Numbers Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues
~, ' I •. ' . " . -. ' ....., . :· ~ ·' -· ~.. - .... .. \ lj··· ) ·' . ' I I ~. ,• - ' . ' ~ L ' - .,. ,, COLLECTANEA HER.~TICA VOL. IX. NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES BY W. WYNN WESTCOTT SUPREME MAGUS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETY OF ENGLAND AUTHOR OF "THE ISIAC TABLET," "THE SEPHER VETZIRAH1 " "THE SANCTUM REGNUM OF THE TAROT·TRUMPS1" "AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KABALAH " THIRD EDITION LONDON THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY 161 NEW BOND STREET, W. 1911 ~-:-J..Jl. .--. ,•' ~ . ~..;:(, ,I , , r..., .. ' ,.~}/ft4t.J~~~. " CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 5 , SECOND EDITION " 7 THIRD EDITION II " 9 PART I. PYTHAGORAS, HIS TENETS AND HIS FOLLOWERS II PART II. PYTHAGOREAN VIEWS ON NUMBERS I6 ~ , PART III. KABALISTIC VIEiw--QN NUMBERS 22 PART IV. PROPERTIES OF THE NUMBERS ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, THE T ALMUDS, THE PYTHAGOREANS, THE RoMANS, CHALDEANS, EGYPTIANS, HINDoos, MEDI· IEVAL MAGICIANS, HERMETIC STUDENTS AND THE ROSICRUCIANS:- I. Monad 33 2. Dyad 36 3· Triad 4I 3~· Three and a Half 49 4· Tetrad so 5· Pentad ... 59 6. Hexad .. 66 7· Heptad ... 72 8. Ogdoad ... 85 9· Ennead ... 88 10. Decad ... 93 I I, Eleven ... 100 12. Twelve ... 102 13. Thirteen 109 Some Hindoo Uses of Numbers IIO Other Higher Numbers III Numbers of the Apocalypse 126 3 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 18go. SEVEN years~v~ __ yassed 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 consented to publish this volume. The cont~nts are necessarily of a fragmentary character, and have been collected from an immense number of sources; the original matter has been intentionally reduced to the least possible quantity, so as to obtain space for the inclusion of the utmost amount of ancient, quaint and occult learning.
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