number T en o r P A N T E LE I A wh i ch meant

V All complete o r fully accomplished i sthe grand

summi t o f numbers which once rea ched cannot be pas s
ed
um
to i n g ea s
we must retrograde to the Monad
e the s
The
Pythagoreans
were
entr
nced
with
its
virtues
and
a
z/
called it De i ty Heaven Eternity and the Sun
Ten
o r receptacle of all numbers was
= t o receive and hence Heaven
called
which was ord ai n e
Like the Dei ty it is a Circle with vi s i ble centre but i t s
C ircumfer ence too vast for sight
It is the sum o f the un i ts o f the number four as previously
1
mentioned a holy and Deistic number thus
are 1 0 and thus ten gains splen dour from i t s
parentage

Also spoken o f as
Eternity which is innite l i fe
/ becau s
L
e it contai ns every number in i tself and number i s
i nnite

It is also called Kosmos that i s t he Un iverse

Proclus
says : The decad i smundane also it is the world which
receives the images of all the divine numbers whi ch are
supernat ural ly impart ed to i t

I t is called the fountain of eternal na t ure because i f

we take the half ve a sthe middle numb er and add
together t he next above and the next below vi z 6 and 4
we m ake 1 0 and the next two in a similar manner 7 and 3
are 1 0 ; and s
o o n 8 and 2 and 9 and 1 give the same
result
All nations reckon by the Dec i mal scale o f no t ation t o
,

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which they were n o doubt led from t he conven i ence of

coun t ing t he t en d igi t s o f the hands

It is also spoken o f as Klei aoa kosthat 1 5

having

custody o f others the magazine of the o t her numbers

b ecause other numbers are branches from it : al so called
Fate which comprises all sorts of events : Age Power ;
Atlas because it supports t he 1 0 spheres o f Heaven ;

Phanes ; Memory ; Urania ; and The rst Square because

i t consists of the rs
t four numbers
Two o ld conceits were that the Tenth wave o f the s
ea is
always larger than others ; and that b irds laid the ro t h egg
o f a larger size than the others

The word Ten was used by the Hebrews instead of a

lat
large number so that care must b e exercised in t ran s

i ng this ; thus Nehemiah interprets t en generations o f

Nehemiah
Deuteronomy xxi i i v 3 t o mean for ever
.

X11 1

The Kab alists called 5 6 and 1 0 circular numbers

because when squared t he resul t shows the same num b er
in the unit gure thus :
,

5
6
10

t imes
times
times

5
6
1 0

times
and
5
5
6
times
6
3
1 00
1 0 times

are
are
are

are
5
6
are
3
1 0 0 are
2

1 2
5
21

1 0 00

An old periphrasis mentioned by S hakespeare is

Id

meaning the
s
et my ten commandments in your face
nger nails for scrat ching See 2 Henry VI i 3
The Mahometans s
a y that ten anima l s were adm itt ed t o
Paradise
1
Krat i m the d og o f the Seven S l eepers
2
Ass of Balaam
Ant
of
Solomon
3
o
Whale
Jonah
f
4
f
f
t
h
The
Calf
not
Ram
o
ered
Jehova
b
y
Abraham
o
)
(
5
on
instead o f Isaac his s
6 The O x o f Moses
b
t
The
Camel
of
the
prophe
Sa
l
e
e
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The Cuckoo o f Belkis

o
The
Ram
f
Ishmael
9
1 0 Al Borek the Animal which conveyed Mahome t t o
heaven

We nd 1 0 generati ons from Adam t o Noah 1 0 from

Shem to Abraham The 1 0 spiri tual graces o f Christianity
are Love j oy peace long su ffering gentleness goodness

faith prudence meekness and t emperance says D r G

O liver ; although where he ge t s 1 0 generations from Adam
to Noah I know n o t
Under 1 0 also falls t he ment i on of the Pythagorean Tri
angle Tetrac tys consisti ng of an equilateral triangle enclos ing
ten Y O D S : t hus the upper is the Monad t he second line
the Dyad the third the Tri ad and the fourt h the Quaternary
or Tetrad : representing t he four forms of point line super
c iesand solid
A similar form is gi ven by Hebrew
Ka b
alists to
the deity number by placing in a
triangle four
two V a n sand one Heh
nal b eing the
H o f the Tetragrammaton o r
they may be put conversely
Note that ten is used a s
a S ign o f fellowsh i p love peace
and Un i on i n the Masonic third token the union o f t wo
ve poin t s o f Fel l owsh i p
In the Bible we notice 1 0 Commandmen t s 1 0 ins truments
t o which Jewi sh Psalm s were sung
s t ri ngs in the
1 0
Psal t ery and that the Holy Ghost descended ten days
after the As cension
T u c er R ab
Raymond L ully assoc i ate the
an u sand
num b ers 8 t o Air 5 t o Fire 6 t o Earth and 1 2 t o
Water
Apuleius states t ha t among t he E gyp ti ans it was
customary t o fast 1 0 d ays before sacri cing and Budge
says that they used a 1 0 day week
The Ten Sephiroth form the essence o f the Hebrew
dogmati c Ka balah a subject which is too vast and complex
to be entered upon in th i s volume on numerals A mere
glance at t he Sep hi rot ic emanations o f the Absolute D eity
from t he mathemat i cal point o f Vi ew is al l t hat can be
8

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9

attempted ; my Introduct ion t o t he Kabalah may be

referred to
From the Absolute Pass i ve Negativity A I N proceeds
A I N SU F H the Limitless and then A I N SU F H A U R Bo u nd
l ess Light which concentrat es in the rst manifestation o f
the Sephiroth which is the Crown KT R Ket her : from
Ket her proceeds C hKM H C hochm a h Wisdom an active
masc u line potency and BI N H Binah Understanding a
passive feminine power
These three form the Supernal Triad The fourth and
fth are C hSD Chesed Mercy active and mal e and
u ra h Strength pass i ve and fe m ale
G BV R H G eb
The sixth Sephira is the notable T P A R T T ipheret h
un
Beauty the central s
the Logos t he Manifested So n :
this completes a second triangle the reection of the
former
Num b er seven isN T z c h N etz ach Victory active and
the eigh t h is H VD Hod Splendour passive ; the ninth
is Y SVD Y es
od
the Foundation completing the third
trinity or triangle
M LKT M alku t h, the Tenth Sephira completes the
emanations She is the Bride of Microprosopus the Son
the Su n Logos ; she i s
the Inferior Mother Q u een and
the Manifested Universe
The whole Ten are viewed as reignin g over Four Worlds
o r Planes of Existence ; these are the Worlds of A z i lu t h
i ah M alku t h on the plane of
Briah Y et z i rah and A s
s
the vi sible tangible universe
i a h alone is
s
As
These Ten Sephiroth are the prototypes o f everything
spiritual and also of every part of creation : they are traced
in the angelic host and i n our universe t hree superior and
seven succedent exi st in all things ; the lower seven are
obvio u s to the uninitiated but in these manifestations the
supernal triad i s
veiled t o t he pro fane

Some occultists phrase it thus three are sub

ective
and
j
incomprehensible t o m a n seven are obj ective and compre
le ; thus Seven archangels are comm only named and
ib
hen s
we have known only of Seven great planets o f ou r system

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9

The Rabbis tau ght that a man should d ivorce hi s

wi fe
i f fOr 1 0 years she had no o ffspring
At funerals condolences were recit ed by 1 0 men and at
Ten cups
weddings by ten men including the bridegroom

were drunk at a funeral party three before s u pper three at

upper and four after the meal at the recitation o f the four
s
blessings
Abraham was tested 1 0 times 1 0 Miracles were performed
{I n Egypt to help the Children o f Israel and 1 0 at the Red
Ten plagues were made to afict the Egyptians Ten
Sea
t imes the Jews o ffended God in the Wilderness
Ten times did the Shekinah come down into the world
at the Tower of Babel at Sodom
a t the Garden of Eden
i n Egypt see Exodus iii 8 at the Red Sea Psalm cvi ii 9
o n Mount Sinai ; at the Temple ; in the Pillar o f Cloud ;
o n the Mount o f O lives see Zechariah xiv 4 ; the r o t h is
o mitted in the original reference A v o t h d Rabbi Nathan
c hap 3 4
There are 1 0 Hebrew words t o designate Idols and 1 0
fo r Joy
Sodom was to be spared fo r 1 0 righteous men ;
G ideon took 1 0 servants to destroy the Altar o f Baal ; Boaz
itnesse for his marriage with Ruth J oa bs
armo u r
c hose 1 0 w
wa s
borne b y 1 0 young men Jes u s speaks of 1 0 talents
1 0 pieces o f silver
1 0 cities
and gave a parable o f 1 0
V irgins
The Tabern acle has many 1 0 dimensions There
a re 1 0 Bible names o f G o d 1 0 Canticles and 1 0 necessari es
Ecclus 3 9 2 6
fo r m an s life
There were 1 0 Pythagorean Virtues of Initiat ion an d the
B uddhists teach 1 0 P a ra m it a s
o f Perfection
In the A lc hy m i c o Kabalistic tract called
Aes ch Me t
t
referred
o
by
Eliphaz
L
vi
and
col
l
ected
from
the
;z are h
e
p
en ro t h and translated into Engl i s h
Z Oha r of Knorr von R o s

and forming Volume IV of my Collectanea H erm et i ca

will be fo u nd 1 0 names for Gold all extracted from the O ld
Testament ; they are there related to the Sephira Gebu rah
The Hindoo Puranas tell us o f the 1 0 Avatars o f t he
G o d Vishnu the Preserver of the Brahmanic Religion ;
t hey are periodical incarnations o f the God
First a s
the
,

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99

F ish Ma t sya 2 Kurma the Torto i se ; 3 Varaba t he

i ngha
Boar ; 4 N aras
the Man L i on ; 5 V am an a the
Dwarf ; 6 Parasu Rama 7 Rama Chandra ; 8 Krishna ;
1
0
h
t
Buddha
and
the
Kalki
the
Horse
is
ye
t
t
o
;
9
These Avatars are susceptible o f a mystical explana
c ome
tion o n the plane o f cosmogony it has been g i ven in the

Garuda Temple o f t he O riental O rder o f Light by Frater

T H Pa tt i nson o f Bradford a very notab le mystic and
o ccult stude n t
V
i
h
t
f
In
the
Yoga
Maha
Ramayan
Valmiki
a
s
s
h
a
a
o
4
will be found an es
say on
edited by Vihar i Lala Mitra
C m Tat Sat o u i d est and this con t ains some very curious
information o n the 1 0 numerals as rel ated t o the mys ti cal
yllable O M or A U M
s

Aum _mani padm ehum means literally O h the j ewel

in thy m us and is t aken In y s

the spark o f
t i c ally to mean
th
e D ivi ne wi thin me a s
fully explained by Blava t sky
wa s
t o her E SO t CI l CCTlO H o f Theosophists
,

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E LE V E N

1L

T H IS

seems t o have been the type o f a number with an

evil rep u tation among all peoples The Kabalists co n
t ed i t with the perfection o f the Dec ad and j ust as the
t ra s
the form o f all good things s
Sephiro t i c number i s
o eleven
is
the essence o f all that is sinful harmful and imperfect ;
with the Ten Sephiroth they contrasted the Eleven Averse
Sephiroth symbols o f destruction vi olence defeat and
dea t h O n the oldest Tarot cards the trump called t he
Tower struck by Lightning number XVI shows the Ten
Divine Sephiroth on o n e side and the Eleven Averse
Sephiroth on the other s i de ; modern Tarot des igns are
very much debased
John Heydon says that b y it we know the bodies of
Devils and their nature ; the Jews understand by i t Lilith
he devil dangerous t o women i n
Adam s rs t wife a s

m
s
l

e
n
t
n
t
h
e
co n n e
tval s A D M
; hence they wro t e o

Adam E ve o u t of door s
C hVH C hv o L ILI T that is

Lilith
Jesus in Matt xii 4 3 plainly allows the doctrine t ha t
evil spirits may haunt el ds which Grotius says the Jews
think ; and their word Demon and Field are similar being
ShD I M ( elds ) and ShD I M (evil deities ) ; the Siddim
are mentioned in Psalm cvi 3 7

an d t h
called the N u m b
er o f S i ns
Peni t ent
e
I t is
because it exceeds the number Of t I I e Co rri m an d m ent sand
is less than twelve which is the number of Grace and
Perfection But sometimes even eleven receives a favour
called in the
from God as in the case o f the man who wa s
.

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TW E LV E

12

T H IS

num b er has a perfect and no t ab l e charac t er and

wa s
highly es t eemed by most nat ions of antiquity Almost
all the t welves will be found t o be allied either Ob vi ously
o r in a concealed man ner
with the Signs of the Zod iac
twelve s igns o r partiti ons of the great circ l e o f the heaven s
twe l ve t imes thirty degrees formin
f
the
per
ect
cycle
o
f
g
f
:
6
arithmeti
al
degrees
the
circle
each
sign
further
0
c
o
w
a
s
3
s
u bdivided into three d ec a n s T here are many o f the
learned who b el i eve the twelve sons of Jaco b and
t welve founders o f tri b es are allegorical only We may

mention the Twelve Grand Points o f Masonry wh i ch

used t o form a part o f the lectures in t he Craft degrees
Twelve events in the ceremony o f i ni ti at i on referred t o t he
sons of Jacob are g iven by Mackey :
1
To Reuben was referred the O pening o f t he Lo dge
he wa s
the rs
t b
om
s
on

2
T o Simeon the preparation o f t he land he p repared
the destruction o f the Shechemites

L
r
T
evi
the
repor
t
signal
gave
the
S
ignal
in
o
h
o
e
3
the attack on the men of Shechem

Judah
the
entrance
of
the
land
that
t
ri
b
e
rst
T
o
4
entered the promised land

T
o
Zebulun
the
prayer
the
prayer
and
blessing
f
o
5
his father fell on him in preference t o Issachar

6 T o Issachar
the circumambulation a n indolent
t ri be who required a leader

T
o Dan the advance to the A lta r
for a c on t rast t o
7
their rapid advance to i dolatry
,

1 03

To

Gad t he obligation
vo

on

accoun t

of

ep

:
ht hahs

s
To
Asher
the
entrusting
w
i
th
rich
Mason
i
c
blessing
9
resem b led the Fathers o f their land

1 0
T o Naphtali the investment and declared Free
the tribe o f N ap ht ali had a peculiar f reedom give n
b y Moses

1 1
T o Joseph the N E co m er because Ephraim a n d
Manasseh (grandsons) represented h i m newes t
comers

1 2
T o Benjam i n the closing of the L odge as b
eing
the las t son o f the Patri arch
The following associations of Birds An i mals and Flowers
with heavenly bod i es ha s
the authority of the Greco Roman
mythology
.

G reek

La t i n

P allas

A phrod i te
Helios
Hermes
Zeus
Demeter
Hephaistos
Ares
Artemis
Hestia
Hera
Poseidon

Bi rd

A ni m

Minerva O wl
Venus
Dove
Cock
Ibis
Jupiter Eagle
Ceres
Sparrow
Vulcan Goose
Mars Magpie
D i ana
Daw
Vesta
Heron
Juno
Peacock
Neptune Swan

al

She goat
H e goa t
B u ll
Dog
Hart
Sow
-

A SS

Wolf
Hind
Lion
Sheep
Horse

le
V egetab

O live

Myrtle
Laurel
Hazel
Horse ches t nut:
Apple
Box
D og wood
P alm
Pine
Thorn
Elm
-

The astrologers associated colours wi t h the t we l ve Signs;

of the Zod i ac thus
With Pisces white
Aquarius blu e
Capricorn black or brown
Sagittarius yellow o r green
Scorpio brown
Li bra black o r crim s
on
Vi rgo black and blue
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With Leo red and green

Cancer green and brown
Gemini red
Ari es white
Taurus whlt e and yellow
,

The Zodiacal Signs are also associated with Sex and t he

c ontrast of Day and Night
,

Pisces
Aqu arius
Capricorn
Sagittarius
Scorpio
Libra
Virgo
Leo
Cancer
G emini
Ta u rus
A ries

Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male

Nocturnal
Diurnal
Noct u rnal
Diurnal
Noct u rnal
Di u rnal
Nocturnal
Diurnal
Nocturnal
Diurnal
Nocturnal
Diurnal

And again there are other characters which astrologers

deem o f importance thus
,

Pisces
Aquari us
Capricorn
Sag i ttarius
Scorpio
Libra
Virgo
Leo
Cancer
Gemini
Ta u r u s
Aries

Water
Air
Earth
Fire
Water
Air
Earth
Fire
Water
Air
Earth
Fire

Northern
Western
So u thern
Eastern
Northern
Western
Southern
Eastern
Northern
Western
S o uthern
Eastern

Common
Fixed
Cardinal
Common
Fixed
Cardinal
Common
Fixed
Cardinal
Common
Fixed
Cardinal

Fr u itful

Fruitful
Barren
Barren
Fr u itful
Barren

Lastly the twelve signs are allotted to the planets as their

houses
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The Rabbis sai d t ha t at the rst revelation the True

Name o f Go d was a word o f 1 2 letters Kiddushi n 7 1 I
The Mishna narrates the events of t he rst 1 2 hours ;
in in the tenth Hour wa s
Adam fell in t o s
j udged in the
eleventh and was cast o u t o f the Garden in the twelfth ; s
o
he abode not even o n e day i n his dignity Sanhedrin 3 8
2
Compare t he N u c t em ero n of Apollon iu s of Tyana

given by Eliphaz Levi in hi s R i tuel de la Magie Paris

.

86 1

H igh

The
Stones
the
Priest s Breast pla t e were

named
Sardius Topaz Carbuncle Emerald Sap phire
Diamond Ligure o r Jacinth Agate Amethyst Beryl
O nyx and Jasper
See Heb rew Ancient Version Exodus
of

1 2

xxv m

The 1 2 Foundations o f the Heavenly City given I n

Revelations xxi are Jasper Sapphire Chalcedony Sardius

Sardonyx Emerald Topaz Beryl Chrysolite Amethyst
ras
Jacinth and C hry s
us
oph
The 1 2 Hebrew Months were Ab ib o r N izan ( March
April ) Iyar o r Zi f Sivan Thammuz Ab Elul T isri Bul
Chis
leu Tebeth She b at Adar ; and the inter calary month
V e Adar
The 1 2 E gyp t ia n Months were Pachon Paoni E piphi
Thoth P haOphi A thyr Choiak Tobi Mechir
M es
o ri
P ha m en o t h and Pharmuthi the las t beginning on March
,

2 7t

h
.

The 1 2 Sons o f Jacob were re l ated to the 1 2 Signs o f

t he Zodiac by the Rosicrucians in a correct order ; other
schemes o f at tri bution are given by Athanasius Kircher
and others

That by Sir William Drummond is

Aries to Gad
Taurus to Ephraim Ge m ini t o Benjamin C ancer t o
Issachar Leo t o Judah Virgo t o N apht ali Libra to Asher
Scorpio t o Dan S agittary to Manasseh Capri corn to Zebulun
Aquarius t o Reuben and Pisces t o Simeon and Levi

The 1 2 Apo tles of Jesus were

Simon Pe t er Andrew
James and John the sons of Zebedee Philip Bartholomew
Thomas Ma t thew al so called Levi James son of Alphaeus
.

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Judas c all ed L e bbaeus and Thaddeus S i mon t he Canaan i te

and Judas Iscari ot The Venerable Bede propos ed t o
rename the Signs with t he names of the apos t les and a

sc heme o f allo t ment i s

t o be found in
The Sphere o f

Marcus Mani lius by Edward Sherburne London 1 6 7 5

See Notes and Queries Vol x i v Man chester

p 21 1
Westcott o n t he Zo diac in So c R o sReports give s
the Christian allusions t o the Zodiac
In an ordinary pa ck o f Playing Cards there are 1 2 Court
Cards but in the Tarot Pack there are also 4 Caval iers
The Kabal i sts greatly esteemed the 1 2 lettered Name o f

fui t est cri t

or
God H I H H V V H V I H I H mean i ng
He wa sis will be
Less eso t eric wast he Tri ple Te t ragrammaton I H VH
t hrice written
All Fratres o f t he Rosicru cian Soci ety of England will al so
h A hBen ve
be fam iliar with A B B E N V R U C h H QD s
h meanin g Father So n and Holy Spirit
Ruach ha Ko d es
The R o s
icrugi an Soc i e t y had a scheme of distributing
1 2 shades o f Colour among the Zodiacal Signs
but this
is
a secret matter ; many erroneous schemes have b een
published
The 1 2 Signs of the Zod i ac are named I n Hebrew
b eginning wi t h Ari es Tal eh Shur T hau m im Sartan Ariah
it h Gedi
Akrab Kes
Deli and
B et hu leh M az a n ai m
In Arabic ; A I Hamal Al Thaur Al Tauman Al
D agi m
Sarta n Al A sad Sunbul A l Zu ben a Al Akrab Al Kaus
Al Ged i Debi and Al Hau t In Chinese P e ya u gh the
sheep ; K i n n i eu golden bull ; Shang hu i ng two brothers ;
Kin hiai crab ; Sin lion ; Sha niu the house girl ; T i en
t c hi n gh the claws o f a scorpion ; Tien K i e the scorpion ;
Gun Ma the m an horse Mu Thien the hill sheep ; P ao
n gh precious vase ; and Shang Y u
t
o
shes
w
i
p
The o ld Sanskrit Hindoo names used by as t rologers at
hab
the presen t time are ; Mesha R i s
a Mi t h
u n a Ka t akam
hchika D han u s M akaram
S i mha Kanya Tulam Vri s
Kumbha and M i nam
The 1 2 simple letters of the He b rew Alphabe t have
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afniti es with the Zod i acal Signs bu t the order o f relati on

I c rU CI an private doctrine
is
a R os
There were 1 2 recorded Appearances of Jesus after his
death ; to Mary Magdalene to the Gal ician women to t wo
disciples t o Peter to ten apostles t o eleven apostles t o
seven apostles and others when shing t o 5 0 0 brethren a t
once t o James the Less, t o eleven apostles t o Stephen at
his martyrdom t o Paul at hisConversion and to t he
apostle John
The 1 2 hours marked in a watch face can be used t o nd
the cardinal points if the time i s
correct and the sun i s
visible Lay the watch at and point the hour hand to the
u n and then the south will be h
alf way be t ween that hour
s
an d the gure XII
The author of the Hymns o f O rpheus the Scholiast o n
Hesiod and Porphyry state that the 1 2 Labours o f Hercules
are s
ai d t o be emblems of the sun in its passage thro u gh the

I 2 signs and this is repeated by the Mystagogus Poeticus

1 6 5 3 a n d they have been allotted as follows
to Aries the
quest o f the Golden Apples o f the Hesperides t o Taurus
the slaying o f the Cretan Bull ; Gemini Hercules and his
twin brother strangle the serpents ; Cancer the taking o f
the Herds o f Geryon Leo the slayi ng o f the N em aea n
Lion ; Virgo the victory over the Amazon Queen ; Libra
the death o f the E ry m an t hean boar ; Scorpio the death of
the Lern aean Hydra ; Sagittarius the shooting of the
Stymphal i an Birds ; Capricorn u s taking o f the hind alive
t o Mycen ae ; Aq u arius
cleaning the stables o f Augeas
Pisces the capture o f the horses o f Diomedes
Janus o f the Romans is the God o f the 1 2 months and
is drawn with 1 2 altars beneath his feet He is the same
as Assyrian Ain Ion Jan ; O N of Eastern nations

Dunlop
s
Vestiges
(
John Heydon gives the following statements
Prospero u s numbers are 1 2 3 4 7 9 1 1 1 3 1 4
Very good
I 6 1 7 1 9 20 2 2 2 3 1 0 26 2
7
1 8 21
8
1
2
I
Indifferent
6
5
5
0
24 2
Very bad
2
8
29
5
3
,

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SO M E H I N D OO U S E S O F N U M B E R S

ancient Indi a in the Sanscrit language certain words

were used as equivalent to the low numbers : for O ne they
aid Moon o r Earth : for Two t hey used many words of
s
t hings in pair such as eye wing arm : for Three they used
Rama re o r guna for they knew of 3 Ramas 3 kinds of
re and 3 gunas o r quali t ies : for 4 they used Veda age or
ocean : for 6 they used Seas
ons : for 7 t hey used Sage o r
v owel : for 1 2 they said Sun or Zodiac ; and for 2 0 they
used nails meaning those of hands and feet Edward B
Tylor
IN

1 1 1

OT H E R H I G H E R N U M B E R S

:
1
r
days
Burial
in
the
Mas
t
er
s
degree
pa
ts
o
f
4
4
i nto which the body o f O siris was divided : a type o f Chr i st
sacriced on the 1 4 th day o f the month : an amule t o f 1 4
points has been used to cure the sick
There are 1 4 Books o f the Apocrypha ; they were wri tten
originally in Gggek never in Hebrew An Israelite had t o
partake of 1 4 meals in the Booth during the Feast o f Tab er

TH E

n acle

The Israelites k illed t he Paschal Lam b o n the 1 4 th day

o f the Month Ni an
In Matthew chap i we nd the genealogy o f Jesus
rec ited in three series o f 1 4 nam es the rst under Patri
archs and judges the s
eco nd under kings and t he third
under priests and governors
The ancien t physicians considered tha t t he 1 4 th day was
the crisis o f fevers
The Moon waxes and wanes each for 1 4 days
1 5 was the number o f Pa i rs o f The [E ons
o r Hol y
Principles in the Gnostic scheme o f Valentinu s
1 5 is t he number by Gematria o f the 8 t h Sephira H o d

s
.

UD

There were 1 5 s t eps in the Temp l e bet ween t he ante

cour t o f Israel an d the Women s Court and i n t hese were
sung the 1 5 Ps alms o f Degrees ; Psalms cxx c xxxiv 1 5
is the number of Jah a name of God ; s
o the Jews w
ho
wrote letters for numbers never wro t e J H 1 0 5 fo r 1 5
but T V 9 6 1 5
The great day o f j oyful recreation for Jewish Maidens

1 12

wa s
t he 1 t h day o f the month Ab The De l uge covered
the hills t o the depth o f 1 5 cubits
A Jewish boy i n t he olden time was
ordered t o begin the
s t udy o f the Gemara when 1 5 years o f age
1 6
means Felicity ; a square number There are 1 6
Court Cards in a Tarot pack

1 7
In the treatise De Iside et O s i ride Plutarch says
O siris was killed o n the 1 7 th day of the moon and henc e

a
when the moon w s
at the full and from that reason the
Egyptians abominate the number 1 7 and s
the
o did

Pythagoreans they called in A n t iphra xis(obstruction )

because it falls between the square number 1 6 and t he
oblong number 1 8
1 8 was deemed a protection against thieves
1 8
Isaiah made 1 8 denunciations against Israel At 1 8
years of age a girl S hould go t o the N u ptial Canopy The
Golden Candlestick o f the Temple was 1 8 hands breadth s
tall There are 1 8 Blessings in the Hebrew Liturgy
There were only 1 8 High Priests during the existence of
the Fi rst or Solomonic Temple at Jerusalem
1
1
The
number
is
famo
u
s
as
being
the
num
b
er
f
o
9
9
years in the Metonic Cycle ; the cycle o f the revolution s
he returns t o have her change s
o f the moon after which s
o n the same day o f the solar year
Meto lived 4 3 3 B C
he was an Athenian ; he published his discove ry at the
O lympic Games in the above year
The exact period is
however 1 8 years and 1 0 days The Calippic period of
four cycl es o r seventy six years was invented by Calipp u s
h
B C
t
correct
Meto
John
Heydon
says
that
0
e
t
o
33
number 1 9 facilitates births and menses
The Kiddushin 2 9 2 says God may curse a man who
20
does not marry at least when 2 0 years o ld fo r his life is a
constant transgression A woman marrying before 2 0 may
bear C hildren up t o sixty ; at 2 0 until forty and after forty
will have none Bava Ba t hra 1 1 9 2 T o die after 2 0 days
diarrh oea is t o die pure
A hen sits 2 1 days and the Almond is ripe 2 1 day s
21
after the ower falls
.

1 14

s
n
The
name
and
symbols
c
b
e
obta
i
n
d
in
S
nskrit
a
a
e
W
l a nd in Arab i c
P roctor believes
that Solar As tronomy o f
t he 1 2 signs arose abo u t 2 1 7 0 B C in a c o u n ny of abou t
6
f
degre
north
latitude
and
at
a
perio
wh
n
Taurus
e
s
o
d
e
1
3
the rs
t constellation o f the Zodiac
was
han ha s
29
The Rosh H a s
ays the perio d o f t he M oo n s
ix hours
and forty minu t es
R evolution is 2 9 days and s
0
0
f
A
me
l
Lentils
once
in
days
keeps
the
ff
a
o
o
3
3
i
0
h
u
insy
At
years
of
age
Jesus
b
e
an
s
m
i
nistry
;
Q
3
g
0
l
d
o
oseph
was
ye
s
wh
n
he
stood
bef
re
Pharaoh
ar
e
o
;
J
3
0
l
0
David wa s
y
s
when
he
b
egan
to
reign
pieces
e
ar
o
d
3
3
o f silver was the price Judas received and Jair had 3 0 sons
= AL
0
1
The
num
b
er
of
El
God
1
3
3
1
o
t
Jo
h
u
a
did
comp
l
te
the
conquest
anaan
s
e
o
f
n
C
3
u nti l he had slain 3 1 ki n gs
2
The
number
f
the
Paths
f
Wisdom
f
the
h
o
o
o
e
S
e
r
3
p
Y et z ira h being 1 0 Sephiro t h and 2 2 le tt ers o f the Hebre w
a lphabet
f
The
years
of
the
l
i
e
f
Jesus
K
i
ng
David
re
i
gned
:
o
33
i n Jerusalem 3 3 years : the number of ver t ebrae in the
human spinal column
The
number
o
f
Agla
A
G
LA
a
c
omposite
Ka
b
a
35
li s
t i c wonder working name
See page 2 7
h
6
6
Abaj
i
said
ther
are
never
less
t
an
oly
men
h
e
3
3
o f any generation upo n
whom the Sheki nah does not
r est

e
P
lu
tarch
De
Iside
O
siride
c
alls
the
Tetr
ct
ys
6
t
a
3
t he power o f the number 3 6 and on this was the greatest
o ath of the Pythagoreans sworn ; and it was denominat ed
t he World in conseq u ence of its being composed o f the
rst four even and the rst four od d numbers ; fo r I and
6
8
and
and
and
1
2
and
are
6
add
and
a
n
d
4
3
7
;
5
o btain 3 6
f
The
number
o
f
Artic
l
es
t
he
Protestant
Chr
i
s
t
ian
o
39
C hurch belief
0
Up to 4 0 years of age eating is b
est for a man aft er
4
0
0
drinking
s
u
its
b
st
He
who
has
passed
days
w
i
h
e
t
4
4
o u t ah afict i on has had h
is
reward in this life
e

1 1

daysthe F lood lasted fo r 4 0 days the spi es

ea rched t he promi s
ed land for 4 0 days Go li ath c hallen ged
s
Israel 4 0 days o f E zekiel s penitence the Jews were 4 0
years in t he Wi l derness 40 days of waiting before em b alm
i n g t he dead Genesis 1 3 ; fo r 40 days the woman s
purica t ion l asted aft er child b irth ; fo r 4 0 days Mos es
fasted tw i ce ; for 4 0 day s Elijah fasted and for 4 0 days
f
0
esus
as
t
d
in
the
Wilderness
and
days
elapsed
be
t
ween
e
4
J
0
the Resurrec t ion and Ascension o f Jesus Moses wa s
4
ears
in
Egyp
t
0
in
M
i
d
i
an
and
0
in
the
W
il
derne
s
s
4
4
y
The Israelites were 4 0 years among the Phili stines
2
i
o
f
f
o
d
no
t
able
b
cause
the
2
lettered
name
o
G
s
e
4
4
t augh t by the Kabalists : there were 4 2 J u dges i n the Judg

ni ent Hall o f O s i ris See Bet t an y The World s Religions

p 1 6 6 o n the even t s o f t he 4 z u d day after death
2
f
The
Ta
l
mud
Babylon
i
n
Kiddu
hin
mentions
o
1
s
4
7
the 4 2 le tt ered Name and it i s
g iven by Ignatz Stern as
c omposed of the Divine Names o f the Bib l e thus E hei eh
asher eheieh A I Jah Jehovah E loh i m Jeh ovah Sa bao th
E l Cha i and Adona i
A H I H A hR A H I H ; I H ; I H V I H ;
F o r 40

A L ; A LH I M ; I H V H T ZBA V T ; A L C hI ; A D N I , or 4 , 3 , 4 ,
2 : 5 : 2 : 5 4: 5: 2 : 2 :
3
It i very curious that t he Ten Seph i roth which deno t e
the attrib utes o f God w i ll show, when the e letters are
added together, and a V ad ded fo r a nd before the last o n e,
t hi same num b er 4 2
if Chesed be called Gedu la h, a wa

ss

c o mmon among Kabali sts

4 5 The num b er o f Adam A D M
i
s
The
world
preserved for the sake o f 4 5 righteous
45
persons C hu lli n 9 2
8
There have been 4 8 prophets in Israel : 4 8 cities
4
were assigned t o the Levi tes
4 9 Moses rece i ved 4 9 reasons for the clea n ness and
uncleanness o f each thing : s
o says T h
e Talmud
0
f
The
number
the
Gates
f
Binah
B
IN
H
t
he
o
o
5
(
)
Understanding The Kabalah states that even Moses o nly

reached the 4 ot h See my Sepher Y et z i ra h Third

E dit i on
.

1 16

Noah N C h
Ar istotle stated that t he C rocodile lives na t urally 6 0
years an d sits 6 0 days o n 6 0 eggs
The Chinese have a time cycle o f 6 0 years and call it
Kya tse The people o f Malabar call this period Chi tam
6 0 The Talmud re fers to 6 0 deadly drugs and 6 0 sorts
the sow bears her litter in 6 0 days
o f wines
6 1 The number A I N Negative existence o f the Deity
6 4 Aletheia tr u th

6 5 The n u mber o f Adona i, t rans l ated

L ord (A D N I )
and of H S Hes keep silence
6 7 The number o f Binah Supernal Mother the 3 rd
Sephira
f
U
D
0
The
number
Sod
a
secret
doctrine
and
o
S
7
pri vate assembly : the earliest name for t he Kabala h: also
I I N Y a y i n wi n e also meant a secret
0
0
h
Rabbis
considered
that
there
were
nations
e
T
7
7
and Mordecai is said t o have known 7 0 languages The
Je wish 7 0 years o f the captivity are reckoned from their
conquest by N ebu cha dn ez z ar to the accession of Cyrus
1
The
number
of
the
Members
of
the
Sanhedrin
7

2
has
a
large
number
o
mystic
references
t
the
f
o
2
7
7

angels bearing the names of Go d derived from Exodus

xiv 1 9 2 0 2 1 by the Kabalists there is an important s
et
o f 7 2 pentacles which placed in pairs forms a series o f 3 6
talis m an s ( s
ee Dr Rudd the Lem eget o n Harleian
it is als o the nu m ber of Chese d ( ChSD ) t he Sephira M ercy
2
f
It
is
said
that
Ptolemy
King
Egypt
collected
o
2
7
7
Hebrew Rabbis and conned each in a separate room and
ordered each to write ou t the Mosaic Law and that by the
help o f God each wrote o u t the same words Megillah of
the Tal mud 9 1
This account I S SI m i la r to that of Joseph u s and Aristaeus
but di fferen t to that o f Philo : hence the name Septuagint
K
M
H
m
h
h
The
number
k
a
Wisdom
the
h
o
f
o
C
C
(
73
)
2 n d Sephira
0
8
The
number
of
cards
in
a
Taro
t
pack
:
numerals
4
7
r6 court cards and 2 2 Trumps
8
5
60

1 18

num b er of the bon es

i n he human bod y
This is the number o f Ai n Su ph A I N SVP t he
207
Boundl ess and Aur A V R Light and of Ado na i O l am
A D N I OVLA M Lord o f the Universe
21 6
Th
e cu b e o f 6
21 6
ye ars t he period o f t he
Pythagorean Metemp sychosis
The Cup o f David in heaven con tains 2 2 1 l ogs of
221
wine : (about 2 0 gallons ) says the Talmud
The sum o f the numbers 1 t o 2 1 t he Gat es of the
23 1
2 00

T he

Sepher Y et z ira h
.

Circles o f Zo ir A m pin the number of t he permu t a

ti ons without reversal o f the Hebrew Letters Kalisch
There are 2 4 8 members o f the body says Talmud
2 48
E i ru vi n 5 3 2 and an anathema enters into all o f them
The word ChR M acc u rsed is 2 4 8 but so is R ChM Mercy
It is said that the disciples o f Rabb i Ishmael once
2 52
d issected a low woman and found she had 2 5 2 mem b e rs
but it does not say what the extra ones were
Worlds o f the Idra Rabba or Greater Holy Assem bly
2 70
The Talmud in Niddah says tha t t he He b rew
271
woman s pregnancy lasted 2 7 1 2 7 2 o r 2 7 3 days

0
o
days the term f natural pregnancy hum an
28
t en
times the Lunar 2 8 day period
The number o f Theos God i n Greek l e tt ers
284
Ekklesia The Church and R O D O N t he Ros e and
2 94
al so M elchi s
ed ek King o f Salem
0
M
i
thra
s
0
3
f
s
o
0
The
riches
Kora
we
e
va
t
th
t
i
t
t
ook
o
r
h
0
0
s
0
a
3
3
mules t o carry them
There were 3 0 0 sorts of devils in Sichin
The Veil o f t he Temple required 3 0 0 pries t s t o d raw I t
aside and 3 0 0 to cleanse it
i
h
DI
14
h
d
f
The
number
S
a
a
S
and
o
f
Meta
t
r
n
d
o
o
3
24 3

MT TR U N

Helios the Sun

This is the number o f E 1 Shadda i A L ShD I Go d
Almighty ; and of ShM H ( Shem ah) the Name of the A bs
o
lu t e God : also of M ShH Moses and ShI LH Sh iloh
8
3
3 45
1

1 19

num b er of Messiah M ShI Ch and N Chs

h
n ac h
h the Serpent sy m b ol o f life
as
6
h
h
h
a
t
a
t
n
H
h
The
name
atan
e
S
T
h
N
con
t
a
i
n
s
S
s
3 4
6
and
all
these
days
f
each
year
he
can
tempt
man
o
t
u
b
3 4
n o t o n the 3 6 5 t h the Day of Atonement
6
f
The
Greek
numeration
o
A
b
raxas
a
Gno
t
ic
t
alis
s
3 5
man ic word
6
Days
the
year
Negat
i
ve
Jewish
precepts
Duke
f
o
s
3 5
o f Babylon and Streets in the City of Rome
0
r
f
Directions
f
the
thought
o
Microp
osopus
o
S
e
e
37
Idra Rabba 5 5 3 7
L
ogos
3 73
M
H
S
h
L
Solomon
7
3 5
f
T
ere
were
this
number
o
l
aw
cour
t
s
in
h
h
t
e
4
39
Jerusalem o f the kingdom peri o d
0
0
0
0
f
The
body
Joseph
was
carried
m
i
les
to
bur
i
al
o
4
4
David i s said to have had a g u ard o f 4 0 0 young men who
rode in golden C hariots at t he head o f his army
0
1
0
1
d
The
F
i
rst
Temple
sto
o
years
and
the
Second
4
4
Temple 4 2 0
T
B
D
f
O
h
The
num
b
er
aath
Secret
Wisdom
e
o
t
4 74
u nion o f C h
okm ah and Binah
6
l
h
K
f
M
u
M
L
T
The
num
b
er
the
Kingdom
a
k
t
o
49
(
)
the 1 o t h Seph i ra
0
0
Kosmos
5
The
num
b
er
of
the
mystic
name
A
h
asher
i
h
e
e
A
i
e
e
4
5 3

hR A H I H )
I am that I am ( A H I H A s
0
h
M
I
R
the
Shamir
the
mag
i
cal
insec
t
wh
i
ch
cut
t
he
S
55
stones for Solomon s Temple
6 08 is
a very notable number representing the Sun

Martianus Capella of the 5 t h century says : The Sun is

called in Italy the God 8 01 at the Nile Serapis at
Memphis O siris ; he i s also Attis ; Adonis at Byblos ; and
Ammon in Li b ya ; also Typhon Mithras and Pluto ; his
In
holy name is of 3 letters which num ber
Chaldee and Hebrew 6 0 8 is Cham o r Ham ( C hM) which

a lso means
heat
In Greek Y H S fro m U H S = 4 00
8
2 00
Tyre T R C h i s
also an example o f 6 0 8
60 8
8
35

T he

1 20

Zeus
The words Moses o u r Rabbi M s
hH R BI N U ; and
Lord God o f Israel I H V H A LH I I s
hR L both number by
Gematria 6 1 3 The 6 1 3 Precepts o f the Jewish law were
delivered to Moses Davi d it is sai d reduced them t o
i x and later t o t wo
eleven and Isaiah to s
H abakk u k t o
O ne v iz
The just S hall live by Faith 6 1 3 also refers
t o the holy garment which had 6 0 0 fringes eight threads
a n d ve knots
6 2 0 The n u mber of Ket her KT R the Crown o r I st
Se phira
F
6 2 2 years from the Christ i an era 13 the date o f the Heg i ra
o r ight of Mahomet from Mecca
from which year t be x
M ahometans reckon their calendar
6 3 2 years A D is the foundation of the Persian mode o f
r eckoning years from their king Y ez d egi rd
6 4 0 is Shemesh the Sun St
h Mem I S water ;
place the three letters one above the other and we get Sh
re s u n rising above and S inking below the waters
6 46
The total numeration o f Elohim o r A lei m
0
f
1
0
6
o
r
avoiding
use
0
t
h
o
A L H I M being 1
0
e
;
3
5
nal Mem we get 1
0
1
0
0
neglecting
the
tens
+
4
3
5
1 +
l
w
e
I
and
placing
these
gures
in
a
c
i
r
c
e
+
+
+
4
5
3
get the sequence
notable as the value o f 71 or the
r elation o f a diameter to circumference o f every circle
E lohim is both a sing u lar and a plural word
6 5 0 has been referred by Godfrey H iggins to Noa h
Noah in Hebrew is N VCh or 6 4
M enes and Bacch u s
6 5 1 T ele ai , the Greek Ancient Mysteries and Epist em e
t
61 2
61 3

Sc i enCe

is the pet number of God frey Higgins as referred to

which he insists means
i t ( R SVT )
R as

W isdom o r as most believe Beginning o r Principle :

i i In the beginning
T he rst words of Genesis are oe r a s
6 6 6 The number of the Beast the n u mber o f a Man
has been associated with Sa tan Maho m et the Pope and a
hundred others It is also the n u mber of SVR T the Hebrew
word for the Sun It occurs in Revelations xi i i 1 8
666

1 22

num b ers d id n ot mean o u r solar years but years o f ve

mon t hs of th i r t y days and perhaps t he earliest year was
only on e month David spoke of 7 0 years as the l ength of
hum an life ; there was
n o such long peri od between Noah
and David as could reduce human life by eleven twelfths
9 7 4 There were this number o f generations from t he
writing of the Law by the Holy O ne before he created Man
i n t he World
u
t
b
e
n
n
alth
u
t
here
be
w
d
h
c
o
on
999 m
r
e
g
99 9
,
i gm n a man he s
hall be saved
n e plead for him
S
1 0 00
e 1 0 00 headed serpent i s
Sesha o r Anan t a t he
Hindoo emblem o f etern i ty
1 000
The daughter o f Pharaoh whom So lomon married
told him o f 1 0 0 0 forms of mus i cal i nstruments and taught
him the chants for all the i dols 1 0 0 0 is the cube of Ten
a symbol o f perfection
ar s wife tempted Joseph with 1 0 0 0 t alents o f
personal charms failed to m ove him
5 o f the earth s crust is 1 0 0 0 ells : b e l o w
th i s i s an abyss of
ells Succah 5 3 2
,

I n 1 0 00

cent
ira
t he Sun Beauty Microprosopus Su n God
1 2 63
The number o f the word Gnosis
1 271
the cross o f
H E G N O SI S The Gnosis and St a u ros
Jesus
1 322
Firs t year o f Egyptian cycle of Sothis B C
Rameses 1 1 came t o the throne in th i s year B C
1 3 78
The reputed year o f the birth of Christi an Rosen
kreutz founder o f the Rosicrucian philosophy
Chris
tian R o s
1 40 8
enkreu t z founded his arcane society
in Germam a
T he d ate o f the writing o f the Hermetic Romanc e
1 45 9
of t he Chem i cal Wedding by C R
The Egyptian So t hic Period calculat ed by t he
1 46 1
hel ia cal ris ing o f Sirius the D og Star at t he solstice
Chri s tos i n Greek nume ration : meaning A noi n ted
1 480
1

1 23

cc ord in g t o The C an o n t h i s n u m b er exh ibit s an i mpo r

ta nt m easure o f the Cosmos; an d wa s
the foundation o f t he
s
ci entic pantheism upo n wh i ch Chri s tia n theo l ogy wa s
b uilt it was
a par t o f The Gnosis and was
derived from t he
f
ries
t
ly
a
tronomers
E
gyp
t
o
s
p
1 48 4
en kreu t z died : the Vau l t clo sed over
Chri stian R os
his
bo dy and t he sec re t s o f the O rder he had founded
1 6 04
The Vault o f C R opened b y his successors
after 1 2 0 years o f secre t s tudy and b enevolence
1 61 4
R os
The Fama Fra t ern it a t i s
as
p ri n t ed
ae Crucis w
1 71 7
Grand Lod ge of Fr eemas
ons
i
2
New Y ear s D
ch
aii ed
g
"
ay
W
Jan
t er Ro b e rt Wen t wor t h L i ttle founde d t he Rosi
crucian Societ
Freemasons of E ng l and in itsg es
en t
form
8 8 5 Dr Wm Ro b ert Woodman b ec me Supreme Magus
a
1 892
Dr Wm Wynn Westco tt beca m e Supreme Magus
1 91 1
This year A D i s
t he 5 o r 3 t h year o f the Kali Yuga
o f t he Hindoo sa ges
this Yug a is t o continue
years
2 000
A Sabbat h day s journey was 2 0 0 0 paces Rabbi
Gama l i e l had a t ube made wh i ch when he looked through
he could s
ee obj ec t s a t 2 0 00 cub i ts dista nce ; this is t he
earli est suggestion o f t he telescope E iru v in 4 3 2
23 68
The Geeek number o f I es
Christos
ou s
00
R
H
n
h
0
00
m
a
says
tha
t
Solomon
sp
ke
0
v
a
m
u
a
o
3
3
proverbs A t the mourn i ng fo r Moses 3 0 00 prec ep t s
were forgotten
1 02
1
0
2
In
B
i
n
February
the
Kal
i
Yuga
the
C
3
3
B l ack Age o f humanity began according t o the Brahmins
1
t
6
The
Jew
i
sh
Era
was
cal
c
ula
t
ed
c
ommence
o
6
1
37
37
years before the Christi an E ra
2
1
Years after t he dispersion sai d Rashi t he Jews
4 3
will be restored t o their o wn l an d
2
1
f
After
these
years
t
he
w
rs
Go g and Magog w ill
a
o
4 9
cease says the Tal mud
8
8
f
8
The
number
verses
in
the
Pen
t
ateuch
says
o
5
t he Ki d du s
h i n : b u t t hey are usually coun t ed as
8
5 45
a

1 24

The world wa sintended to last 6 00 0 years :

2 0 0 0 years o f Disorder ; 2 0 0 0 o f the Law : and 2 00 0 more
before Messiah sho u ld come ; but his Coming has
been
d elayed by o u r iniquities
s
o says the Talmudic treatise
Sanhedrin 9 7 1
Ac c ording to Ezekiel the mystical city o f
Jerusalem wass u rrounded by a square space measuring
roods i n length and this he called The Holy
O blation and it was fo r the use o f the priests the sons of
Zadok
1
f
71
1
f
the
value
the
ratio
diame t er t o circum
o
o
3 4 59
ference o f a circle
Bode s Law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical
problem
6 0 00

Take the series

A dd 4 t o

eac

numbers

of

h o f t hem

3
4 4

And we obtain the numbers 4

1 2

24

8
4

6
9

28

1 00

10

2
9

4
1

6
9

These show the relation o f the anc i en t planets to the Sun

to distance in the order Mercury Venus Earth Mars
as
Jupiter Saturn Uranus The planet corresponding t o 2 8
is mi s
sing and seems t o be replaced by the asteroids
Uranus was discovered in 1 7 8 1
The Platon ic Year o r great Period according to Tycho
Brah e is
years ; R i cc i olu s
years ; Cassini
years Norman Lockyer now gives
years
It is the period o f time determined by the revol u tion of
the eq u inoxes or the space of tim e wherein the stars and
constellations retu rn t o their former places in respect t o
the eq u in oxes by means of a constant precession The
equ inoxes moving backwards o r westwards meet the
S u n constantly earlier In the time of the oldest Greek
i al points were in the rst stars o f
O bservations the eq u i n o x
Aries and Libra respectively ; they are now in Pisces and
u n entered
When these names were given t he s
V i rgo
,

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A P O CA LY P T I C N U M B E R S

THE
I

t Resurrect i on
s

2n

Reve lati on xx

Death xx 1 4
Witnesses xi 3
.

8;:Si ifs
e

b efore t hrone o f God o f t he E art h xi

,

Horned Beas t who spoke like a Dragon xiii 1 1 ; hi s

number is 6 6 6
Woes
ix
1
2
3

o
f
part
Vege tat ion killed vii i 7 do o f Sea b ecame

Blood and do o f F i sh died vi i i 8 d o o f Wat ers became

b i tter viii I I d o o f Sun Moon Stars viii 1 2

days
Bodies
lay
unbur
i
ed
xxi
3%
9
quarters
o
f
the
E
arth
xx
8
4

f
Beasts
full
eyes
and
have
w
i
ngs
o
Beas t s
6
iv 6 9
4

hould be li vi ng hi nge W )
s
4 Horses White Red Pale Bl a ck
o
f
Horns
the
golden
altar
before
i
x
1
d
o
G
4
3
Angels
o
f
the
Euphrates
ix
I
4
4
1
o
f
Angels
the
Winds
of
the
corners
t
he
Earth
v
i
i
f
o
4
4

1
0
Months
the
Locusts
had
power
t
hurt
Men
i
x
o
5
5
6 Wi ngs of the Beasts ( l i ving beings ) full of eyes i v 8
2
Churches
i
0
7
Candlesticks
i
2
0
Represent
the
Churches
7
7
2
Stars
i
0
i
i
1
Represent
f
angels
the
Churches
o
7
;
7
Angels
of
the
Churches
i
2
0
7
7 Lamps stand near t he Throne iv 5
Seals
v
opened
by
the
Lam
b
produce
horses
e
tc
7
4
5
2
Trumpets
viii
Given
to
Angels
7
7
Thunders
utter
their
voices
x
7
3
1
Plagues
held
by
Angels
xv
7
7
Vials
o
f
Wrath
xv
7
7
f
6
Spirits
God
V
o
7
2

1 27
re
a
6
eyed
L
mb
near
the
Throne
a
n
a
v
horned
d
7
7
t he 7 Spirits o f God
i
s
n
head
d
and
r
hor
ed
S
c
arle
t
Be
a
st
o
wh
i
ch
a
o
n
e
7
W oman xvii 3
Crowns
x
i
i
I
o
headed
and
horned
Dragon
with
7
3
7
o
f
headed
n
I
o
horned
Beast
rose
u
t
Sea
xii
i
I
a
d
o
7
1 0 Crowns o n Ten horns o f beas t which had 7 heads xii i I
I O horned Dragon with 7 heads x
ii 3
I o horned Beast with 7 heads rose o u t o f s
ea xi ii 1
a
I o horned
Sca rl et Beast with 7 heads o n which wa s
woman xvii 3
1 2 Tribes o f Israel
1 2 Apo stles o f t he La mb x
xi 1 4
1 2 Gates o f the New Jerusalem
xxi 1 2
1 2 Angels guarding them
1 2 Foundations o f the Walls o f the New Jerusal em
1 2 Stars o n the head o f the Woman xii 1
1 2 sorts o f Fruit o n the Tree o f Li fe xxi i
2
2 4 Elders around the Throne o n 2 4 seats iv
0
1
4
2
months the Gentil es tread over t he outer court o f
4
T emple xi 2
2
mon
t
hs
t
he
o
he
d
ed
Beast
t
have
power
to
a
4
7
b laspheme xii i 5
1 4 4 cubits t he heig h
t of t he Walls o f the N ewJerusal em
-

xxr

6 6 6 , t he number
1 000

1 000
1 2 60
1 2 60

The Beast
years the Dragon bound for xx 2 3
years Souls o f the Faithful t o live and reign xx 4
days the t wo Witnesses prophesy xi 3
days the Woman t o be in the wilderness xii 6
o f each Tribe cho s
en
furlongs length o f the S ides o f t he New Jeru sal em
of

xxi

chosen from the whole o f the Tri b

es
or ten thousand times ten thousand Angels
ro und the Throne v 1 1
.

P R I NT E D

BY

N E I LL A N D CO . , LT D . , E D I N BU R G H .