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

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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 ,

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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

. Of . A published by S . C Gould Manchester, U S . , and these of c are full numeri al ideas . I am prepared to find that critics will declare this volume

to be an undigested collection of heterogeneous information, still I prefer to leave the data in their present form ; for of h there is a scheme instruction running through it, whic of will be recognised by students certain schools , and others will be able to find a basis for a general knowledge of

numbers vie d from the standpoint of occult science .

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FE W o A c rrections have been made, and interesting notes have been added many of these have been supplied by my

- pupils and fellow students of the Rosicrucian Society .

W . W . W .

N U M B E R S

T H E IR O C CULT PO W ER AND MYSTIC VIRT UE S

PART I .

’ P T GOR S H I S TE ETS A H I S FOLLOW ERS Y HA A , N ND .

T GOR S PY HA A , one of the greatest philosophers of ancient h E the son of M nesarc u s . urope, was , an engraver He was

8 0 B C . i born about the year 5 . , either at Samos, an sland in

or n o . the n ean Sea, , as some say, at Sido in Ph enicia Very little is known of his early life, beyond the fact that for he won prizes feats of agility at the Olympic Games .

Having attained manhood and feeling d issatisfied with the . Of hé’ amount knowledge to be gained at home, left his native land and spent many years in travel, visiting in turn of most the great centres of Learning . History narrates that his pilgrimage in search of wisdom extended to Egypt, s Hindo tan, Persia, Crete and Palestine, and that he s of o gathered from each country fre h stores informati n , and succeeded in becoming well acquainted with the Esoteric Wisdom as well as with the popular exoteric knowledge of each . He returned with his mind well stored and his judgment matured , to his home, intending to open there a College of learning, but this he found to be impracticable owing to tu rbulent /ru l r the opposition of its e Polycrates . Failing in I I 1 2

to rotona this design , he migrated C , a noted city in Magna

Graecia - a on , which was colony founded by Dorians the

of v - South coast Italy . It was here that this e er famous of Philosopher founded his College or Society Students, which became known all over the civilized world as the central assembly of the learned of Europe and here it was in secret conclave that Pythagoras taught that occult wisdom which he had gathered from the Gymnosophists and of Brahmins Of India, from the Hierophants Egypt, the O of a Kabalah racle Delphi , the Id ean cave, and from the For of the Hebrew Rabbis and Chaldean Magi . nearly forty years he taught his pupils, and exhibited his wonderful il t o powers ; b t an end was put his institution , and he to con himself was forced to flee from the city, owing a spiracy and rebellion which arose on account of a quarrel between the people of Crotona and the inhabitants of M et ont u m Sybaris : he succeeded in reaching ap , where he

0 B C . is said to have died about the year 5 0 . Among the ancient authors from whom we derive ou r knowledge of the life and doctrines of Pythagoras and his successors, the following are notable B — h of of . C. 0 . w o 45 Herodotus , speaks the mysteries

the Pythagoreans as similar to those of Orpheus . — B . C . . 3 94 Archytas of Tarentum , who left a fragment

upon Pythagorean Arithmetic .

- B . C . 8 O of 3 . Theon Smyrna . — B . . C . 3 7 0 . Philolaus From three books of this author it is believed that Plato compiled his book T immu s he was probably the first who committed to writing

the doctrines of Pythagoras . — M ta h sic B C 2 2 . . e a . . 3 Aristotle Refer to his p y ,

x M a na . Moralia g , and Nicomachean Ethics

N ico machu s of S tagyra was his father . 2 6 — B . C . . 7 Eratosthen, es, author of a work entitled ” Kokkinon or Cribrum , a Sieve to separate N ” Prime from Composite umbers . “ - Fi ibu s B C . o . n . 4 Cicero . Refer to his works De D oru m ” and De natura e . I S

- 5 0 A . D . N icomachu s of Gerasa Treatises on Arith metic—and Harmony . 0 0 A D . f 3 . Porphyry o Tyre, a great philosopher, M elekh sometimes named in Syriac, or King, was

the pupil of Longinus and Plotinus . “ ” “ 0 A D - m blicu m ster u s . a s 34 . J wrote De y , De ” “ v P tha orica ita y g , The Arithmetic of Nico “ machu s of Gerasa, and The Theological Pro

pe rties of Numbers . — “ 0 A D . r 45 . P oclus, in his commentary on the Works ” and Days of Hesiod, gives information concern

ing an views of numbers . 6 0 A . D f 5 . of Cilicia, a contemporary o

Constantinople has left a B ibli h ca of s of ot e the idea the older philosophers . to Coming down more recent times , the following —M eu rsiu s 1 6 2 authors should be consulted , Johannes, 0 ; M eibomiu s r 1 6 0 1 66 0 , Ma cus, 5 and Kircher, Athanasius, . They collected and epitomized all that was extant of pre vious

' nin oft he au thors c oncer g the doctrines Pythagoreans . The f of a first eminent ollower Pythagoras was Arist eus, who

T heano t e of : next / follo d married , h widow his master w e M nesarchu s son B u la oras , the of Pythagoras ; and later g ,

D iodoru s A s endian . the ori inal Tidas, and the p After g n lini s school was dispersed, the chief i structors became C a and Philolaus at Heraclea T he orides and Eurytus at Meta ntu m of po ; and Archytas, the sage Tarentum . The school Of Pythagoras had several peculiar character t o istics . Every new member was obliged pass a period of five years of contemplation in perfect silence ; the members held everything in common, and rejected animal food they d of were believers in the octrine metempsychosis , and were inspired with an ardent and Implicit faith in their founder of and teacher . So much did the element faith enter into “ ” —“ a u tos a ka H e - their training , that f said it was t o ff n them complete proof. Intense fraternal a ectio between the pupils was also a marked feature of the school ; hence their 1 4

” n t e b - saying, my frie d is my o her self, has b come a y word to this day . The teaching was in a great measure secret, and certain studies and knowledge were allotted to each Class and grade of instruction : merit and ability alone sufficed to enable anyone to pass to the higher classes and to a knowledge of the more recondite mysteries . No person w was permitted to commit to riting any tenet, or secret n doctri e, and, so far as is known , no pupil ever broke the f and rule until a ter his death the dispersion of the school . We are thus entirely dependent on the scraps of infor mation which have been handed down to us from his‘ nd successors, a from his and their critics . A considerable of amount uncertainty, therefore, is inseparable from any consideration of the real doctrines of Pythagoras himself, but we are on surer ground when we investigate the Opinions of his followers . It is recorded that his instruction to his followers was — formulated into two great divisions the science of numbers f and the theory of magnitude . The ormer division included e two branches, arithmetic and musical harmony , the latt r was further subdivided into the consideration of magnitude — I n — at rest geometry, and magnitude motion astronomy . The most striking peculiarities of his doctrines are depen on dent the mathematical conceptions, numerical ideas, and w impersonations upon which his philosophy as fo u nded . “ T he principles governing Numbers were supposed to be the principles of all Real Existences ; and as Numbers are t the primary constituents of Ma hematical Quantities, and at r the same time present many analogies to various ealities, it was further inferred that the elements of Numbers were the ele ments of Realities . To Pythagoras himself it is belie ved that the natives of Europe owe the first teaching of the properties of Numbers, of the principles of music, an d of physics ; but there is evidence that he had visited a had Central Asi , and there acquired the mathematical ideas which form the basis of his doctrine . The modes of thought introduced by Pythagoras, and followed by his blicu s successor Jam and others, became known later on I S

“ “ n r by the titles of the Italia school, or the Do ic school ” The followers of Pythagoras delivered their k nowledge and a I n to pupils , fitted by selection by tr ining to receive it, secret ; but to others by numerical and mathematical names e and notions . Hence they called forms , numb rs a point, su erficies and the monad a line, the dyad ; a p , the triad ; a solid, the tetrad .

Intuitive knowledge was referred to the Monad type .

Reason and causation Dyad type .

Imagination (form or ru pa) Triad type. r Sensation of material objects Tet ad type . n m an e Indeed , they ct, pla et, , id a and essence to some in a way which to most moderns must 5 mystical in the highest degree .

The numerals of Pythagoras, says Porphyry, who lived

0 0 . D . about 3 A , were hieroglyphic symbols, by means whereof he explai ned all ideas concerning the nature of ” and things, the same method of explaining the secrets of nature is once again being insisted upon in the new ”

D . revelation of the Secret octrine, by H . P Blavatsky . Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony‘ i s in t broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered, and to the evolution of the present human race ; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals . The b sacredness of numbers egins with the Great First Cause, s — the One, and end only with the nought or zero symbol ” “ ” of the infinite and boundless universe . Isis Unveiled,

l . 0 vo . ii 4 7 . Tradition narrates that the students of the Pythagorean E A u scu ltantes school, at first classed as xoterici or , listeners, were privileged to rise by merit and ability to the higher of e M athem atici grades G nuini, Perfecti, or the most coveted title of Esoterici . 1 6

PART II .

P T GORE V EW S O U B ERS Y HA AN I N N M .

T H E foundation of Pythagorean Mathematics was as follows The first natural division of Numbers is into EVEN and O EVE one DD, an N number being which is divisible into two equal parts, without leaving a monad between them . O e i a The DD number, wh n divided nto two equ l parts, leaves I n the monad the middle between the parts . — — All even numbers also (except the dyad t w o W hich is e simply two unities) may be divid d into two equal parts , and also into two unequal parts, yet so that in neither n r division will either parity be mingled with imparity, o imparity with parity . The binary number tw o cannot be divided into two unequal parts . I O Thus divides into 5 and 5 , equal parts, also into 3 and b t 6 a 8 7 , oth impari ies, and into and 4, both p rities and divides into 4 and 4 , equals and parities, and into 5 and

3 , both imparities . O But the DD number is only divisible into uneven parts, and on e part is also a parity and the other part an imparity or 2 thus 7 into 4 and 3 , 5 and , in both cases unequal , and odd and even . to and The ancients also remarked the monad be odd , ” r st to be the fi Odd number, because it cannot be divided into two equal numbers . Another reason they saw was that t o odd the monad, added an even number, became an number, but if evens are added to evens the result is an even number .

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Unevenly even numbers may be parted into two equal d divisions, and these parts again equally divi ed, but the

‘ process does not procee d until unity is reached sti ch 2 numbers are 4 and 2 8 . Odd numbers also are susceptible of being looked upon V : from three points of iew, thus “ ” 1 1 I 1 2 First and incomposite ; such are 3 , 5 , 7 , , 3 , 9, 3 , 2 1 9, 3 no other number measures them but unity ; they are f not composed o other numbers, but are generated from

unity alone . “ “ ” Second and composite are Indeed odd, but contain 1 2 1 and are composed from other numbers ; such are 9, 5 , , 2 2 n 5 , 7 , 33 , and 39 . These have parts which are denomi ated r w from a foreign numbe , or word, as ell as proper unity, thus 9 has a third part which is 3 ; 1 5 has a third part which is 5 and a fifth part 3 hence as containing a foreign e s part, it is call d econd, and as containing a divisibility, it

is composite . of dd The Third Variety O numbers is more complex, and

is of itself second and composite, but with reference to 2 another is first and incomposite such are 9 and 5 . These h c are divisible, eac of them that is se ond and composite, yet have no common measure ; thus 3 which divides the 9

does not divide the 2 5 . Odd numbers are sorted out into these three classes by a “ ” called . the device, Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is of too complex a nature to form part of a monograph so discursive

as this must be . Even numbers have also been divided by the ancient i sages into Perfect, Defic ent and Superabundant . Superperfect or Superabundant are such as 1 2 and

8 n 1 Deficient are such as a d 4 . Perfect are such as 6 and 28 ; equal to the numbe r of 2 8— 1 their parts ; as half is 4, a fourth is 7 , a seventh is 4,

2 - I a fourteenth part is , and the twenty eighth is , which 2 8 quotients added together are . r 1 In Deficient numbe s , such as 4, the parts are surpassed I 9

: 2 by the whole one seventh is , a half is 7 , a fourteenth is

1 1 0 or n 1 . the aggregate is , less tha 4 1 2 a re In Superabundant, as , the whole surpasses the gg f I S 2 I S h IS gate o its parts ; thus the sixth , a fourth 3 , a t ird 18 6 1 4, a half , and a twelfth Is and the aggregate is 1 2 more than . on Superperfect numbers they looked as similar to Briareus , the hundred- handed giant : his parts were too numerous the one deficient numbers resembled Cyclops, who had but eye whilst the perfect numbers have the temperament of a m middle li it, and are the emulators of Virtue, a medium some ancients between excess and defect, not the summit, as falsely thought .

E i o . vil s indeed p to evil, but both to one good d Good , however, is opposed to goo , but to two

evils , T h e Perfect num like the virtues, few in number ; whilst the other two classes are like the Vices

i n . numerous, inord nate , and indefi ite one f I O There is but per ect number between and I , that 6 on 1 0 1 00 2 8 i s ; on ly e between and , that is ; only one 1 0 0 1 000 6 1 000 between and , that is 49 ; and between

I s 8 1 2 8 . and only one, that r a m n added Odd numbe s they c lled Gno o s, because, being : se to squares, they keep the same figures as in Geometry

Simplicius, liber 3 . A number which is formed by the multiplication of an odd e and an even numb r together they called Hermaphrodite, ” e th or arr no elu s . h on In connection with t ese notes parity and imparity, fi e definite and inde nite numb rs, it is to be noted that the old philosophers were deeply imbued with the union of —in c numerical ideas with Nature its ommon acceptation , f t o or o . and also the natures, essences substrata things Th e of o f nature good to them was definite, that evil fi inde nite ; and the more indefinite the nature of the evil, o the worse it was . Goodness al ne can define or bound the indefinite In the human soul exists a certain vestige of 20

divine goodness (Buddhi) ; this bounds and moderates the indefiniteness of and inequality its desires . It may be demonstrated that all inequality arises from

equality, so that Obtaining , as it were, the power of a mother i and a root, she pours forth with exuberant fertil ty all sorts of inequality ; and did space and time allow, it could be to also shown that all inequality may be reduced equality . I amblichu s on Of , in his treatise the Arithmetic Nico m achu s on , throws another light numbers ; he says some are h m 2 8 2 0 2 . like friends , t ey are A icable numbers, as 4 and éf e o Pythagoras, being asked what a friend was, said p s “ ” e w N ow t o y another I . this is demonstrated be the Case in these numbers ; the parts of each are generative of

each other, according to the nature of friendship .

Oz anam A . D . 1 1 0 , a French mathematician , 7 , gives ex ” amples in his Mathematical Recreations of such Amicable 2 2 to f Numbers . He remarks that 0 is equal t he sum o the aliquot parts of 2 84 ; thus 1 2 + 4 + 7 1 1 4 2 2 2 0 : and 2 84 is equal to the sum of the aliquot parts of 2 2 0 ; thus

Another such pair of numbers are and Very curious speculations a s to the relation bet w een f f Numbers and marriage, and the character of ofspring rom i it, are to be found scattered through the wr tings of the “ ” . I n R con Philosophers Plato, his epublic, has a passage

cerning a geometric number, which, divinely generated, will i m hu s be fortunate or unfortunate . N co ac also speaks of nu mber and this same , , he calls it the Nuptial Number ; and he passes from it to state that from two good parents only good offspring 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 or dis

orderly manner, from which, the progeny being depraved , on discord will result . Simplicius , in his commentary the “ ” 2 nd of Book Aristotle, On the Heavens , remarks that Pythagoras and his followers claimed t o have heard the t o Music of the Spheres, have heard an harmonic sound

produced by the motion of the planets, and from the sound 2 1 s t o have calculated by numbers the ratio of distance and

an d . 0 size of the Sun , Moon , Venus Mercury T this f Aristotle objected, but perhaps the di ficulty might be solved : in this sublunary sphere all things are not com

mensurate, nor is everything sensible to every body alike . definitel kn ow n Animals can be scented, and their presence y ,

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

is in complete ignorance of their existence . Some of the ancients thought the soul had three vehicles—the terrestrial one body, an aerial in which it is punished, and an ethereal and one, luminous celestial, in which the soul abides when

in a state of bliss . It may be that some one, by purification or of the senses, by hereditary magical power, by probity , or n s of by the sacred his religion, may perceive,

with a terrestrial b aside, things imperceptible to us, and hear soun us still in bondage ; or with

- mantle partly unfolded, some adept or truth seeker may U perceive, with eyes praised, sights invisible to mortals, h w ilst yet his ears are deaf to the sounds bey ond us both . Fm why do we see the stars, while yet we hear not their % motion :

Why come not angels from the realms of glory ? To Visit earth , as in the days of old Is heaven more distant Or has earth grown cold ? 2 2

PART III .

T E K B ALAK O U B ERS H A N N M .

MANY nations of antiquity made use of the letters of their alphabets as substitutes for any independent signs to typify

numerical conceptions . It is with the Hebrew letters as concerned and numerals that we are chiefly , . to a smaller

extent with the Greek . Ancient records Show that the Greeks used their numbers almost exclusively for everyday purposes while the Jewish Rabbis added to their practical value special peculiar purposes, and looked to them to

r . furnish deepe views of nature, existence and doctrine No doubt can exist that the ancient Egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose , so, considering that Greece, and neither Judea nor of Babylon, succeeded to the empires ancient Egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the of Hierophants Sais , Memphis and Thebes Greek literature

has transmitted to us . The Jewish Rabbis discovered so much of interest and

importance behind the merely superficial value of numbers,

and of words as their representatives, that they gradually developed a complete science of numerical conceptions apart from mathematics ; this took the name of Kabalah or

Qabalah , Cabbala, or even Cabala, words variously misspelt BLH — n E L from Q the Received doctri e, from the root Q ,

meaning to Receive . The Greeks as aforesaid did not develop nor use their

letters as numbers for mental conceptions, yet in the Middle 2 3

Ages we often find Greek letters used to transliterate similars m a Hebrew , and so there was for ed a b stard Greek Kabalah on the Hebrew type . It must be constantly borne in mind that all Hebrew or words numbers are read from r ight to left, or the reverse of English words ; but in their English transliteration they E are here in nglish order.

The corresponding numerals, Greek and Hebrew letters, ar e here given with their English names, and the English synonymous let ters are also added .

A B G D H Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth Heh N 2 J n

1 2 3 5

‘ Alpha Beta Gamma Delta AE psilon

\ a B y 8 3 0 0 4 00 T au Upsilon T ‘U

P T z Final Peh Final T z addi Dotted Aleph H Y N 8 0 0 90 0 1 0 0 0 Om ega Alpha dashed (0

t no fo r 6 0 Note that here were proper Greek Letters , 9 , 0 0 — e zkemon van or and 9 , so they used special symbols p ( , ' for 6 ka a for 0 sa n z for 0 0 bau, digamma) ; pp 9 ; and p 9 s% It 71) At some periods the five finals were not used for the a for 0 0 hundreds, but inste d Tau was written 4 and other 0 0 of hundreds added ; thus 5 was T Q. Another point 1 H for , importance is that the Jews never _write J Jah 5 6 because it is a Deity , title, they use instead 9 , thus TV, teth vau . The Kabalists used JH only when they desired t t o call attention o the Holy Name in the number . In certain Kabalistic numerical computations many t o one Rabbis deemed it permissible add an Aleph, , and

this they called the Colel. In some cases we find the Greeks to have used their for of letters in direct order purposes numeration , as may be seen in some copies of very old poems (the 2 4 books of ’ e for i Hom r s Iliad and Odyssey, example), n which the I n stanzas bear the letters consecutively, a similar manner t o 1 1 th the Hebrew letters heading the , portions of the 9

Psalm in our Bibles . The word Kabalah includes the Hebrew Doctrines of Cosmogony and Theology as well as the Science of

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” a ve A LU K L B L Alu Mikhael G briel Raphael, MI A G R I A V

P L - I 0 6 0 1 0 2 0 I 0 2 2 00 R A converted are, , 3 , , 4 , , , , 3 , 3 , , , 1 0 1 0 6 2 00 8 0 I 0 t o 0 1 , , 3 , , , , , 3 , also amounting 7 , and the Rabbis argued that these two sets of three beings were o identical . Some Christian Kabalists point u t that in “ ” e v . 1 0 Yebah VB A S hI LH G nesis xlix . we find Shiloh, , “ ” to 8 Shiloh shall come, which amount 3 5 ; and that the ” w M shvch 0 00 1 0 8 or 8 ord Messiah , is 4 , 3 , , , 3 5 but so s N achash of N Chsh 0 8 00 is al o , the Serpent Moses, , 5 , , 3 ; ShI LH or and I must remark that the claim to translate , , h ” . S LH as some ancient Hebrew MSS write it, , by Shiloh,

f - o . in the sense Jesus Christ, is far fetched The word is “ ” “ ” Simply rest, or peace, in its simplest meaning, but also is the Scorpio of the Chaldean zodiac (related to Nachash , “ ” of serpent); and Judah, whom Jacob is talking in the “ prophecy, is the sign of the zodiac ; Leo for Judah is a ’ n s / lion s whelp (the Chaldea zodiac ha a lion couchant), “ he crouches as a lion . In this sense, then , the Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, power shall not leave or Leo, until Shelah , Shiloh or Scorpio Shall come up L rise. Astronomy teaches that as eo passes away from “ ” r the meridian , Scorpio rises . The title Comfo ter, “ ” M N ChM 0 0 8 0 1 8 Menachem, , 4 , 5 , , 4 , amounting to 3 , “ and the title The Branch , applied to the Messiah in v 8 T ZM Ch 0 0 8 1 8 Zechariah iii . . , namely, , 9 , 4 , , also 3 , are M T hR T h m . N of the same nu ber Metatron, the great angel , “ ” hD I r b 1 h ai S e . and S add , translated Almighty, a oth 3 4 “ = o The letter Shin , Sh, 3 o , is used as a glyph of the ” R U Ch A LH I M of . spirit the living gods, Ruach Elohim , 2 00 6 8 I 0 1 0 0 which transmutes into , , , , 3 , 5, , 4 , or 0 3 0 . The Kabalists sometimes considered the units to refer to to Divine Beings, the tens to celestial bodies, hundreds things of earth, and thousands to future events . ' ' N ota r zcon t e flotar z u s , a word derived from h Latin , a c shorthand writer, means the onstruction of a word from the initial or final letters of the several words of a sentence ; or I mice ver sa the constru ction of a se ntence of which each word 2 7

I n order begins with the several letters composing a given

r Of . wo d : processes contraction and expansion , therefore

t o . v . 1 2 Refer Deuteronomy xxx , , and find that Moses “ for ? asks , Who shall go up us to heaven the initials of of M Y YOLH LN U H S hM YM H the words the sentence , , “ e lah hashemimha LK read My y o lenu , form the word MY ” “ ” M lah or y , which means Circumcision, and the final f YH U H I H VH letters orm the word Jehovah , or , suggesting that Jehovah pointed out the way, by circumcision, to of heaven . Again the first six letters of the book Genesis, “ ” B R A shI T B erasit , , translated In the beginning, but more ” of B R A shI T properly In wisdom , are the initials the words “ R A H A LH I M hY B L I shR A L T U R H B erasit rau ah S Q U , read ” “ E sh e u ebelu c lohim y q Israel torah , whi h mean In the ” n w ou ld f acce t . begi ning , God saw that Israel p the Law i A ' The famous power, AGL , is “ of oten formed the tence, Tu p s in ) a A T H B UR LOU LM B s eculum Domine, G A NI , Ateh ” ibur l l m a ou a . A M N g Adon i The word Amen is from , “ of m elekh B the initials Adonai namen, A NI M LK

m T e . NAMN, eaning h Lord and Faithful King Tema m means Permutation ; sometimes the lett ers of a

. and word are transposed according to certain rules, with certain limitations ; at others each letter of a word is re laced ’ lf ano n p y t her according to a definite scheme, formi g new whié h a word, of permutation there are many recognised

. For 2 2 forms example, the alphabet of letters is halved a d the two sets placed one over the other in reverse order, tlpus 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 is changed to T, and V to P , and so on so Babel B B L Sheshak ShShK becomes , used by Jeremiah

v 2 6 - xxv . . . This form is called Atbash or A T B sh ; it e be 2 1 n will be seen that th re must other possible forms, a d s d the e were named in or er, thus , Albat, Agdat, etc . ; the ” m Of T z iru h co plete set was called the combinations p . m a a Other Per ut tions were named R tional, Right, Averse 2 8 and Irregular ; these are produced by forming a square and subdividing it by 2 1 lines I n ea ch direction into 484 smaller I n squares , and then writing in each square a letter order or or successively from right to left, from above down , the o f a reverse . The most popular mode permut tion has how ” Kabalah of ever been the form called the Nine Chambers, produced by the intersection of two horizontal and two vertical lines, forming nine spaces , a central square, and 4

- t w o - t o of three sided figures, and 4 sided figures, each which are allotted certain letters there are se veral modes even of of this arrangement, and there is a mystical mode allotting

t o . the Sephiroth this figure, but this is a Rosicrucian secret This method is u sed i n a superficial manner in Mark

Master Masonry . A further development of the Numerical Kabalah consists of arithmetical processes of Extension and Contraction ; I s V 1 0 6 thus Tetragrammaton considered as , H 5, V , H 5 , or 2 6 YVD 2 0 H A 6 , but also may be spelled in full , ,

VV 1 2 H A 6 or . , , 44 n Agai , the Kabalists extended a number by series . Zain Z or r 2 and 6 7 becomes a nd 3 and 4 and 5 and and 7 , 2 8 2 8 or . After another manner they contracted, as was

2 8 or 1 0 . 2 6 equal to and , Again , Tetragrammaton became 2 6 or 8 and , , so every number was reducible to a primary numeral . In this manner, within certain restrictive laws, every word had analogies with certain others thus A B I 2 I H V 1 0 6 2 1 2 father and are 3 , Jehu and 5 and are ,

1 . A L ShD I haddai 1 0 and are 3 , Al S , God Almighty, , 3 , 0 0 1 0 or 1 2 2 1 3 , 4, , 345 , becomes , and then and are 3 ; H VA or 6 1 1 2 GD VLH Hoa 5 , , , are , and then 3 ; and 6 8 u lah 0 1 2 . Ged 3 , 4 , , 3 , 5 are 4 , and are and 3 Another method of substitution leading to results of an opposite character is the substitution in any word of similar for letters of another group, hard for soft, or sibilant dental ; T M = e rfect T H T hM thus in p , exchange for T, and obtain , defiled : ShA N S AN meaning , secure, tranquil, becomes ,

ShKL S KL . battle ; , wisdom , becomes , foolish In the haddai ShD I word S , , Almighty, with soft sibilant and soft 29

S hiddah dental is , a wife ; if we replace with a hard dental, of ff ShT hH a partial change meaning is e ected, , Sittah , an adulterous wife ; both letters hardened completely Change S T h m an S T hN the sense, , Seth, a fallen , a backslider ; ,

a . Satan, dversary ’ I cannot, without Hebrew letters, explain well the change of S H S H t o sound in the Shin , from S , but it is marked by a dot ove r the right or left tooth of the three teeth of the letter . A deep mystery is concealed in the Genetic account of o of A B R M the conversi n the names of Abram, , into Abraham , A B R H M of S hR I , and that his wife Sarai , , into Sarah,

S H R H . . o n , see Genesis xvii v 5 the occasion of the YTz ch YshCh conception of Isaac, Q or Q, from the root “ o T ZCh 0 Sh ho or , Q, laugh, when Sarah was 9 and A braham 1 0 0 years S was on the occasion of the covenant made by Jehova bram , and the institution w of circumcision of males thereof. N o here we of have the addition an H or 5 , the essentially Female b of Letter, to the name of A raham, and a conversion a Yod e Y m into H , into H , in the case of Sarah ; and the their sterility is destroyed . Some learned men consider Abraham to be a conversion n of Brahma, the Hindoo Deity . The ame splits up A B B R A M M curiously . is father, is son , is like O or ” M d fi R M A U ei c . , a name of Power ; meant he is lifted up Blavatsky remarks that Abraham and Saturn were identical

A strO - in symbology the Father of the Pharisees was Jehovah , and they were of the seed of Abraham . of A B R M I 2 2 0 0 0 2 The number is , , , 4 or 43 , the number of A n in the man figure, Seir p , representing Microprosopus . ” for ff Read Pistorius, Ars Cabalistica, the e ect of adding ’ “ to 6 H 5 men s names , see page 9 9 ; also Inman , Ancient ” “ ” 8 . Faiths , article Abraham Secret Doctrine, i . 5 7 , ii 7 7 ” . also C W . King, The Gnostics . The name Sarah also has a curious set of similars in e —SR H S A R S OR S ohR Hebr w , princess ; , flesh ; , gate ; , S OR S R T S R S R R black ; , hairy seir , incision ; and , navel ; 30

S acti - and note the of Brahma is Sara swati, watery ; Sara f S R I Lakhsmi h re ers to , , Ap rodite, and all are related to of Water and Luna, Vach, Sophia the Gnostics, and the

l . idea Holy Ghost, all feminine 2 a 2 8 SaraI The 43 of Abr m becomes 4 by adding H, and ” 1 0 0 Off for 5 becomes 5 5 by taking 5 , putting H Y, and the tw o 2 8 total of the names is unaltered, being 7 53 4 is the of R ehM number of the members of Microprosopus and , rechem or Mercy . thI s Before leaving subject, a reference must be made of to the Magic Squares, the Planets, etc. to each planet belongs a special unit, and secondarily other numbers . Thus the Square of Saturn has three compartments each w a 1 y, and in each subdivision is a unit, to 9 , so arranged 1 that the columns add up to 5 every way, the total being 45 . The Square of Jupiter has a side of four 1 6 t divisions, total ; each line adds up o 3 4, and the total is

1 3 6 . isa iven The Square of Mars g here as an example, each v 2 6 and side 5 , total squares 5 , each side counting 5 , total

3 2 5 .

2 4 7 2 0 1 2 2 5 8 5 1 3 2 1 1 8 1 1 4 6 1 9 2

e 6 6 I I I Similarly the four several numb rs of Sol are , 3 , , 666 1 1 2 2 8 6 2 60 . Of Venus, 7 , 49 , 7 5, 5 . Of Mercury, , 4, , 2 8 0 0 . 8 1 6 2 1 c Of Luna, 9 , , 3 9, 3 3 . Each number then be omes 6 D I N a name . Take the case of Mercury ; 4 is alike and D N I 2 6 0 T iriel T I R I AL 2 0 8 0 , Din and Doni ; is , ; and is hthar hara h T P T R T R T T a t t . p ,

Rawlinson, in his volumes on the Ancient Monarchies, s states , that the Chaldeans a sociated mystic numbers with t o A nn P 60 0 H oa their Deities thus , luto, Bel, Jupiter, 5 ; , 3 1

0 0 m the 2 0 Neptune, 4 ; Sin , the Moon , 3 ; Sha ash, Sun , ; 1 2 1 Nergal (Mars), ; and Beltis or Mylitta, 5 ; and Nin is

1 0 . Saturn , It will be noticed that the great number of Sol is 666; S orath RT r t b called , SU , the numbe of the Beas , a out which so Of five much folly has been written . One famous square five n 666 times divisions, amou ting in most directions to , is

of i sa tor ar e o tenet o er a r ota s . formed the myst c words , p , , p , n r 666 o er a Of these the first, third, and last umbe , but p and its reverse number only 3 56 . The numbe r 6 0 8 is P hR E 00 1 00 8 notable, being in Coptic, , the sun 5 , , and in 00 8 2 00 Greek we find VHS, 4 , , , which becomes IHS in for Y Latin, the Greek Upsilon changes to and I in Latin, “ and so we obtain the anagram of Iesus hominu m

Salvator . Kircher points out mple of magic squares ; the names Jesus and I E S OU S MARIA have a 8 2 0 0 0 . 0 0 curious relation , , 7 , 4 , = \ 0 1 1 00 1 0 I 1 2 1 2 Now take Maria, 4 , , , , 5 . Set 5 in

a Magic Square of Three , nine compartments, thus, 1 — —2 —2 — 1 2 —1 — 8 88 5 , 5 , 5 , then the totals are all . The letters of I esou s also make a magic square of 3 6 s 88 8 n A rithm o division ,adding every way to . Co sult the ” logia of Kircher . ' ’ ' ’ ' Remember illz a s memem f Sy ozlla a e nomzna ejas ’ ’ ’ ‘ onoma S ou monaa e aek eka z n f s, aaes, o ades ” ’ ‘ ra or 220m m ta a m 8 a ta z s ok , m e , 8 8 '

ee . D e D ez S St Augustine, . a 1 2 1 00 I 6 0 I 2 0 0 Note the mystic word Abrax s is , , , , , , 6 3 5 in Greek letters . ’ X for 1 0 As a curiosity, note that the Roman is two V s h D 1 00 co which are eac 5 C, or, squarely drawn, , for n ’ 0 1 sists of two L s which are each 5 . Priscian says I for ’ w as t of mz a aken from i in the middle the Greek , female ' ezs 1 for of , , and V 5 because it was the fifth vowel . To = I 1 0 1 00 remember Hebrew numerals note A , I , Q , , A = 1 1 0 and in Greek A, I , R, , , ” r 1 8 a Acco ding to The Canon, of 97 , an nonymous work, 32 a Ves ica piscis (the figure formed by the Intersection of 2 6 1 two equal circles) whose dimensions are and 5 , is a symbol of the hidden rule or canon by which Natural laws were represented to Initiates in the Secret wisdom of the s Ancient Mysteries . The Greek god Zeus , Jupiter and

Apollo, the Sun god, have the same numerical relation .

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ff r of in the Ine able p inciple of things, which it is the image, all is confused, vague and in darkness .

9 . A Chasm, as a void .

I O . Tartarus, from its being at the lowest extremity , is dissimilarly similar to God, at the highest end of the series . 1 1 . The Styx, from its immutable nature .

1 2 . ff Horror, the ine able, is perfectly unknown and is therefore terrible .

1 . 3 Void of Mixture, from the simplicity of the nature of the ineffable .

1 . 4. Lethe, Oblivion , Ignorance

1 . o f . 5 A Virgin, from the purity its nature 6 1 . nd Atlas, it connects , supports, a separates all things .

1 . 8 1 P r lios 1 . . a 7 The Sun . Apollo . 9 y , dweller in fire .

2 0 . . 2 1 . . 2 2 or Morpho The Axis . Vesta, the fire in the “ of 2 2 centre the earth . 3 . Spermatic Reason . 4 . The ” “ point within a circle, the Central Fire Deity .

The lingam, an upright pillar, was its Hindoo symbol . The Monad be ing esteemed the Father of numbers is the reason for the universal prejudice in favour of Odd Nu mbers O of over Even nes, which are but Copies the first even M f number the Dyad, or universal other ; the ather being ” e for more steemed than the mother, Might .

Odd numbers were given to the greater Gods, and even e on s to the inferior and terrestrial deities . The number one is represented in the Roman and Arabic old systems, by an upright simple line, but in many systems whose numerals were their letters, we find that almost t o universally the letter A, from being chosen commence k n of . the set of letters, had the tas representi g the Monad r In Nume ation, note that the Romans began with lines , 11 11 f or I , II , III , , and then followed the Acute Angle V for 5 , then ten this was doubled X, for fifty the angle was t w o laid down and became L, for a hundred, fifties, one inverted became C, for five hundred C and L became D . of Hermias, the Christian philosopher, author Ridicule ” of the Gentile Philosophers , quotes from the Pythagoreans 3 5

The Monad is the Beginning of all things a r e/w ton a pa rd on lze mon s .

The figure of one signifies identity, equality, existence “ ” and preservation, it signifies living man alone among “ ” n on a imals erect ; adding a head we make of it P, the P an sign of creative Power (paternity, phallus , , the Greek gods and Priapus, all commencing with the vocable P). A and advanc nother dash added, we have man walking, w t e ing, ith foot set forward, in h letter R, which signifies “ ” “ ” “ ” ien s itu ru s or . , , advancing m sola s th Co pare Unity, , alone, e unique principle of S ol good ; with , Sun God, the emblem of supreme power ;

and they are identical . for A cb D The Hebrew word One is , achad, and it is often put for G One voice to m an is the B a t/I ‘ Kolj the echo he Divine Voice . v 1 n The Talmud in i. says that the Sheki ah t Shall rest even upon One who s udies the Law . One pang of of m ore for remorse is \ avail reformation than many stripes . One thing Obtained x w ith diffi culty is more valued than r a hund ed obtained with ease . Talmud . one It is indiscreet for man to sleep in a house alone, \ for fear that he may be attacked by Lilith , who was said ’ t o have been Adam s first wife ; she is the Night Spectre, 4, and has also power over newly - born infants who are not

protected by an Amulet . Rabbi Nathan exhorted Repent One day before thy ” death ; a wise maxim inculcating the duty of being ever prepared every day some advance in knowledge and good

ness should be attained . “ Ever work and ever pray, for the road winds upward all ” as n the way, the Lord Buddha taught in ancient I dia . T H E 2 DYA D . .

A s was the case with the Monad so the Dyad also was said to represent a large number of different objects and ideas things indeed so dissimilar that it is difficult to understand of how such multiplicity Opinion arose . i to And first it s the general opposite the Monad, the of w cause dissimilitude, the interval bet een multitude and the Monad . Of figures, those which are characterised by equality and sameness have relation to the Monad ; but those in which inequality and difference predominate are allied to the Dyad . Monad and Dyad are also called

Bound and Infinity . “ ” 1 . It was called Audacity, from its being the earliest number to separate itself from the Divine One ; from the “ ” God - Adytum of nourished Silence, as the Chaldean

e . oracl s say A “ 2 the . It was called Matter as being definite and f cause o bulk and division . “ the 3 . It is called the interval between Multitude and ” n ot Monad , because it is yet perfect multitude, but is in f parturient with it . Of this we see an image the Dyad o “ for Arithmetic, , as Proclus observes, The dyad is the medium for between unity and number, unity by addition produces

more than by multiplication, but number by addition pro e duces less than by multiplication ; whilst the Dyad, wheth r

or . added to itself multiplied by itself, produces the same “ ” 4 . Fountain of Symphony, and Harmony .

5 . Erato, because it attracts the Monad, like Love, and

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6 . Patience, because it is the first number that endures separation from the Monad .

7 . Phanes , or Intelligible Intellect .

8 . It is the fountain of all Female divinities, and hence

Nature, Rhea and Isis .

9 Cupid, just as Erato , from desiring its opposite for a partner . of 2 In Astronomy, we speak nodes, Caput and Cauda f 2 Draconis and in Astrology o aspects of the planets, l B enefic and M a efic . The Two Pillars I KIN and B 02 at the entrance of King ’ Solomon s Temple are notable symbols of Strength and T WO Krat os Stability ; they are comparable to the Beings , fE sch lu s m and Bia, who appear in the Play by y , as a ale and

a female potency, who ind Prometheus . e u e ) The Chinese sp ak 0 as the colour of Heaven , u of beca se made up of Red, Male, and Black , Female ; the as active and the p sive ; the brilliant and the obscure . The followers of Pythagoras spoke of t w o kinds of enjoy

ment . First, lasciviousness and indulgence of the belly, of n like the murderous songs Sirens ; seco d, honest and no just indulgences , which bring on repentance . H ierocles 2 to l of says things are necessary ife, the aid f ’ o o . kindred , and benevolent sympathy ne s neighbours A notable ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic was formed of

two serpents in connection with a globe or egg, representing

the world . Another celebrated pair, in connection with o w rship, is the association of a tree and a serpent, referring as some say to the Mosaic account of the Tree of Know

ledge and the Tempter Serpent. Some have supposed that it is only since the condemnation “ on thy Belly shalt ” has e thou go that the Serpent been limbless, and oblig d

to crawl . d Note, it has been argue , and by a great Churchman too , for that the whole tale rests on error, and that serpent we “ ” should read Ape (Rev . Adam Clarke). This is su bsti for tu ting one error another . a In the orgies of Bacchus M enades , the worshippers had 38

a snakes twined in their h ir and danced , singing Eve, Eve, ” . e by whom came the sin See Cl mens Alexandrinus, P r t o re t . . p 9 — Duality introduces us to the fatal alternative to Unity or d V L , I Goo namely E— and to many other human and natural contrasts night and day, light and darkness, wet ho t and dry, and cold , health and disease, truth and error,

male and female, which man having fallen from his high to m m l estate, from spirit atter, cannot avoid associating hi se f f m i . o s with Two is a number Mourning and Death , t o ou r of fortunes are apt to follow turn History England , f of see th—e unhappiness o Kings numbered the second each . . of name William II . , Edward II , and Richard II England

were all murdered . 2 nd God The R omans dedicated the month to Pluto , of on 2 n d of ff to Hades , and the day it they O ered sacrifices

the Manes . t h e ré assé s Pope John XIX . instituted e F te des T p (All ’ on z u d Souls Day) November , the second month of

Autumn . of The Two Talmuds the Jews, among other quaint notions , of have the following ideas the number Two . It is n ot every man w ho deserves to have tw o tables ; this meant that very few deserve t o have the best of the o f next life, as well as the good things this one . ’ o There are two imp rtant things ; first, that one s bed

should be placed north to south, and that one should pray

. h one in front of his bed T ere are two ways before a man, one - leads to Paradise and to Gai hinnom, the place of

punishment . of There are only two Jewish laws , the written law Moses , th f Kabalah and eoral law o the . Every Jew who goes from the Synagogue t o his house - ou f m tw o o ne the eve o the Sabbath is acco panied by angels, on e good and bad , and if the house is all in order the good

angel confirms a blessing, but if it be in disorder the good angel has to say Amen to the condemnation spoken by the

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T w o are better than thre e ; this means youth is better than old age w ith its staff of support . for their There were two women notorious pride , and

. w as their names were contemptible Deborah meant p, and H w ea sel ulda . Many persons nowadays believe that birth ff names somehow a ect their owners, as names given are prophetic of the nature and fate of the person .

Speech may be worth one Selah (a Jewish coin), but silence is worth Two . t o old A certain man had w wives, one young and one n t o when he was forty and i clined become grey , the young n e ou t o pulled all the grey hairs , and the Old wife pulled i ‘ out all his black hairs so he became bald . Which th ngs point a moral as well as adorn a tale .

of wood and one of green, the

on , so the minority must at last always give way to a majority . r t The Talmud a gues hat Adam had two faces some say% one one before and one behind, while others say looked to l right and one to the left . Others say that Adam was both a male and a female . Others say that Eve was made from n ot fro m hi s his thirteenth rib, and was drawn out , head, u lest she should be vain not from his eyes, lest she should

not to xa be wanton ; from his mouth, lest she should talk o much not from his ears, lest she should be an eavesdropper

” n ot o from his feet, lest she sh uld be a gadabout and not : f from his heart, lest she should be jealous yet in spite o all e 7 these precautions woman has d veloped all these faults . Of tw o w ho or w o quarrel, he ghe first gives in shows h . fi the noblest nature : n e atI ves or affirmatI ves Two g are as good as an oath . h 6 hevu ot . S , 3 The Twos of the Two Testaments are two Tables of the Law the Disciples were sent out two and two two disciples were sent by Jesus to fetch the ass’ s colt two to make ready the Passover ; two disciples buried Jesus Caleb and Joshua were the two spies ; two angels rescued 40

of the e Lot ; there were two witnesses Resurr ction , and tw o of the Ascension . f The Book o Revelation of St . John the Divine speaks of

Two Witnesses, two Olive trees and two candlesticks . (If a dream w as dreamed two times it foretold a truth as

. V . of in Genesis xli , Judges i , First Book Kings, 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 t o us the spermatozoon and the o f old t o ovum, but the truth was known philosophers of i India, Egypt and the Gnostics , in whose lore we find humar generation to spring from the Serpent and the Egg .

42 decan s and , 3 Lords of their Triplicity and among the planets there are 3 Fortunes and 3 Infortunes according t o to the Chaldeans also, there are 3 Ethereal words prior of ”the sphere our Fixed Stars . I On e account of the perfection of the Triad, oracles wer of at delivered from a Tripod, as is related the Oracle el hi P p . e With regard to Music, 3 is said to be Mistr ss, because

Harmony contains 3 symphonies, the Diapason, the

Diapente, and the Diatessaron .

‘ V 1 m n Ezekiel xiv. . 4 mentions 3 e who saw a creation , of destruction , and a restoration ; Noah the whole world, i h Dan el of the Jewis world Jerusalem , and Job of his

personal world .

Note the Hindoo Trinity of Brahma, who consists

of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva ; Creator, Preserver, and Changer : in India each has still a special sect Of w or

shippers, who mark themselves with particular emblems ;

the Vaishnavas are much the most numerous . “ ” The living were of Old called the 3 times blessed (the

dead 4 times blessed). There were Three cities of Refuge on the East side of the : h Jordan Bezer, Ramoth Gilead, and Gozan ; and T ree on : a htali the West Hebron, Shechem , and Kedesh N p .

e : . Thre Fates Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos

: ae . Furies Tisiphone, Alecto, Meg ra : Graces Euphrosyne, Aglaia, Thalia, says Hesiod .

of : fE acu s . Judges Hades Minos, , Rhadamanthus ae : Hor Hesiod says they were Eunomia (Order),

Dike (Justice), Eirene (Peace). ’ Jupiter s thunder is triformis . Hecate is always called “ ” triple . ’ e . Neptune s spear is a trid nt, and so has Siva the Trisula ’ Pluto s dog Cerberus had 3 heads . There were Three founders of the Roman Empire

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

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

Cambrians and Teutons . 43

The Jewish Rabbis say that the Sword of Death has 3

drops of Gall, one drops in the mouth and the man dies, from the second comes the pallor of death, and the third “

t II rn s . the carcase to dust See Purchas, The Pilgrimage, 1 1 6 3 . A letter Yod within an equilateral triangle was a symbol

of the ineffable name Jehovah and w as so used by the Jews . The moderns have pointed out that this form suggests the idea that they knew something of a Triune God . Other 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 passing mention the “ ” ’ : Royal Arch sign , the Triple Tau, three T s united the h w ich it represents,

are not fit matters his work . Note also 3 stones of the arc ipals and 3 Sojourners 3 Veils o ffi eram and in the Craft L dges , 3 o cers, 3 degrees, 3 p bul ti n a o s .

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In the Roman Cultus, the number 3 is of constant e 8 occurrence, as for xample see Virgil, Eclogue , The P harm aCeu tr ia the priests used a cord of 3 coloured

strands, and an image was carried 3 times round an altar . ” a r Terna tibi h ec primum triplici diversa colore . The Druids also paid a constant respect to this number ; n and even their poems are noted as bei g composed in Triads . It I S not necessary here to enlarge upon the transcendent

importance of the Christian Trinity . In old paintings we

often see a Trinity of Je sus with John and Mary . “ ” ae of In the Tim us Plato, the Divine Triad is called — — — o . Theos God, Logos The Word, and Psyche the S ul Indeed it is impossible to study any single system of i worship throughout the world, w thout being struck by the peculiar persistence of the triple numbe r in regard to of e or divinity ; whether as a group deiti s , a triformed 3 of or headed god, a Mysterious Triunity, a deity 3 powers, o a family relationship of 3 Persons , such as the Father, M ther S on and of the Egyptians, Osiris, Isis and Horus . And again in the various faiths we see t he chief Dignity 44 given in turn to each person of the Triad some rejoice in on the patriarchal Unity, some in the greater glory of the S , and others again lavish all their adoration on the Great

Mother ; even in trinities of coequal males, each has his own special worshippers ; note this especially among the

Hindoos, where for example the followers of Vishnu are : called Vaishnavas to complicate matters too, in this case each deity has his female potency or sakti, and these also O n have their w adherents . Under this notice of the Triad we may refer to the em of blem the Isle of Man , three legs united at the hips this m i ilian M ariners is supposed to have been derived fro S c . at a an early date, for the s me emblem is found at Palermo in to old Sicily, and this design is there be seen on an public rinacria building . Sicily was anciently named T , from its three promontories . Three is a notable number in the mythology of the Norseman : the great Ash - tree Yggdrasil supported the world ; f it had three roots one extended into Asgard, the abode o on e otenheim the Gods into J , the home of the Giants, and ifleheim the third into N , the region of the Unknown . The three—Norns (Fates) attend t—o the root in Asgard : they—were Urda the past ; Verdandi the present ; and Sku lda the future .

The Talmuds are crowded with quaint conceits concern

e . ing the Triad, and many are v ry curious

The ancient Hebrews said there are three night watches , do in the first the ass brays, in the second the g barks, in the t hird the mother suckles her infant and converses with her husband . He who three times daily repeats the 1 1 4th Psalm is sure of future happiness . Three precious gifts were given to the Jews the Law of

of . Moses, the Land Israel, and Paradise In three sorts of dreams there is truth the last dream of h also n the morning, the dream w ich is dreamed by a eigh hou r a , and a dre m twice repeated . 45 m Three things calm a man ; elody, scenery and sweet m scent : and three things i prove a man ; a fine house, a

handsome wife, and good furniture . H e who is born on the Third day of the week will be h ric and amorous . Three despise their fellows f e te e and do s tggng fi g pfi llfi u s s tes . Three love their fellow prose y , laves and raven IA Three persons live a life which is no life he who lives at t ’ f % ano her man s table, he who is ruled by his wi e, and he f who is incapable from bodily a fliction . Orthodox Jews were very particular about the cuttings

from the nails ; a pious man buries them, an orderly man s w ho 1 3 for burn them, but he throws them away wicked ;

if a woman step over them , mischance may follow “ Moed % I 8 . 1 . Katon, The should be trimmed on a Friday n a and ever on _ Th e are e Ther three k ys God keeps to himself, and not of which no man can gain use the key life, the key of h t he of . T aanit rain and the key of resuscitation the dead , 2 1 and 2 . The Jewish butcher of Kosher meat must use three knives to e to one slaught r the animal, another cut it up, and a third

to remove the suet which was unlawful food as pork is . Three acolytes must attend the High Priest when he went one in to worship one at his right, at his left, and one had ’ t o the on of f hold up gems the train his vestment .

. I There are three parts of a man The father g ves . the \ n of white parts, bones, ails, brain and the whites the eyes

. : Go the mother gives the red parts, skin, flesh , etc while d

gives the breath, soul, mind and senses . The Sanhedrim could order as a punishment three — degrees of Excommunication separation for an undefined f r 60 for 0 o . time, exclusion days, and execration 3 days

1 . 1 . Moed Katon , 7 '

of / The name Adam is of three letters, A, D and M t of hese are the initials Adam , David and Messiah, and the l a t Sou of the first p ssed to David and hen to the Messiah . ’ N ishm h h i 1 2 at a m 2 . . C j , 5 46

K The Soul of Cain passed to Jethro, his spirit into orah, Y lk n . a u t 1 8 . 2 and his body to an Egyptia Reuben, 9 . 4 . E ve The Soul of passed to Sarah, to Hannah the

hu namit e e Zare ta . of S , and th n to the widow of p The Soul

Rahab passed to Heber the Kenite . The Soul of Jael passed to Eli . Some Souls of pious Jews pass into the e persons of the G ntiles, so that they shall plead for Israel .

Some evil Hebrew souls have passed into animals , as that - of of Ishmael into the she ass Balaam, and later into the ass of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair . The Soul of a slanderer may be transmigrated into a stone, so as to become silent and the Soul of a murderer into water . E m eh H em elech

2 .

There are three causes of dropsy, depending on diseases of the breast, the liver and the kidneys .

There are three forms of coma, that is insensibility due to brain injury, brain disease and brain poisoning .

There are three modes of death , beginning either at the

or . . brain, the lungs the heart Bichat, Physiologie

One Zodiacal Sign, that of Scorpio, has three emblems the eagle in the highest symbolism, the snake, and the scorpion in evil aspects only . Astrologic Natal Figures are often erroneous by reason of the alleged moment of birth being incorrect : there are f e a A nim odar three modes o R ctific tion, two are ancient, the of Ptolemy and the Trutine of Hermes ; and there is one modern method, the Natal Epoch of W . R . Old . In both the Old and the New Testaments we find the Day was divided into three day watches and four night m ae n watches . The edi val occultists divided the days i to

Planetary hours, the scheme of alternation occupied a week, x 2 = 1 68 1 68 7 days 4 hours hours, so hours are divisible among the Seven Planets, each day beginning with its own 6 8 ” different one see Harleian MSS . 4 3 , and The Herbal,

1 8 1 . Culpepper, 4 There is also another scheme in which the planets are

- o related to a six hour peri d by Ragon and Blavatsky . 47

Among the Brahmins there were three great Vedas three

Margas or ways of salvation ; three Gunas, the Satva, quiescence ; Rajas, desire ; and Tamas , decay . Three

an d e . Lokas, Swarga, Bhumi and Patala ; heaven , earth h ll

- h Three Jewels of wisdom , the Tri rat as Buddha, Dharma a and Sanga . The three Fires being the three spects of the e human soul , Atma, Buddhi and Manas . There were thre of and the prongs the trident, three eyes in forehead of

- A M . Siva . Note also the 3 syllabled Holy Word U

At the Oblation of the Elements in the Celtic Church, 3 drops of Wine and 3 drops of water were poured into the chalice . In the present Christian Church we notice 3 of crossings with water at Baptism , 3 Creeds ; the Banns Marriage are published 3 times ; and a Bishop in benedic

th . tion, makes he Cross 3 times

In , Roman churches, the Angelus Bell is rung three times a times 3 for the heavenly of : o hierarchies angels P pe John XXII . ordered that the s A es faithful should ay 3 o on each occasion . In civil life the usher of a court 3 times repeats the “ ” or warning Oyez, Oyez, Oyez, which word means hear “ ” listen .

Note also the emblem of the Irish nation , the Shamrock, ' ‘ - lzs a eezosella Oxa . which has a three lobed leaf, the

of Fo- hi Vi- The Trigrams Should be studied in The King, a book of Ancient China said to have been the production f K o ing Wan and his son , Kau . The great Confucius wrote a supplement to it . This book is a mystical work on referrI n Symbolism g to Cosmogony, to Man, and to the

of . T he purposes life initial symbols are the Yang, male, 8 and the Yin, female . Then follow trigrams, formed of z— emblematical lines they are khien, tui, li, chan, sien , of khan, kan and kwan ; each expressed by figures one long o t on Fo and t w Short lines . Some say hat e Hi invented these symbols . A later Mystic expanded the system into 6 fi 6 4 gures, each composed of lines of whole and half lines . With these were associated two diagrams formed “ ” “ of W r circles , named the River Horse, and the iting of 48

Lo these will repay the contemplation of modern occultists . Yang, male, is also associated with Heaven , 2 the Sun, Light and 5 the total of the odd units . Yin , i female, w th the Moon, the Earth, darkness and the number “ 0 3 , the total of the even numbers to ten . See Sacred “ - Books of the East The Yi King .

T H E . E T TR A D 4.

T H E N icom achu s Pythagoreans , said , call the number “ ” ” God four the greatest miracle, a after another manner, “ ” “ ” o f a manifold divinity, the fountain Nature, and its “ c key bearer . It is the introducer and ause of the “ permanency of the Mathematical discipline . It is most ” “ ” ZE l masculine and robust ; it is Hercules and o u s . It

is Mercury, Vulcan, and Bacchus . Among the Muses, ff Urania . They also called it Feminine, e ective of Virility,

of . t and an Exciter Bacchic fury In harmony, it was said o

e - form by the quadruple ratio the symphony dis diapason .

They called it Justice, as the first evenly even number . of As a type of Deity, we all know the famous Hebrew title Tetra- gram m aton or unpronounceable name w e call Jehovah I H VH : this Name was used by the Kabalistic Rabbis to hide their secret tenets of the Divine Essence of o the Creator G d . Almost all the peoples of Antiquity possessed a name for of of Deity consisting four letters, and many them m considered 4 to be a Divine nu ber, thus In Hebrew we find also I H I H called E heie and A H I H A heie called . A RE or RE Assyrian AD D, Egyptian AMUN, Persians SY SI , T hE os E US OTT EU Greek , Latin D , German G , French DI , SAR I T GA A LLH Turkish E , Tartar , Arabian , Allah, Samaritan

A B E EUT AUT T H OTh. J , Egyptian T , T , S anchoniathon I E VO In we find the Deity called .

In Clemens Alexandrinus JAOU . to Attention should be paid the Sanscrit holy phrase, SI aspiration or prayer of Four syllables Aum W - “ - in 136q hum literally, Oh, the Jewel the (meaning I% t fie Divine spark within man of of B u llialdo 1 6 Theon Smyrna, in the edition Ismael , 44, “ 1 page 4 7 , says, The Tetractys was not only principally honoured by the Pythagoreans because all symphonies h exist wit in it, but also because it appears to contain the ” “ of N ot w ho nature all things, hence their oath, by him ” delivered to our souls the Tetractys (that is Pythagoras), this tetractys is seen in the COMP OSITION of the first numbers

1 2 . . . 3 . 4 But the 2 nd Tetractys arises from the increase by MUL T I P LI CAT I ON of odd and even numbers beginning from the

hdonad .

T he 3 rd subsists to Magnitude .

th - F - The 4 is in odies, Monad ire, Dyad Air,

- - a . Tri d Water, Tetrad Earth

th of of - The 5 is the figures Bodies, Pyramid Fire,

- I c sah dron- - E Octahedron Air, p e Water, Cube arth . 6th a - or The of Veget tive Life, Seed Monad point ; if it — - — - increase in length dyad line ; in breadth triad su perficie s

— - in thickness tetrad solid . th of The 7 is Communities ; as Man , House, Street,

City. 8th : The is the Judicial power Intellect, Science,

Opinion , Sense . th of The 9 is the parts of the Animal, the Rational,

Irascible and Epithymetic soul, and the Body they live in . r oth The Tetractys is of the Seasons of the Year, spring, W I nter summer, autumn, . r 1 th of of t he The Tetractys is the Ages Man , infant, the lad , the man , and the senex . And all are proportional One to another 3 n d hence they said all things are assimilated to number . ’ They also gave a four- fold distribution of goods to the t o the Soul and Body, Soul , Prudence, Temperance,

Fortitude , Justice ; and to the Body, Acuteness of senses ,

Health , Strength , Beauty . 52

: viz The Objects of desire are 4 . , Prosperity, Renown ,

e . Pow r, Friendship The celebrated 4 Causes of Aristotle may be mentioned here : ’ i —b mr on o u Divin t—y as the cause y which ; or up . c ou on Matter from which ; or f ex . — 8 7. ou Form through which ; or di ou . ‘ E fiect or 7r o ou with reference to which ; p s pros ou . The Dead also are called 4 times Blessed ; and the

Living but thrice blessed . The number 4 being the completion of the quaternary su erficies group of point, line, p and body, has also this 1 2 character that its elements , , 3 , and 4 when summed up 1 0 o are equal to , which is so perfect that we can g no to further, but to increase we must return the Monad .

It was also called Kosmos, the World, because it formed n 6 the umber 3 , when its digits were thus combined 3

3 6 being the sum of the first four odd numbers with the first

four even numbers . “ P r cr 1 0 2 e . o Plutarch, D Anim . 7 , says the world consists of e of a double Quaternary ; 4 the int llectual World , ’

T A athon . g , Nous, Psyche and Hyle that is Supreme r of the Wisdom o Goodness , Mind, Soul, Matter, and four s of e Sensible World, forming the Kosmo Elements , Fir , ur é 7 ru u 7 Air, Earth and Water ; p , aer, g and udor, p, np, 7 7,

v 8w p . Four is the number of the moons or satellites of Jupiter

and Uranus . ”The Arabians analysed Female Beauty into nine fo urs ; as — e . Four Black —Hair, eyebrows, eyelash s, eyes Four White Skin, white of the eyes, teeth , legs . 5 3

u Four Red Tongue, lips, cheeks, g ms . — Four Round Head , neck, forearms , ancles . — Four Long —Back , fingers, arms, legs . e . Four Wid Forehead, eyes, seat, lips — Four Fine Eyebrows, nose, lips, fingers . — Four Thick Buttocks, thighs, calves, knees .

“ Four Small Breasts, ears , hands, feet . ’ “ ” See Lane s edition of the Arabian Nights . of In the Rosicrucian writings Behmen, Fludd and Maier, we find the occult dogma that the four elements are peopled

’ b w ho y spirits, beings may have influence on the destiny of Man ; thus the Earth was inhabited by Gnomes ; the Air was inhabited by by Sala m andeI S ° and th Undines these are now commonly called See Lives of the Neoro ’ b - m ancers . , W Godwin Michael Maier ; Jaco Behmen s

Works . Of E lem en tals ff The existence \ , sco ed at by modern educa tion , is really suggested in a large number Of places in both

Old and New Testaments, the inspired volume of the n : for I x 2 ° u . 1 Christia s examine, example, J dges 3 Samuel

° 1 6 . 1 m . i . 1 . 2 xvi 4 ; Psal lxxviii 49 ; Acts xv , xix 3 , xxvii . 3

vi 1 2 2 . Ephesians . , ii . But above all consider the meaning of the Canticle ’’ in of Benedicite omnia opera the book Common Prayer, 0 0 ye stars, ye showers and dew, O ye fire and heat, 0 0 e 0 ye winds , ye gre n things, ye mountains and hills , ” for bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him ever . or These phrases are either folly, else they recognise the spiritual essences or beings inherent in the elements and

a . 2 6 I n cre ted things Again , read hymn 9 Hymns Ancient and Modern, a most orthodox volume . l and ” h Principa ities 1 powers , watch for thy unguarded ours, and Hymn 9 , on the Christian, dost thou see them, holy ground, H ow the troops of Midian compass thee around ? If these are n ot ? the evil elementals, what are they

Francis Barrett mentions the 4 Consecrated Animals, M an of Lion, Eagle, and Calf, emblems the Kerubim on 54

. A rOhan els e the terrestrial plane ; 4 g , Michael, Gabri l, Uriel, ' el z e A L Raphael ; note, all end in the Deity name, , . . , of the Hebrews . The Gnostics said that all their edifice rested on a 4 pillared Basis ; Truth, Intelligence, Silence , Bathos . m on th Note the earth was for ed the 4 day, according to ” th the allegory found in the Jewish Genesis, and is the 4 of world in a chain spheres, say the Hindoos . of The figure 4 , as Ragon remarks , is the upright man , OI carrying the triangle : Divinity, a type of the Trinity of

Godhead .

On the Hebrew Magical word AGLA, see the chapter Kabalah 2 on the , page 7 . of Note 4 elements , 4 sides a square and 4 angles

4 qualities, cold, hot, dry, damp, 4 humours 4 seasons of the year 4 quarters o f the horizon

4 Rivers of Eden Euphrates, Gihon, Hiddekel and Pison 4 Rivers of the Infernal Regions according to the Greeks ;

Phlegethon, Cocytus , Styx and Acheron

4 elements of Metaphysics ; Being, essence, virtue, action .

4 Masonic virtues .

4 Evangelists and Gospels ; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John , Keru bic of related , to the Four forms the—Man, Lion , Bull and Eagle, and thus to the Zodiacal Signs Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and S eorpio (the relation of Aquila to Scorpio is a

Rosicrucian secret). One of the abstruse dogmas of the Kabalah concerns the of A tz ilu th Yetz irah Four Worlds Emanation , Briah , and siah e A s these are not worlds in any ordinary s nse, but of rather planes 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 being more sublime than e those of the lowest each world has a secr t name and number .

Man displays 4 evil tendencies, one in opposition to each of these 4 Worlds ; an evil inclination , evil thoughts, evil words , and evil actions . (Isaac Myer . ) Vulcan gave Apollo and Diana arrows on: the 4th day of 5 5

their Nativity : this , says Sir Thomas Browne, is the Gentile equivalent to the Creation of the Sun and Moon on the 4th

day . ’ m s n The Talmud lays down the law as to a wo an drinki g, one of do saying cup wine is good for her, two her harm , three her demoralize her, and the fourth converts into a female

animal . There are 4 persons who are little better than

. dead ; the blind , the leper, the pauper and he who has no sons There are 4 sorts of passionate men ; he who is easily I s he provoked and as easily pacified, loses more than he gains ; he who is not readily provoked and is difficult to w ho appease, he gains more than he loses ; the pious man , is not easily but is easily pacified ; and he w ho is ro f easily p vok is with di ficulty appeased, he is a wicked man . There are 4 sorts Of pupils in occult science ; he w ho learns and then will not teach he w ho wants to teach and does not learn ; he who learns and then teaches and lastly,

% ’ ’ he who listens and won t learn and can t teach . Four things deter a man from sin : the thought of whence he comes, the fear of where he may go, the conception of who his judge will be , and what his fate may be at the Judgment . Four persons should offer up thank Offerings ° he who returns safe from a sea voyage, he who has safely crossed a 15 desert, he who has recovered from an illness, and he who released from prison . These are referred to in Psalm cvii . of Four men have died from original sin , the work the for e no Serpent, they thems lves did ill ; Benjamin , Amram the father of Moses, Jesse the father of David, and Chilah

son t . 2 . the of David . Sabba . 5 5 At the end of the Passion Fast every Hebrew should drink 4 glasses of wine, even if the price robs him Of other necessaries . The Talmud says that only 4 men had entered Paradise of f (Pardes , the Garden Holiness) ; this meant the state o a B eatific r o supern l communion with God , the Vision , by p found abstraction of mind . These were the Rabbis Ben e Azai, Ben Zoma, Ash r and Akiba . 56

The tractate Yoma sa ys . God w ill 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 of Justice ceased with the Second

Temple, but the Rabbis taught that if a man incurs the death penalty of either form he still dies in these ways fortuitously, as if he would have been executed by strang be t o of ling, he will found . die drowning or some other

of ff . 2 form su ocation See Sanhedrin , 3 7 . . o b to J had four entrances his house, north, south, east and w est so that the poor might enter and find relief from e whichever quarter they cam . ’ Four things God repented that he had made ; man s evil passions, the Ishmaelites, the Chaldeans and the Captivity. o G d has made only 4 women perfect in beauty ; Sarah , n ot Abigail, Rahab and Esther ; Eve is included because n ot of she was born woman . Esther is said to have had golden coloured hair . 3 God u n , left the North Pole “ finished, saying, if there be any my equal let him finish it of like the others . This corner is the home demons, ghosts,

f . F o . . ca devils and storms irke Rabbi Eleazar, p 3

The number 4 is related to Jacob , the Lesser Light,

. O B which is the Moon Jacob was spelled I O , and its initials are those o f epithets I U TZR the Former ; OU shH U A E VR the Maker, Q N the Possessor, and A, the Creator . See Vii 2 Amos . , where Jacob is called the small . on In C hristian dogma, Christ the triple deity the Cross of s of : or 4 limb , is the descent Spirit into Matter , as

i of - - the Theosoph sts say, the Triad Atma Buddhi Manas e of d scends into the Quaternary personal Man, the Kama , ” S thu la . Prana, Linga and Sarira

or of S - The 4 Cabeiri , great deities e Phenicia, were A xieros A xiokersos A xiokersa Kasmillos i o f , , and , ch ldren

S d k Sanchoniathon . y y , are named by and quoted by Eusebius of In the ancient Egyptian form burial, while the body e t e was mad into a swathed mummy, h internal organs of the

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1 B C . 2 2 2 7 th century compiled a History of Ireland from . 4

. 1 6 1 6 to A D . .

Magic Squares were first known by the work of a Greek, M osco u los n M S S of 1 6 Emanuel p , still existi g in . the th i century n the National Library of Paris . Cornelius Agrippa t h then gave the Plane ary Squares, which ave been many a times copied in subsequent books . From more mathe matical of V point iew, they have been much studied in nicl . . Fre e of France by M Bachet and M , M . Poignard b r . Lou e . e Brussels, and de la Hire M de la gives informa a of tion of the use of M gic Squares by the Indians Surat . T o of the number 4 belong the several forms the cross, ’ Maltese, Greek , Passional, St . Andrew s and the Fylfot — how cross the Swastika . Hermetic philosophy teaches to e view the last as composed from a magic squar of 5 , giving 2 s lfot 1 t o 5 square , of which the Fy takes 7, referring the E e Sun, Signs and l ments . There is a quaint Hebrew I H VH association between the name Tetragrammaton , , for Yod s the God name, and man formed in his image if , one Heh, n, Vau , i, Heh , n be drawn over the other, the t he Yod will look like the head above, Heh will look like t w o V an the arms , the will be upright body, and the final

Heh will Show the tw o legs . It is stated in some ancient Persian works that 4 bright

stars were placed as guardians at the 4 cardinal points . At ’ of Crishna s 1 0 2 the beginning the Kali Yuga , at death at 3

B . f . C o , the astronomers say that Aldebaran, the eye Taurus, of and Antares , the heart Scorpio, were as the equinoctial of points, and Regulus , the heart Leo, and Fomalhaut, the : eye of the Southern Fish , were near the solstitial points this was 5003 years ago . of n of Thepack commo playing cards has 4 suits diamonds, old or arocchi hearts, clubs and spades ; the Tarot T cards had 4 suits ; Wands , Cups, Swords and Pentacles to Yod of occult science relates these the , Heh, Vau, Heh the Tetragrammaton : the Tarot pack has also 4 Court or cards, Cavalier, King, Queen and Violet Knave also called Knight, King, Queen and Princess by some mystics . D T H E P E N TA . 5 .

FROM the Nicomachean Extracts we derive ou r knowledge of Pythagorean doctrine of the number

five .

It is an emi Spherical and circular number, because in every multiplication it restores itself and

‘ is found terminating the number ; it is change of

Quality, because it changes what has three dimensions into the sameness of a sphere by moving circularly “ and produ cing light : and hence Light is referred to the

number 5 . / ' “ ” Also it is the Privation of Strife, because it unites in friendship the two forms of number even and odd the ’ 2 % and 3 . Also Justice from throwing things into the

light . Also the “ Unconquered ” from a geometrical reason A hrodisien sis which may be found in Alexander p , Com ’ m n ri f e ta es on the I st Book O Aristotle s Metaphysics . ” Also the Smallest extremity of Vitality, because there are three powers of Life, vegetable, psychical, and rational and as the Rational is arranged according to the hebdomad , i and the Psychical according to the hexad, so the Vegetat ve power falls un der the control of the Pentad . P roclus on Hesiod gives two reasons for its semblance to “ i in Just ce, because it punishes wrong, and takes away of equality possession, and also equalizes what is less, to ” benefit .

Also named Nemesis, for it arranges in an appropriate

s e . manner all thing celestial, divin and natural 60

2 And Venus , because the male 3 , triad and the female or odd : dual, and even are conjoined in it Venus wa—s som erm a hrodite B d d M i l ti c p , and was ear e

- as full bosomed . Knd G amelia, that is referring to marriage . “ A nd A ndro nia odd gy , being and masculine, yet contain ing an even female part . “ ” - of Also a Demi goddess , because it is half the Decad, ”

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

t w o . the Decad into equal parts But they called it Pallas , o r and Immortal, because Pallas presides over the Ether, th n ot 5 Element (akasa) which is indestructible , and is ma ter i a l ou r e Cardiatis Cordialis to pr sent senses . And or , because like a heart it is in the middle of the body of the numbers, thus

s n ot of The ancient had a maxim, Pass above the beam ” —be n ot of for the balance, that is cause injury they said, let the members in a series form a Balance Beam . Thus e when a weight depresses the Beam , an obtuse angle is form d by the Depressed side and the Tongue Vertical, and an acute angle on the other . Hence it is worse to do than to ff and su er injury, the authors of injury sink down to the infernal regions, but the injured rise to the gods . Since, z o however, injustice pertains to inequality, equali ati n is necessary which is effected by addition and sub traction . o f Plutarch, in his treatise on the Generation the Soul ” tro hos according to Plato, states that the Pentad is called p , which equals Sound, because the first of the intervals of a Tone w hich is capable of producing a sound is the fifth it ” is also a type of Nature . - e The Pentalpha or 5 point d star, an endless complex set of of angles, was the emblem Health, Hygeia ; it forms 5 copies

. r of the capital letter A It is also called the Pentag am, and 6 1

the Seal of Solomon , and is said to have been the device on the signet - ring of this ancient Grand Master of the

Mysteries . z the Kenneth Macken ie remarks that, being formed by union of the first odd and even numbers , 5 was considered of peculiar value and used as an Amulet or Talisman power to on ful preserve from evil, and when inscribed a portal, could keep out evil spirits it is found almost everywhere in

Greece and Egypt . “ D iodoru s calls five the union of the four elements with ” an Ether . There are 5 orders of Architecture ; d 5 Senses of the human body now commonly kn own and described (but the try is technically called the 5 th the grand scheme is the 5 points of Fellow sh note also 5 Brethren can hold a

Fellow craft s . f lodge It is also called the Pyramid, rom the of arrangement Monads , thus three below , then two, then the one above them. N ote system of 5 regular Euclidean on h bodies, tetrahedr , hexa edron or cube, octohedron , dodekahedron and icosahedron . f t he . The Pentagram was emblem of sa ety The Pentacle, ’ the Masons Signet mark (according to Stukeley), was the

on - device borne by Antiochus Soter a war banner, to which was ascribed the signa l Victory he obtained . The Ancients esteemed this number as a measure for of drinking they mixed 5 parts water with their wine , and

% Hippocrates added i of water to milk as a medical draught . P hint s y , the daughter of Callicrates, describes the Five VI rtu es of a Wife : mental and bodily purity ; abstaining from excess of ornament in dress ; staying at home ; refrain ing, as females then did, from celebrating public mysteries piety and temperance . In Roman marriage ceremonies it was customary to light 5 V t o s . I tapers and admit the gue ts by fives see Plato in Leg . Theology displays 5 modes of the Conception of God e Pantheism, Polyth ism, Dualism , Unitarianism and Trini i ni tar a sm . e — Jewish r ferences to five are many 5 gifts to the priests , 6 2

5 things which might only be eaten in the camp . Not to e W s eat fruit from a tr e until it a five years old . The trespass ff e o ering imposed on the Philistin s , 5 golden emerods and

5 golden mice . Joseph gave Benjamin 5 suits of raiment — Joseph presented only 5 of his brethren to Pharaoh .

David took 5 pebbles when he went to fight Goliath . ’ — The Jews classed a Bride s attendants by fives five wise

and five foolish virgins . There are Five Articles of Belief in the Mahometan faith

in Allah , in Angels, in the prophet , the day of judgment,

an d predestination . The Five duties of a Member of the Christian church were stated by the Fathers : T o keep holy the festivals ; to observe the fasts to attend public worship ; to receive the Sacraments ; and to adhere to the customs of the church . h St . Paul said e preferred to speak 5 words I n a language understood by his hearers than in an unknown tongue . In arranging an Horoscope some astrologers use only 5 of t he — si aspects planets the conjunction, the oppo tion , of sextile, trine and square ; and the evil or good fortune the person seems to depend on them . Among the Romans a display o f 5 Wax Candles indicated that a Marriage was being celebrated ; and special prayers on were also made such occasions to these 5 deities, Jupiter, 2 0 , , , . , . . Juno Venus , Pitho and Diana See Rabelais 3 One of the t w o main divisions of Flowering Plants is characterised by a predominance of the numbers 4 and 5 ; these plants have almost a total absence of the numbers 3 6 and in the component parts of their flowers . These are the Exogens or Dicotyledons on the other hand the Monocotyledons or Endogens have a constant predominance of 6 the numbers 3 and , and a total absence of 4 and 5 symmetry .

There are 5 kinds of intercolumniations in Architecture , mentioned by Vitruvius, determined by the proportions of height and diameter , viz . , Pycnostyle, systyle, eustyle, l aerost . diastyle, and y e 6 3

T h of e Triad Society China, concerning which we find ’ s u ar t r l R eview 1 8 1 6 F r eema son e . an article in the Q y , 45 , p 5 , boasts of great antiquity it resembles Freemasonry in some i points five is a chief mystical number n its concerns . Its on seal is pentangular, its angles are 5 characters represent

T OO r _ M U H S hW U Y ing o Saturn, or Jupiter, or M ercury,

KI N H o . or Venus, and or Mars In the Infernal World are 5 terrors and torments Deadly bitterness , horrible howling, terrible darkness, unquenchable heat and thirst, and a penetrating stench ; says Old John

ae of . Heydon, quoting some medi val father the Church He ratres R osae was admitted an Adept among the F Crucis, but ri was never recei the M agist . Five styles ctu ral columns are described

nthian . Tuscan, Doric, and Composite 1 6 8 Sir T homas Browne, 5 , notes an ancient Greek division of vegetables into five classes ham n os ru tex Dendron , Arbor, Tree ; T , F , Bush Phru ff h P oa A skion or ganon , Su rutex, erb , Herba , grass and m non r . gy , fungus, mush oom and seaweed he of — Note t Quintuple section a Cone Circle , Ellipse, %

. A atfie t a t /w Parabola, Hyperbola and Triangle g , that is old of for th Good fortune, is the title Astrologers the 5 of house (succedent) the Heavens , as shown in an and t o ff Astrological Figure, which refers o spring, success in or hazardous schemes Of fortune pleasure, and wealth . on Joshua hanged 5 kings 5 trees, they were found m hidden in a cave, and were the kings of Jerusale , Hebron ,

and . Jarmuth, Lachish Eglon Every important measurement of the Jewish Tabernacle or of was 5 a multiple 5 . Kabalah The Hebrew letter H , Heh, 5 , was in occult e of always de med female potency . ’ There were 5 principal parts of Solomon s Temple .

i . David Blesses the Lord 5 times in Psalms Ci i . , civ The Talmud says that there are 5 little things which are a terror to 5 strong things ; the mosquito to the lion ; the gnat to the elephant ; the ichneumon fly to the scorpion ; 64

the flycatcher bird to the eagle, and the stickleback to the

. of leviathan Lewisohn , Zoology the Talmud Five things have in them a one sixtieth part of 5 other things ; fire is one- sixtieth of hell ; honey one sixtieth of manna ; the Sabbath one - sixtieth of the Sabbath here

one - after ; sleep of death ; and a dream sixtieth of prophecy .

B e rachoth 2 . Talmud, , 5 7 . — Even o n the Sabbath you may kill 5 things the fly in E i H a ° gypt , the wasp in Nineveh ; the scorp on of dabia do the serpent of Israel, and the mad g anywhere . Talmud,

1 2 1 2 . Sabbat, . In the First Temple of Solomon were 5 things which were n ot in the second Temple ; the Cherubic Ark ; the

Shekinah the Holy Spirit, and the Urim and Thummim .

2 1 . 2 Talmud, Yoma, . Rabies in the dog has 5 symptoms ; its mouth gapes it drops spittle ° its ears hang down ; it carries its tail i d of between ts legs , and it keeps to the si e any path .

m 8 2 . Yo a, 3 . For suckling mothers there are 5 things which are : injurious ; garlic, cucumber, melon, leeks and onions said

Rashi . ' If one study 5 years and then has found no profit in it ; hu llin 2 I he will never profit by it . Talmud, C , 4 . . o f of Five is the number expiation and sacrifice, the number

of . the passions, and the 5 wounds of Christ These were commemorated anciently by 5 crosses inscribed on the Altar hI m self tables, and the Priest made 5 crosses on at the

canon in the Liturgy . W . F . Shaw .

Jesus 5 times foretold His passion, and gave 5 particulars concerning it, and received 5 wounds . of The Brahmins speak of 5 skandhas, or attributes men ’ ’ ’ a r a a w a a na sa m na they re p , form , perception , conscious ' r d a a a sa nska a oz . ness , action and y , knowledge or In China 5 means Shangti Thian, the God in Heaven — the Chinese speak of 5 Blessings longevity, riches, health,

virtue and a natural death . o — The ancient Chinese sp ke of 5 Elements earth, wood ,

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T H E H E XA D . 6.

“ N I COM ACH U S calls it the form of form, the only number of adapted to the Soul, the distinct union the parts of the ” i the l un verse, the fabricator of Sou , also Harmony, and it is properly Venus herself. 1 Z eia N u tialia It 5 also yg and p , and the An drogynae who Pliny tells us were an African tribe who had “ dextra ”

V ae . mamma irilis, l va muliebris Among the Fates it is

s . Lachesi Among the Muses it is Thalia .

Six is also Benevolence, Peace, and Health, Acmon , one

a kmon . of the Cyclops ( , an anvil), and Truth “ By the Pythagoreans it was called the Pe rfection of ” parts . ” a As to Marri ge, it is a number equal to its parts, and marriage is a ceremony to sanction the production of off spring similar to the parent . It is formed by the multiplication of the first (beyond u odd e nity) numb r and the first even, it resembles the i or A ndrO un on of Male and Female, as in Marriage in

neit i . gy y, Health and Beauty, on account of ts symmetry f r a va k e a i t anarke a. It was called all su ficient, p , p r r 2 1 6 Acco ding to the Pythagoreans, afte a period of b i 6 re years, which num er s the cube of , all things are generated, and they said this was the periodic time of the Metempsychosis or the re birth of man after each death .

When multiplied into itself, like the pentad, six has also 6 6 2 1 2 6 6 1 6 . always itself in the unit place, thus, , 3 , , 9 , 7 7 7 h o t On the 6t day Man was created acc rding o Genesis .

On the 6th day of the week Jesus died on the cross . 6 es . . . 6 The Israelites had citi of Refuge Numbers xxxv. v

i . . . There were six th ngs hated by Jehovah . Prov vi v . 1 6 6 i The Seraphim of Isaiah had each w ngs . ’ 6 In a Freemasons Lodge there are Jewels, three of which are immovable and lie open in the lodge for the to Brethren moralize upon, while the other three jewels are transferable from one Brother to another at the periodical

changes of officers . “ “ S e h In the Hebrew Book of Creation, the p er ” Y t irah e z , the Hexad is spoken of the units representing h the four quarters of the World ; Nort , South, East, and

West, and als t and depth, and in the midst of all S ee . V 1 1 my translation ; cap . i . , 1 1 1 and notes . 9 . The Druids had a mysterious religious preference for the

number 6 . They performed their principal ceremonies on \ 6th 6th of the day of the moon , and on the day the moon

began their year . They went 6 together to gather the I nisseltoe I n sacred mistletoe ( ), and monuments and plates 6 now extant we often find of their priests grouped together . 2 See Mayo, ii . 3 9. 60 0 s An astronomical period of years, poken of as the ” N aros - , the Cycle of the Sun , the Luni Solar period or of 1 of 1 Sibylline year, consisting 3 periods 9 years , and one 1 1 t o old of years, is Often referred in works on the b Mysteries . It seems to have been known ythe Chaldeans

and ancient Indians ; it is a period of peculiar properties . o m m Cassini, a great astr no er, declares it the ost perfect of i all astronom c periods .

If on a certain day at noon , a new moon took place at s i any certain point in the heavens, it would take place aga n 6 00 i at the expiration of years, at the same place and t me,

and with the planets all In similar positions . It is supposed that one recurrence of this period is e th E r ferred to in the 4 clogue of Virgil, the poem, which, as is well known, has been spoken of as containing an allusion

’ to the Messiah, Jesus . “ n ae ow The period su g by the Cum an Sibyl has n arrived, 68

and the grand series of ages (that series which occurs again and again in the course of a mundane revolution) begins

. V ae afresh The irgin Astr a returns, another reign of Saturn ” commences, and a new progeny descends from heaven .

It has been calculated by the late Dr . Kenealy that a e to Messiah , or divine t acher, has been sent the world every 600 years, thus

Adam, the first messenger from the Gods to our race on

earth . 6 0 0 r. Enoch, the second, years afte

- Fo hi . , the third, to China in particular i B r hou . g , a Hindoo prophet P r I Zaratu sht to e s a . , Zoroaster, the fifth , T aau tu s Thoth, , or Hermes Trismegistus, sent to the

Egyptians . is or - I ver A m os . , Moses the Jewish law g , the seventh 6 0 0 B e t o . C . Lao Tseu, a s cond China , . , the eighth I esu s J the ninth, to the Jews first and then to the

Gentiles . h D t e A . 00 6 . Mohammed tenth he flourished about .

h iz A . D . 1 2 00 n . C e g Khan the eleventh, , conquered Persia W ho of 1 8 0 0 the special messenger was, the author is ignorant . The secrets of the N aros of the Apocalypse and of the Mediatorial Sacrifice have been considered tlze secrets of the

Ancient Mysteries . Circumcision was possibly an outward i sign of Initiation n the earliest times . “ of of Jesus, at any rate, writes the Author the Book ” o th N aros one G d, appeared at the 9 , and no can deny that such a messenger was expected . Juvenal, oddly “ XI I I 2 i . V 8 a enough too , mentions n Satire — . , Nona etas I I tu r n ow g is the ninth age which indeed it was,

h w e . though o he kn w it, is a mystery 1 6 1 The Sothic Cycle was 4 years, containing lunations . B —N aros I s not N . to be confused with Saros, a cycle f 1 8 and 1 0 of the moon o years days, which was known to

the Chaldeans and Greeks, a period after the expiry of 69 which the eclipses of the moon recur similarly : it consists of 2 2 3 lunations . The circumference of a globe has been fixed at 3 6 9 6 0 degrees, six sixties the hour divided into minutes, each 6 0 6 0 of seconds . The Tartars had a period of days, the Chinese also ; and the Asiatics generally a period of 60 60 0 years . The Babylonian great period was 3 years , the 6 Naros multiplied by . “ ” The Lily which in all the old Annunciation pictures 6 Gabriel presents to the Virgin has leaves, and the flower

6 - shows petals all alike, around a central three headed anicall stigma, y correct . One of the three main divisions are arranged by Botanists, is 6 typified of the numbers 3 and , in all 6 6 parts of the flowers , leaves forming a perianth, stamens , and a 3 - lobed stigma with a 3 or 6 - celled ovary is the n common arra gement . on e of Berosus, _ the Chaldean Priests, mentions three S ossu s of 6 0 N aros or of periods of time, a years a , Neros, 60 0 6 00 . years , and the Saros, 3 _ years There seems some confusion here with the Saros of 1 8 years and 1 0 days . “ ” n . 1 : Bailly, in his Astronomie Ancie ne, p 3 , says The Brahmins used the nu m bers 6 0 and 3 600 in computing

. so time The Chaldeans also did . The Brahmins have 6 00 T he also an Antediluvian period of years . Tartars and Chinese also used a period of 60 years in their computations of time .

Under the number, Six, too, we must not omit to mention of b or H exal ha the symbol the dou le triangle, Hexapla, p , of the Shield David, it is used at present as a Sign in the of n ot con Degree the Royal Arch in England . It must be ’ fused with the Pentalpha which is the true Solomon s seal . In Christian Churches we find the H exalpha used to ex press the union of the Divine and human natures, deemed to exist in Jesus, the Christ of the New Testament. The blending of the two triangles has also been used to typify the union of Fire and Water ; for the early symbol of Fire of was the triangle apex upward, and that Water the same 7 0 apex downward : the symbols of Air and Earth were two

e . similar triangles, ach with a cross bar The Talmud says Six things are disgraceful to a wise man to walk alone at night to scent oneself for walking by day to talk with a strange woman in the street ; to talk at table with the n w ear ig orant to ragged shoes, and to be late at the house

B r ch th 2 . . e a o of prayer , 43 . for Six things lay up capital hereafter, and also bear interest in this world hospitality well ordered comfort to the sick prayerful meditation early instruction of children training in the Mosaic law, and charitable treatment of a

. 1 2 1 neighbo ur. Sabbat 7 . . Evil Demons have 6 characters like men they take food and drink, they beget and they die like angels, they have of to wings, they pass from one end the world the other, and they can learn the future . Talmud .

Solomon is called by six names ; Solomon, Jedidiah , ’ “ a : Koheleth , son of J keh , Agur and Lemuel see The ” h ” Ab ot . Fathers , , by Rabbi Nathan — There are 6 kinds of Fire common fire which eats and n o t an d does drink fire that drinks does not eat, as fever of 1 8 fire that eats and drinks, that Elijah, Kings xviii . 3 the fire on the Altar which consumed both moist and dry the fire of Gabriel which consumed other fire, and the

of . Essential fire God which consumed evil angels Yoma,

2 1 . 2 . The Tables of Moses were said to have been 6 hands 6 h . N edarim breadt s long, wide and 3 thick Talmud ; , 8 H ershon 8 . 3 . reckons that if cut out of Sinaitic stone, 2 8 each Table would have weighed tons, but he is in error,

- as 1 8 s reckoning hands breadths ells, as inches in tead of 4 inches . Angel of Death had no power over 6 holy persons ; _ The i Abraham, Isaac, Jacob , Moses , Aaron and M riam . Bava

hr 1 1 . of B a a , t , 7 . These died by the Divine Kiss death, in c i for but it is not so definitely stated the ase of Mir am, fear of scandal . 7 1

A R I The Lion has 6 names in the Book of Job ; ,

ShohL KP I R LI sh LB I A ShchTz . , , , and 6 N CH sh OKshU B A P OH The Serpent has names ; , , , T ZP U N I hR P N achash O S . , TNIN and the Brazen Serpent ;

Okeshu b . , an asp, Psalm cxxiv 4 ; Opoh, an adder, Isaiah h ni k xi 2 . 2 T z e ou v . xli 4 ; p , the basilis , Isaiah 9 ; Tanin , the serpent or crocodile and Seraph , a serpent of fire . 2 See Rabbi Nathan, cap . 9 . Six blasts of the Horn were blown on the eve of the

Sabbath, and then the Sabbath had begun .

6 W . F . Shaw says that is the number of temptation and for 6th of the 6th i sin , at hour day the first temptat on came into world . Six is the number of toil and work, for 6 days ites had to collect manna ; at the 6 th

‘ of 6th ed hour the day Jesus was sentenc to death, and in 6th the Revelations the seal, trumpet and vial w ere all emblematic of w oe . The Flood came when Noah was 0 6 0 years old . The number 666 was an emblem of the Great Wicked

One, still without identification , but he is implied in a 666 prototype, Schechem ben Hamor, whose name is by ShKM B N hM VR Gematria, C , he was the corruptor of Dinah . 2 See Genesis xxxiv . verse . The Jews expected that the end of the present dispensa

6000 . tion of the world would arrive after years , and St

Barnabas repeats this as a . reasonable belief of the ancien t

Christian Church . The A ncient E gyptian s had for their highest Priests a 6 College of , of which hardly any information has come down to us ; but one A seshra ls m entioned as Master of the 6 Mysterious Words of the , and a statue has been found of E i- 15 one meri, whose engraved title Chief of the Dwelling of the Great Six . T H E H E A D P T . 7 .

“ T H E t f so Hep ad, say the ollowers of Pythagoras, was “ ” t o called from the Greek verb sebo, venerate (and from ShB O or the Hebrew , seven , satisfied, abundance), being “ ” “ i ” “ ” Septos , Holy, div ne , and motherless, and a

Virgin .

' N icom achu s Vve From learn that it was called Minerva, Vi % being unmarried and rgina , begotten neither by a mother, n n or : even umber, from a father, odd number but of of proceeding from the summit the Father all things, the Monad ; even as Minerva sprang all armed from the Fore of or head Jove Zeus . Obrim o atre Hence also p , or daughter of a mighty father, h - a r w a elt eca and Glaucopis, s ining eyed, and pn p and y , r A l ia ff m et o e e o . A and g , she that carries the spoil ” for ff And Fortune, it decides mortal a airs . “ ” e e r And Voice, for th re are seven ton s in eve y voice, human and instrumental : because they are emitted by the

and t he of . seven planets, form Music the Spheres T rit o enia of Also g , because there are 3 parts the Soul , l the Intellectua , Irascible and Epithymetic (desiring), and

4 most perfect virtues are produced . Just as of the three h fOu r intervals, lengt , breadth , and depth, there are — su erficies boundaries in corporeal existence point, line, p and solid . “ ” A elai It is called Agelia, from g , herds , as groups of stars were called by the Babylonian sages, over which herds ruled 7 angels . P h lakikos be Also y , guardian, th cause e Seven Planets direct and guide our universe .

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associated planets ; thus, Infancy, Moon , Luna ; Child o ho d, Mercury, Knowledge ; Youth, Venus , Love ; Manhood, S ol u ; Full Strength, Mars ; Maturity of J dgment, Jupiter ;

and Old Age, Saturn . Some philosophers have said that our souls have 7 foc i in L/ viz . V the material body, , the five senses, the oice, and the

generative power . h s e The body a seven obvious parts, the head, ch st, b t w o . a domen, two legs and arms

There are seven internal organs, stomach, liver, heart,

t w o . lungs, Spleen and kidneys art The ruling p , the head, has seven parts for external tw o tw o use, two eyes, ears , nostrils and a mouth .

There are seven things seen, body, interval, magnitude,

and erm anenc . colour, motion , p y of There are seven inflections the voice, the acute, grave ,

circumflex, rough, smooth, the long and the short sounds .

The hand makes seven motions ; up and down, to the

right and left, before and behind, and circular. — There are seven evacuations tears from the eyes, mucus

of the nostrils, the saliva, the semen, two excretions and the

perspiration . Modern medical knowledgecorroborates the ancient dictum that in the seventh month the human offspring becomes V iable . Menstruation tends to occur in series of four times seven

e t . days, and is c r ainly related to Luna in an occult manner

The lyre has 7 strings, corresponding to the planets .

There are 7 vowels in English and some other tongues . Theon of Smyrna also notices that an average length of an ’ 2 8 2 8 adult s intestine is feet, four times seven , and also is m r a perfect nu be .

The number 7 is also associated with Voice and Sound, with Clio the Muse ; with Osiris the Egyptian deity ; with —A drastia he Nemesis, Fate, , not to escaped from ; and

with Mars . n As to the sacredness of the number 7 , note amo g the

Hebrews , oaths were confirmed by seven witnesses ; or by 7 5

seven Victims offered I n sacrifice ; as see the covenant

between Abraham and Abimelech with seven lambs , 8 2 1 —8 . W . 2 2 Genesis, chap xxi . , the Hebrew word seven , B O r from B o also Sh H, is de ived , or is a similar to Sh , to swear. e Clean beasts were admitted into the ark by s vens, whilst

the unclean only in pairs . The Goths had 7 Deities from whom come ou r names a T u isco of week d ys ; Sun , Moon, , Wotan , Thor, Friga,

S eatu r . , corresponding, of course, to the planets r E bdomaios Apollo, the Sun God , had a G eek title ,

sevenfold . n The Persian Mithras, a Sun God, had the umber 7

sacred to him . Note the My Kadosh Ladder of 7 steps ascent Oheb and 7 steps de the one side Eloah , Love of od K ro G Oheb e bo of . ; the other , love the neighbour “ ” a Plato, in his Tim eus, teaches that from the number ’ a A mma seven was gener ted the Soul of the World , M a nda a n (Adam Kadmon ). The s even wise men of Greece were ”

B C . 0 . Bias who said, Most men are bad , . 5 5 ”

B . C . 0 Chilo Consider the end, 5 9 . ” l . b l B 8 . C eo u os . C 0 Avoid Extremes , 5 Periander Nothing is impossible to persever ” B 6 00 nc . C a e, . . a B . C 6 . Pitt cus Know thy opportunity, . 5 9 ”

B C . 6 00 . Solon Know thyself, . ”

a B C . 0 . Th les Suretyship is ruin, . 55 The Seven Wonders of the World are thus enumer ated 1 . Pyramids of Egypt .

2 . i S emiram I s . The hang ng Gardens of Babylon, for M au l . sO us of 3 Tomb of , King Caria, at Halicarnassus,

built by Artemisia, his Queen .

. 2 B C 4 Temple of Diana at Ephesus , 5 5 . . Ctesiphon

was the chief architect .

. d 5 Colossus of Rho es, an image of the sun god,

2 B . . Apollo, of brass , 90 C 7 6

6 . Statue of Zeus , at Athens, by Phidias . of 7 . Pharos Egypt, built by Ptolemy Philadelphus , of

m arble 2 8 B . C white , 3 . or the Palace of Cyrus

which is sometimes substituted . Sanskrit lore has very frequent reference to this number note S a ta i Sa ta S a t a p Rish , seven sages ; p Kula, 7 castes ; p d S a ta S a ta D w i a Loka, seven worl s ; p Para, 7 cities ; p p , S a ta A rania r S a ta seven holy islands ; p , 7 dese ts ; p Parna, S a ta a ta 7 human principles p Samudra, seven holy seas ; S p V ru ksha , 7 holy trees . The Assyrian Tablets also teem with groups of sevens 7 gods of sky ; 7 gods of earth ; 7 gods of fiery spheres : seven gods m aleficent ; seven phantoms ; spirits of seven heavens spirits of seven earths The Chaldean notion seems to have been that 7 was a

holy number which became nefast under certain conditions . The Opposite sides of a die added together are always seven in 6 I total numeration, the 4 opposite 3 , opposite , and so on .

‘ ‘ ia I t L l used to be asserted , says John Heydon , that every s e seventh Male born without any femal coming between, ’ ‘ 3 or can cure the King s Evil, by Word, Touch . 1 St . James iii . 7 gives the 7 characters of wisdom . \ After Birth the 7 th hour decides whether the child will f off live, in 7 days the cord alls , in twice 7 days the eyes

follow a light, thrice 7 days turns the head, 7 months gets

teeth , twice 7 months sits firmly, thrice 7 months begins to

talk, after 4 times 7 months walks strongly .

After 7 years, teeth of second set appear . 1 After 4 years is the arrival of generative power . 2 1 After the hair of Manhood is completed . A 2 8 fter we cease to grow, at 3 5 is greatest strength, 0 of at 49 is the greatest discretion, and 7 is the natural end

Life .

The Moon passes through stages of 7 days in increase,

full, decrease, and renewal . Naaman was ordered by Elisha (an Adept) t o take seven

dips in Jordan , to cleanse himself from Leprosy . 7 7

The Golden Candlestick of Seven Branches was a notable

emblematic ornament of the Tabernacle of Moses , Exodus

. 1 xxv 3 . Note the seven years for Repentance ; 7 churches of or A ssiah Asia ( ), 7 Angels with Trumpets, 7 candlesticks P of the Holy laces, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 kings, 7 thousands a ce slain, 7 vials of wrath to be poured out, p the Apocalypse . ’ m ember e g i make a Freemasons lodge p rfect, although 5 M may hold one . Fr i a r anc s B rrett, in his Magus, catalogues 7 Bi ds, m f o d . Fishes, Animals, metals, stones, and me bers the bo y It has been said there are seven apertures of the skull

to correspond with the planets . There are Seven Degrees in the Oriental Order of Sikha and the I have doubts of the

Order of the name,

From the relative length of their courses the ancients e d constructed a Plan tary Lad er, with Vowel Symbols, thus i u t . Moon Merc . Venus Sun Mars J p Saturn a e ee i o u 00

These symbols were used in mystical knowledge, as an

Inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi shows, where

E I meant the Sun and its nearest Planet, Sun and

Mercury ; and Mercury was often represented as a Dog,

following a Sun Man .

r 1 . 1 8 The Oracle of Cla os (Macrobius , Saturnalia, ) said that I A O (the Gnostic Deity) was the Sun and the first

and last of the planetary set, hence the 7 Concentric spheres . Duncan assigns these Minerals and A nimals to the 7

Heavenly Bodies known to the ancient world .

Moon , Bull , Silver Mars , Wolf, Iron

Mercury, Serpent, Quicksilver Jupiter, Eagle, Pewter

” CO er Venus , Dove, pp Saturn, Ass, Lead

Sun, Lion, Gold Note also the number of 7 pipes in the Musical instru old ment at the mouth of the deity Pan , the Great Whole,

a Sun God (n ot the later Rural Pan). 7 8

An ancient symbol of the universe was a Ship with seven o pilots, in the centre of the ship, a Lion p ssibly from an rose idea that th e Sun first in Leo .

Note Aries supplanted Taurus, as the constellation in which the sun rises at the Vernal equinox ; Taurus was the sign at the early fabulous periods of the earth—it was displaced about 3 00 B . C . The Sign becomes changed every 2 1 5 0 years by the precession of the equinoxes : Pisces has now followed Aries ; but the Sun is still said to enter the E Sign Aries at the Vernal quinox about March 2 1 5 1. Its 1 00 w s ome a actual position in March 9 a near g Pisces . of T . Subba Row describes the Seven Primary Forces

Nature as six powers resumed in a seventh . These are

called Sakti (Mahamaya) and are related to Kanya, 6th P arasakti Virgo, as the Zodiacal Sign ; they are , force of I nanasakti I tc asakti light and heat ; , intellect ; h , cause f Kri asakti O voluntary movements ; y , energy of will ; force Kundalini sakti, the life shown in attraction and M antrika repulsion, positive and negative ; sakti, the power

of s ounds , vibration, music, words and speech ; these are = summarized in D aivi prakriti the Light of the Logos . w m e Our physical senses kno n as 5 , are an inco plet set, of ar there are indeed 7 forms or modes perception, as appe s in the highest developments of the Chabrat z ereh aur o h r b k e , and as described in the oldest Sanskrit occult of anishads z— science the Up smell, taste, sight, touch, — 6th th hearing and , Mental preception, with 7 , spiritual understanding : the two latter were not dwarfed and materialized into noticeable organs in this fifth Race of For beings , to which Man now belongs . a fuller explana ” f i o . tion see the Secret Doctr ne H . P . Blavatsky The Archaic scheme recogniz ed Seven States of Matter - homo eneou s cu rdlike g , aeriform, nebulous or , atomic, germinal

fiery elemental, fourfold vapoury, and lastly that which is cold and dependent on a vivifying Sun for light and heat . m M ALKUTH Kabalah Our Earth, sy bolised by of the , is f on the seventh o a series , and is the Fourth plane ; it is 7 9

esod f h generated by J , the oundation the Sixt World , and after complete purification will in the 7 th Race of the 7th Cycle become re - united to the Spiritual Logos and in

“ the end to the Absolute . Our earth has been already thrice changed, and each cycle sees seven kings (as of E dom). There were Seven Kings of Edom, Genesis , xxxvi . V 1 . 3 ; the Kabalists consider these as types of primordial worlds which failed to survive their creation . Seven is the key to the Mosaic creation, as to the symbols of every religion .

There are Seven Planes of being, the upper three are sub ective j and unknowable to mankind , the lower four are Objective and may be contemplated by man as metaphysical : abstractions so there are the seven Principles in Man , and d from the lower group of four at dissolution . The Seven c onstituting man are variously E named by the soteric Buddhism , by the Vedantic scheme, and by other philosophies, but they correspond in idea ; t C firs from above ome Atma, a ray from the Absolute ;

Buddhi, spiritual soul ; and Manas , human soul ; these are e the superior triad, which separates at human d ath, from the lower tetrad of principles . The lower four are Kama rupa, a the passions ; Linga Sarira, the astral body ; Pr na, life S thu la essence ; and Sarira, the lower body see the dogmas E of soteric Buddhism . Kabalah The divides these into four planes of the Soul, which are further separated by adepts these are Chiah , N eshamah o to , Ruach and Nephesh, which corres p nd of A tz ilu th Y tz irah and the symbolical worlds , Briah, e

A ssiah. There is an occult reference in the Seven stars in the of head Taurus called the Pleiades, six present and one — to of A hidden said be daughters tlas, who, pursued by

Orion , were changed by Zeus in mercy into pigeons (peleia).

The missing one is Merope, who married the mortal for Sisyphus, and hides herself shame . Seven was the number of the Rabbis w ho left the ” ten d Greater Holy Assembly ; had forme it, three had 80

“ “ from SVD . passed away the Sod, , mystery See The ” “ ” Greater and Lesser Holy Assembly, or the Ha Idra u Rabba Q adisha and Ha Idra Suta Qu adisha . Athanasius Kircher the Jesuit states that the ancient Egyptians associated numbers to the planets as follows I Saturn 3 . 9. s. 45 I 6 1 6 Jupiter 4. . 3 4. 3 2 6 2 Mars 5 , 5 , 5 , 3 5 S ol 6 6 1 1 1 666 , 3 , , 1 1 2 2 Venus 7 , 49 , 45 , 5 0 2 0 80 Mercury 2 6 , 2 1 Luna 9, 3 5 “ ” rancI S . In this matter see also F Barrett, The Magus The later Coptic names of the 7 Gods and planets and of of ar : Genii the World the Ancient Egyptians e Saturn, R e han God P icheu s God of p , of time ; Jupiter, , life ;

‘ God t P hre Fire Mars, Moloch, of destruc ion ; Sol, or ,

meaning Holy Lord ; Venus, Suroth , lady of love ; H ermanu bis Mercury, Hermes, , God of speech ; and Luna,

P iooh of . , lady the waters of In China 7 is the number of Death, and their days mourning are 7 times 7 : the Seven Star Plank is the name of f I n of the bottom plank a co fin which they bore 7 holes . T atw as le The Hindoos speak of 7 , the abstract princip s of existence, metaphysical and physical, the subtle elements

and the corresponding human senses, of which only five are S O yet developed . there are five exoteric, Akasa, Vayu, A P rithw i Tejas , pas and the first two esoteric yet unknown

A n u adaka . are Ani and p The first name means One,

Unity, the Atom, and is a name of Brahma ; the latter

- means parentless, self existent . The first five are referred : to primeval Aether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth and to

Hearing, Touch, Sight, Taste and Smell ; note Air is “ n ot Hearing . See R ama Prasad on The T atw as . The Sanscrit names o f the Seven Planets used I n Hindoo for for Astrology are Surya the Sun, Chandra Moon, for for for Kuja Mars , Budhan Mercury, Guru Jupiter, for : Sukra Venus, and Shani for Saturn then there are

8 2 — . r 1 0 1 2 be contradicted in Joshua v ve ses . He was born

on the same day of the same month . ’ ‘ Qfi l he Bava Kama says that after 7 years a male hyaena

Becomes a bat, in another 7 years a Vampire, after another i h . a T orn, and after another is turned into a demon If a “ n I man fails to pray devoutly for 7 years, his spine after death

becomes a serpent .

Besides those who prophesied for Israel, there were 7 E az other prophets , Beor, Balaam , Job, liph , Bildad , Zohar, nd ( a Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite . “ ” ’ B athra J , ,The Bava says that 7 men form an unbroken

. e series to this day Adam was se n by Methuselah, then

, E 1 , Shem , Jacob, Amram Ahijah the Shilonite, and lijah,

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

efo re his allotted time . This dictum of the treatise

Sanhedrin is a statement of predestination .

A Ram has but one voice while alive, but after death his

makes 7 sounds ; his horns make two trumpets ,

his thigh bones two pipes, his skin will cover a drum , the

large intestines are formed into strings for the lyre, and ” the small intestines will make the small strings for the

harp . 1 2 2 In the Sabbat, 5 . , of the Talmud it is said that the Soul of o a man watches over his c rpse for 7 days . Compare this with the Theosophic teaching that the Linga Sarira broods

over the body for a week after death .

' Rabbi Nathan says that 7 good qualities avail at the

Judgment ; wisdom , righteousness , good opinions, mercy,

truth, grace, and peace . Seven epithets are applied to the A retz A re u a Earth in the Hebrew tongue ; , Adamah , q , Gia, T z iah Yabeshah hel T hebel ed . , , C or The mystical River S ambat on th y flowed all the week, but was still on the 7 day,

H r h 1 . . e on a says Rashi s , Talmudic Miscell ny, 54 are The 7 Catholic Deadly Sins Pride, covetousness, lust,

a d . anger, gluttony, envy n sloth

f . v . 2 The 7 Gi ts of the Holy Spirit, Isaiah xi , are

Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge , 8 3

Piety and Fear of the Lord these are seven of the

Kabalistic Sephiroth . of Go r Seven is the token Union between d, who is T iune,

15 . . . . and Man, who Quaternary W F Shaw The Holy Ghost 13 said to impart a 7 - fold gift ; 7 Lamps

burn before the Throne of God . The Council of Arles declared that 7 Bishops ought to of take part in the Ordination a Bishop . ’ There was a 7 years probation for adm I S S I on to the Celtic f are Order o the Culdees . There 7 Vestments of the

Christian priesthood, and Bishops should wear 7 others, a ff Sandals, D lmatic, Rational , Mitre, Gloves, Ring and Sta . f The 7 Champions of Christendom were St . George or f . . o England, St Denis of France, St James Spain, St .

Andrew David of Wales, St . Patrick of

of Italy .

Ephesus, according to the monkish I n ersecu legend, were Christians who hid a cave under the p tions of Decius I n the Third Century ; they fell into a trance

2 00 . A D . n and slept years They awaked in . 447 and goi g t he to Emperor Theodosius II . , they convinced him of the ' of : truth the Life beyond the grave this done, they returned

to the cave to sleep until the Last Judgment . The 7 Dolours of the Vir gin Mary is the name of a Roman

Catholic Fast Day held on the Friday before Palm Sunday . The 7 W ise Masters were officers of King Kurush who tell ’ son : stories to save the life of the King s they exist in Greek ,

' in E n lish Syriac, Hebrew, Persian , and g are called The Book

Sindibad . of , edited by Clouston The Coptic Gnostics represented the Jehovah of the n Hebrews by a curious arra gement of the 7 vowels , without I E H OOU A n a consonant ; thus (the H is the Greek eta, lo g

e ; and the first O is the Greek long 0, omega). In the Zoroastrian theology we read of the highest beings A m shas ands of f the 7 p Ormuzd, source li e ; Bahman, the of A rdibehest king this world ; , fire producer ; Shahrivar, the f andarmat ormer of metals ; Sp , queen of the earth (the

Gnostic Sophia) ; Khordad, the ruler of times and seasons ; 84

A m erdad and , ruling over the vegetable world . Below 2 I z e s there are the 7 d , ruled over by Mithras ; in Opposition w of to these were po ers darkness, the 7 arch devs, and the

2 or . 7 devs, devils as we call them

The historic city of Rome, pagan before it was Christian , o was built upon Seven Hills the Palatine, C elian, Aventine,

Viminal, Quirinal, Esquiline, and the Capitol . In Latin e ticollis times it was called Urbs S p . Some old authors of n for speak Valentia as a secret ame Rome . ”

. . . 2 n The Bijou Notes and Queries, vol xiv , p 3 5, says that a % the 7 days of the week have all been used as sacred days ; Sunday by Christians ; 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 was first published E . in 1 8 8 1 8 8 of 1 I and , 7 , and 7 is the sum 7 hundreds, 7 tens ,

1 . . . 1 1 7 units ; H P B lived at 7 Lansdowne Road, and 7 a “ ” Avenue Road ; Lucifer was published at 7 Duke Street ; 7 volumes were completed at her death ; Colonel Olcott first 1 met her at 7 Beckman Street, and later at 7 Broadway, n of New York . A na Kingsford was elected president first “ h 1 8 8 ° m . t U the London T . S Lodge on 7 January 3 Isis I n 1 8 veiled was published 7 7 , and the Third volume Of the ” l I n 1 8 . Secret Doctrine was published 9 7 , after her death E O D OA D . 8 T H G .

I s of the first cube energy, and is the only evenly even

number within the decad . The Greeks thought it an “ all- powerful number ; they had a Proverb all things are ” eight . am erariu s of of i C , in his edition the Arithmetic N co ma c s al hu , calls it Harmony , because musical ratios are

number . 8 ses u ioctave is q , this forms a tone and

is attributed t o the Moon . 1 2 to 9 is sesquitertian Mercury . 1 2 to 8 is sesquialter 1 6 to 1 2 is sesquitertian Venus . 1 6 to 8 is duple

1 8 to 1 2 is sesquialter . 1 8 to 9 is duple 2 1 to 9 is duple sesqu I tertian 2 4 to 1 8 is sesquitertian 2 4 to 1 2 is duple Attributed to 2 4 to 8 is triple Jupiter . 1 8 to 1 2 sesquialter 1 2 t o 8 3 2 to 2 4 sesquitertian Saturn . 3 2 to 8 quadruple Are ascribed to the 3 6 to 2 4 sesquialter l 8 th or I nerra 3 6 to 1 8 duple tic Sphere which 3 6 to 8 quadruple comprehends all 2 4 to 1 8 sesquitertian s J the re t . 86

“ ” dmei Hence the Ogdoad was also called Ca a, because Harmony was looked upon as the wife of Cadmus and - r Ol m iod oru s Cadmus meant the Sub luna y World, as y p

says . Eight was called also Mother, and Rhea, Cybele and re re Dindymene, from being the first cube, and a cube p

senting the earth . The eight persons saved from the flood of Xisuthru s are Of 8 synonyms many octaves of gods, such as the Cabiri great gods of Samothrace see Bryant and Faber on this

myth . 8 There are Beatitudes of the Christian religion, Matthew ,

V . chap . Of Eight is the number of the Moons Saturn . 4 There have been several Masonic orders concerned with t N oachite of his Ogdoad, as the Prussian masons, Knights R o aLA xe Libanu s the y , or Prince of , the Noachites, and I the Royal Ark Mariners, which is a subsidiary order to the lM ark Master Masons .

Macrobius says the Ogdoad was the type of Justice, m s because it consists of evenly even nu ber , and on account

of its equal divisions . a 8 E f John Heydon tells us th t vents be all the Damned, 8 f and that there are rewards o the Blessed . 8 The number was sacred to Dionysos, who was born at the 8th month the isle of Naxos was dedicated to him and a t o of n it was gr nted the women Naxos , that their childre 8th for born in the month should live, whereas it is usual th h such to die, although those born in either the 7 or the 9t

month are usually reared . The Jews were accustomed to practise CircumcI SI on on

male infants upon the 8th day after birt h . The Jews at the Chanu cah or Feast of Dedication lit 8

a 8 . E n kainia candles , and it l sted days This is the g of A 2 2 . S w John x . to conjuring among the ancient Je s, it

. I 8 is said in Talmud , Succah, 5 3 , that Levi played with knives Samuel in the presence of the King Sapor of Persia 8 8 s . used cups, and Abaji before R abbi Rava used egg

Eight prophets were descended from Rahab the Harlot , 87

i v z . N eraiah M aasiah h a e , , Seraiah, , Jeremia , Hilkiah , H nn m eel , and Shallum . Note also that Huldah the prophetess was the grandchild of Rahab . 8 The last verses of Deuteronomy, The Mosaic Law, The i B athra Pentateuch, were wr tten by Joshua . Bava , Rabbi Nathan states that there were 8 sects of the Pharisees : but both of the Talmuds (Jerusalem and r Babylon) name only seven . It is prophesied that the Ha ps which will be played on earth be fore the M essiah will have 8 . B rachin 1 2 . strings , 3 . so 8 As seven was the number of the original Creation , , R e says W . F . Shaw, may be considered as the Day of k f . A r O generation Eight souls were saved in the Noah , 8th n c h = 8 and Noah was the in descent, his ame was 8 times 64 . “ 8 8 8 is the s cial number of Jesus Christ as He w ho F ” esu rrec is t e and the Life . He is the great opponent 666 f ’ of o the B eas . of thee , the r t , the number a Man t o 8 m s The a—ncient e writings refer usical sound , the Pah yin . (G . Schlegel . ) 88

T H E E N N E A D . 9.

T H E Ennead is the first square of an odd number, it was said to be like the Ocean flowing around the other numbers no within the Decad ; further elementary number is possible, hence it is like the Horizon because all the numbers are bounded by it . We find that it was called Prometheus , “ ” “ and Freedom from Strife, and Vulcan , because the far f ascent of numbers is as as 9, just as the ascent o things decomposed by fire is as far as the sphere of Fire (the sum of of mit the air), and Juno, because the Sphere the air is “ t o arranged according the novenary system , and sister ” and wife to Jupiter from its conjunction with the Monad . And T elesphoros or Bringing t o an end because the ff r nt human o spring is carried 9 calendar months by the pa e . ' telet as or for And perfect the same reason , and also called ” I S Perfect because it generated from the Triad, which is “ ” called Perfect . I s to it s Attention called being an emblem of Matter, which, ever varying, is never destroyed ; so the number 9 when

° multiplied by any number always reproduces itself, thus 9 times 2 are 1 8 and 8 plus I are nine : and so on as below = = 9 X 3 2 7 5 2 + 7 9 9 9 x 4 = 3 6 3 9 x 5 : 45 3 4 + 5 : 9 == 9 X 7 = 63 3 9 9 X 1 6 I 44 3 = = 9 X 8 = 7 2 3 9 X I 7 1 53 ; 3 + 5 + I 9 = 9 X 9 = 8 1 5 9 X I 8 1 6 2 ; 9 X I ° = 9° 5 9 X I I = 99 5

90

ortu na . b Santa, F and Fides The Sa ines became merged 2 66 B with the Romans about . C . ” The Nine gods of the Etruscans were Juno, Minerva, a Tini , Vulcan , Mars, Saturn, Hercules , Summanus and Vediu s the Etruscans also became united with the

Romans . ’ ” a Note in Macaul y s poem of Horatius, Lars Porsena ”

ni ne 6 B . C Lars of Clusium by the gods he swore, in 5 9 . Porsena led the Etruscans ; they w ere then most powerful la w from the Etruscans the Romans took much of their , custom and superstition . t I is by nines that Eastern presents are given , when they n t o would extend their magnifice ce the greatest degree, as “ 1 mentioned in Comte de Caylus, Oriental Tales . 743 . ’ Barrett s Magus note—s also 9 precious stones, 9 orders he . of devils, 9 choirs of angels copies from John Heydon t i N u ndinals No e in th s connection the of the Romans, of 8 who marked the days by letters into parcels days, and on every 9th day the people left their pursuits and went to L to the towns market ; hence the jocular atin saying, ' ’ ' T r es ma lzer es N a ndz a as at z a nt n u ndinals are f . These a ou r of type of Dominical letters , a set seven marking out 8 the th days . The Romans also held a purification cere f th of mony on male in ants on the 9 day life, hence the presiding goddess of this rite was called Nundina The Nones were one of the sets of days compo sing each N ovenn alia calendar month . The Roman was a feast in h r memory of the dead celebrated every 9t yea . The Novendiale was an occasional Roman Catholic fast to

R C . avert calamities, from this arose the system of

N euvaines . ” There is a Masonic order of Nine Elected Knights,

k . in which 9 roses, 9 lights and 9 knoc s are used

The Mahometans have 99 names of the deity . Some Jews have taught that God has 9 times descended to ear th ; I 2 nd f rd st in Eden , at the con usion of tongues, 3 at the of th th destruction Sodom, 4 to Moses at Horeb, s at 6th th 8 th the Sinai, to Balaam , 7 to Elisha, in Tabernacle, 9 1 and 9th in the Temple at Jerusalem and that his r oth a coming as the Messiah will be fin l . The ancients had a fear of the number Nine and its 8 1 ° e of multiples, especially they thought th m evil presage, indicating change and fragility. A t h v the 9t hour Jesus the Sa iour died . “ Nine I S also the earth under evil influences . “ ” n . . Joh Heydon In the Holy Guide, and M Ragon , in ” J M a onnerie his e Occulte, thus associate numbers with the

Planets .

1 2 Sun and 4, Moon and 7 , Jupiter 3 , Mercury 5 , 6 n 8 M ars . Venus , Satur , 9 and the Zodiacal Signs thus

1 Leo ius 3 Capricornus 4 S agittarius 5 Cancer 6 s 7 Aries 8 Li bra 0 1 1 1 2 9 Scorpio 1 Pisces Gemini .

The First and the Second Temples of the Jews were both th destroyed on the 9 day of the Jewish month Ab . On the 9th day of Ab modern Jews do not wear the T alith and

Phylacteries until evening . The day should be spent in

of a . tears, and no good comes work done on th t day i h 2 0 1 r fer S ote . e s The Talmud n , , says that a woman p one measu re of fun to 9 of Pharisaic professional goodness . ’ Nine persons have entered A lw e into the Jews Paradise ; E z of noch, Elijah , Messiah, Elie er the servant Abraham , r n of k Hi am ki g Tyre , Ebed Mele the Ethiop, Jabez the son ehu da B athia of of J the Prince, daughter Pharaoh, and

Sarah the daughter of Asher . Some Rabbis add Rabbi Yoshu a son d not of Levi, but he entere at the door, but

he K thu oth 2 . e t e b . climb d over wall . See , 7 In the 1 4sth Psalm we find 9 reasons for praI sing God The Great Eleusinian Mysteries were the successors of and r the Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris, we e cele brat ed of at Eleusis and possibly also at Athens, in honour Ceres co m Demeter or ; they occupied 9 days, and were 9 2

Tm enced on the fifteenth day of the third Attic month, m : Boedromion, Septe ber they took place once in every

five years . hf The Lesser Mysteries were perfo rmed in the month e on I l ssu s Elaphebolion, March , at Agr e the River y in f or u of o . honour Persephone Proserpine, da ghter Ceres Candidates after reception became M ystae : in the Greater

Mysteries they became E pOptae. The ceremonies were

T eletai erfe ctin s . 1 8 0 0 called , p g They remained in use for

years, and were only ceased in the time of the Emperor

A . D . Theodosius, . 3 95 Mention of 9 Worthies is found in literature ; they were — son of 3 Gentiles Hector King Priam, Alexander the ae — u Great and Julius C sar 3 Jews Josh a, David and Judas b — e Macca eus 3 Christians King Arthur of Britain, Charl

magne and Godfrey de Bouillon . 9 3

T H E D E CA D . I o.

E T en P A N TE LE I A H Decad, number , or , which meant ” “ ” All complete o r fully accomplished, is the grand of a summit numbers, which once re ched cannot be passed to in gease the sum we must retrograde to the Monad . 7/ The Pythagoreans were entranced with its Virtues and

called it Deity, Heaven, Eternity and the Sun .

i Ten or receptacle of all numbers was f/ ' = called to receive, and hence Heaven, which was ordaine

Like the Deity it is a Circle, with visible centre, but its t oo V circumference ast for sight . It is the sum of the units of the number four as previously 1 mentioned, a holy and Deistic number, thus 1 0 are , and thus ten gains splendour from its parentage . ” Also spoken of as Eternity, which is infinite life, i/ becau se it contains every number in itself, and number is

infinite . t e It is also called Kosmos, that is h Universe . Proclus : says The decad is mundane also, it is the world which

receives the images of all the divine numbers, which are a supernatur lly imparted to it . ” It is called the fountain of eternal nature, because if

we take the half, five as the middle number, and add

viz . 6 together the next above and the next below , , and 4, a 1 0 we m ke , and the next two in a similar manner 7 and 3 1 0 1 are ; and so on 8 and . 2 and 9 and give the same

result .

All nations reckon by the Decimal scale of notation, to 94

which they were no doubt led from the convenience of of counting the ten digits the hands . ’ ’ “ Klez aoakos 15 i It is also spoken of as , that , hav ng ” of custody of others, the magazine the other numbers, because other numbers are branches from it : also called : Fate, which comprises all sorts of events Age, Power ; 1 0 of Atlas , because it supports the spheres Heaven ; “ Phanes ; Memory ; Urania ; and The first Square, because of s it consists the fir t four numbers . T w o Old conceits were that the Tenth wave of the sea is always larger than others ; and that birds laid the r o t h egg

of a larger size than the others . f “ The word Ten was used by the Hebrews, instead o a tr nslat large number, so that care must be exercised in a “ ” ing this ; thus Nehemiah interprets ten generations Of “ ” v . . Deuteronomy xxiii . 3 to mean for ever Nehemiah

X111 . 1 .

6 1 0 The Kabalists called 5 , and circular numbers, because when squared, the result Shows the same number in the unit figure, thus

5 times 5 are 2 5 and 5 times 2 5 are 1 2 5 6 times 6 are 3 6 6 times 3 6 are 2 1 6 1 0 times 1 0 are 1 0 0 1 0 times 1 00 are 1 0 00

“ ’ Old h An periphrasis mentioned by S akespeare is, I d “ ” the set my ten commandments in your face, meaning 2 finger nails for scratching See Henry VI . i . 3 . The Mahometans say that ten animals were admitted to

Paradise . 1 im d . Krat o . , the g of the Seven Sleepers

2 . . Ass of Balaam

o . 3 . Ant f Solomon

of . 4 . Whale Jonah ff 5 . The Calf (not Ram) o ered to Jehovah by Abraham instead of Isaac , his son .

6 of . . The Ox Moses

t eb . 7 . The Camel of the prophe Sale 9 5

f o l . 8 . The Cuckoo Be kis

9 . The Ram Of Ishmael . 0 k 1 . Al Bore , the Animal which conveyed Mahomet to heaven . “ 1 to 1 0 m We find 0 generations from Adam Noah , fro 0 of Shem to Abraham . The 1 spiritual graces Christianity

o - ff are Love, j y, peace, long su ering, gentleness, goodness , ”

D r . faith, prudence, meekness, and temperance, says . G Oliver ; although where he gets 1 0 generations from Adam

t o not . Noah, I know Under 1 0 also falls the mention of the Pythagorean Tri t n of angle, Tetrac ys, consisti g an equilateral triangle enclosing O S : ten Y D thus the upper is the Monad , the second line the Dyad, the third the Triad, and the fourth the Quaternary or : fou r of Tetrad representing the forms point, line, super fi ies c and solid . A similar form is given by Hebrew b Ka alists to the deity number, by placing in a triangle four two Vaus and on e Heh of final, being the H the Tetragrammaton or

they may be put conversely .

Note that ten is used as a Sign of fellowship, love, peace , nI on and U , in the Masonic third token , the union of two five of points Fellowship . 1 0 1 0 In the Bible we notice Commandments , instruments 1 0 to which Jewish Psalms were sung , strings in the

Psaltery, and that the Holy Ghost descended ten days

after the Ascension . T u cer R abanu s , and Raymond Lully associate the 8 to 6 1 2 numbers to Air, 5 Fire, to Earth and to

Water. Apuleius states that among the Egyptians it was 1 0 d customary to fast ays before sacrificing, and Budge says that they u seda I O - day week The Ten Sephiroth form the essence of the Hebrew Ka balah t oo dogmatic , a subject which is vast and complex

to be entered upon in this volume on numerals . A mere glance at the S ephirotic em anations of the Absolute D eity from the mathematical point of View is all that can be 96

“ ” attempted ; my Introduction to the Kabalah may be referred to . From A I N the Absolute Passive Negativity , proceeds A I N U P H A I N P R S the Limitless, and then S U H A U Bound t f less Light, which concentra es in the first manifestation o KT R Keth r : the Sephiroth , which is the Crown, , e from Kether ChKM H Chochm ah proceeds , , Wisdom, an active

masculine potency, and BINH, Binah, Understanding, a passive feminine power .

These three form the Supernal Triad . The fourth and ChS D fifth are , Chesed, Mercy, active and male, and V burah m GB R H Ge . , , Strength , passive and fe ale T P A R T T i hereth The sixth Sephira is the notable , p , the on Beauty, the central sun , the Logos , Manifested S

this completes a second triangle, the reflection of the

former . N T z ch N etz ach Number seven is , , Victory , active, and H VD H od the eighth is , , Splendour, passive ; the ninth YSVD Yesod is , , the Foundation, completing the third

or . trinity, triangle M LKT M alku th e , , the T nth Sephira, completes the

. S on emanations She is the Bride of Microprosopus the , u n the S , Logos ; she is the Inferior Mother, Queen , and

the Manifested Universe . The whole Ten are viewed as reignin g over Four Worlds r of of A z ilu th o Planes Existence ; these are the Worlds ,

Yetz irah A ssiah. M alku th of Briah , and on the plane

A ssiah alone is the visible tangible universe . These Ten Sephiroth are the prototypes of everything o f : spiritual , and also every part of creation they are traced

in the angelic host and in our universe three superior, and seven succedent exist in all things ; the lower seven are

obvious to the uninitiated, but in these manifestations the

supernal triad is veiled to the profane . Some occultists phrase it thus—three are subjective and incomprehensible to ma n seven are Objective and compre n i l o he s b e ; thus Seven archangels are comm nly named , and of we have known only Seven great planets of our system .

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t The Rabbis taugh that a man should divorce his wife, i f for She had n o offspring . n e 1 0 “ At funerals , co dolences were recit d by men , and at w e ddings by ten men including the bridegroom . Ten cups w — r ere drunk at a funeral party three before supper, th ee at s upper, and four after the meal at the recitation of the four b lessings . Abraham was tested 1 0 times 1 0 Miracles were performed f 0 %I n Egypt t o help the Children o Israel, and 1 at the Red

. t o f S ea Ten plagues were made a flict the Egyptians . Ten t imes the Jews offended God in the Wilderness . Ten times did the Shekinah come down into the world a t the Garden of Eden at the Tower of Babel at Sodom

8 . i n . Egypt, see Exodus iii at the Red Sea, Psalm cviii 9 o n Mount Sinai ; at the Temple ; in the Pillar of Cloud ; o n of r oth the Mount Olives, see Zechariah xiv. 4 ; the is ’ o A n mitted in the original reference, voth d Rabbi Natha , c hap . 3 4. 1 0 t o 1 0 There are Hebrew words designate Idols, and

for Joy . Sodom was to be spared for 1 0 righteous men ; G 1 0 ideon took servants to destroy the Altar of Baal , Boaz ’ C 1 0 w sfor ° oab s u hose itnesse his marriage with Ruth , J armo r w I O f 1 0 as . o borne by young men Jesu s speaks talents , 1 0 1 0 o f 1 0 cities, pieces silver, and gave a parable of

V . n irgins The Taber acle has many 1 0 dimensions . There a re 1 0 of God 1 0 1 0 Bible names , Canticles, and necessaries ’

f r m . o an s life Ecclus . 1 0 n There were Pythagorean Virtues of Initiatio , and the 1 0 P aram itas f B uddhists teach o Perfection .

‘ In the A lchymico- Kabalistic tract called Aesch Met ;z are h t o e p referred by Eliphaz L vi, and collected from the of R osenroth h Z ohar Knorr von and translated into Englis , “ ” f - i a n d . of m rm et ca orming Volume IV y Collectanea H e , w ill be found 1 0 names for Gold all extracted - from the Old

Testament ; they are there related to the Sephira Gebu rah. The Hindoo Puranas tell us of the 1 0 Avatars of the G od o Vishnu, the Preserver f the Brahmanic Religion ; t are hey periodical incarnations of the God . First as the 99

V 2 . araha Fish , Matsya . Kurma, the Tortoise ; 3 , the

- i ha . Vam ana . aras n Boar ; 4 N g , the Man Lion ; 5 , the

- 8 r Dwarf ; 6 . Parasu Rama 7 . Rama Chandra ; . K ishna ; r o th 9 . Buddha ; and the , Kalki, the Horse, is yet to r of c ome . These Avatars a e susceptible a mystical explana tion on the plane of cosmogony it has been given in the ” Garuda Temple of the Oriental Order of Light by Frater

T . H . Pattinson of Bradford, a very notable mystic and o n ccult stude t . V asishtha a In the Yoga Maha Ramayan of Valmiki, e u s . dited by Vihari Lala Mitra, will be fo nd an e say on

‘ Om - - on - id- Tat Sat, est, and this contains some very curious information on the 1 0 numerals as related t o the mystical ' s llable OM or A U M , x . A u m ani admé p hum means literally, Oh, the jewel y rn ” thfi Otu s In sticall t o the of in , and is taken y y mean spark t he D t w as ‘ , f s % ” Q iH vio n? e wi hin me as fully explained by Blavatsky f é w w fi to her E soterI c ieCIiOn of Theosophists . E LE VE N . 1 L

THIS seems to have been the type of a number with an

evil reputation among all peoples . The Kabalists con trasted of c it with the perfection the De ad , and just as the S e hirotic p number is the form of all good things, so eleven of is the essence all that is sinful, harmful and imperfect , with the Ten Sephiroth they contrasted the Eleven Averse of Sephiroth, symbols destruction, violence, defeat and

t . dea h On the oldest Tarot cards, the trump called the

Tower struck by Lightning, number XVI , shows the Ten Divine Sephiroth on one side and the Eleven Averse Sephiroth on the other side ; modern Tarot designs are y ery much debased . John Heydon says that by it we know the bodies of D evils and their nature ; the Jews understand by it Lilith, ’ - Adam s first wife, a she devil, dangerous to women in

° confinem entS hence they wrote on the walls - A D M “ hVH hVO L T i E ve C C LI I , that s, Adam, , out of doors ” Lilith . xn Jesus, in Matt . . 43 , plainly allows the doctrine that i evil sp rits may haunt fields, which Grotius says the Jews

think ; and their word Demon and Field are similar, being hD I M S hD I M S (fields), and (evil deities); the Siddim i I n v . are mentioned Psalm c . 3 7 “ “ and It is called the Number of Sins the Penitent,

W m i° of t he CorI i mandments because it exceeds the nu be , and

is less than twelve, which is the number of Grace and f Perfection . But sometimes even eleven receives a avour f m ro God, as in the case of the man who was called in the

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TW E LVE . 1 2.

S f n THI number has a per ect and notable character, a d was highly esteemed by most nations of antiquity. Almost all the twelves will be found to be allied , either obviously or in a concealed manner, with the Signs of the Zodiac, twelve signs or partitions of the great circle of the heavens — twelve times thirty degrees forming the perfect cycle of 3 60 arithmetical degrees of the circle : each sign was further

- sub divided into three decans . There are many of the learned who believe the twelve sons of Jacob, and

of . twelve founders tribes, are allegorical only We may ” mention the Twelve Grand Points of Masonry, which of used to form a part the lectures in the Craft degrees . of he Twelve events in the ceremony initiation, referred to t sons of Jacob, are given by Mackey I O . To Reuben was referred the pening of the Lodge he first - bom was the son . 2 —he r . To Simeon, the preparation of the land p epared of the destruction the Shechemites . L — . he 3 To evi, the report or signal gave the signal in

the attack on the men of Shechem . of — b 4. To Judah, the entrance the land that tri e first

entered the promised land . — . the 5 To Zebulun, prayer the prayer and blessing of f a his ather fell on him in preference to Issach r . 6 l —an e . To Issachar, the circumambu ation indol nt tribe, who required a leader . — . n to 7 To Dan , the advance to the Altar for a co trast

their rapid advance to idolatry . 1 03

’ 8 —ou e hthah s: . To Gad, the obligation account of J p

vow . s 9 . To Asher, the entrusting with rich Masonic blessing — f resembled the Fathers o their land . “ I O . To Naphtali, the investment and declared Free the tribe of Napht ali had a peculiar f reedom given

by Moses . I I N E m — ; . To Joseph , the . co er because Ephraim and t Manasseh (grandsons) represented him , newes

comers . 1 2 — b . of To Benjamin , the closing the Lodge as eing f i the last son o the Patr arch . s The following associations of Birds, Animals , and Flower with heavenly bodies has the authority of the Greco - Roman mythology

ek La in B i d A nim Ve et bl . G t . l re . r . a . g a e P allas Minerva Owl She- goat Olive Aphrodite Venus Dove H e - goat M yrtle Helios Cock Bull Laurel Hermes Ibis D og Hazel Zeus Jupiter Eagle Hart Horse - chestnut; Demeter Ceres Sparrow S ow Apple Hephaistos Vulcan Goose Ass B ox Ares Mars Magpie Wolf D og- wood Artemis Diana Daw Hind Palm Hestia Vesta Heron Lion Pine Hera Juno Peacock Sheep Thorn Poseidon Neptune Swan Horse Elm

The astrologers associated . colours with the twelve

of the Zodiac, thus

With Pisces, white u Aquarius, bl e or Capricorn, black brown or Sagittarius, yellow green

Scorpio, brown or s n Libra, black crim o

Virgo , black and blue 1 04

With Leo, red and green

Cancer, green and brown

Gemini , red

Aries, white

Taurus, white and yellow

th The Zodiacal Signs are also associated with Sex, and e c of ontrast Day and Night .

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

Fruitful

Lastly, the twelve signs are allotted to the planets as their houses

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The Rabbis said that at the first revelation the True of of 1 2 1 1 Name God was a word letters . Kiddushin, 7 . . The Mishna narrates the events of the first 1 2 hours ;

Adam fell into sin in the tenth Hour, was judged in the ou t o eleventh , and was cast f the Garden in the twelfth ; so

one . 8 he abode not even day in his dignity Sanhedrin , 3 . 2 u c em eron . Compare the N t of Apollonius of Tyana, e “ ” given by Eliphaz L vi in his Rituel de la Magie, Paris, 8 1 6 1 . ’ The 1 2 Stones of the High Priest s Breast- plate were — named Sardius, Topaz, Carbuncle , Emerald , Sapphire, h Diamond, Ligure or Jacint , Agate, Amethyst, Beryl,

Onyx, and Jasper . See Hebrew Ancient Version, Exodus

Xxvlll.

1 2 of I n The Foundations the Heavenly City, given — Revelations xxi . , are, Jasper, Sapphire, Chalcedony, Sardius ,

Sardonyx, Emerald, Topaz, Beryl, Chrysolite, Amethyst,

Jacinth and Chrysophrasu s . The 1 2 Hebrew Months were Abib or Nizan (March or Zif April), Iyar , Sivan , Thammuz, Ab, Elul, Tisri, Bul,

s - Chi leu, Tebeth, Shebat, Adar ; and the inter calary month

- V e Adar . 1 2 E a E i hi The gypti n Months were Pachon , Paoni, p p , M esori P haO hi A th r , Thoth, p , y , Choiak , Tobi, Mechir, P ham enoth and Pharmuthi the last be ginning on March 2 h 7 t . The 1 2 Sons of Jacob were related to the 1 2 Signs of the Zodiac by the Rosicrucians in a correct order ; other

schemes of attribution are given by Athanasius Kircher.

and others . z— That by Sir William Drummond is Aries to Gad, t o m e a Taurus Ephraim, Ge ini to B njamin , C ncer to N Issachar, Leo to Judah, Virgo to aphtali , Libra to Asher, a Scorpio to Dan, S gittary to Manasseh, Capricorn to Zebulun,

e e . Aquarius to Reuben, and Pisc s to Simeon and L vi 1 2 s — The Apo tles of Jesus were Simon Peter, Andrew,

James and John the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, son a us Thomas, Matthew also called Levi , James of Alph e , 1 07

a ae the Judas c lled Lebb us and Thaddeus , Simon Canaanite, e to and Judas Iscariot . The Venerable Bede propos d rename the Signs with the names of the apostles , and a “ sc heme of allotment is to be found in The Sphere of ” 1 6 . Marcus Manilius , by Edward Sherburne, London , 7 5 “ ” . . n See Notes and Queries, Vol xiv , Ma chester,

. 2 1 1 o s p . Westcott on the Z diac in Soc . Ros . Reports give the Christian allusions to the Zodiac . In an ordinary pa ck of Playing Cards there are 1 2 Court

Cards, but in the Tarot Pack there are also 4 Cavaliers . The Kabalists greatly esteemed the 1 2 - lettered Name of “ — H I H - H VVH - V I H I H erit or God, , meaning fuit, est, , m m ” w He was, is, will be . I H VH Less esoteric was the Triple Tetragrammaton, thrice written . All Fratres of the Rosicru cian Society of England will also A B B E N R U ch D sh A h- - ve be familiar with V H Q , Ben

ha- Ko sh Son Ruach de ; meaning Father, and Holy Spirit . The Rosicrucian Society had a scheme of distributing 1 2 shades of Colour among the Zodiacal Signs, but this is a secret matter ; many erroneous schemes have been published . 1 2 I n The Signs of the Zodiac are named Hebrew, T hau mim beginning with Aries Taleh, Shur, , Sartan , Ariah, B ethu leh M az anaim Kesith and , , Akrab, , Gedi, Deli, i AI AI A D a m . I g In Arabic ; Hamal, Thaur, Tauman , Al a A Zu bena Sart n, Al sad, Sunbul , Al , Al Akrab, Al Kaus, h . P e au Al Gedi, Debi and Al Haut In Chinese, y g , the l n sheep ; Kin nieu, golden bu l ; Shang h ing, two brothers ;

Kin hiai , crab ; Sin , lion ; Sha niu, the house girl ; Tien t chin h g , the claws of a scorpion ; Tien Kie, the scorpion ; man Gun Ma, the horse Mu Thien , the hill sheep ; Pao in h Yu tw o p g , precious vase ; and Shang , fishes . The old Sanskrit Hindoo names used by astrologers at R ishaba M ithu na Katakam the present time are ; Mesha, , , , ' Vrishchika D hanu s M akaram ' Simha, Kanya, Tulam , , , ,

Kumbha and Minam . The 1 2 simple letters of the Hebrew Alphabet have 1 08

f a finities with the Zodiacal Signs, but the order of relation R osI cru CI n is a a private doctrine . There were 1 2 recorded Appearances of Jesus after his

death ; to Mary Magdalene, to the Galician women, to two

“ disciples, to Peter, to ten apostles, to eleven apostles , to 00 seven apostles and others when fishing, to 5 brethren at to once, James the Less, to eleven apostles, to Stephen at t o l his martyrdom, Pau at his Conversion, and to the

apostle John . The I 2 hours marked in a watch face can be used to find

the cardinal points, if the time is correct, and the sun is

visible . Lay the watch flat and point the hour hand to the 1 h ‘ sun , and then the south will be alf way between that hour

and the figure XII .

The author of the Hymns of Orpheus, the Scholiast on 1 2 Hesiod, and Porphyry state that the Labours of Hercules

are said d t o be emblems of the sun in its passage through the ” I 2 signs, and this is repeated by the Mystagogus Poeticus,

1 6 an d - t o 5 3 , they have been allotted as follows Aries, the of to quest the Golden Apples of the Hesperides Taurus, of the slaying the Cretan Bull ; Gemini , Hercules and his

twin brother strangle the serpents ; Cancer, the taking of of Leo i of em aean the Herds Geryon , the slay ng the N

Lion ; Virgo, the victory over the Amazon Queen ; Libra, of E r m an thean the death the y boar ; Scorpio, the death of a of the Lern ean Hydra ; Sagittarius, the shooting the i o f Stymphal an Birds ; Capricornus, taking the hind alive t o a of Mycen e ; Aquarius, cleaning the stables Augeas f f o o . Pisces, the capture the horses Diomedes of God of 1 2 Janus the Romans is the the months, and 2 1 is drawn with 1 altars beneath his feet . He S the same I on ON of as Assyrian Ain, , Jan , Eastern nations ’ ” (Dunlop s Vestiges, John Heydon gives the following statements Prosperous numbers are 1 2 3 4 7 9 I I 1 3 1 4 Very good 1 6 1 7 1 9 2 0 2 2 2 3 1 0 2 6 2 7 Indifferent 5 6 8 1 2 1 5 1 8 2 1 Very bad 2 4 2 5 2 8 2 9 3 0

I I O

S OM E H I N D OO U S E S OF N U M B E R S .

I N r ancient India, in the Sanscrit language, ce tain words w ere used as equivalent to the low numbers : for One they s aid Moon or Earth : for Two they used many words of t s : for hings in pair such as eye, wing, arm Three they used or for Rama, fire guna, they knew of 3 Ramas, 3 kinds of or : for fire and 3 gunas qualities 4 they used Veda, age or ocean : for 6 they used Seasons : for 7 they used Sage or v owel : for 1 2 they said Sun or Zodiac ; and for 2 0 they

n . . used nails, mea ing those of hands and feet Edward B

Tylor . I I I

OTH E R H I GH E R N U M B E R S .

’ 1 of : 1 r T H E 4 days Burial, in the Master s degree 4 pa ts of : of into which the body Osiris was divided a type Christ, sacrificed on the 1 4th day of the month : an amulet of 1 4 t o points has been used cure the sick . There are 1 4 Books of the Apocrypha ; they were written I n Geeek originally , never in Hebrew . An Israelite had to partake of 1 4 meals I n the Booth during the Feast of Taber n acles . The Israelites killed the Paschal Lamb on the 1 4th day of the Month Nisan . i In Matthew, chap . . , we find the genealogy of Jesus : 1 m recited in three series of 4 na es , the first under Patri s o archs and judges , the ec nd under kings, and the third under priests and governors . The ancient physicians considered that the 1 4th day was e of th crisis fevers . for 1 The Moon waxes and wanes, each 4 days . 1 o ns 5 was the number of Pairs of The , or Holy of s Principles in the Gnostic scheme Valentinu . 1 8 H 5 is the number by Gematria of the th Sephira od ,

H U D . There were 1 5 steps in the Temple be tween the ante ’ of and court Israel the Women s Court, and in these were

- 1 a of . c 1 sung the 5 Ps lms Degrees ; Psalms cxx xxxiv . 5 of of God so is the number Jah , a name , the Jews who for H 1 0 1 wrote letters numbers, never wrote J , , 5 , for 5 , T V 1 but , 5 . The great day of joyful recreation for Jewish Maidens 1 1 2

w as 1 of the 5 th day the month Ab . The Deluge covered

the hills to the depth of 1 5 cubits . A Jewish boy in the olden time was ordered to begin the 1 study of the Gemara when 5 years of age . 1 6 r means Felicity ; a square number . The e are 1 6

Court Cards in a Tarot pack . “ 1 . et 7 In the treatise De Iside Osiride, Plutarch says 1 Osiris was killed on the 7th day of the moon , and hence when the moon was at the full—and from that reason the 1 Egyptians abominate the number 7 , and so did the — A nti hraxis Pythagoreans they called in p (obstruction), because it falls between the square number 1 6 and the 1 8 oblong number . 1 8 was deemed a protection against thieves . 1 8 1 8 1 8 . Isaiah made denunciations against Israel . At of years age a girl should go to the Nuptial Canopy . The Golden Candlestick of the Temple was 1 8 hands- breadths

. 1 8 tall There are Blessings in the Hebrew Liturgy . There were only 1 8 High Priests during the existence of or the First Solomonic Temple at Jerusalem . 1 1 9 . The number 9 is famous as being the number of years in the Metonic Cycle ; the cycle of the revolutions s of the moon, after which she returns to have her change

B . C on the same day of the solar year . Meto lived 43 3 . he was an Athenian ; he published his discover y at the

Olympic Games in the above year . The exact period is, 1 8 1 0 however, years and days . The Calippic period of

- four cycles, or seventy six years, was invented by Calippus, h B C 0 . t e . . 3 3 , to correct Meto John Heydon says that number 1 9 facilitates births and menses .

. 2 h 2 . 2 God w o 0 The Kiddushin, 9 , says may curse a man 2 0 old for does n ot marry at least when years , his life is a 2 0 constant transgression . A woman marrying before may o 2 0 bear children up t sixty ; at until forty, and after forty ’ B athra 1 1 2 T o 2 0 will have none . Bava , 9 . . die after days diarrhoea is to die pure . 1 2 1 2 1 s 2 . A hen sits days, and the Almond is ripe day after the flower falls .

1 1 4

E ar n s c n m t s a The ame and symbols a be obtained in Sanskrit ’ \a nd r b s S r of in Arabic. P octor elieve that olar Ast onomy h 1 2 2 0 B ‘ t e o 1 . C. cou n tr t signs arose ab ut 7 , in aj y of abou ‘ 6 es d en 3 degre of north latitude, and at a perio wh Taurus w as s of the fir t constellation the Zodiac . ’ 2 9 . The Rosh H ashanha says the period of the Moon s R 2 s evolution is 9 days and six hour and forty minutes . 0 a 0 off 3 . A me l of Lentils once in 3 days keeps the

Quinsy . At 3 0 years of age Jesus be gan his ministry ; J oseph was 3 0 years old whe n he stood before Pharaoh ; David was 3 0 year s old when he began to reign 30 pieces o f 0 silver was the price Judas received, and Jair had 3 sons . = 1 A L. 1 0 . 3 . The number of El, God 3 1 s not e n 3 . Jo hua did compl te the conquest of Ca aan 1 u ntil he had slain 3 kings .

2 . S e her 3 The number of the Paths of Wisdom , of the p Yetz irah 1 0 2 2 w , being Sephiroth and letters of the Hebre a lphabet . of f : 33 . The years the li e of Jesus King David reigned i n Jerusalem 3 3 years : the number of vertebrae in the h uman spinal column .

. GLA c 3 5 The number of Agla, A , a omposite Kaba

- listic . S ee 2 wonder working name page 7 . h 6 3 6 . Abaji said there are never less t an 3 holy men o f any generation upo n whom the Shekinah does not r est. “ ” 6 et 3 . Plutarch, De Iside Osiride, calls the Tetractys t he 6 power of the number 3 , and on this was the greatest o ath of the Pythagoreans sworn ; and it was denominated t he World, in consequence of its being composed of the first four even and the first four odd numbers ; for I and 1 6 2 6 8 3 and 5 and 7 are ; add and 4 and and , and 6 o btain 3 . of 3 9 . The number Articles of the Protestant Christian

Church belief. 0 0 of b f 4 . Up to 4 years age eating is est for a man, a ter 0 w ho 0 4 drinking suits be st . He has passed 4 days with o u t an affliction has had his reward in this life . 1 1 5

0 0 For 4 days the Flood lasted, for 4 days the spies s 0 i n s earched the promi ed land , for 4 days Gol ath challe ged ’ 0 E 0 I srael, 4 days of zekiel s penitence, the Jews were 4 0 years in the Wilderness, 4 days of waiting before embalm ’ in 1; 0 n g the dead, Genesis 3 ; for 4 days the woma s purification lasted after childbirth ; for 40 days Moses f fo 0 0 asted twice ; r 4 days Elijah fasted, and for 4 days f e 0 Jesus ast d in the Wilderness , and 4 days elapsed between s s w as 0 the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus . M o e 4

0 0 . years in Egypt, 4 in Midian , and 4 in the Wilderness 0 r The Israelites were 4 yea s among the Philistines .

2 2 - 4 is notable because of the 4 lettered name of God, taught by the Kabalists : there were 4 2 Judges in the Judg ’ ”

i . B ettan n ent Hall of Osiris See y, The World s Religions,

. 1 66 2 nd p , on the events of the 4 day after death . 2 1 4 . The Talmud of Babylon in Kiddus hin 7 , mentions

2 - z the 4 lettered Name , and it is given by Ignat Stern as composed of the Divine Names of the Bible thus E heieh eheie E o ao asher h, Al , Jah , Jehovah , lohim , Jeh vah Sab th, A H I H A h H I H I H El Chai and Adonai . S R A H I ; I H ; V ; A L A LH I M I H VH T ZB A VT A L ChI A D N I ; ; ; ; , or 4 , 3 , 4 , 2 2 2 3 5 4: 51 : : 3, It is very curious that the Ten Sephiroth which denote

the attributes of God will show, when these letters are d a nd added together, and a V a ded for before the last one, t s 2 u lah hi same number 4 if Chesed be called Ged , as was o c mmon among Kabalists .

. A D M . 45 The number of Adam ,

4 5 . The world is preserved for the sake of 45 righteous h llin 2 . C u . persons , 9

48 . The re have been 48 prophets in Israel : 48 cities

were assigned to the Levites .

4 9 . Moses received 49 reasons for the cleanness and

uncleanness of each thing : so says T he Talmud . 0 5 . The number of the Gates of Binah (BINH) the

Understanding . The Kabalah states that even Moses only th “ i h ” . S e her Yetz ra reached the 49 See my p , Third

E 1 1 1 . dition , 9 1 1 6

N 8 ch. 5 . Noah, 6 0 r r . A istotle stated that the C ocodile lives naturally 6 0

n d 60 on 6 0 . years , a sits days eggs 6 0 The Chinese have a time cycle of years, and call it

- - Kya tse . The people of Malabar call this period Chi tam . 0 6 0 6 . 60 The Talmud refers to deadly drugs , and sorts sow 60 of wines the bears her litter in days . 6 1 . A I N . The number , Negative existence of the Deity 6 4 . Aletheia, truth . “ A donaI 6 . of 5 The number , translated Lord (A D N I ) and H s . of , Hes, keep silence 6 f . o n r 7 The number Binah, Super al Mother, the 3 d

Sephira . 0 S U D 7 . The number of , Sod , a secret doctrine and private assembly : the earliest name for the Kabalah : also

I I N Ya in n . , y , wi e, also meant a secret

0 . he 0 7 T Rabbis considered that there were 7 nations, 0 and Mordecai is said to have known 7 languages . The Jewish 7 0 years of the captivity are reckoned from their h ez z ar f conquest by Nebu c adn to the accession o Cyrus .

1 . f 7 The number o the Members of the Sanhedrin . 2 of — 7 has a large number mystic—references to the 7 2 angels be aring the names of God derived from Exodus i I 2 0 2 1 . I s x v 9, , , by the Kabalists ; there an important set 2 I n of 6 of 7 pentacles which, placed pairs, forms a series 3

m . Lem e eton talis ans (see Dr Rudd, the g , Harleian m of h D t e o d S e . it is als the nu ber Chese (C ) h Sephira, M rcy

2 . o f 2 7 It is said that Ptolemy, King Egypt, collected 7

Hebrew Rabbis and confined each in a separate room , and t o ordered each write out the Mosaic Law, and that by the help of God each wrote out the same words . Megillah of 1 the Talmud, 9 . . I s s1milar ae This account to that of Josephus and Arist us, ff but di erent to that of Philo : hence the name Septuagint . hokm ah hKM H 7 3 . The number of C (C ), Wisdom, the

2 nd Sephira .

8 . : 0 7 The number of cards in a Tarot pack 4 numerals, r6 court cards and 2 2 Trumps .

1 1 8

2 00. e I n the The number of the bon s human body .

2 0 . S u h AI N VP th 7 This is the number of Ain p , S , e A VR n Boundless , and Aur, , Light, and of Ado ai Olam,

D N I VLAM . A O , Lord of the Universe 2 1 6 T e 6 2 1 6 r h . h cube of ; yea s, t e period of the

s. Pythagorean Metemp sychosi “ 2 2 1 c 2 2 1 . The Cup of David in heaven ontains logs of 2 0 wine . (about gallons) says the Talmud .

2 1 . 1 2 1 3 The sum of the numbers to , the Gates of the

S epher Yetz irah. 2 Zoir A n in 43 . Circles of p the number of the permuta f o . K . tions , without reversal the Hebrew Letters alisch 2 8 2 8 . a 4 There are 4 members of the body, says T lmud i 2 E ru vin . , 5 3 , and an anathema enters into all of them . Cb R M 2 8 R ohM The word , accursed, is 4 , but so is , Mercy . 2 2 5 . It is said that the disciples of Rabbi Ishmael once d low 2 2 issected a woman, and found she had 5 members ,

but it does not say what the extra ones were . f 2 0 . o 7 Worlds the Idra Rabba, or Greater Holy Assembly .

1 . 2 7 The Talmud, in Niddah, says that the Hebrew ’

2 1 2 2 2 . woman s pregnancy lasted 7 , 7 or 73 days 8 0 of - 2 days the term natural pregnancy, human ten 2 8 e times the Lunar day p riod .

8 . 2 4 . The number of Theos, God, in Greek letters 2 O O e 94 . Ekklesia, The Church and R D N, the Ros , and

lchi ek . sed . also M e , King of Salem

0 0 s . 3 . Mithra

- of r 0 3 00 . The riches Korah we e so vast that it took 3 0 111ules to carry them . 0 I There were 3 0 sorts of devils n Sichin . The Veil of the Temple required 3 00 priests to draw I t

00 to . aside, and 3 cleanse it 1 S haddai ShD I 3 4 . The number of , and of Metatron ,

M T TR U N .

1 8 . . 3 Helios , the Sun i Shaddai A L S hD I God 3 45 . This s the number of El , , S hM H S hem ah Abso Almighty , and of ( ), the Name of the

: M shH ShI LH . lute God also of , Moses , and , Shiloh 1 1 9

M shI h h 8 . c N ch 3 5 The number of Messiah, and s

n achash . , the Serpent symbol of life “ 6 étan the S hathan hT hN . S S s 3 4 The name , , H, , contain 6 u t 3 4, and all these days of each year he can tempt man, b 6 h t . not on the 3 5 , the Day of Atonement 6 s 3 5 The Greek numeration of Abraxas, a Gno tic talis n ma ic word . 6 3 5 Days of the year, Negative Jewish precepts, Dukes of of Babylon, and Streets in the City Rome . 0 r 3 7 . Directions of the thought of Microp osopus . S ee

Idra Rabba , 5 . 5 3 7 . 3 7 3 Logos

ShLM H . 3 7 5 , Solomon h 3 94 . There were this number of law courts in t e d Jerusalem of the kingdom perio . 00 0 0 4 . The body of Joseph was carried 4 miles to burial . David is said t o have had a gu ard of 40 0 young men w ho of rode in golden chariots at the head his army . 1 0 od 1 0 4 . The First Temple sto 4 years, and the Second Temple 4 2 0

. D aath D OT the 474 The number of , , Secret Wisdom , i h km ah un on of C o and Binah . 6 M alku th M LKT 49 . The number of ( ), the Kingdom , r o h the t Sephira . 0 0 5 . Kosmos .

. A heie A heie 543 The number of the mystic name asher , ” A H I H k B B I am that I am ( Ash A I ).

0 . S hM I R 5 5 , the Shamir, the magical insect which cut the ’ stones for Solomon s Temple .

‘ 6 08 is a very notable number, representing the Sun . “ th : is Martianus Capella, of the 5 century, says The Sun ‘ ’ S ol called in Italy the God ; at the Nile, Serapis at O i Memphis, siris ; he s also Attis ; Adonis at Byblos ; and

Ammon in Libya ; also Typhon, Mithras , and Pluto ; his

holy name is of 3 letters , which number In e 6 08 ChM Chalde and Hebrew is Cham , or Ham ( ), which “ ” = a Y . H . S . m . . 00 lso means , heat . In Greek fro U . H S 4 8 0 h 2 0 T R c 6 8 . 0 6 8 . 0 Tyre, , is also an example of 1 20

6 1 2 . Zeus . 6 1 ou r M hH R B I N U . s 3 The words Moses Rabbi, ; and God of I H VH A LH I I shR L Lord Israel, both number by 6 1 6 1 of Gematria 3 . The 3 Precepts the Jewish law were i d delivered to Moses . David, t is sai , reduced them to e t o tw o H leven, and Isaiah to six, and later . abakkuk to viz 6 1 One, . , The just shall live by Faith . 3 also refers t o 6 00 the holy garment which had fringes, eight threads a n d five knots . 6 2 0 of Keth r KT R . e The number , , the Crown, or I st e S phira . 6 2 2 15 of years from the Christian era the date the Hegira, D r flight of Mahomet from Mecca, from which year the \ M ahometans reckon their calendar .

6 2 A . D . 1 3 years is the foundation of the Persian mode of r Yez e ir . eckoning years, from their king d g d 6 0 s St h 15 4 i Shemesh , the Sun , Mem water ; p lace the three letters one above the other, and we get Sh, fi r e , sun, rising above and sinking below the waters . 6 A l im 6 . e 4 The total numeration of Elohim , or A LH I M 1 0 1 0 600 or t he , being 3 5 ; avoiding use of fi 1 0 1 0 0 nal Mem , we get 3 5 + 4 neglecting the tens 1 1 c + 3 + 5 + + 4, and placing these figures in a cir le, we 1 1 of 77 or get the sequence 3 4 5 , notable as the value , the of t f r elation a diameter o circumference o every circle . 1 E lohim 5 both a singular and a plural word . 6 0 H h 5 has been referred by Godfrey iggins to Noa ,

. h r M VC o 6 . enes, and Bacchus Noah, in Hebrew, is N 4 1 6 5 1 1 8 19 the Greek Ancient Mysteries and Episteme — 931 Science .

‘ 666 I S of f f the pet number God rey Higgins, as re erred to asit R S VT R ( ), which he insists means — — W isdom or as most believe Beginning or Principle '

- he of be m sz t . T first words Genesis are , In the beginning f f 666 . o o The number the Beast , the number a Man ,

‘ has been associated with Satan, Mahomet, the Pope and a f . o S VR T hundred others It is also the number , the Hebrew

r . . 1 8 word fo the Sun It occurs in Revelations xiii .

1 2 2

not n r numbers did mea our sola years, but years of five n t mo ths of thir y days, and perhaps the earliest year was only one month . David spoke of 7 0 years as the length of hum an life ; there was no such long period between Noah and David as could reduce human life by eleven twelfths .

9 74 . There were this number of generations from the writing of the Law by the Holy One before he created Man n i the World .

. 1 u d ent althou con 999 A 3 1hgj gm h there be 999 who . de m n a if ne a man he shall be s ved plead for him . 3 ‘ 1 0 00 . 1 000 e e a th e h ad d serpent is Sesh or Ananta, e of Hindoo emblem eternity .

1 000 . o The daughter of Pharaoh , whom S lomon married, told him of 1 000 forms of musical instruments and taught 1 0 0 s . 0 i of him the chants for all the idols the cube Ten , a symbol of perfection . ’ ar s wife tempted Joseph with 1 000 talents of personal charms failed to move him ’ 5 of the earth s crust is 1 000 ells : below

a 2 . n s . this is abys of ells Succah , 53 1 0 00 in .

1 cent

- o S u . the Sun, Beauty, Micr prosopus, n God 6 2 . 1 3 . The number of the word Gnosis

1 2 1 . H E OS S S tau ros of 7 GN I , The Gnosis, and , the cross

Jesus . 1 S B 2 2 . c 3 First year of Egyptian cycle of othis, . .

1 1 I n e B . c . Rameses . came to the throne this y ar, 1 3 7 8 . The reputed year of the birth of Christian Rosen kreutz, founder of the Rosicrucian philosophy . Chris tian R osenkreu tz founded his arcane society m Germa a . T he e 1 45 9. date of the writing of the Hermetic Romanc of . . the Chemical Wedding, by C R h 1 . t t e 1 46 The Egyptian So hic Period, calculated by

i D o . heliacal rising of Sir us , the g Star, at the solstice ‘ ’ 80 i r : an A noz m ea 1 4 . Chr stos, In Greek nume ation me ing 1 2 3

” according to The Canon this nu mber exhibits an impor tant m easure of the Cosmos; and was the foundation of the scientific pantheism upo n which Christian theology w as built, it was a part of The Gnosis and was derived from the priestly astronomers of Egypt . 1 8 R osenkreu tz : 4 4 . Christian died the Vault c losed over his body and the secrets of the Order he had founded .

1 60 . 4 . The Vault of C . R opened by his successors 1 2 after 0 years of secret study and benevolence . 1 6 ni a i R 1 Frater t t s o ae r . 4 . The Fama s Crucis was p inted 1 7 1 7 Grand Lodge of Freemasons ’ 1 2 Ha 25 . Year s y changed Jan ” fi fi mr Robert Wentworth Little founded the Rosi crucian S ocI et of of England in I t s ‘ F e ao re m s ns W ” present form . 1 88 R obert W oodman becam e 5 . Dr. Wm . Supreme Magus .

1 2 . 89 . Dr. Wm Wynn Westcott became Supreme Magus .

1 1 1 . . 0 1 th .

9 This year A D is the 5 3 year of the Kali Yuga 1 1 a a of the Hindoo s ges this Yug is to continue years . ’

2 00 t 00 0 . 0 . A Sabba h day s journey was 2 paces Rabbi a d Gam liel had a tube made which , when he looke through , he could see objects at 2 000 cubits distance ; this is the 2 earliest suggestion of the telescope . .

2 8 . 3 6 . The Geeek number of I esou s Christos 0 0 R H n h 0 00 3 0 . av amm u a says that Solomon spoke 3 ' f r 000 proverbs . A t the mourning o Moses 3 prec epts were forgotten .

1 0 2 . B . C . 1 0 2 3 In 3 , in February the Kali Yuga, the

b an . Black Age of humanity eg , according to the Brahmins 6 1 6 1 3 7 . The Jewish Era was calculated to commence 3 7 E years before the Christian ra . 2 1 ar 4 3 Ye s after the dispersion, said Rashi, the Jews to ow n and will be restored their l . 2 1 4 9 . After these years the wars of Gog and Magog will cease, says the Talmud .

8 8 8 . 5 The number of verses in the Pentateuch , says the as Kiddushin : but they are usually counted 5845 . 1 2 4

0 0 6 0 . The world was intended to last 6000 years 2 00 0 of 2 000 o f 2 0 0 years Disorder , the Law : and 0 more before Messiah should come ; but his Coming has been d ou r so elayed by iniquities says the Talmudic treatise. 1 Sanhedrin, 97 . . According to Ezekiel the mystical city of Jerusalem was surrounded by a square space measuring

roods in length, and this he called The Holy for of Oblation , and it was the use the priests, the sons of

Zadok . of 71 the value , the ratio of diameter to circum f ference o a circle . Bode’ s Law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem

Take the series of numbers 0 3 6 1 2 2 4 48 96 1 92 A dd 4 t o each of them 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

And w e obtain the numbers 4 7 1 0 1 6 2 8 5 2 1 0 0 1 96

of These show the relation the ancient planets to the Sun, a s to distance, in the order Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, 2 8 Jupiter, Saturn , Uranus . The planet corresponding to

s to . is mi sing, and seems be replaced by the asteroids 1 1 Uranus was discovered in 78 . n or to The Plato ic Year, great Period, according Tycho e R icciolu s Brah , is years , , years , Cassini, n ow i years Norman Lockyer g ves years . It is the period of time determined by the revolution of or e the equinoxes, the space of tim wherein the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes by means of a constant precession . The or w equinoxes moving backwards estwards, meet the f Sun constantly earlier. In the time o the oldest Greek o e u inoxial of bservations , the q points were in the first stars Aries and Libra respectively ; they are now in Pisces and

V i . rgo When these names were given ,the sun entered

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T H E A P OCA LYP TI C N U M B E R S .

r st a . . Resurrection , Revel tion xx 5 z u 1 d Death, xx . 4. 2 Witnesses, xi . 3 . 7

of h E . . before throne of God t e arth, xi 4 28212311123;

2 - 1 1 Horned Beast who spoke like a Dragon, xiii . ; his 6 number is 66 .

1 2 . 3 Woes, ix . — 1 of 3 part Vegetation killed, viii . 7 do . of Sea became of 8— Blood, and do . Fish died, viii . do . of Waters became — . 1 1 of 1 2 . bitter, viii do . Sun, Moon , Stars, viii .

3 % days, Bodies lay unburied, xxi . 9 .

of E . 8 4 quarters the arth , xx . — 4 6 iv . 6 Beasts, full of eyes—and have wings, 9 Beasts s hould be living bei ngs W . )

a . 4 Horses, White, Red , Pale, Bl ck

of 1 . 4 Horns the golden altar before God, ix . 3

1 . 4 Angels of the Euphrates , ix . 4

of V11. 1 4 Angels the Winds of the 4 corners of the Earth, . —1 0 5 Months the Locusts had power to hurt Men, ix . 5 .

6 n of 1v . 8 . Wi gs the Beasts (living beings), full of eyes, 2 0 7 Churches , i . . 2 0 7 Candlesticks, i . . Represent the 7 Churches .

2 0 1 . 7 Stars, i . ; ii . Represent 7 angels of the Churches . f o 2 0 . 7 Angels the Churches, i .

iv . 7 Lamps stand near the Throne, . 5 v 7 Seals, . 5 , Opened by the Lamb, produce 4 horses, etc . 2 7 Trumpets, viii . . Given to 7 Angels .

7 Thunders utter their voices, x . 3 . xv 1 7 Plagues held by 7 Angels, . .

of xv . 7 Vials Wrath, . 7

i . 6 v . 7 Sp rits of God, 1 2 7

- - 6 n are and a v. 7 horned 7 eyed L mb, near the Thro e t he 7 Spirits of God .

- 1 0- 7 headed and horn ed Scarlet Beast, on which is a W xv u . oman, . 3

- - 11 7 headed and I o horned Dragon with 7 Crowns; x . 3 .

- - n 1 0 . 1 . 7 headed a d horned Beast rose out of Sea, xiii

1 0 . 1 Crowns on Ten horns of beast which had 7 heads , xiii

- 1 0 . horned Dragon with 7 heads, xii 3 .

- r o sea . 1 . horned Beast with 7 heads rose out of , xiii

1 0- a W horned Sc rlet Beast with 7 heads , on hich was a

w . oman, xvii 3 . 1 2 Tribes of Israel .

1 2 o of a 1 . Ap stles the L mb, xxi . 4 1 2 Gates of the New Jerusalem 1 2 xxi . . 1 2 Angels guarding them %

1 2 Foundations of the Walls of the New Jerusalem . 1 2 1 Stars on the head of the Woman, xii . . 1 2 f xxu 2 sorts of Fruit on the Tree of Li e, . . — 2 on 2 iv 1 0 . 4 Elders around the Throne, 4 seats, . 4 4 2 months the Gentiles tread over the outer court of T 2 . emple, xi . 4 2 months the 7 - headed Beast to have power to

blaspheme, xiii . 5 . 1 ew 44 cubits, the height of the Walls of the N Jerusalem , xxi 1 . 7 . ” 666 the , number of The Beast .

- 1 0 00 . 2 . years , the Dragon bound for, xx , 3

1 000 of . . years, Souls the Faithful to live and reign, xx 4 1 2 6 0 days, the two Witnesses prophesy, xi . 3 .

1 2 6 0 x11 6 . days, the Woman to be in the wilderness , . of s each Tribe cho en . of u furlongs, length of the sides the New Jer salem ,

‘ x xi 1 . . 6

chosen from the whole of the Tribe s .

or ten thousand times ten thousand Angels ,

r v . 1 ound the Throne, 1 .

P R I N T E B Y N EI LL A N D E . N D co , LT D . , D I B UR GH .