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Collectanea Herwtica U Vol. IX. Numbers Their Occult Power And CO LLECTAN EA HERWTICA u VO L. IX. N U M B E R S T H E IR OCCULT POW E R AN D MYSTIC VIRTUES W YN N T T T W . W E S CO SU P REME MAG US O F T H E ROSICRUCIAN S OC I E T Y O F E N G LA N D A UTH O R OF ” “ T H E I S I A C TA B LET, T H E S E FKER YE T ZI R A H , T H E A N TUM R EGNUM F T H E TA R T-T M S C O O R U P S , “ ” A N I NTR OD UCTI ON T O T H E KA B A LA H T H IR D E DIT IO N LO N D ON THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY 1 6 1 N E W B ON D S T R E E T w . , C O N T E N T S “ PREFACE TO THE FIRST E D ITION S ECON D E D ITION THIRD E D ITION A R T I P . Y HAG A H I S T N A N D H I S F LL W P T OR S, E ETS O O ERS A R T P I I . PYTHAGOREAN VIEW S ON N UMB ERS ' A R T I \ P I I . KAB ALISTIC VI E W \ QN N UMB ERS A R T I V P . PROP ERTIES OF THE N UMB ERS ACCORD ING TO THE B B L H TALMU D H HAG AN H I E , T E S, T E PYT ORE S , T E R MAN CHA LD AN E GYP AN H N D O M D O S, E S, TI S , I O S , E I ZE VA L M AG AN H M S U N A N D H ICI S, ER ETIC T DE TS T E R OSICRUCIANS M onad D yad Triad Three and a H alf Tetrad Pentad H exad H eptad Ogdoad E nnead D ecad E leven Tw elve Thirteen S ome H indoo U ses Of N umber s Other H igher N u mbers N u mbers Of the Apocalypse 3 P R E F E TO T H E F I R T E D I TI O N 1 8 A C S , 90. EVE earshwt assed S N y gp since this essay was written , and the MSS . pages have been lent to many friends and students Of mystic lore and occult meanings . It is only at the earnest request Of these kindly critics that I have to consented publish this volume . The contents are m necessarily Of a frag entary Character, and have been collected from an immense number Of sources the original matter has been intentionally reduced to the least possible for quantity, so as to Obtain space the inclusion Of the m . ut ost amount Of ancient, quaint and occult learning It is impossible to give even an approximate list Of works W hich have been consulted ; direct quotations have been acknow ledged in numerous instances, and (perhaps naturally) many a statement might have been equally well quoted from the bOOk ae Of a contemporary author, a medi val monk, a or : Roman historian , a Greek poet, a Hindoo Adept to give the credit t o the m odern author would n ot be fair to to the ancient sage, to refer the reader a Sanskrit tome would be in most cases only loss Of time and waste Of paper . My great difficulty has been to supply information to d mystic enough match the i eal Of the work, and yet n ot SO esoteric as to convey truths which Adepts have still concealed . I must apologise for the barbarous appearance Of foreign not words, but it was found practicable to supply Sanskrit, Coptic, Chaldee and Greek type, so the words have had 6 to be transliterated . Hebrew and Chaldee should Of course r and be read from ight to left, it was at first intended so to I n f print them their converted form, but the appearance O Hebrew in English letters reversed was too grotesque AB Of nun NI is a representation the Aleph , daleth, , yod, “ ” Of A Adonai, but IND would have been sheer barbarity -n in the case Of Hebrew words I have Often added the pro , nu nciation . “ The Secret Doctrine Of H . P . Blavatsky, a work Of Of erudition containing a vast fund archaic doctrine, has supplied me with valuable quotations . If any readers desire a deeper insight into the analogies between numbers and to e i ideas, I refer them in addition the works Of Eliphaz L v , Athanasius Kircher, Godfrey Higgins , Michael Maier, and John Heydon I have quoted from each Of these authorities , and Thomas Taylor’ s “ Theoretic Arithmetic ” has supplied me with a great part Of the purely arithmetical notions Of the Pythagoreans , the elucidation of which was mainly due to him . In conclusion, I request my readers , ‘ A a t er /a e ez r ecte i ntel/2 6 p g 3 , ' A nt a bsfz ne a censu r a . N EST OTT W WY N W C . P R F T H N D E D I I N 1 02 . E A CE O T E S E CO T O , 9 T H E first edi this little book has been long out Of mse 1 print, and for years I have been asked to enlarge it, but until the present time sufficient leisure has not been found to collect the additional matter which seemed desirable . This essay on Numbers now appears as Volume IX . of ” H erm tica Of my Series entitled Collectanea e , which it seems to form a suitable part, and I am hopeful that it may be as well received by students Of mystic philosophy as the Of in previous volumes which treated Alchemy, the Her E metic Arcanum, Hermetic Art, uphrates and Aesch M et z areph ; the Dream Of Scipio and t he Golden verses Of P m ander Of E the Pythagoreans, the y Hermes and gyptian Magic . I have added in this edition many notes on the notions Of f r the Rabbis O Israel, both from those who cont ibuted to the Mishnah and Gemara Of the Talmuds Of Jerusalem f o R and Of Babylon , and r m the abbis who made a special Of Kabalah study the . Only a few Talmudic treatises have E n lish as yet appeared in the g language, and hardly any f Kabalistic tracts , except three from the Zohar or Book O viz ‘ Si hra t eniou tha Splendour, . , the p , the Idra Rabba an r d the Idra Suta . A few othe s are to be read in German b and French translations . Many Talmudic and Ka alistic ’ lin a n . S tehe s quot tions may, however, be fou d in P J ’ Rabbinical Literature of 1 748 ; in John Allen s Modern 7 8 ” 1 8 1 6 Kabalah Judaism , , and in works On the by Adolph W ershon Franck and Christian Ginsburg, hile H has pub “ ” lished Hebraic lore in his Talmudic Miscellany, and ” o Genesis according t the Talmud . “ ” ZOhar . 1 8 The Midrash ha Of D . H Joel, Leipzig, 49, Kabalah P m narrates the relation between the and latonis , N eO - Platonism, Greek philosophy and the Zoroastrian doctrines Of the Parsees . Perhaps the Oldest extant Kabalistic Book is the S epher ” “ ” Yetz irah O , r Book Of Formation, an English translation Of which has appeared in three editions from the Author ’ s own pen . The fundamentals Of the numerical Kabalistic ideas on creation are laid down in that treatise ; it has also been printed both in French and German , and there is an American edition . he Upon t mathematical asp ect Of Numbers , readers may u for D i u isit cons lt further detail the works Of Gauss, sq iones ” “ ” A rithm eticae 1 8 0 1 é , ; Legendre, Th orie des Nombres , 1 8 0 . on 3 ; W G . O . Smith, Reports the Theory Of Numbers, “ ” Of 1 8 in the Transactions the British Association, 5 9 ; “ ” Oz anam M 1 1 0 James , athematical Recreations, 7 , trans “ ” 1 8 1 S nart lated by Hutton in 4 , The Power Of Numbers ; ’ ” and Barlow s Investigations Of the Theory Of Numbers . “ For n further information o Hindoo philosophy, see The ” Theosophical Glossary Of H . P . Blavatsky, the works Of T u karam Tatya, and modern translations Of the Vedas , ’ “ ’ % Puranas and Upanishads, also Rama Prasad s Nature s o Finer F rces . “ ” 1 8 Lamaism in Tibet, 9 5 , by Dr Laurence Austine f Waddell , is a very learned work ; it contains a vast store O information on the numerical occult lore Of the Lamas and Buddhists . E tI an Upon gyp Numbers consult the works Of E . A . Wallis Budge ; Flinders Petrie ; Sir John Gardner Wilkin “ son ; Life in Ancient Egypt, by Adolf Erman and “ ” Egyptian Belief, by James Bonwick . Mystics will find f for Vi- much ood thought in the King, a very curious Of o product ancient Chinese lore . The Gnostic philos phy 9 e has a deep num rical basis, and the works of C . W . King and G . R . S . Mead may be suitably studied . Many volumes of Bijou Notes and Queries have been .
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