Significant Occult Days and the Hidden Power of Numbers

In the Brain, Seven is a Magic Number

2009-11-24T09:26:00.000-08:00

http://www.physorg.com/news178220995.html

Lauren Schenkman
PhysOrg
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:00 CST

Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from a mental grocery list is not a sign of mental decline; in fact, it's natural.

Countless psychological experiments have shown that, on average, the longest sequence a normal person can recall on the fly contains about seven items. This limit, which psychologists dubbed the "magical number seven" when they discovered it in the 1950s, is the typical capacity of what's called the brain's working memory.

Now physicists have come up with a model of brain activity that seems to explain the reason behind the magical memory number.

If long-term memory is like a vast library of printed tomes, working memory is a chalkboard on which we rapidly scrawl and erase information. The chalkboard, which provides continuity from one thought to the next, is also a place for quick-and-dirty calculations. It turns the spoken words that make up a telephone number into digits that can be written down or used to reply logically to a question. Working memory is essential to carrying on conversations, navigating an unfamiliar city and copying the moves in a new workout video.

It's easy to test how much you can fit on this chalkboard. Just have a friend make a list of ten words or numbers. Read the list once, and then try to recall the items. Most people max out at seven or fewer.

It makes intuitive sense: as a mental list gets longer, people are more likely to make mistakes or forget items altogether. But why do the clusters of neurons in our brains produce such a small chalkboard?

In a paper published on Nov. 19 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Mikhail Rabinovich, a neuroscientist at the BioCircuits Institute at the University of California, San Diego and Christian Bick, a graduate student at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, present a mathematical picture of how neurons fire when we recall a sequence of steps -- such as turn-by-turn driving directions, the digits of a phone number or the words in a sentence.

When we hear the phrase "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," a cluster of neurons fires during each word. When one cluster fires, it suppresses the others momentarily, preventing the sentence from coming out scrambled.

In Rabinovich and Bick's model, the excitation of a certain cluster represents a single point. As the neurons for "It," "was," "the," and "best" fire in sequence, the brain creates pathways from one point, or brain state, to the next. The more powerfully each excited cluster can inhibit or suppress all others in the sequence from firing, the more solid these pathways.

When we recall the sentence, the brain follows these pathways from state to state to reproduce the sequence, like a tightrope walker hurrying along a wire from one perch to the next.

As a sentence or a string of numbers gets longer, it becomes exponentially harder for the excited cluster to suppress the others from firing, resulting in pathways that are weak or barely there. Recalling seven items requires about 15 times the suppression needed to recall three. Ten items requires inhibitory powers that are 50 times stronger, and 20 or more items would require suppression hundreds of times stronger still. That, Rabinovich explained, is normally not biologically feasible.

"Synapses can't be stronger than that," he said. "The brain is a very complex biochemical machine."

Mathematical models like these may seem removed from the gritty reality of gray matter and neural chemistry, according to Karl Friston, who directs the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, but they provide a critical connection between what people actually experience and the hidden mechanisms inside the brain.

Rabinovich's model, Friston said, "is both plausible and compelling." It correctly predicts the working memory's capacity and with a little elaboration could be tested experimentally. Friston said the model suggests patterns in the working memory's activity that should be discernible in the brain's electrical signals.

The exception to Rabinovich's model may be autistic individuals who skip effortlessly past seven and eight items, memorizing even a hundred random numbers in a single read-through. Their brains seem to be able to create much stronger pathways than the typical brain.

Friday the 13th

2009-11-15T09:34:00.001-08:00

http://www.book-of-thoth.com/article1630.html

Friday the 13th
2006 10 04
By SolAris | book-of-thoth.com

Next week it will be Friday the 13th again. But this time it won’t be just ANY such date, this will be the actual anniversary of the original day.

Friday, the 13th of October, 1307 - was the date on which the Templar Order was routed in France, its members arrested and later executed. According to many researchers, that is what led to this date conjunction to be considered unlucky (or horrible.)

For nearly two hundred years before that, The Templar Order was the most prominent force in Europe, whose wealth and power easily rivaled and even surpassed that of the Vatican itself. But after having been rounded up in France on that day, the Order basically ceased to exist in its original form.

The "timely" conjunction this year will celebrate no less than the 699th anniversary of that original fatal date. And "699" is in fact a most significant figure in Templar lore.

The number 69 (aside from its usual association...) has been considered "magical" since antiquity, not least because it’s vertically symmetrical - it will look the same if flipped upside down. It is also the symbol for the Zodiacal sign of Cancer - a sign ruled by the Egyptian god Thoth, who, as Hermes Trismegistus, is said to have been the "patron" of the Templars, the giver of their secret knowledge.

And the number 9 is also vital both in Templar and ancient Egyptian symbology. There were nine ruling gods in what is called the Egyptian "ennead". There were nine original Knights Templar.

It is thus a highly curious coincidence, to say the least, that the 699th anniversary of the Templar demise would fall on the same "unlucky" day of the week.

Furthermore, I first wrote and posted this article yesterday, October 3, which was a most opportune time for writing about it – because it was exactly ten days before that upcoming date. In 1307 the old Julian calendar was still in force, but today we live according to the Gregorian one. The changeover between the two calendars involved moving the calendar date TEN DAYS into "the future". To top it off, the change happened in early October:

"when the new calendar was put in use, the error accumulated in the 13 centuries since the Council of Nicaea was corrected by a deletion of [i]ten days[/i]. The last day of the Julian calendar was Thursday 4 October 1582 and this was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday 15 October 1582."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar)

As we can see, at a certain point those "critical days in October" suddenly went missing, they were skipped over... If that hadn’t happened, the 699th anniversary of the Templar demise would not have fallen on Friday the 13th. Coincidence or Design?

It should be noted that Emanuel Velikovsky, in his "Worlds in Collision” postulated that Friday the 13th got its unlucky association because Friday, April 13th around 1550 BC is when the “Venus fly-by” occurred, which caused major cataclysms on Earth and led to descriptions such as the Ten Plagues in the Bible.

Still others claim that Friday the 13th became unlucky because of Jesus’ Last Supper, in which 13 people participated (Christ + 12 disciples.) This is also said to have occurred on a Friday the 13th in April, and was the Jewish Passover Eve. Significantly, the 13th of October is exactly half a year away from the 13th of April.

So what can it all mean? Well, "alchemically speaking", this is definitely way too many coincidences to be just another simple day which will pass without notice. If we accept some of the modern conspiracy theories, then there’s a good likelihood that the coming Friday the 13th will be a most meaningful and important date for some key people in positions of power.

Though we may not notice the change immediately, but it’s likely to be some sort of a decisive pivotal point in our subsequent history. It has been brought to my attention that the conspiracy forums are rife with ideas of a possible planned terrorist action on that date, which will heavily influence the upcoming US elections towards a more war-like atmosphere.

And now on to a few other connections, which, at this point, are significant perhaps only to myself. Yesterday on October 3 I had to make a round bus trip of about 300 miles. On the way I was reading Baigent and Lee’s "The Temple and the Lodge". I was traveling to the town of Katzrin on the Golan Heights, a place I haven’t visited for nearly twenty years.

My “gestalt” bit of understanding about the curious significance of this year’s Templar Anniversary came just as we were driving by a completely destroyed Templar fortress, at Jacob’s Ford. The spot dominates a very ancient bridge known as "the Bridge of the Daughters of Jacob", which since antiquity has been the main crossing point of the Jordan river, on the eastern fork of the Via Maris ("the road of the sea") going to Damascus.

The Templar fortress was almost completely taken apart by Saladin, stone by stone, after he captured it - something not done with other Crusader castles, many of which stand largely intact in this area.

The old castle is situated exactly on the 33d Parallel of latitude, a fact which must have been very significant to the Templars, because they could’ve chosen a higher and better fortified hill for it further north and closer to the bridge, but did not. And of course this is not just in any country, but in the Holy Land itself, the defense of which was the "raison d’être" of the Templars. Researcher Gary David, who has written a series of very enlighening articles with “Masonic connections” to the 33d parallel, found this “coincidence” highly interesting.

In early April of this year, almost exactly six months ago, an Australian paper carried a sensationalist headline about "bodies of first Templars" being found by archeologists digging at the castle site. This turned out to be another one of those silly things that papers would write, where the interviewee’s comments were taken completely out of context. It was later denied by the head archeologist of the site, prof. Thomas Asbridge. (In this regard, see also Asbridge’s article about the Battle at Jacob’s Ford).

Templar bodies or not, but the location is undeniably a very special Power Spot in the region. For many years in the eighties and nineties, a group of local hippies, including myself, have held what can be justly called "pagan festivals" right under what used to be the castle’s walls. Nobody had any idea about the old Templar fort, as the archeological dig there started only in the late nineties and hardly any remains could be seen before. We just thought it was a beautiful grove by a rapid river, a very nice place for a pagan festival in what is mostly a desert area. The place has been used since prehistoric times - just about every rock you pick up there is a piece of an old flint implement.

Lastly, since we’re talking about the ‘Holy Land”, the birth-place of Judaism, some curious connections with Jewish holidays should be noted as well.

The Jewish New Year’s Eve fell this year on September 22nd, a date considered by many to be the Autumn Equinox (others place it on the 21st or the 23d.)

Between New Year's and the annual big fast known as Yom Kippur (the “Day of Atonement”) there lie 10 days, called “the horrible days”, because this is when people are supposed to repent their sins from the previous year. Yesterday, October 3, was the day immediately following Yom Kippur, when life supposedly “returns to normal”. Furthermore, the coming October 13th will be the holiday of Simchat Tora, the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, when the reading of the Great Scroll of the Bible begins afresh each year.

It would seem that we have a very special and significant date to look forward to this month.

HONORING the 11:11

2009-11-11T03:32:00.000-08:00

Woke up this morning at 11:11
Wasn't in Portland and I wasn't in heaven
Could have been either by the way I was feeling
But I was alive, I was alive
Rufus Wainwright 11-11 lyrics

HONORING the 11:11
By Peter A. Gersten

What better time than exactly 11 years after my 11:11 experience to re-post my commentary about those mystical numbers. And what better time than this morning at exactly 11:11 to be on the top of Bell Rock in Sedona You do realize that both Bell Rock and 11:11 symbolically represent the cosmic portal, now don't you?
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THE DIGITAL SIGNIFICANCE of the WINTER SOLSTICE of 2012

Though there is still a smattering of scholarly disagreement over whether the end-date of the Mayan Long Count calendar (LCC) accurately converts to 2011 or 2012 - the majority of experts agrees that it ends on or about WS2012. But - contrary to popular belief - the LCC doesn’t actually end – it simply starts over again from the beginning. In other words, once 13.0.0.0.0 bak’tun is reached - the
LCC begins anew at 0.0.0.0.1 bak’tun – repeating once again the celestial-oriented 5125-year cycle.

The second misconception is that WS2012 signals the occurrence of a very unique (once every 26,000 years) galactic alignment. Not to put a damper on future celebrations but this particular galactic alignment occurred during the past 28 WSs and will also occur during the next eight.

According to the many experts in this area - the LCC highlights a rare astronomical alignment determined by precession. The alignment occurs when the Winter Solstice sun conjuncts the crossing point of Milky Way and ecliptic in Sagittarius. This alignment - involving the Winter Solstice Sun and the center of our galaxy - actually began on WS1980 and will continue each WS until 2016. Interestingly, WS2012 isn't even the center point of the 36-year period - but instead is close to its end.

Assuming once again that the majority of experts are accurate in proclaiming that 13.0.0.0.0 bak’tun accurately converts to December
21, 2012 - why did the Maya select that date and ignore the beginning, center, and end of the alignment? I believe it is because the Maya are not just drawing our attention to the galactic alignment – but are instead asking us to focus in on a specific cosmic event that will be occurring at the exact moment of WS2012.

WS2012 has become part of our consensus reality – and for good reason. In my opinion WS2012 does not directly relate to the entire 36-year period of the 26,000-year galactic alignment but instead refers to a particular point in time and space when a very unusual event will occur. I refer to that point as the cosmic coordinate.

Irrespective of whether the Mayan calendar actually ends on WS2012, or whether the date heralds a shift in consciousness, or the end of the world, the incontrovertible fact is that WS2012 - like no other Winter Solstice in recorded history - occurs at exactly 11:11 UT. Strange coincidence, huh?

There are a growing number of scientists who believe that our holographic reality is actually an intelligently created simulation – though I prefer the term: Cosmic Computer Program (CCP). I believe our CCP utilizes digital codes for various purposes. WS2012 occurs on the 21st day of December at exactly 11:11 Universal Time. The digital equivalent is: 11112112012. Assuming time is an artificial construct in which numbers tell us where we are at any given moment within our program, then it is reasonable to assume that specific numerical combinations and sequences would form genetically encoded digital “time prompts” which assist us along life’s pre-programmed path.

11:11 is considered by many to be such a time prompt – due to the thousands of people experiencing what is referred to as the 11:11 Phenomenon. 11:11 also symbolizes the various cycles that manifest and re-manifest physical reality as if following a cosmic blueprint. Most synchronistic is the fact that both 2012 and 11:11 are numerical metaphors for the end of one cycle and the beginning of the next.
11:11 also has another symbolic meaning - one involving a “cosmic portal.” I doubt that it is just an insignificant coincidence that during the aforementioned galactic alignment the Maya believed that a portal would materialize within the dark rift at the center of our galaxy. The Mayan believed that the Hunab Ku - the Source of all that is - exists within that location.

Two other 11:11–2012 synchronicities involve the Sun’s magnetic field and the galactic center – areas that are also intimately connected to Mayan mythology, its calendar and the galactic alignment. The first involves our Sun. Not only is the Sun the Winter Solstice centerpiece of the galactic alignment, its magnetic field operates a cycle of polarity reversals averaging 11.11 years in length. The next peak of this cycle happens to be in the year 2012 and has been predicted by some astrophysicists to likely be a very active maximum notwithstanding the Sun’s present catatonic state. The second coincidence is just as revealing: The entire mass of the black hole at the center of our galaxy spins once every 11 minutes.

I believe that at the cosmic coordinate 111121122012 a cosmic portal will materialize – if only briefly. This is what the Maya are still trying to tell us. To those of you who have actually experienced the 11:11 phenomenon, I believe that the digital codes are also saying something else: Pay attention!

Occult Numbers and Symbols Related to Iraq War

2009-10-08T14:41:00.000-07:00

A reader of this blog sent me this and this article makes some very valid points!

http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n1808.cfm

BUSH DECLARES CEASE IN IRAQ WAR : THIS WAR BEGAN, AND ENDED, ON OCCULT HOLIDAYS AND WAS FILLED WITH OCCULT CONSIDERATIONS THROUGHOUT!

Subtitle: As with any occult undertaking, the Iraq War was conducted strictly according to occult holidays and occult numbers. Once you understand this reality, you will see that this war is likely Act I of a global war.

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As President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, I suddenly realized this war was fought by occult numbers, most strikingly so. Once you understand this reality, you will realize that the Iraq War is likely to turn out to be Act I of a coming global war.

Let us review the facts of this war:

War Beginning: President Bush began this war at 05:50 Baghdad time, on March 20, 2003, according to occult considerations, listed below:

* March 20, 2003 was an occult day, for the following reasons:

1. March 20 was the eve of Ostara -- March 21, 2003 is beginning of the Spring Equinox (Ostara)! Occultists worship the goddess of the earth (Gaia) on this day. The celebration, the Feast Day, is held on March 20, with actual ritual occurring on the 21st. In the occult mindset, this ritual celebrates the impregnation of Mother Earth so she may bring forth her crops in the Spring.

This Vernal Equinox is a Spring Fertility Rite, copied from the Satanic Druids. The deepest meaning is a "rebirthing" ceremony; what is it that this war is to "birth"? Antichrist, of course!

A blood sacrifice is required, as the sacrificial blood of the animal is poured into the ground, to spite God because of the Cain/Abel dispute. Remember the Scripture?

"And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." [Gen 4:9-11]

To spite God on this day, Black Magick Satanists slaughter their animal and/or human sacrifice and purposely pour the blood into the ground. This day is extremely important to the Illuminist. Given the bloody nature of these two days, it seems fitting that they would be chosen to be the first official two days of this campaign.

2. March 20, 2003 was Day "555" since the attacks on 9/11. As we demonstrated in NEWS1789, the Illuminati intended the attacks of 9/11 to be the first blow struck for the appearance of Antichrist; therefore, it is highly significant that the Iraqi War -- planned since 1952 -- to be the trigger for the larger Middle East war, did not begin until day "555" after 9/11. Since the occultist believes "5" to be the Number of Death, and the greatest intensification of any number to be a triplicate, a "555" literally means "Highest Death". The Illuminati is working to send this current civilization to its death so it can bring in the New World Order, also known as the Kingdom of Antichrist.

3. March 20, 2003 was the highest degree of the occult "Mars Ingress" for this year. Former Witch, now Pastor, David Meyer explains: "The witches and astrologers that act as a priesthood for our illuministic government would advise them to wait for the influence of the 'Mars ingress'. The month of March is named for the planet Mars ... Astrologers would tell the warmongers that the 'Mars ingress' starts after February 20 and comes to fullness on March 20." [Last Trumpet Newsletter, February, 2003]

Thus, President Bush chose to begin the Iraq War on the "day of fullness" of the "Mars ingress".

4. The 48 hour ultimatum to Saddam and his sons precisely paralleled the Jewish holiday, Purim. At 8:15pm, Eastern Standard Time, on March 17, the president appeared on TV to announce a 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to leave the country with his sons, or suffer the invasion. Thus, the 48-hour ultimatum expired at 8:15pm., EST, March 19.

In Israeli time, President Bush appeared on TV at 3:15am on March 18 and the deadline expired at 3:15am, March 20.

Purim was celebrated this year from Sundown, March 17 through March 19. In fact, the Purim celebration this year is comprised of the following events:

1. March 17 -- Ta'anit Esther -- a feast to Queen Esther, the heroine of Purim

2. March 18 -- Purim

3. March 19 -- Shushan Purim -- the day Purim is celebrated in Jerusalem and other cities

Thus, the entire 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein occurred precisely during the time of the Purim celebration!

Thus, you can see that President Bush deliberately chose March 20, 2003 as the start of his war against Iraq because of important occult and current Jewish, considerations. Now, let us examine the end of this war.

War Ending

May 1, 2003 -- President Bush flew to the aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln, to declare that the major combat phase in the Iraqi War was over. Once again, we see major occult considerations involved in ending the war precisely on May 1.

1. May 1 is the second-most important satanic holiday, and is known as Beltane. This holiday is a 2-day event, April 30 - May 1. Beltane Festival, also called Walpurgis Night. However, this is the highest day on the Druidic Witch's Calendar. May 1 is the Illuminati's second most sacred holiday. Human sacrifice is required.

2. May 1, 2003 is precisely 42 days after March 20! Therefore, the Iraqi War lasted precisely 42 days! Bible scholars have long maintained that the number "42" is a definite, even though a minor, number denoting Antichrist and his kingdom. How can that be? Daniel 9:27 stipulates that the Tribulation Period shall be 7 years long (7 "Weeks of Years").

However, this verse also states that this seven-year period is exactly divisible in to two equal parts: each 3 1/2 years long. Listen:

"And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease..." Dan 9:27; 12:7 refers to this 3 1/2 year period as "time, times and half a time", a Jewish colloquialism meaning 3 1/2.
See also: Matthew 24:15, where our Lord personally confirms this prophecy and gives a picture of Antichrist going into the Temple.

Thus, the Tribulation Period is 84 months long, and is divided into two 42-month segments.

Therefore, this Iraqi War last 42 days, a number of Antichrist. But, why should we be surprised? The Illuminati Plan to produce Antichrist has been largely conducted according to the most important occult number symbolizing the Man of Lawlessness, the number "11" [Read NEWS1789 for a recap of events occurring by the eleven]

Further, now you know why Saddam's forces vanished rather than fight for Baghdad! After fighting well in the first 2 1/2 weeks of the Iraqi War, and delaying Coalition Forces greatly, if Saddam had similarly fought for his capitol, Coaltion Forces would still be fighting and dying. We could not have had an exact 42 day war that could be declared ended on the last day of Beltane, May 1.

3. May 1 is not only the second and most powerful day of Beltane, but it is Day #13 of the annual "Blood Sacrifice to the Beast". The first day is April 19, and the 13th day is always May 1. Since the number "13" represents "extreme rebellion" to the laws and the rule of God -- the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- the Illuminati uses it to symbolize Antichrist.

4. Careful use of the number "333" in landing on the Abraham Lincoln for his speech.

NEWS BRIEF: "Bush Arrives on USS Abraham Lincoln", Scott Stearns, VOA News, San Diego, 01 May 2003, 19:33 UTC [15:33 EST, or 3:33pm]

"President Bush will give a nationwide address later Thursday declaring that major combat operations in Iraq are over. The president is aboard an aircraft carrier returning from the war in Iraq."

Thus, the President touched down on the aircraft carrier at precisely 3:33, EDT. Since the president's headquarters is in Eastern Daylight Time and since he left the National Prayer Breakfast that morning in the EDT time zone, the occultist will continue to use the EDT as their basis for calculation. The president arranged his arrival to be at precisely 3:33pm!
As we demonstrated in NEWS1778, the occultist especially reveres the number "333", considering it a number of their Messiah and his global kingdom. Let us recap from that article:

This drawing depicts Blavatsky's crude handmade drawing of King Solomon's signet ring, with its seal. Notice the uneven hexagram and the numbers '333' placed at different points on this seal. What is the occult fascination with the number '33', and its extension, '333'? Once you understand the belief Satanists have about this number, you will understand certain events in history more completely -- for example, when Adolf Hitler planned his suicide, he decided to shoot himself on April 30, 1945, at precisely 3:30pm, thus setting up a '333' by which the deed was done. He believed that this '333' would allow him to pass quickly through the reincarnation cycle so he could come back to earth as the real, historic Antichrist.

Now, let us examine the power the Satanist believes resides in '33' and '333'. Remember, Illuminists are pagans; therefore, they perfectly fit the Biblical definition of "pagan" found in Romans 1:25"

"Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator ..." Romans 1:25

Therefore, Satanists believe numbers contain inherent power: great spiritual and temporal power. They literally believe that, if they attempt to launch a great and perfect plan, but do so without arranging the plan according to the correct occult power numbers, the plan could fail! In fact, when you see an event constructed according to the correct occult numbers, you may know that the event is occultic, no matter what rhetoric is filling your ears!

"... in Spiritual Numerology, the numbers 11, 22, and 33 are the three 'Master Numbers', the highest being 33 ... This highest of the master numbers was the age of the Master Initiate (Jesus) at his death, resurrection and ascension, giving more esoteric accents. The '33' symbolizes the highest spiritual conscious attainable by the human being." ["The Secrets of the Illuminati", Elizabeth van Burn., p. 161-2; NOTE: This is an occult book]

Thus, Jesus -- called here the "Master Initiate" -- was '33' at the time of His death; then, when the occultist adds the number '3' for the number of days Jesus spent in the tomb, he/she gets '333' as a calculation for the entire event through which they consider Jesus to have passed. As van Burn gushes, "Christ lay in the tomb for three days after his crucifixion, a symbol for us of the steps man must take in order to be reborn. The number '333' speaks of death, resurrection, and ascension." [Ibid., p. 162-3; NOTE: You and I know that Jesus' ascension did not occur for 40 days after He arose, but evidently, occultists have not examined the Scriptures carefully!]

An occultist assigns the number '333' to "death, resurrection, and ascension", and consider it to be most powerful. In this consideration, the Illuminati is heralding a "death, resurrection, and ascension"; "death" and "burial" to the Old World Order, and "resurrection" and "ascension" to the New World Order. The fact that this "333" was formed on the last day of Beltane is also very important.

However, President Bush arranged a "333" to occur on the other day of Beltane, April 30. Let us quickly review this news story.

As we explained in NEWS1807, Bush's Ambassador, Dan Kurtzer, met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday to formally present him with a long-awaited internationally backed Mideast peace plan. A convoy of diplomatic vehicles was seen pulling up to Sharon's house in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon at 3:30pm, local time.

Since this presentation occurred on April 30, this timing also produces a "333". Therefore, President Bush caused a "333" event to occur on each of the days of Beltane this year, April 30 - May 1. Twice in two days, the Illuminati symbolically killed and buried the Old World Order, and raised to newness of life the New World Order, a.k.a., Kingdom of Antichrist!

Further, American forces now control the most important city to the Illuminati: Ancient Babylon and modern Baghdad. They sit on the 33rd degree Parallel. Just as Bush controlled the "333" by which he landed on the Lincoln, so he controls the 33rd degree parallel city, Babylon.

May 1, 2003, is exactly 597 days after the 9/11 attacks, so we are apparently continuing to march according to the Illuminati timeline emanating from that terrible event.

Video About September 11: Full of Numerology and Symbols

2009-09-30T15:00:00.000-07:00

What Does H1N1 Mean Numerically?

2009-09-24T11:56:00.000-07:00

Because there are two '1's in H1N1, you pull them first before you look at the numbers for the alphabet

Two '1's = 11 (when you're doing high numerology, you never break down a Master Number by turning 11 into 2)

H is 8 (the number of infinity - another favorite number of evil because it wants 'evil forever')
N is 14 (when you break down 14, it equals 5, the number of man)
AND
8+14=22 (and you don't break down the Master Number)

We both know that 11 is a Master Number ('Twin Pillar') and a favorite number of evil
22 is also a Master Number.
Add 11 with 22 and you get 33! 33 is a Mega Master Number

More, 'H' is made of three lines and so is 'N'

If you calculated 'H1N1' ignorantly, H (8) plus 1 = 9 (the number of death)
N (14) plus 1 = 6 (9 upside down but six is the number of the devil)
8 + 1 +14 + 1=24 which equals 6, the number of the devil

Think about it: What are the odds that so much of this would end in all these Master Numbers?

Organized Religion is an Evil Genius

2009-09-21T14:14:00.000-07:00

Organized Religion is an Evil Genius
by Sean Mooney, Mar 13, 2007

Last Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2007 09:58:31 AM

he Illuminati, the economic power who controls the world, are obsessed with numbers, codes, rituals, sacred geometry, dates, times, vortexes in the earth's magnetic grid that surrounds the earth (ley lines), and so on. One of the main features in Illuminati events is the constant repetition of certain key numbers like 3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 30 (representative of 3[1]), 33, and so on. The constantly repeated themes of the Illuminati secret societies is really what gives them away. No way a bunch of ordinary "terrorists in caves" can be responsible for the sheer level of organization we are about to illustrate for you tonight. In the holy books, the codes and sacred geometry are ubiquitous. If you know what to look for, the Holy Bible becomes an endless repetition of the exact same numbers and codes, easily recognized once you understand their importance in the ancient secrets. Today, all terrorist events are going to be related in some way to these sacred numbers. And since seeing is believing, let's get the party started:

On September 11, 2001, we were all shocked to witness the destruction of the World Trade Center, the twin towers. What are twin towers? An 11, two pillars. Look at the 11 in the word pillar. The first plane to hit was flight 11. On September 11th, 1990, father Bush called for a New World Order at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting (it's on video). So September 11, 2001 (11 years later) was the big day that the furthering of this plan would take place. What is the emergency number they called to help on 9/11? 911. There are 111 days from 9/11 to the end of the year. Mohammed's birth is celebrated on September 11th. Jesus Christ ended up with 11 disciples after one betrayed him and then committed suicide. The World Trade Center has 110 stories. American Airlines (AA) flight 11, the first to attack, allegedly had 92 passengers (9+2=11). Notice the twin AA's, which symbolize twin 11's. Flight 77 had 65 passengers (6+5=11). The third building to fall, #7, had 47 stories (4+7=11). Beginning with flight 11, the other 3 planes hit in sequential order: United Airlines flight 93 (9+3=12), U.A. flight175 (1+7+5=13), AA flight 77 (7+7=14). New york was the 11th state of the union. 911 or 9+1+1=11. The following Friday after 911 was Friday the 13th.

Now pay attention to the number 3: the Trinity (3 syllables).. the father, son, and holy spirit are 1 or one (one has 3 letters). Jesus started his father's work in the temple at noon (12) at the age of 12 (1+2=3), which is a succession of 1-2-3, which are 3 numbers, which if you add the 1 beside the 2, you have 12 and if you add the 1 beside the 3, you have 13. They found him at the temple on the 3rd day that he was missing. Jesus plus his 12 disciples = 13 (remember Friday the 13th?) Jesus started his ministry at 30 years old. He was crucified at 33 and a half (1/2, i.e. 1+2=3). Look at the = sign. It is twin towers (11) turned sideways. Joseph, Jacob's son, began ruling in Egypt at the age of 30. He was the 11th male in the family. The patriarchs of Christianity were Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (another trinity of males). Jacob was called Israel, which has 3 syllables.. each of which stands for an ancient deity (the ancient god "Ra"). Solomon also has 3 syllables, each of which means "sun" in a different language (Sol-om-on, i.e. sun-sun-sun or the "son of God"). Solomon allegedly built God's Temple and he even named the twin pillars that held it up (11). Jesus Christ has three syllables. Son of God is three words, as well as Jesus is Lord, King of Kings, Lion of Judah, Lamb of God, Jesus of Nazereth, Prince of Peace, New World Order, World Trade Center, etc. Look at all the key words with 3 letters: key, God, god, one, jew, sin, web, net, com, www, sex (sex rites are common in Illuminati rituals), man, men, son, sun (which all have the same meaning.. symbolizing the masculine energy of the Sun), etc. Also CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX, CIA, FBI, AMA, FDA, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of State, etc. Samson is a bible hero (sam the sun or son) who pushed over two pillars, or a set of twin towers (11) that killed everyone in the building. Jesus was crucified with two (1,1) other men = 1,1,1 crucified on 3 seperate crosses. Each cross has 4 points (four seasons), so 4 x 3 = 12. Jesus, the son, rose on the 3rd day (easter, the sun rises in the east, easter Sun-day). 3 wisemen came to bring Jesus 3 gifts, who followed a star in the east. Job was considered the wisest man in the east. 3 wisemen visited Job. The Israelites waited 3 days before crossing the Jordan river to slaughter the natives of that land and to claim it as their homeland. The rooster crowed 3 times when Peter denied Christ. It was the 3rd hour when they crucified him. Mary Magdalene went to his tomb on the third day in the morning "when the sun had risen" and he wasn't there.. the Sun-Son of God had "risen" from the dead. Later he appeared to the 11 disciples before he was taken up to heaven with the clouds. There are 33 degrees in Freemasonry, of which all our forefathers (founders of "Christian America") were initiates. When Jesus was on the cross, it was the 6th hour, and there was darkness until the 9th hour (9 is three 3's and six to the ninth hour is 3 hours that "the sun/son was darkened"). When the woman wiped Jesus' feet with the perfume, the disciples got upset and said "that could have been sold for more than 300 denarii". Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. The blasphemers told Jesus "you who destroy the temple and rebuild it in 3 days". For the Tabernacle, there were 3 pillars and 3 sockets, then 3 pillars and 3 sockets again. The concept of pillars in the Tabernacle is constantly repeated in Exodus. The Tabernacle was to be set up on the 1st day of the 1st month (1,1). The terrorist bombing in Madrid, Spain was on 3/11/04. What was the only bus to have been re-routed and blown up in London on 7/7/05? Bus #30. 3 bombs went off in three seperate trains. Solomon had 300 concubines. Job was a famous man of God in the Old Testament who had 3 daughters and 3,000 camels (3 letters in his name).

The number 12 is code, among other things, for the 12 months of the year and half of a 24 hour day (two 12's in one day). It also represents the houses of the zodiac through which symbolically travels the Sun, the "god", as symbolized as 13 (13 is a 1 beside a 3; remember the trinity is "the three are one and the 1 is 3). This is the "sacred 12 and one". Thus we have 12 tribes of Israel, 12 disciples of Jesus, Buddha, Osiris, etc., 12 princes of Ishmael ("Isaac's Arab brother"), and so on. We have King Aurthur and his 12 knights, Himmler of the Nazi SS had 12 knights, and the woman (Isis, Semiramis) with a crown of 12 stars in the book of Revelation. We have the children of Israel who were sealed: 12 thousand from the tribe of Judah, 12 thousand from the tribe of Reuben, 12 thousand from the tribe of Gad, 12 thousand from the tribe of Asher, etc., up to a total of 12 tribes. Then we have "holy Jerusalem" with 12 gates, and 12 angels at the gates (3 gates on the east, 3 gates on the north, 3 gates on the south, and 3 gates on the west). The city has 12 foundations and upon them are the names of the 12 apostles. The city was measured at 12 thousand furlongs. The 12 gates are 12 pearls. The tree of life bears 12 fruits, each tree yielding it's fruit every month. The European Union has a logo with a circle of 12 stars. When Jesus fed the multitude, 12 baskets of fragments were taken up. The Israelites sent 12 spies to the land of Canaan so that they could plan their "blessed" genocide of an entire "wicked" culture. In the 7 seals, we have a third (1/3, i.e. 13) of the sun being struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine. Right after, we have 3 angels who are to sound the trumpet blasts. The Tabernacle was a total of 13 cubits square. There were 12 stones according to the names of Israel. Jesus said he could have called down 12 legions of angels to protect him. Matt. 19:28 - "Assuredly I say unto you, you who have followed me will also sit on 12 thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel." Jesus just assuredly told his 12 disciples that they would all 12 sit on 12 thrones in heaven. But what happened to Judas being the betrayer? He supposedly had only 11 disciples whom he showed himself to after his crucifixion. So how could 11 disciples sit on 12 thrones?

Assuredly I say unto you.. there is no Jesus!

Then we have the infamous number 7 (days of the week). In the bible we have the 7 spirits of God, 7 churches of Asia, 7 golden lampstands, 7 stars, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 angels, 7 thunders, and the red dragon in Revelation with the 7 heads and 7 crowns. The story of Jericho has Joshua marching his army around the city for seven days with seven priests carrying seven trumpets. On the seventh day they circled Jericho seven times and the walls came tumbling down. In the story of Noah, 7 pairs of each animal are gathered into the ark and 7 pairs of each kind of bird. There are 7 days between the prediction of the deluge and the rain and 7 days between the sending of the doves. The ark comes to rest on the 27th day, and after the flood he begins his 7th centery. And remember the flight number of one of the aircrafts that struck on 911? Flight 77. Remember the 3rd building to fall on 911? Tower #7. Remember Anna the prophetess at the temple when Jesus was a boy? She had been with her husband for 7 years since she was a "virgin". Jesus said in Matthew "that man goes and takes 7 spirits worse than the first one". Jesus fed 5,000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish (5+2=7). Jesus sent 70 to heal the sick. Solomon had 700 wives. Job had 7 sons and 7,000 sheep. In the Tabernacle, gold shekels were to be offered in the following amounts: 730, 775, and 775 again. 75/100 = 3 quarters. 70 bronze talents were offered. The London bombings were on July 7, 2005 = 7/7/05 (775)[2]. Who had a license to kill? James Bond.. agent 007. The 12 month calender is a lie. We're supposed to have a 13 month calender, based on the cycles of the moon. Each month would contain an even 28 days, which would mean four 7 day weeks in each month with nothing over. Also, God told Moses that the Sabbath is to be the 7th day of the week. Yet "Sun"day is the 1st day of the week. Saturday is the 7th day of the week. Why is the Sabbath in America on the 1st day instead of the 7th day? Because we live in backwardsville, that's why.

Then there is 40. Adam enters paradise when he is 40 years old. Eve follows 40 years later. During the Great Flood it rains for 40 days and 40 nights. Seth is carried away by the angels when he is 40 and is not seen for 40 days. Moses fasts for 40 days before he brings down the ten commandments and 40 days after. Moses is 40 when he goes to Midian and he stays for 40 years. The Israelites stay in the desert for 40 years. They eat manna for 40 years. Joseph is 40 years old when Jacob arrives in Egypt. Jesus fasts for 40 days. Need I go on folks? I could give you plenty more evidence to prove that religion is a scam and that your government are a bunch of liars. In my book Unconditional Love 666: THE NEW LAW, I give you much more. By the way, I now live on 40th street (unplanned). Everyone knows the famous date of 1776 (Declaration of Independence, which is 3 words). The Freedom Tower, which will take the place of the twin towers, will be 1776 feet tall. 1776 is the recognized date for the formation of the German Illuminati[3]. I was born in 1976. I am 30 years old (as of this writing). My first address when I got to Colorado was 1276 Allen street. That's obviously a 12 and a 76. My life is completely synchronized with important dates, times, numbers, etc. There are 27 Constitutional Amendments. My only bus number growing up was 27. I always considered it my "lucky number". I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters, which means there are 7 kids in the family (talk about a balance of male and female energy). Add to this my parents, and we get 9. 9 is naught but 3+3+3, or a 3.. 3 times, or a trinity of trinities (9/11). To my utter astonishment, I finished the manuscript for my website and book on September 11th, 2006. I had no idea why all the fireman were gathered together on this particular day. When I asked my co-worker, he informed me that it was 911. I was so busy that I wasn't even aware of this fact. Since I've given up sex for the last ten years, I was kind of hoping to be set free sometime in the new year. My birthday is Feb 16.. (1+6 = 7), 2007. Wouldn't that be appropriate? If you ignore the 00 in 2007, you get 27. Indeed, my book will be ready in the new year of 2007. I guess 27 really is my lucky number after all.

The terms of Senators and Representatives end at noon (12) on the 3rd day of January according to the U.S. Constitution. Congress assembles at least once every year beginning at noon on January 3rd. Look at January.. it's the first month of the year. So we have the 1st month and the 3rd day = 13. Look at the American one dollar bill: we have 13 letters in ANNUIT COEPTIS, which means "announcing conception" (of the New World Order), 13 layers of bricks in the pyramid, 13 arrows, 13 leaves, 13 berries, 13 Illuminated stars = 13 enlightened (original) colonies, 13 letters in E PLURIBUS UNUM ("One of many"); MDCCLXXVI = 1776; mDCcLXxVI = 666 (3 numbers), Novus Ordo Seclorum ("Secular New Order"). We have the ONE in the middle with the headline on top: In God We Trust, which if we add the ONE with the 12 letters becomes the sacred 1 and 12 = 13. Then we have the 666 in relation to www.unconditionallove666.com (the www and com). I didn't plan for my book to be so in line with the #3. Unconditional Love 666: THE NEW LAW. Figure it out.

It's the same with the other seemingly "unrelated" terrorist events such as Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing, which both occured on April 19th, a well known date for Satanic ritual (one that requires sacrifice by blood or fire, hence the women and children who were burned alive at Waco by the FBI and the little children who were burned/blown to pieces at Oklahoma by the ATF). What would be the chances of the burning of women and children at Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing both happening on April 19th?

Whoever does any research into government, politics, organized religion, etc., will find these same numbers constantly recycled. All the wars, economic depressions, terrorist events, our paper money, etc., these all have Illuminati codes associated with them. But I suppose now someone's going to say that it's all a coincidence. You people just go on ignoring the obvious and you will soon find yourself and your family in a Nazi style dictatorship. If the Illuminati's addiction to symbolic numbers doesn't prove this to you, you are hopelessly blind. This is no fucking joke people. The New World Order is coming to town, and they will show mercy to no one. Go to Erin's page http://www.myspace.com/txmetalgrl to see the Satanic street design (street map) of Washington DC, among many other political-Satanic concepts.

If you want to learn more, go to www.unconditionallove666.com. This is part of my book online. My book is now ready however, and contains many more important details than my website. I just put part of the book online for those who can't afford the book.. and because the internet allows this important information to be viewed by people all over the world. The book can be ordered through Amazon: Unconditional Love 666: THE NEW LAW. If ordering from Amazon, using my name in the search (Sean Mooney) will be helpful.

Editor's Endnotes:

[1] In numerology the number 0 is always excluded. Wes Penre, Illuminati News.
[2] The London bombing occurred on 7/7/2005. 7+7+2+5=21; 2+1=3, and 2+5=7. This consequently gives us the magic(k)al number 777, which is the title of one of the black magician Aleister Crowley's books. Wes Penre, Illuminati News.
[3] The year 1776 also adds up to 3: 1+7+7+6=21. 2+1=3. Wes Penre, Illuminati News.

9/9/09: Will the world end today?

2009-09-09T13:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6161137/9909-Will-the-world-end-today.html

9/9/09: Will the world end today?

Some doom-mongers are predicting the end of the world today – on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year – but, so far, they will have been greatly disappointed.

By Ben Leach
Published: 10:30AM BST 09 Sep 2009

Today was heralded by some pessimists as the last day in the history of the human race. Internet chat rooms devoted to the occult have been awash with talk of 09/09/09.

On Tuesday the term 09/09/09 was among the top 100 search terms on Google, with some warning that the world would be sucked into a black hole created by the Cern particle collider in Switzerland, or humans would be hit by a killer outbreak of swine flu.

But at 9am this morning nothing happened, although there is still the possibility that the world could end at precisely 9pm of course.

But so far the most interesting things to have happened have been engineered by marketing companies wanting to benefit from the conspicuous date.

Today sees the release of a Beatles computer game, as well as the release of their digitally remastered back catalogue and the announcement of the new Apple iPod.

A new animated feature film, "9," set in a post-apocalyptic world, will also hit movie theatres in the states as US hotels offer discounts and American county clerks offer special "9/9/09" wedding prices.

In the UK, where 999 is the emergency phone number, conspiracy theorists were particularly hopeful that the date would herald the end of the world.

This is despite the fact that the world has endured despite a number of previous dates for Armageddon, including the millenium and 06/06/06.

Though technically there's nothing special about the symmetrical date, some concerned with the history and meaning of numbers ascribe powerful significance to 09/09/09.

Users of the alien-earth.org website combined Nostrodamus, the Book of Revelation and the Mayan prophecies with fears about the Cern Large Hadron Collider in Geneva in their predictions.

But scientists dismissed the conspiracy theories and said numerology and the belief in special dates should be ignored.
Professor Chris French of Goldsmiths, University of London and editor of The Skeptic Magazine, told the Daily Mail: "Numerology, like any other system of divination, has no validity whatsoever with the exception that sometimes your belief that a day is auspicious may affect your behaviour."

"If a deeply superstitious person is anxious about driving on Friday 13th it's possible they may be more likely to crash.

"We are very good at seeking out meaning and patterns in randomness – it's one of the reasons humans are such a successful species. But the price is that we see significance in things that aren't there at all."

Obama to seal US-UN relationship on a Master Number Day (September 22nd)

2009-09-09T10:19:00.000-07:00

As far as I know, this news was released 9-9-9 as I blogged news all day yesterday and this morning (9-9-9) and it didn't cross my path. My friend in Pittsburgh saw it come up on the news and told me about it this afternoon.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d0c7a3a-9ca4-11de-ab58-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

Obama to seal US-UN relationship

By Harvey Morris at the United Nations
September 8 2009 19:59

Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.

The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament – one of several global challenges that the US now wants to see addressed at a multinational level.

“The council has a very important role to play in preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons, and it’s the world’s principal body for dealing with global security cooperation,” Susan Rice, US envoy to the UN, said last week.

Her remarks were the latest by the Obama administration to emphasise a shift from the strategy of the previous Bush administration, sometimes criticised by its UN partners for seeking to use the world body principally to endorse its own unilateral policies. The US currently holds the month-long rotating presidency of the Security Council.

Mr Obama will join other heads of government in New York during the week of the nuclear summit for the opening of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly. The annual meeting of world leaders is this year raising expectations on a number of fronts.

UN officials hope a climate change debate on September 22 will give fresh impetus to the search for a global climate deal at Copenhagen in December. There are also hopes a possible meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, that Mr Obama would host, could lead to a breakthrough about a timetable for Middle East peace.

Heads of state are also likely to consider how to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Mr Obama gave Tehran a September deadline to reply to his offer of negotiations. Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad will attend the General Assembly “to encourage Iranian views in managing the world,” an aide said.

US officials are concerned Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi might try to steal the limelight during his first visit to New York. A public outcry at the Libyan leader’s visit after he last month welcomed home Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the freed Lockerbie bomber, has already stymied his plans to pitch his tent in Central Park.

“How President Gaddafi chooses to comport himself, when he attends the General Assembly and the Security Council in New York, has the potential either to further aggravate those feelings and emotions or not,” Ms Rice said.

The State Department has not ruled out the possibility that Mr Obama and Colonel Gaddafi would cross paths. They are both due to address the General Assembly on the same day, and the Libyan leader, whose country is a temporary member of the Security Council, is entitled to attend the nuclear summit session that Mr Obama will chair.

9.9.9. and the Mayan Calendar

2009-09-08T10:27:00.000-07:00

http://dprogram.net/2009/09/08/9-9-9-and-the-mayan-calendar/

9.9.9. and the Mayan Calendar
September 8, 2009

The number nine has been endowed with a special significance in many different spiritual and religious traditions. Nine was the number of muses in Greek mythology and Nine were the number of worlds in the Scandinavian. Nine was the number of doors to the holiest part of the temple in Jerusalem and the month of Ramadan is the Ninth in the Muslim calendar. Moreover, the counting system used by most of the world today includes nine numbers and so the relevance of this number is much ingrained in us. Also, in the Mayan tradition the number Nine plays a predominating role. The only existing inscription from ancient times that discusses the meaning of the Mayan calendar “end date” for instance speaks of Nine “deities” that will descend then as its crucial event. This would in modern wording mean that Nine energies, or Nine cosmic forces would fully manifest then since the ancient Maya would look upon time periods as “deities”. As far as we can tell these “deities”, or cosmic forces, are like evolutionary wave movements, built on top of one another where we are currently riding on the eighth one getting ready to ride on the ninth.

The Nine Cosmic levels (Underworlds) that according to the only existing Mayan inscription about the calendar end date (Tortuguero monument 6) will manifest then. Currently we are in the eighth level (The Galactic Underworld) gearing up to the Ninth and highest level, the Universal Underworld. Photo of the Pyramid of the Jaguar in Tikal by the author.)

In the manifestation of these evolutionary waves we may now as we approach the Ninth level notice an amazing synchronicity. This is that the upcoming date 9.9.9 (September 9, 2009 in the Gregorian calendar) happens to coincide with the beginning of a Mayan Sacred Calendar count of 260 days. Hence, in this calendar, in use since 3000 years, the modern date 9.9.9 has the energy of Hun Imix, or 1 Alligator as its English translation reads, which happens to be the first of its energetic combinations. If we ponder what this synchronicity may be telling us the most natural conclusion to draw is that on this particular date we are called to focus on the number nine and especially the Ninth level of the Mayan calendar system, whose coming into existence we are soon about to witness.

I believe that behind these cosmic forces, whose times of activation are described by the Mayan calendar, is an intelligent plan for the history of humanity that comes from a higher source and has a benevolent intention. To realize this is also to understand the importance of the guidance regarding how to follow this plan that we may gain from the calendar of the Maya. These nine cosmic forces are influencing and in fact governing our collective consciousness and so we have every reason to pay attention to what is going on in this cosmic time plan.

Synchronicities can often be interpreted in different ways, but if they are profound they always deserve our attention. 9.9.9, three Nines in a row, may for instance be seen as symbolic of three sacred calendar rounds of 260 days that will now in three steps lead us to the completion of the Ninth level of evolution which is its highest level. To the best of our knowledge this highest energy state of the universe will be attained on the energy 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13 13 Ahau (13 and Ahau are symbols of completion in the Mayan calendar) on the Gregorian date October 28, 2011. This highest state does not in any sense mean the end of the world, but only that all the Nine wave movements are then completed. Maybe we can use the metaphor that we are now about to climb the last hard steps of a ladder until we climb on to the roof where we will find a new stability under our feet and a place to rest.

Regardless of what this final climb will mean we thus have reasons to expect an unprecedented period of change in a very short period of time. This is partly because we are entering the final phase of the eighth level of evolution and partly because a wave movement of a very high frequency, the Ninth level, will radically come to transform the collective consciousness in such a way that we will see the world in an entirely different light. It is for this reason that in the three upcoming Sacred Calendar rounds that follow upon 9.9.9 we will need to network and focus our intentions so that they converge in the birth of a new world. This is all the more important as there are several sources that seem to indicate that the sixth night of the Galactic Underworld, beginning on November 8, 2009, may come to generate a deep downturn in the world’s economy.

The first of these 260-day Sacred Calendar rounds, the one which actually begins on 9.9.9 and goes on until May 26, 2010, may be seen as a period of build-up to the Ninth level that is suitable for prayer, meditation and mental focusing. We encourage community building, networking and spiritual synchronization in this time period, also of a practical nature. The second 260 calendar round, starting 27.05.10 will create a preliminary arrival of the Ninth level and the beginning of this will be marked by the Cosmic Convergence, July 17-18, a significant focus point for spiritual projects of a practical nature that will prepare for the birth of a new world. The third Sacred Calendar round of 260 days will begin February 11, 2011 and includes the actual activation of the Ninth level, the Universal Underworld on March 8, 2011. This may be the most dramatic of the three steps as it leads up to the establishment of the highest energy state of the universe on October 28, 2011.

I believe that through these three steps, three Sacred Calendar rounds, starting on 9.9.9: 1/ Build-up, 2/ Preparatory Ninth level and 3/ Actual Ninth level of the evolution of the cosmos, the universe is now about to deliver what it has been striving towards all along, the establishment of a new level of consciousness, a unity consciousness. I also believe that the Ninth level is designed especially to generate such a unity consciousness, which will transform all of human society. For the human race it will mean very big challenges and opportunities. These changes will however not happen by themselves and need to be manifested by the human beings themselves who may then chose to resist or welcome them. From this perspective we may thus look at the date 9.9.9 not only as a numerological curiosity to celebrate, but also as an opportunity for us to focus on and embrace the participation of humanity in a transformation process of a very large scale, the one brought by the Ninth level of the Cosmos.

From what we may understand of the Mayan calendar the unity consciousness will set an end to all forms of dominance of one human over another and especially those generated by the left brain. What this likely will mean is that instruments of dominance, such as the current financial system, weapons, national borders and many other structures upholding authority in this process will come to crumble as an effect of this unity consciousness coming into existence and so conclude with the birth of a new world where a divine harmony characterize the human relations. This end to dominance will also affect the relationship between the genders on a global scale that as a result will profoundly shift. Needless to say, there will never be any return to business as usual. Instead we will need to approach the birth of the new world consciously and with an intention of co-creating it in a positive sense and not just react to the various difficulties that lie ahead. I believe that such a collective intention of co-creating the new world will be the best way of easing the consequences of these difficulties.

Although what is starting on 9.9.9 is only the build-up phase to the Ninth level, this date is nonetheless a very important focusing point since the timing of the continued preparations for the emergence of this level are of the essence. From this follows that the more practical projects that will start to manifest in the Cosmic Convergence, July 17-18 2010 as the name implies, will have to be based on an understanding that the very framework of the human existence and of consciousness will be dramatically expanded. The expansion of human consciousness is what will bring the socio-economic transformation at a time when the hardships of the old systems may be expected to be painfully felt also by nations that currently may been considered as wealthy. As the Ninth level is finally activated our identities will come to be defined in a much expanded spiritual framework.

This article comes much too late to encourage people more broadly to focus and intend together for the future. Nonetheless, many will celebrate the 9.9.9 date regardless (see for example http://www.fredpajorden.se/sida21.html ). The purpose of my present article is then only to inform those that will be celebrating this date anyway, that indeed this is not just a numerological curiosity in the Gregorian calendar, but that the date plays a profound objective role in the cosmic plan as we may understand this from the Mayan calendar directly leading up to the birth of a new world through the Ninth level, 9.9.9. It is an ideal time to participate in prayers and meditations with the focus and intention of co-creating a new and better world. Additional tools for networking and communication with the focus on the Cosmic Convergence, July 17-18, 2012 will be developed as we go along. 9.9.9 may be seen as an initial and modest initial call for the co-creation of the birth of a new world.

Double and Triple Digits

2009-08-02T12:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.crystalinks.com/numerology4.html

Double and Triple Digits

10:10 or 1010

1010, On Off On Off, Binary Numbers, reality is computer generated, we exist in a virtual reality experiment in linear time to experience emotions. Computers use 1010 digital codes that repeat over and over - circuit open and circuit closed - a blinking effect as all goes back to the Eye/Lens. We find the time 10:10 featured on most clock images.

11

11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. Because eleven is the first number which cannot be represented by a human using his or her ten fingers, it is often considered a mysterious number. Eleven is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. (Click link to read more)

11:11 DNA Digital Codes

12:12

12:12 is 3+3=6=Star of David Frequency, also linked with the Qabbalah, Flower of Life, Merkabah, Spiraling Consciousness, Sacred Geometry

12:12 is not a date or time. It is a designation or destination. It is the reunion of our Twins Souls above and below - all aspect of our soul rejoining - Twin Strand DNA merging at Zero Point Merge - and a pole shift of consciousness. 12/12 is sometimes viewed as a date based on the Mayan Calendar Prophecy which in itself is not aligned with the Julian calendar. Some believe that we will reach the end of linear time and movement into a Golden Age, the Alchemy of Consciousness, on that date.

2012

22

In numerology 22 is often called the Master Builder or Spiritual Master in Form. This 'master number' includes all the attributes of the number 2, twice over, and also those of the 4. People who are 22s are said to find themselves feeling as if they live in two worlds, one which is overwhelmed by the mundane, and the other by the fantastic. In the divinatory Tarot, there are 22 major arcana cards. These cards are numbered 0-21, so it is a matter of interpretation whether The Fool or The World is card number 22. The latter card is almost always associated with hard workers, a red-gold color, and a rose-gold gemstone. Interestingly, the digital root of the 22 is the 4, which is the number of hard work.

Twenty-two is a higher octave of four. It contains the secrets to many esoteric questions, as evidenced by the fact that there are twenty two letters in the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two pathways in many versions of the Kabbalah, and twenty two cards in the Major Arcana. Twenty two carries with it psychic gifts such as heightened sensitivity, intuition and psychic awareness, but is also predisposed to pitfalls such as treachery from hidden enemies and over sensitivity.

22 represents practical idealism - practical genius, creator of the future, power on all levels, master of the material, philanthropy, universality, international direction, and service to mankind.

In religion:

There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet
There are 22 chapters of the Revelation of John Bible
In the Kabbalah, there are 22 paths between the Sephiroth
In mathematics

Twenty-two is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 11. 22 is the sixth discrete bi-prime and the fourth in the (2.q) family. With 21 it forms the second discrete bi-prime pair. 22 has an aliquot sum of 14 and is the fifth composite number found in the 7-aliquot tree. It has a 7- member aliquot sequence 22,14,10,8,7,1,0 of which the next two members are themselves discrete biprimes, 22 is the first discrete biprime exhibiting this property. 169 also has 14 as its aliquot sum. 22 is itself the aliquot sum of two numbers 20,38.

Twenty-two is a pentagonal number and a centered heptagonal number.
When cutting a circle with just six line segments, the maximum number of pieces that can be so created is 22, thus 22 is a central polygonal number .

The sum of the totient function for the first eight integers is 22.

22 is a Perrin number, preceded in the sequence by 10, 12, 17.

It is a Smith number in base 10.

22 divided by 7 approximates the number ¼, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

In astronomy - Messier object M22, a magnitude 6.5 globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius

22=2+2=4=Time.

33

33 represents Christ Consciousness - universal nurturing, social consciousness raised to a world class, global responsibility, master teacher and healer. 33 is a higher octave of 6, the flower of life, Creation.

33 Freemasons

The 33rd degree is the highest publicly known degree in Freemasonry. The number 33 signifies 'Illumination' and freedom from religious dogma (superstition). The human backbone contains 33 vertebra with the cranium (intellect) on top.

33 is also 32 around 1. If you look at the roof of the United Nations General Assembly you will see a large light circular light surrounded by 32 smaller lights. If you look at the United Nations' own symbol you will see a circle divided up into 32 sections with the center being the 33rd. On the United Nations symbol you will notice 13 leaves on the olive branch. The symbol for the Soviet Union has this feature as well as 32 rays emanating from the sun with the sun being the 33rd.

In Math 33 is the largest positive integer that can not be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers. It is also the smallest odd repdigit that's not prime (unless we consider 1-digit integers to also be repdigits). 33 is the eighth distinct biprime comprising the prime factors (3.11). Its aliquot sum (n)is 15; itself a distinct biprime (3.5) in the following Aliquot sequence 33,15,9,4,3,1,0. (Note 33 is the 8th composite number to descend into the prime number 3, the others outside of this sequence being 30,26,16,12). The sum of the first four factorials is 33. Adding up the sums of divisors for the 1 through 6 yields 33. 33 is the smallest integer such that it and the next two integers all have the same number of divisors.

40

40 = 4 = humanity's movement through time to completion, closure.

Forty seems to have many meanings associated with it; especially religious. Many important events in history are linked to 40.

It is the number of probation; trial; initiation; death.

As an elevation of four it is wholeness and totality.

The importance of the "forty days" probably comes from the Babylonian forty days' disappearance of the Pleiades, a period of rains, storms, floods and dangers. The return of the Pleiades was a time of rejoicing and a bundle of forty reeds was burned for the forty days of evil power.

The Roman "quarantine" kept ships isolated for forty days in the harbor.

Temples in Persia, Baalbec, Tartary, those of the Druids and the Temple of Ezekiel, had forty pillars.

Bible: Jesus spent forty days in the desert being tempted by the devil.

There are forty days to Lent, from which were from those forty days in the wilderness.

There are forty of the resurrection, from Easter to Ascension.

The are forty days to privileged sanctuary, and forty days to St. Swithin's weather.

In the Old Testament Moses spent forty days on Mount Sinai; Moses' spies spent forty days in Canaan and Caleb, one of them, was forty years old - For forty years the Jews wandered in the wilderness;

Forty days Elijah was in hiding; probation for Nineveh under Jonah;

In the Flood it rained for forty days and Noah's raven was sent out forty days after mountain- tops appeared;

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca and Esau was also forty when he took a wife

It took forty days to embalm Jacob;

The standard legal beating consisted of forty blows;

Othniel, Caleb's brother, was victorious over 'The King of Mesopotamia" and brought peace for forty years, and the later defeat of Sisera again brought a forty-year peace; a little later Gideon subdued the Midianites bringing peace for - forty years

Abdon, one of the early Judges, had forty sons, but these were unable to prevent the Philistines from ruling Western Israel for forty years;

At Succoth Saul's army and the Philistines sat and looked at each other for forty days;

Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel,

David reigned for forty years, and as did Solomon.

Egypt: The forty days of the death and absence of Osiris - resurrection and rebirth - is a period of fasting) through the 'iris' or Eye.

Islamic: The number of change and death, but also of reconciliation and return to the principle. Mohammed received his "call" at forty years; the Quran should be read every forty days.

Mithraic: Forty is the number of days of initiation rites and of festivals and sacrifice.

In mathematics forty is an octagonal number, and as the sum of the first four pentagonal numbers, it is a pentagonal pyramidal number. Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 1, 4, 5, 10 and 20) gives 40, hence 40 is a semiperfect number.

44

44 is a higher octave of 8

44 References

440 KHZ, A440

In mathematics Forty-four is a tribonacci number, a happy number and an octahedral number. 44 is the 5th square prime with the prime structure (2^2.11). It is the 4th square prime in the family (2^2.q). 40 is the aliquot sum of 44 and so 44 is the first Square-Prime in deficit (-4). All subsequent square primes from 44 have aliquot sums in deficit. The aliquot sequence of 44 comprises 5 members (44,40,50,43,1) and interestingly exhibits a peak at the square prime 50. 44 is the 3rd composite member of the 43-aliquot prime tree, the next member being 50 quoted above.

In Astronomy we find Messier object M44, a magnitude 4.0 open cluster in the constellation Cancer, also known as the Beehive Cluster.

In science 44 is the atomic number of ruthenium.

55

55 represents a higher octave of 1.

55 (fifty-five) is the natural number following 54 and preceding 56. In mathematics 55 is a heptagonal number, a centered nonagonal number, and a triangular number (the sum of the numbers 1 to 10) and a square pyramidal number (the sum of the squares of the integers 1 to 5). It is also a Fibonacci number (the largest Fibonacci number to also be a triangular number) and a Kaprekar number. The number 55, like 89, displays an interesting property of the Fibonacci Sequence.

In science 55 is the atomic number of cesium.

In Astronomy 55 is Messier object M55, a magnitude 7.0 globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.

66

66 represents a higher octave of 33.

66 (sixty-six) In mathematics is a sphenic number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number, and a semi-meandric number. Being a multiple of a perfect number, 66 is itself a semiperfect number.

In science it is the atomic number of dysprosium, a lanthanide.

77

77 represents a higher octave of 5. 77 (seventy-seven) is the natural number following 76 and preceding 78. Seventy-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring five syllables in English. Seventy-seven is the sum of three squares, 42 + 52 + 62, as well as the sum of the first eight prime numbers. 77 and 78 form a Ruth-Aaron pair under the second definition in which repeated prime factors are counted as often as they occur. It is possible for a sudoku puzzle to have as many as 77 givens yet lack a unique solution.

In science 77 is the atomic number of iridium.

In astronomy, we find:

Messier object M77, a magnitude 10.5 spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus.

The New General Catalogue object NGC 77, a galaxy in the constellation Cetus

The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -474 July 11 and ended on 788 August 6.

The duration of Saros series 77 was 1262.1 years, and it contained 71 solar eclipses.

The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -190 April 9 and ended on 1090 May 16. The duration of Saros series 77 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 lunar eclipses.

In history -- During World War II in Sweden at the border with Norway, "77" was used as a Shibboleth (password), because the tricky pronunciation in Swedish made it easy to instantly discern whether the speaker was native Swedish, Norwegian, or German.

88

88 represents a higher octave of 7.

Pianos have 88 keys - Harmonics and Letters

Eighty-eight is used as code among white supremacists to identify each other. H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 is taken to stand for HH which in turn means Heil Hitler. This has caused controversy in the past, when trend spotters for the Target Corporation noticed the symbol and began its use on hats and T-shirts, unaware of its meaning." 14 is used similarly, more likely by non-Nazi white nationalists, but it is oftentimes found in combination with 88 (1488, 14/88, etc.). This form of the number has inspired the naming of the groups Column 88, Unit 88 and White Legion 88. Used for "goodbye" in Chinese SMS: 8 is pronounced "ba", hence 88 is "baba", resembling the pronunciation of "bye-bye."

Eighty-eight is a symmetrical or palindromic number, a primitive semiperfect number, a refactorable number and an untouchable number. It is also a 16-gonal number. A palindromic number is a 'symmetrical' number like 16461, that remains the same when its digits are reversed. The term palindromic is derived from palindrome.

99

99 represents a higher octave of 9. Ninety-nine is the ninth repdigit, a palindromic number and a Kaprekar number. It is the sum of the sums of divisors of the first eleven positive integers. In astronomy Messier object M99, a magnitude 10.5 spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. The New General Catalogue object NGC 99, a magnitude 13.7 spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces.

Triple Numbers

Triple digits give number even more power than double digits taking them to a higher octave. Add the numbers together to get one number and its greater meaning. Interesting .... they all equal 3, 6, or 9.

222 Duality - Polarity - Reality is created by an electromagnetic energy grid. 2+2=2=6=Flower of Life

333 represents a higher octave of 9 = closure in 3D

444 represents a higher octave of 3

A440 is the 440 Hz tone that serves as the standard for musical pitch. A440 is the musical note A above middle C (A4).

555=15=6 and its meaning.

555 is a sphenic number. In base 10, it is a repdigit, and because it is divisible by the sum of its digits, it is a Harshad number. It is also a Harshad number in binary, base 11, base 13 and hexadecimal.

666 = 18 = 9 (closure)

666 is an abundant number. It is the sum of the first 36 natural numbers (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3... + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666), and thus a triangular number. Since 36 is both square and triangular, 666 is the sixth number of the form n2(n2 + 1) / 2 (triangular squares) and the eighth number of the form n(n + 1)(n2 + n + 2) / 8 (doubly triangular numbers.)
666 is the sum of the squares of the first seven prime numbers (i.e. 22 + 32 + 52 + 72 + 112 + 132 + 172 = 666). The harmonic mean of the decimal digits of 666 is an integer: 3/(1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6) = 6, making 666 the 54th number with this property. In base 10, 666 is a palindromic number, a repdigit and a Smith number. A prime reciprocal magic square based on 1/149 in base 10 has a magic total of 666.

The Roman numeral representation of the number 666 (DCLXVI) uses once each the Roman numeral symbols with values under 1,000, occurring in descending order of their respective values (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1).

666 is a member of the Indices of prime Padovan sequence, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14, 19, 30, 37, 84, 128, 469, 666, 1262, 1573, 2003, 2210, ....

In other fields

666 is referred to as the Number of the Beast in the Book of the Revelation (see Revelation 13:17-18).
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, 666 is considered to be symbolic. Because 666 in Greek numerals stands for the Christ for man because the man was created the sixth day of Genesis and the serpent, represented what came between them.
In War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the main hero (Pierre Bezukhov) uses numerology to show that Napoleon Bonaparte is the Antichrist. Bezukhov then finds the same to be true for his own name when the French version of his nationality is added. [1]

Mistakes in both calculations are often noted in the reviews. Since the "sine of the Devil" sin (666°) = -1/2 times the golden ratio, this expression has been paraphrased by the humorous quip "The sign of the devil is the opposite of good, but only half as strong." Note that (sin 306°) and (sin -54°) are mathematically synonymous with (sin 666°). Vicarius Filii Dei, an epithet for the Pope which means literally "vicar of the son of God", adds up to 666 if only the letters with Roman numeral values are included. This epithet was never used by the Catholic church itself and was likely invented by a person who believed that the Antichrist would be a Pope.

666 was used as a nickname by Aleister Crowley, an occultist who styled himself as the Beast referred to in the Book of the Revelation.

The UPC barcodes found on most commercial products are characterized by guard bars at the beginning, middle and end made up of two thin lines. Two thin lines also appear in the UPC encoding for the digit 6 (and no other digit), and so to human eyes (but not to an electronic barcode reader) the guard bars appear to read 666. Some people interpret this as a fulfillment of the prophecy "Without this number an individual will not be able to buy or sell" (cited from the Book of the Revelation 13:17).[3]

The 2006 remake of the horror film The Omen was released on June 6, 2006 (06/06/06) at 06:06:06 in the morning.
The full name of former U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan contains six letters in each of his three names. This caused a few numerologists to believe that Reagan was in fact the antichrist, such as Gary D. Blevins. Additionally, when Reagan moved to California following the end of his presidency, he asked that his house number be changed from 666 to 668. [4]
666 is the port number used by the game Doom when playing against another player via TCP.

Most versions of the computer game Lemmings feature a level called "All the 6's ...". The level layout features three 6's built upon the "hellish" lava terrain set, 66 Lemmings and 66 of every skill, a time limit of 6 minutes, a release rate of 66, and the player must rescue 66% of the Lemmings.

In Chinese culture, 666 sounds a lot like the words 'Things going smoothly'. It is considered one of the luckiest numbers in Chinese culture. It can be seen prominently in many shop windows across the country, and people there often pay extra to get a mobile phone number including this string of digits.

The numeric sequence 6-6-6 is Waw-Waw-Waw ("WWW") in Hebrew, since in Hebrew, letters have numerical values. The decimal number 666, however, is Taw-Resch-Samech-Waw (400-200-60-6), since in Hebrew, hundreds, tens and ones have different characters.

666 is the amount of gold talents that King Solomon collected in a single year.

666 is the number of Adonikam's descendants who return to Jerusalem and Judah from the Babylonian exile.

777 represents a higher octave of 3

888 represents a higher octave of 6 [24=6=flower of life] in the Hebrew alphabet is the sacred number of Jesus or Christ Consciousness

999 represents a higher octave of 9 - 9:9 - September 9, 2004

90 Degrees of Separation

9/11 9=Endings. 11=DNA. 911=ending code of our DNA program in this reality.

The Master Numbers

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http://www.cherrysage.com/master_numbers.htm

It is widely believed by numerologists and the like that individuals with Master Numbers 11 or 22 in their name or date of birth are endowed with special qualities that demand a greater effort. That they are old souls that have come into this lifetime to master some level of experience (be it spiritual, scientific, medical, religious, educational, technological). In order to access this power or gift, the soul must come into awareness (or perhaps was born with this special awareness) or awakening. Individuals actually operating at this high level are rare indeed, but once connected to this power and operating at this higher level, can be a true channel of divine knowledge and mastery. People with Master Numbers have the potential to achieve great accomplishments. However, master accomplishment require master effort. The potential is there. If however, a person with master numbers cannot live up to this potential, then they operate and the lower level two rather than 11; four rather than 22.

11 is the number of revelation, illumination. If expressed harmoniously, a person with a Master Number 11 could be a gifted channel or clairvoyant, seeks to express higher consciousness, unites spiritual Truth to material plane; inventive, visionary leader, sets an example, a dreamer.

Example of a Life Path or Life Mission Master Number 11

General

11 is the number of illumination and awareness. 11s have the potential to be extremely able at whichever activities they undertake. They are capable of rising to the top of their professions. Those who have developed their full potential are idealists and visionaries. They have an understanding of themselves and others. They are charismatic and inspirational. They have quiet inner strength, strong convictions and much perception. They are leaders in their chosen field, leading in a sensitive and caring way. They often have vocational zeal, seeking to influence and to change the ways that things are done. 11s have to take care not to become impractical dreamers rather than doers. Very occasionally 11s distort their talents by using them in a self-seeking but nevertheless effective way. 11 is not an easy Life Path number to have. Recognition and development of the 11 abilities is often latent. However, if and when 11s use their special talents, they can be a great inspiration to other people.

Life Mission 11s must learn an awareness of the mental and spiritual world and its relationship to the material realm. They should seek wisdom and understanding and then pass their knowledge to others in a functional and helpful way. They have to learn how to selflessly serve humankind in a practical way. They can do this in many ways, for example as statesmen, writers, preachers, instructors, scientists, managers, environmentalists or artists, all of whom can apply their skills constructively to influence the minds of people. Although 11s are capable of great accomplishment, initially they may not even understand discussions about the spiritual or philosophical realms. They may be operating purely intuitively and may not see a relationship with anything other than the material world. Once they recognise their special powers they often find it difficult to apply this power in a practical and constructive way. The nervous tension caused by their sensitivity, by their search for direction and for methods to apply their special talents may make 11s quite hard to live with. Eventually most 11s develop their potential to a degree. If the pressure of doing so becomes too great they may revert, perhaps for a while only, to 11s lesser number which is 2. For this reason it is worth reviewing this number briefly: Life Path Number 2 2s are sensitive, loving, considerate people who tend to operate in a supportive role. They are the balancers of life, diplomatically defusing situations.

They facilitate activities from behind the scenes, often dealing with the detail. Their Life Mission is to associate and to co-operate with others in a supportive way, without taking the lead or the limelight. 11s choosing the 2 Life Path may find that they become restless with the secondary role that they are adopting. Deep down they know that they can be the leader rather than the follower.

22 is the number of the master builder. If expressed harmoniously, intellectual practicality, work involves large scale institutions, capable of integrating higher wisdom with organizational structure. See Basic Numbers

Example of a Life Path or Life Mission Master Number 22

General

22s have the potential to be extremely capable at whatever they do. They can be very practical and can see the broad picture. They are ethical and honest. They are able to direct others. They are so aware, intuitive and perceptive that they often find original and startling solutions to problems. This is also because they can operate on a different wavelength from others. Other people will see the potential of 22 individuals and will be attracted by their natural charisma, even if the latter are not using their talents to maximum effect. They have a generous nature and a genuine care for humanity. 22s have a deep inner understanding of the forces of nature and much wisdom. They are frequently idealists but can put their concepts into practice. They operate best when they have a firm supportive base of family and friends, and when they are co-operating with others. Deep down, 22s are very sensitive; frequently this sensitivity and their peacemaking abilities are tested to the full by a dominating individual within their environment. 22s should try to work with the flow of circumstances, not against them. 22s usually have nervous tension because they will feel constant pressure to perform to their full potential. They should take care not to overwork as this can bring about emotional difficulties. Negative 22s may have a consuming wish to control others; this can make them selfish, ruthless and immoral. Fortunately this type is a rarity.

22 Life Mission

22s must learn the mastery of combining the highest ideals with their power to achieve the largest of material goals. With this they have the potential for more perception and more understanding than others and the ability to achieve everything in the way of material accomplishment. The 22 Life Mission is to learn how to develop and focus this potential so that it can be put to practical use for the benefit of the many. 22s must work for the benefit of humankind in order to achieve their own ultimate growth. The 22 Mission is tough, but worth pursuing, because 22s achieving even partial success can do more good for both humanity and themselves than those who do not have this number. Because they find it difficult to operate at the high 22 level all of the time, and because all 22s have some of the 4 characteristics, there is a need to know about the aspects of the 22 fall-back number which is 4: 4 Life Mission: 4s are here to learn to create order and structure, to work hard to serve others, to accept willingly life's limitations. Acceptance leads to happiness and satisfaction at the level at which 4s are comfortable. 4

Characteristics: 4s are practical and have the ability to work long and hard. They are logical, conscientious and pay attention to the details. They make good organisers, administrators and managers, although many 4s are content to work in non- supervisory positions. 4s are able to get to the top of their professions and trades, but often by sheer hard work. They usually like structure in their lives, disliking too much innovation. They are honest, responsible and sincere. They usually lack spirituality unless it forms part of an established religion. They have a rather fixed approach and distrust rapid change. They are courageous; this can be expressed as determination, but sometimes stubbornness. They have strong likes and dislikes. 4s who have yet to develop their natural potential may be disorganised, chaotic and even irresponsible. 4s expressing themselves in a negative way will feel caught in a trap. They may be bossy and over-dominant. They may have very fixed attitudes and these may prevent them from changing and adapting, thereby stunting their development; they may try to blame this lack of progress on others. Their frustration can lead to loss of temper and even violence. Although those with 4 Life Paths operate within certain limitations, many 4s prefer to lead a structured and secure existence. It is this very safety that allows them to lead happy and fruitful lives.

Numerology Lifepath 22

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http://www.starlightnumerology.com/lp-22.htm

Numerology lifepath 22 is a master builder. The number 22 is very powerful. Anyone possessing this lifepath number has a date with destiny.

First are your Character Traits

Extremely capable of reaching the very top of his/her chosen profession
An inborn understanding of material problems and their forces
Very perceptive in most things
The inner fire of a 22 is visible to all he/she comes into contact with
The nervous tension felt by a 22 cannot often be hidden

The Lesson

The lifepath 22 must learn to live up to his/her potential being although aware and highly perceptive as he/she is will find self often frustrated at not being able to put the puzzle together when confronted with a problem. Learning to harness the great power to accomplish great things will not come to the 22 in his/her early years.

After maturity will come better understanding and he/she will be a wonder to see in all his/her endeavors. Learning how to harness this great potential and use it constructively for the betterment of those around him/her or the world in general will be the lesson for this lifetime.

The Negative Forces Within

The lifepath 22 must not use his power for selfish reasons as he will circumvent the destiny of the master number 22 and will be very aware of misusing it which will lead to unrest and a troubled soul.

Occassionally a negative 22 will be overwhelmed by this powerful force and try to retreat from it which he/she must not do as the world needs him/her and it will result in another wasted life span.

Numerology and the Master Numbers

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http://www.decoz.com/Masternumbers.htm

Numerology; Key To Your Inner Self.

There are 3 double-digit numbers that, while they are rooted in the single-digit numbers, require special emphasis and attention. These are 11, 22, and 33.

They are called Master numbers because they possess more potential than other numbers. They are highly charged, difficult to handle, and require time, maturity, and great effort to integrate into one's personality.

The 11 is the most intuitive of all numbers. It represents illumination; a channel to the subconscious; insight without rational thought; and sensitivity, nervous energy, shyness, and impracticality. It is a dreamer. The 11 has all the aspects of the 2, enhanced and charged with charisma, leadership, and inspiration. It is a number with inborn duality, which creates dynamism, inner conflict, and other catalyses with its mere presence. It is a number that, when not focused on some goal beyond itself, can be turned inward to create fears and phobias. The 11 walks the edge between greatness and self-destruction. Its potential for growth, stability, and personal power lies in its acceptance of intuitive understanding, and of spiritual truths. For the 11, such peace is not found so much in logic, but in faith. It is the psychic's number.

The 22 is the most powerful of all numbers. It is often called the Master Builder. The 22 can turn the most ambitious of dreams into reality. It is potentially the most successful of all numbers. It has many of the inspirational insights of the 11, combined with the practicality and methodical nature of the 4. It is unlimited, yet disciplined. It sees the archetype, and brings it down to earth in some material form. It has big ideas, great plans, idealism, leadership, and enormous self-confidence. If not practical, the 22s waste their potential. Like the 11, the 22 can easily shrink from its own ambition, causing difficult interior pressures. Both the 11 and the 22 experience the pressure-cooker effect very strongly, particularly at an early age. It must work toward the realization of goals that are larger than personal ambition. The 22 serves the world in a practical way.

The 33 is the most influential of all numbers. It is the Master Teacher. The 33 combines the 11 and the 22 and brings their potential to another level. When expressed to the fullest, the 33 lacks all personal ambition, and instead focuses its considerable abilities toward the spiritual uplifting of mankind. What makes the 33 especially impressive, is the high level of sincere devotion. This is shown in its determination to seek understanding and wisdom before preaching to others. The 33 in full force is extremely rare.

The number 33 only matters when found among the core numbers: The Life Path, Heart's Desire, Expression, Personality, Maturity number, or as an Essence cycle or Pinnacle cycle. In all other cases the 33 should be reduced to a 6.
The fact that the 33 is extra-ordinary demanding and rare can be seen symbolically in the methods of calculation.
For example, a 33 Life Path can happen only when each of the 3 units of the birth date (month/year/day) add to 11. Or when the year adds to 22 (in the 20th century there are only 7 years that add to 22: 1939, 48, 57, 66, 75, 84, and 93) and the month and day of birth combined total is 11. And finally, when the birth day is 22 and the month and year of birth total 11.

Another way to look at the Master numbers:

The Master numbers 11, 22, and 33 represent a triangle. A triangle of Enlightenment.

33

11 22

The number 11 represents the vision.
The number 22 combines vision with action
The number 33 offers guidance to the world.

Common Holidays in Relation to Equinoxes, Solstices & Cross-Quarter Days

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http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/cal/

January 1 - New Year's Day
January 5 - Twelfth Night
January 6 - Eastern Orthodox Christmas
- Twelfth Day
or Epiphany
or Old Christmas
January 20 - Inauguration Day
- Saint Agnes' Eve - woman dreams of future husband
2nd New Moon after
Winter Solstice - Chinese New Year (lunar calendar)

February 2-6 1st Cross-Quarter Day

February 2 - Groundhog Day
- Candlemas
or feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary
or of the Presentation of the Child Jesus
- 40th Day of Christmas
- Imbolg / Imbolc (other Celtic names)
or Brighid
or Oimelc
February 14 - Valentine's Day
March 2nd Sunday - Begin U.S. Daylight Savings Time (clocks 1 hour forward)
March 15 - Ides of March - 1st month middle, Roman calendar
also assassination of Julius Caesar
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day - sowing of peas in Ireland

March 19-21 1st Quarter Day - Spring (Vernal) Equinox

March 21 - Ostara / Eostre (Saxon goddess of Spring)
Full Moon after SE - Passover
Following Sunday - Easter
Previous Friday - Good Friday
April 1 - All Fool's Day (old new year's day)

April 30 - May Eve
or Walpurgisnacht (witches' Sabbath)
or Walpurgis Night (after St. Walpurga)
May 1 - May Day - May Poles, May Queens, May-dew, etc.
- Beltane / Bealtaine - Celtic bonfire festival

May 4-7 2nd Cross-Quarter Day

May 5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)
May 2nd Sunday - Mother's Day
May last Monday - Memorial Day ("Decoration Day", officially May 30)
June 14 - Flag Day
June 3rd Sunday - Father's Day

June 20-22 2nd Quarter Day - Summer Solstice

June 21 - Litha (Norse/Anglo-Saxon for "longest day")
June 23 - St. John's Eve - European Midsummer celebration
July 1 - Dominion Day (Canada)
July 4 - Independence Day (U.S.)
August 1 - Lammas ("loaf mass") - harvest festival
or festival of St. Peter's Chains
or of the Maccabees
or of the Gule ("mouth") of August
- Lugnasad - Gaelic summer "games of Lug" (sun-god)
or Lughnasada
or Lunasa

August 5-8 3rd Cross-Quarter Day

September 1st Mon - Labor Day

September 21-24 3rd Quarter Day - Fall (Autumnal) Equinox

September 21 - Mabon (Welsh for "son")
New Moon after FE - Rosh ha-Shanah (Jewish New Year)
10 days later - Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement")
October 2nd Monday - Thanksgiving (Canada)

October 31 - Hallowe'en
or All Hallows E'en
or Hallowmas Eve
November 1 - Dia de los Muertos
or Day of the Dead (Mexico)
- All Saints' Day
or Hallowmas or Allhallowmas or Allhallows
- Samhain - Celtic feast of departing Sun & new year
or All Souls' Night
November 2 - All Soul's Day - prayer for souls in purgatory
November 1st Sun. - End U.S. Daylight Savings Time (clocks 1 hour back)
November 1st Tues
after 1st Mon - U.S. Election Day

November 5-8 4th Cross-Quarter Day

November 5 - Guy Fawkes Day
November 11 - Veterans' Day (World War I Armistice Day)
- Martinmas (death of St. Martin)
or Martinmas-in-Winter
November 4th Thurs - Thanksgiving (U.S.)
December 13 - St. Lucy's Day ("the year's midnight")
December 19 - Saturnalia - Roman midwinter festival, 7 days long

December 20-23 4th Quarter Day - Winter Solstice

December 21 - Yule (Norse for "wheel") - Germanic 12-day feast
December 24 - Christmas Eve
December 25 - Christmas Day
December 31 - New Year's Eve

233

2009-06-27T13:07:00.000-07:00

From joestv.blogspot.com

"233 is an irregular prime, a full reptend prime, a cousin prime, a Chen prime, and a sexy prime. It is an Eisenstein prime of the form 3n − 1 with no imaginary part. Since 233 × 2 + 1 = 467, another prime, 233 is a Sophie Germain prime. 233 is also a prime triplet (with 227 and 229).

It is a Fibonacci number, being the sum of 89 and 144. Being an odd-indexed Fibonacci number, it is also a Markov number, appearing in solutions to the Markov Diophantine equation: (1, 89, 233), (89, 233, 610), (233, 610, 426389), ...

In base 10 there is no integer that added up to its own digits yields 233, hence 233 is a self number. In base 3, the sum of 233's digits is composite; no smaller prime has this property."-Wikipedia.com

Breaking the Sabbath (Part 1), The Flood (Part 2), & Dividing the Souls (Part 3)

2009-03-14T09:42:00.000-07:00

http://www.spirit-of-the-torah.com/sabbath.html

Breaking the Sabbath (Part 1), The Flood (Part 2), & Dividing the Souls (Part 3)

This essay is extremely detailed, and it might seem complicated. However, it describes the resurrection and things to come. Part 1 begins with explaining the intent behind Balaam and Balaks magic, when they decided to curse Israel and break their rest and all of the seven days of creation. Part 2 explains mans current condition of the sleeping realm and spiritual insights into the flood and the souls of the Nefilim. Finally, Part 3 concludes with the dividing process to come...once everything is completed. It shows how the souls of man will be divided.

PART ONE:
Balaam was the most feared magician of his time. He represents the gods above: the fallen angels. It is stated in “The Book of Jasher” (which is spoken of in Joshua 10:13 & 2 Samuel 1:18) that Balaam fathered Balak. That is important to note, because it relates to the “sons of god” who procreated with the "daughters of man" (Genesis 6:1~4). To put it simply, Balaam was a “son of god” above; as Balak was his creation below.

Numbers 22:41: “In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him to the High Altars of Baal, where he could see [as far as] the outer edges of the [Israelite] people.”

That is to say, they went above the earth to one of the four corners, in order to see a portion of the people. (As the story continues, Balaam will continue to go to each of the four corners, making a total of three separate sacrifice attempts. However, Balak will stop him before he curses the fourth corner.)

Numbers 23:1: “‘Build seven altars for me here,’ said Balaam to Balak, ‘and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.’”

The reason there were seven altars built was that Balak intended on breaking each day of creation: one altar for each of the seven days of creation. The reason there were both bulls and rams was that there have been two creations. The Torah begins with the Hebrew letter “Bet” (the second letter); and it is taught that this creation is the second creation.

Technically speaking, there were two sets of 7 altars. One set of 7 altars was on earth; and the other set of altars was in the “heavens above.” They knew, in order to break a day of creation, both heaven and earth must be used. As an aside: the bull represents Taurus (the 2nd sign of the Zodiac); whereas the ram represents Aries (the beginning of the Zodiac calendar).

There is another reason that they used seven altars specifically. Balak intended on breaking the most holy day: the Sabbath. He knew if he could break the Sabbath, the rest and peace of Israel would be gone. Furthermore, breaking the Sabbath is the quickest way to “wake up.” It breaks the “rest” given to man and causes resurrection from the dust. Just as, Balaam declared in his oracle: “‘Jacob [is like] the dust; who can count his [hordes]? Who can number the seed of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, but let my end be like his!’” (Numbers 23:10)

What Balak really wanted was to forcibly bring on the resurrection of the dead and hold control over the power of the Ark of the Covenant. However, as Balaam told him many times over, he could only do as instructed by the Angel of the Lord (Numbers 22:32~35). Mathematically, 7 multiplied by 7 equal 49. The following number is 50. So, breaking the Sabbath (7) on both realms (7 times 7) would force the next number in sequence to be enacted, which is 50 and is equated with the Year of Jubilees.

Leviticus 25:8~10: “You shall count seven sabbatical years, that is, seven times seven years. The period of the seven sabbatical cycles thus be 49 years. Then, on the 10th day of the seventh month, you shall make a proclamation with the ram’s horn. This proclamation with the ram’s horn is thus to be made on Yom Kippur. You shall sanctify the fiftieth year, declaring emancipation [of slaves] all over the world.”

Of course, as the story in Numbers shows, Balaam and Balak were not able to break the Sabbath in that manner. But I will discuss how the Sabbath (rest) will be broken.

PART TWO:
Balak wanted resurrection, but he was unable to break the power of the 7. However, there is another way. The power of the 6 is easier to break. This is going to be a lot of numbers, but read it as many times as you need to. I won’t sugar coat it. I’m just going to put the information out there in a very matter-of-fact way.

First of all, as I explained elsewhere in “The Father” and also in “The Man in the Garden,” man is a physical form with spiritual soul from the angelic realm. Man is associated with the number 5 (i.e., 5 fingers on each hand & 5 toes on each foot). The offspring of the “sons of god” and the “daughters of man” are associated with the number 6 (i.e. 6 fingers & 6 toes). (Reference comes from 2 Samuel 21:20.)

As seen in Genesis 6, the “sons of god” and the “daughters of man” multiplied (meaning procreated). [The essay titled “The Father” shows how the lifespan of man was decided upon by “multiplying” 12 (the angels) by 10 (mankind) to equal 120. (12 X 10 = 120)]

Scripture states that “The titans (a.k.a. Nefilim) were on the earth in those days and also later.” (Genesis 6:4) However, the verse does NOT say “during.” Here’s what I believe: God had so much mercy that he took those spirits of the “sons of god” and “daughters of man” and put them into a sleep state. That is where mankind is right now!

Ezekiel 13:1~23: “…Inasmuch as they have misled My people, saying ‘It is well,’ when nothing is well, daubing with plaster the flimsy wall which the people were building, say to those daubers of plaster: It shall collapse; a driving rain shall descend—and you, O great hailstones, shall fall—and a hurricane wind shall rend it. Then, when the wall collapses, you will be asked, ‘ What became of the plaster you daubed on?’ Assuredly, thus said the Lord GOD: In My fury I will let loose hurricane winds; in My anger a driving rain shall descend, and great hailstones in destructive fury. …”

Daniel 9:26: “…The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.”

Isaiah 54:9: “To me this is like the days of Noah…”

Matthew 24:37~39: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.”

Luke 13:24~27: Jesus said, “…Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading. ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’”

Luke 17:26~30: Jesus said, “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.”

PART THREE:
Balaam made three attempts at sacrifices, but Balak stopped him before any further attempts were made to break the Sabbath. (Multiplication is used because it denotes reproduction. As seen in the commandment in Genesis 1:28: “Go forth and multiply.”)

1st attempt) 7 X 1 = 7…...7 = 7
2nd attempt) 7 X 2 = 14….1 + 4 = 5
3rd attempt) 7 X 3 = 21….2 +1 = 3
However, Balak stopped Balaam before he made a 4th attempt……………7 X 4 = 28….2 + 8 = 10

Balak didn’t want to break the power of 10. The number 10 is used for absorption, like a filter. It is a way of consciousness cleaning itself up. The errors of consciousness are absorbed into this matter realm in order that they won’t transcend into a higher realm. Balak wanted to break the “rest” or the power of the Sabbath (7) and cause the sleeping realm to wake up. However, he didn’t want to break the power of 10: the absorption process. Also, if he broke the power of 10, it would eliminate the Year of Jubilees, which is the number 50. (5 X 10 = 50)

Balaam was attempting to break the Sabbath number 7 at the 3 and 4 dividing points. Since, that seems to have failed, there is another way to induce resurrection. That is to break the power of the 6, which is the spirit in the man’s body. The most fragile point of the 6 is reduced to a 1 and 5. Because the 6 is associated with the angels—who parallel the birds of sacrifice laws—the 6 cannot be split, meaning into 3 and 3. Also, the number 2 is a pair (in complete union); therefore, the 6 cannot be split into a 2 and 4. The 6 must be split into a 1 and 5.

Revelation 17:9~11: “This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.”

The 5, as has been mentioned, denotes man. The 1 will return to where it came from, but the two of them will be split. In other words, the spirit in man will be broken.

Once the spirit inside of the physical form is broken, it will be divided three times (666) for the three days of creation that are specifically associated with God’s name “So,” meaning Sabbath. Those three days are the 2nd, 5th, and 6th.

Parts of the soul will go to the air; parts to the water. Those will become the elements that create “noise” or the waves, which are associated with the 2nd day of creation. (To be specific, consciousness creates waves from thoughts. When those waves are compressed, there is matter.)

Some souls will become the “living creatures” of the sea; others, the birds of the air, who are associated with the parts from the 5th & 6th days of creation. And for a few, those souls will become man, being both made of heaven and earth.

Habakkuk 1:14: “You have made men like fish in the sea, like sea creatures that have no ruler.”

Jonah 1:3~6: “You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me. …To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you brought my life up from the pit…”

Habakkuk 2:12~14: “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime! Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”

Assigned Numbers Authority: Random Orders and Time

2009-03-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

Prime Numbers
Friday, May 13, 2006

http://www.spirit-of-the-torah.com/timepart3.html

Two arguments will be presented in these short notes. Each argument may cancel out the other. At this time, it is a gamble as to which is correct.

#1:

Every event should be predictable. As sure as 11 follows the 10, there appears to be a mathematical flawlessness to creation. This corresponds with the thoughts (above) on this page.

#2:

Prime numbers appear, to me, to be a key to understanding expansion points in the universe. Expansion points are nothing more than the obvious numbers within other numbers, such as the 15 shows expansion points at the 3 and 5; the 24 shows expansions at 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12. However, “primes” do not show their expansion points other than 1 and itself.

If nothing else, “primes” are a mathematical representation of a cosmos which has a lot of growing room. It is my own assumption that once the universe has reached full expansion each number should be able to show every other number, or at least every number that has come prior to it. For example, the number 67 should then include elements (expansion points) for every number before it 1 through 66. If that be true, even the numbers which are not considered as “primes” have more expansions to undergo as well.

Numerology, Planet Rulers, Bible & Egyptian Numerology

2009-03-14T06:42:00.000-07:00

http://www.paralumun.com/numerology.htm

Although Numerology has been with us for thousands of years thes exact origins of numerology remain a mystery. The early Egyptions, Babylonians and other ancient civilizations all recognized the power of numbers. Numerology has also been known as arithomancy, or the numeromancy and has also been used as a method of divination.

A Greek philosopher named Pythagoras who lived around 500 b.c. is responsible for modern day numerology. Unfortunetly no recorded data was left by him and we are reliant on what later philosophers attribruted to him. Pythagoras was also a believer in past and future lives and that our soul was on a journey of learning that would test us and expand our consciosness.

Numerology is based on energy vibrations and it is these vibrations that link together time, space, living and non-living matter.

In each incarnation we choose our numbers which set the pathway for that particular incarnation and the lessons we choose to learn. As in astrological star signs people with certain Numerology attract and also repel people with certain numerology. The number we choose in each incarnation help determine our personality, career choices, interests, love, friendship, highs and lows, good and bad luck and many other challenges we face in each incarnation.

Numerology is any of many systems, traditions or beliefs in a mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things. Numerology and numerological divination were popular among early mathematicians, such as Pythagoras, but are no longer considered part of mathematics and are regarded as pseudomathematics by most modern scientists. This is similar to the historical development of astronomy out of astrology, and chemistry from alchemy. Today, numerology is often associated with the occult, alongside astrology and similar divinatory arts. The term Numerology can also be used for those who, in the view of some observers, place excess faith in numerical patterns, even if those people don't practice traditional numerology.

Modern numerology often contains aspects of a variety of ancient cultures and teachers, including Babylonia, Pythagoras and his followers (6th century B.C. Greece), astrological philosophy from Hellenistic Alexandria, early Christian mysticism, the occultism of the early Gnostics, the Hebrew system of the Kabbalah, The Indian Vedas, the Chinese "Circle of the Dead", and the Egyptian "Book of the Master of the Secret House" (Ritual of the Dead). Pythagoras and other philosophers of the time believed that because mathematical concepts were more "practical" (easier to regulate and classify) than physical ones, they had greater actuality. St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354 - 430) wrote " Numbers are the Universal language offered by the deity to humans as confirmation of the truth." Similar to Pythagoras, he too believed that everything had numerical relationships and it was up to the mind to seek and investigate the secrets of these relationships or have them revealed by divine grace. In 325 A.D., following the First Council of Nicaea, departures from the beliefs of the state Church were classified as civil violations within the Roman Empire. Numerology had not found favor with the Christian authority of the day and was assigned to the field of unapproved beliefs along with astrology and other forms of divination and "magic." Through this religious purging, the spiritual significance assigned to the heretofore "sacred" numbers began to disappear. An example of the influence of numerology in English literature is Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 Discourse The Garden of Cyrus. In it the author illustrates that the number five and related Quincunx pattern throughout art, nature and mysticism.

In Numerology to understand the numbers we have chosen for this lifetime you will need only your name and birthdate.

Destiny Number In Numerology

The destiny number is the most powerful of all your numbers in numerology. It has the strongest vibrations in numerology and is the pathway along which you choose to travel in this lifetime.

To find out your destiny number in numerology simply write down your birthdate, add it all together and reduce it to a single number.

For example : 26-8-1972=35=8.

You should end up with a number between 1 to 9. This number is referred to as your destiny number. However some people have a number which is referred to as a master destiny number. This is when your number reduces to either 11 or 22 or 33.

For example : 28-4-1959=11.

In this instance we dont redice the number down to 2 because 11 is a master destiny number. The same applies to 22 or 33.

Astrology and Numerology:

Some astrologers believe that each number from 0 to 9 is ruled by a celestial body in our solar system.

Zero is ruled by the planet Pluto in Numerology, which gives it many transforming and regenerating qualities.

One is ruled by the Sun in Numerology and the astrological aspect of the conjunction, so this number is very egocentric, quite often being somewhat of a loner.

Two is ruled by the Moon in Numerology and the astrological aspect of the opposition, which means this number is very co-operative, emotive, and has a great deal of feeling.

Three is ruled by Jupiter in Numerology and the astrological aspect of the trine, and is educated, wise, and happy. The acquisition or expenditure of money often features prominently in the number in numerology.

Four is ruled by Mars in Numerology (although in many systems 4 represents URANUS) and the astrological aspect of the square. It is forceful and dominating in an attempt to control the tension that is inherent in this number.

Five is ruled by the planet Mercury in Numerology and the astrological aspect of the quincunx. It is very communicative and witty on a light level.

Six is ruled by the planet Venus in Numerology and the astrological aspect of the sextile. It is a pleasant, harmonious number that governs the arts and music.

Seven is ruled by the planet Neptunein Numerology . It is a very spiritual number that is not limited by the constraints of the physical world. This is the number of mystics, visionaries, and seers.

Eight is ruled by the planet Saturnin Numerology . It is a solid and very stable number that has many limitations that must be transcended. Those individuals who have this number in numerology prominent in their life usually must learn by experience.
Nine is ruled by the planet Uranus in Numerology (although in many systems 9 represents MARS). It is very eccentric and unusual in nature. Where this number in numerology is prominent invention and ingenuity are very important elements to any given situation.

While different from the actual planets themselves, each astrological sign has also long been associated with a particular number, beginning with Aries which has always been the 1st sign of the Zodiac and ending with Pisces which has always been the 12th and final astrological sign of the Natural Zodiac. This layout is as follows:

1 Aries - (Cardinal Fire)
2 Taurus - (Fixed Earth)
3 Gemini - (Mutable Air)
4 Cancer - (Cardinal Water)
5 Leo - (Fixed Fire)
6 Virgo - (Mutable Earth)
7 Libra - (Cardinal Air)
8 Scorpio - (Fixed Water)
9 Sagittarius - (Mutable Fire)
10 Capricorn - (Cardinal Earth)
11 Aquarius - (Fixed Air)
12 Pisces - (Mutable Water)

Biblical numerology is symbolism portrayed through numbers in the Bible. While numerical symbolism is studied by most theologians, the extent of symbolism is debated. While many numbers in the Bible, especially in the book of Daniel and Revelation, contain symbolic meaning, the majority of the numbers only portray their literal, mathematic connotations, devoid of any symbolic significance.

Numerical Meaning in Numerology:

One: Unity
Main article: 1 (number)
There can be no doubt as to the significance of this primary number in Numerology. In all languages it is the symbol of unity. As a cardinal number it denotes unity; as an ordinal it denotes primacy. Unity being indivisible, and not made up of other numbers, is therefore independent of all others, and is the source of all others.

Notable Uses
Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Ephesians 4:5 "one Lord, one faith, one baptism."
John 10:30 "I and the Father are One."
Revelation 4:2 "Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne."
Oneness of God

Two: Division

Three: Divine Perfection (Also Resurrection)

Notable Uses Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Matthew 12:40 "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
Three major feasts appear in Jewish tradition (Exod. 23:14-19)
Feast of Unleavened Bread
Feast of Harvest
Feast of Ingathering
Prayer was urged three times daily (Dan. 6:10; Ps. 55:17)
The sanctuary was divided into three parts: vestibule, nave, and inner sanctuary (1 Kings 6:2-22)
Three-year-old animals were prized for special sacrifices (1 Sam. 1:24; Gen. 15:9)
When it applies to rebirth it can be seen in the story of Jonah (Jonah 1:17; Matt 12:40)
The Jesus' resurrection took place after 3 days (Matt 26:61)

Four: Earth

Notable Uses
Four corners of the earth (Isa 11:12)
Four seasons
Four directions - North South East West
Bible mentions four winds (Jer 49:36)

Six: Man

Notable Uses Man was created on the sixth day (Gen 1:26)
The number six is never used in a negative sense
6 is one number short of 7 which is perfection - Man falls short of God's perfection (Rom 3:23)

Seven: Perfection (Completeness)

Notable Uses
Seven days in a week.
Seven of the 10 commandments begin with the word "not."
7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 parables in Matthew, and 7 promises to the churches.

There are 7 "eternals" in Hebrews which are:
A priest for ever (1:6)
Eternal salvation (1:9)
Eternal judgment (6:2)
Eternal redemption (9:12)
Eternal spirit (9:14)
Eternal inheritance (9:15)
Everlasting covenant (13:20)

Jesus said 7 things on the cross:
Luke 23:34 "Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots
Luke 23:43 Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise"
Matthew 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" -- which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
John 19:26 "When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son"
John 19:28 "Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
John 19:30 "When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit"
Luke 23:46 "Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last."

Eight: New Beginning

Notable Uses 8 people on Noah's Ark (2 Pet. 2:5)
Circumcision on 8th day (Gen. 17:12)
God made 8 covenants with Abraham
The eighth day is the first day of a new week
The eighth note begins a new octave in the musical scale

Nine: Fruit

Notable Uses
9 fruits of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23) - Galatians is the ninth book of the New Testament
Human gestation takes nine months

Twelve: Governmental Perfection

Notable Uses
The twelve tribes of Israel
Twelve Apostles
12 foundations in the heavenly Jerusalem

Forty: Cleansing
In the story of Noah it rains for forty days and forty nights
Jesus fasts in the desert for forty days
Israelites wandered for forty years.

Gematria:
Gematria is the numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet, and is used by its proponents to derive meaning or relative relationship. Several forms can be identified: the "revealed" form, which is prevalent in many forms of Rabbinic Judaism, and the "mystical form," a largely Cabbalistic practice. The word itself comes from the Greek word 'geometry' and the concept or system is the same as the Greek isopsephy and the Arabic ?isab al-Jummal. There is also a gematria of Latin-script languages, dating from the early Middle Ages, and very possibly back into Roman times, too. Recent times have also seen an emergence of new gematrias, though these lack a length of exploration that more ancient versions have seen.

Numerology in Science:
Scientific theories are sometimes labelled 'numerology' if their primary inspiration appears to be mathematical rather than scientific. This colloquial use of the term is quite common within the scientific community and it is mostly used to dismiss a theory as questionable science.

Numerology in Popular culture:
Numerology is a popular plot device in fiction. It can range from a casual item for comic effect, such as in an episode titled "The Seance" of the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy, where Lucy dabbles in numerology.

Destiny Numbers in Numerology:

Number 1 in Numerology:

Being a number one in Numerology is all about learning to take the journey in this incarnation alone. It ia about standing aline on your own two feet and accepting responsibility for your own life. Number one in Numerology is a natural leader and is well suited to management carreers, ploitics, lawers, teachers and owning your own business. Your strength is your power for ideas and comprehending the big picture. Your weakness is your procrastination. You can be very stubborn and when pushed into a corner you will come out fighting. Number one is all about loyalty and you make a good lifetime friend. Parties and crowds do not appeal to you and you are generally distrustfull of strangers. Being a number one can mean great success in life and sometimes this happens at an early age. Number one is also known to crash and therefore it is important for those who have made it to the top to consolidate and maintain their enthusiasm.
Power Colour - Red
Power Planet - Sun

Number 2 in Numerology:
If you are a number two in Numerology you have a condradictory personality full of surprises. You have the quality of persistence and work well with other people or in groups. You are more of a team player than leader. More of a giver than a taker. You would be well suited working in the medical field, social work, charity or counselling. Being a dreamer you have a positive imagination which makes you naturally artistic, good in advertising, inter design, writing, hairdressing and history. Number two in Numerology should live by the water which will give them the inspiation they need. An important learning lesson in this incarnation is to learn how to recieve, not just to be the one who always gives. Generally being a number two you do not like crowds and prefer just one or two close friends. Be warned, a number two will put up with an awfull lot but once the straw is broken there will be no reconciliation. Dreaming is usually very strong and vivid and it is advisable for you to keep a diary.

Number 3 in Numerology:
If you are a number three in Numerology then you love to travel. Being still and doing nothing bores you. Generally you like parties, socializing and enjoy having many friends. One of the learning lessons in this incarnation for a number three is the art of diplomacy. Somtimes you can be too blunt which can offend some people, so you need to improve your diplomatic communications. You have a love of luxury, enjoy shopping sprees and spending money. Both writing and speaking are natural for you and a career path along these lines would be succesful. If you are a Number 3 in Numerology, then Administration, religeon, armed forces, police and the legal profession are other careers that are suitable for you. In relationships you tend to want perfection which usually ends up leading to problems.
Power colour : Gold
Power Planet : Jupiter

Number 4 in Numerology:
Destiny number four in Numerology is the number of unlimited success. But the learnimg lesson in this incarnation is self discipline. For if you are prepared to make long term goals and work at it, great success is yours for the taking. If however you fail to gain success with this pathway, than in many ways you have yourself to blame. Your great strength is in taking things all the way and you will keep working when others have given up. Politics, banking, computers, electrics, engineering and the finance field would be most suitable for you. Number four in Numerology generally has good health although you may suffer back trouble.
Power Colour : Green
Power Planet : Sun

Number 5 in Numerology:
Destiny Number Five in Numerology is the number of communication. These people seem to have a twisted sense of humour. Being a journalist is your natural career. Writing and public speaking are your gifts. You need to relax as you tend to get anxiety problems.

Number 6 in Numerology:
Destiny Number Six in Numerology is all about responsibility. People who are a number six can be highly dominant. Often these people are required to care for themselves from an early age. Music will help you get focused. You may also be interested in politics. Your weakness is your first for love.

Number 7 in Numerology:
Destiny Number Seven in Numerology is the number of perfection. Young number seven`s tend to be rebellious. These people are also attracted to the sea and soil. You will have a strong love of ancient history. Politics is of strong interest to you. You weakness is procrastination. You may also have a weak nervous system.

Number 8 in Numerology:
Eight is the number of power in Numerology.
However, you are too stubborn.
You can be the strength of any organization.
Money and power will attract you.
Business will be attractive to you.
At the same time you tend to have a tender heart.
You may find you have a weakness in your bowel.

Number 9 in Numerology:
Often the number nine person can be a little hyper. You will have psychic gifts. You have the ability to master anything in life you desire. Music and the arts are a natural for you. You will also go well in area`s requiring self expression.

Number 11 in Numerology:
Destiny Number Eleven is a number of self mastery in Numerology. You can do anything you want in life but there always seems to be a price attached. You are a leader, not a follower. Destiny Number Eleven in Numerology belongs to those who are an old soul. You have had many incarnations here before. You are a teacher. You are a natural in business. You are a dreamer. You live in a world of Princes and Princesses.

Number 22 in Numerology:
This is the destiny number of those that are leaders and builders. Many famous a political leader has been this number. You have the ability to create empires. You are stubborn. If forced into a corner you will come out fighting.

Numerology For Beginners: Easy Guide to: * Love * Money * Destiny (For Beginners)

Numerology in Chinese culture:
In Chinese culture, certain numbers are believed by some to be auspicious or inauspicious based on the Chinese word that the number name sounds similar to. However some Chinese people regard these beliefs to be superstitions. Since the pronunciation and the vocabulary may vary greatly in different Chinese dialects, the rules are not generally applicable for all cases. Because of the supposed auspiciousness of certain numbers in Numerology, some people will often choose, attempt to obtain, or pay large sums for numbers that are considered to be lucky for their phone numbers, street addresses, residence floor (in a multi-storey building), driver's license number, vehicle license plate number, bank account number, etc.

Numbers and their perceived qualities in Chinese Numerology:
1 - Sure.
2 - Easy.
3 - Live.
4 - Considered a bad omen, but considered lucky in regions of China.
5 - The self, me, myself, nothing.
6 - Easy and smooth, salary and wages.
7 - Together.
8 - Sudden fortune.
9 - "Long" in reference to time.

Lucky numbers in Chinese Numerology:
Lucky numbers are based on Chinese words that sound similar to other Chinese words. The numbers 6, 8, and 9 are believed to have auspicious meanings in Chinese Numerology because their names sound similar to words that have positive meanings.

One in Chinese Numerology:
The number 1 Can represent unity.

Two in Chinese Numerology:
The number 2 is a good number in Chinese Numerology. There is a Chinese saying "good things come in pairs".

Four in Chinese Numerology:
The number 4 is considered lucky in some regions of China. In Cantonese 4 is pronounced "Sei" which means death, it is a number highly avoided because of it. If possible all hongkongnese avoid this number.

Six in Chinese Numerology:
The number 6, pronounced "liu", sounds like the word for "flowing", "smooth" or "slippery" which can mean "everything goes smoothly". The number 666 is considered one of the luckiest numbers.

Seven in Chinese Numerology:
The number 7 symbolizes "togetherness". This is shown in the Chinese mythology of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. The seventh day of the seventh month is The Night of Sevens.

Eight in Chinese Numerology:
Some people think that 8 can be associated with the symbol meaning infinity (an 8 turned 90 degrees). The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 p.m.

Nine in Chinese Numerology:
The number 9 (jiu), sounds like the word for "longlasting" (pinyin jiu).

The Secret Science of Numerology: The Hidden Meaning of Numbers and Letters

Combination in Chinese Numerology:
59 - unlucky.
168 - Very Lucky, road of prosperity or to be prosperous together.
518 - I will prosper.
520 - I love you.
888 - prosperity times three.
1314 - Forever and for eternity.
5201314 - I Love You Forever and for eternity.

Unlucky numbers in Chinese Numerology

Four in Chinese Numerology:
Number 4 is considered an unlucky number in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese cultures. Many numbered product lines skip the "4". Number 14 is considered to be one of the unluckiest numbers in Chinese culture.

Five in Chinese Numerology:
If used for the negative connotation it can become good by using it with a negative.

Six in Chinese Numerology:
Six may form unlucky combinations.

Seven in Chinese Numerology:
Considered spiritual or ghostly. The seventh month of the Chinese calendar is also called the "Ghost Month". During this month, the gates of hell are said to be open so ghosts and spirits are permitted visit the living realm. It is not commonly associated with luck

Numbers in Egyptian Numerology:

Certain Numerology was considered sacred, holy, or magical by the ancient Egyptian, particularly 2, 3, 4, 7, and their multiples and sums. Three: symbol of plurality in Egyptian Numerology:

The basic symbol for plurality among the ancient Egyptians was the number three: even the way they wrote the word for "plurality" in hieroglyphics consisted of three vertical marks ( | | | ). Triads of deities were also used in Egyptian religion to signify a complete system. Seven in Egyptian Numerology:
Is the symbol of perfection, effectiveness, completeness. The number seven was apparently the Egyptian symbol of such ideas as perfection, effectiveness, and completeness.

In A Nutshell: Numerology and Its Affects Explained

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Truncated and reformatted information from http://www.creedopedia.com/topics/Numerology

In the world of numerology, all numbers have a reality of their own.

Numerology is the study of the occult meanings of numbers and their influence on human life.

Numerology teaches that the entire Universe, both thoughts or ideas and physical substance is a manifestation of positive and negative forces.

It is based on the idea that numbers reflect a divine order in the universe and that everything that is named or numbered is cyclical in nature.

Understanding not only the archetypal meaning of the numbers, but more importantly how and where they influence you, is the most challenging part of learning the age-old science of numerology.

Each number has a life and meaning of its own.

The basis of numerology is the belief that numbers connect the world of humans to the structure of the universe.

Since ancient times people have used created a mystical relationship between numbers and the character or action of physical objects and living things.

According to Numerology, everything within this range that is manifest in the Universe can be explained.

Numerology is true by Divine fiat and contains clues placed into the fabric of the universe by the Almighty for the enlightened to decipher, thereby bringing them closer to unity with a Grand Plan.

Numerology is a language that allows you to expand the horizon of your spiritual awareness.

Numerology has developed independently in different parts of the world at around the same time.

Numerology has also been known as arithomancy, or the numeromancy and has also been used as a method of divination.

Numerology is created from the Latin word 'numerus', which means 'number', and the Greek word 'logos', which means 'word', 'thought', 'expression'. Therefore, the numerology can be defined as 'the science of numbers'.

The ancient Chinese believed that the universe was based on mathematical principles; numbers, therefore, had great significance.

Advanced Numerology is hidden in symbolism in many of the major religions.

Advanced Numerology is more significant to each of us as it directly influences every living person directly.

The number one in Western numerology is the number of God.

Compound Numbers

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http://www.numerologysolutions.com/compound.html

A single number denotes characteristics and how a man or women appear in the eyes of their fellow beings. They are the numbers of individuality and personality.

A double or compound number is more mysterious and indicates the hidden current of destiny of the individual. These compound numbers have some occult meaning which has been handed down to us from the most distant ages and whose origin has been lost in antiquity. For all practical purposes compound number only up to 52 representing 52 weeks of the year are taken into consideration. The symbolism of these numbers handed down to us by our ancient occult students may still be found in some tarot cards. All numbers from ten upwards are taken into consideration as double or compound numbers. Let’s understand the occult hidden force of these numbers in our lives.

10. It’s the ‘wheel of fortune’. This is the number of honour, faith and self-confidence, of the rise and fall, one’s name will be known for good or evil according to one’s desire. Fortunate number in the sense that, one’s plans are likely to be carried out.

11. This number gives warning of hidden dangers, trail and treachery from others. It has a symbol of a ‘clenched hand’ and a ‘lion muzzled’ and of a person who will have great difficulties to contend against.

12. Suffering and anxiety of mind. This is the number of ‘sacrifice’ of the ‘victim’
and generally foreshadows one being sacrificed for the plans or interests of others.

13. He who understands the number 13 will be given power and dominion. This number indicates changes. Not unfortunate as supposed to be. This number is symbolized by the picture of ‘a skeleton’ or ‘death’ with a scythe reaping down men, in a field of new grown grass where young faces appear cropping up on every side. It is a number of upheaval and destruction. It is a symbol of power if wrongly used will wreak destruction upon itself. It is the number of warning of the unknown and the unexpected, if it becomes a compound number in one’s calculations.

14. Fortunate number for dealings with money, speculations and changes in business but strong element of risk pertaining to the actions and foolhardiness of others. In case this number comes as result of calculation for future events the person should be warned to act with caution and prudence. This number also indicates movement, combination of people and things and danger from natural forces such as water, air or fire.

15. The person represented by this number will use every art of magic to carry out their purpose. Very lucky if associated with good or fortunate single number but if associated with typical numbers like 4 or 8 this person will scoop down to any level or probably will not even hesitate indulging into ‘black magic’ to gain what he or she desires. This is a very lucky number for obtaining money, gifts and favors from others.

16. This number is pictured by “ a tower struck by lightning from which a man is falling with a crown on his head’. The shattered Citadel. This number gives warning of some strange fatality awaiting one, also danger of accidents and defeat of one’s plan.

17. This is a number of “peace and love” symbolized as 8-pointed star of venus. Highly spiritual number. It is also called ‘the star of the magi’. This number says that the person it represents has overcome the trial and difficulties of his life and career merely through his spirit. This is the ‘number of immortality’ and the person’s name ‘lives after him’. Fortunate number if not associated with the single numbers of fours and eights.

18. This number is pictured as ‘a rayed moon from which drops of blood are falling: a wolf and a hungry dog are seen below catching the falling drops of blood with opened mouths and still lower a crab is seen hastening to join them’. It indicates the need of materialism and destruction of the spiritual side of nature. It associates a person with bitter quarrels, even in the family, also with war, social upheavals, and revolutions and indicates making money and position through force. It is a warning of treachery, deception by others and danger from water, fires and explosions. For any calculations this number should be taken with utmost care caution and circumspection.

19. Fortunate and an extremely favorable number. Symbolized as ‘the sun’ and is called the ‘prince of heaven’. This number promises success, happiness, esteem and fame.

20. “The awakening” of new purposes, new plans, ambitions, actions for some great purpose, cause or duty. Not a material number where worldly success is concerned. In relation to future events it indicates delays and hindrances which can be overcome through development of the spiritual side of the nature.

21. “The universe” and is also called “the crown of the magi”. This is a number of advancement, honours, elevation in life, and success. It is a fortunate number with respect to future events but victory after a long fight.

22. This number is symbolized by “a good man blinded by the folly of others, with a knapsack on his back full of errors”. He offers no defense against a ferocious tiger which is attacking him. It’s a warning number of illusions and delusions, a good person who lives in a fool’s paradise, a dreamer of dream who awakens only when surrounded by danger. It indicates false judgment owning to others influence.

23. This is a number of promise and success. Called “the royal star of the lion” it indicates help from superiors and protection from the powerful. It is the most fortunate number of success with respect to future events.

24. This number is also fortunate and promises assistance and association from the powerful and gain through love and opposite sex. This is again a favorable number with respect to the future event.

25. This is not a very lucky number as its success comes after a lot of strife and trials in the earlier life. It denotes strength gained through experience and benefits obtained through deep observations of everything. It can be considered favorable with respect to future events.

26. This number is full of warnings for the future. It foreshadows disasters by association or by bad speculations, partnerships, any kind of unions and bad advice. If it comes out as a result for future event one should seriously reconsider change.

27. “Good number” symbolized as “the scepter “. This number promises authority power and command. It indicates that the reward will come from the productive intellect and that the creative faculties have sown good seed that will reap a harvest. This number person should carry out their own ideas and plans. It’s a fortunate number in connection with the future events.

28. This is a number of great promise and possibilities who is likely to see all taken away from him unless he carefully provides for the future. It indicates loss through trust in others, opposition and competition in trade, danger of loss through law and the likelihood of having to begin life’s road over and over again.
It is not a fortunate number if worked out for future events.

29. This number indicates uncertainties, treachery and deception by others. It foreshadows trials, tribulation and unexpected dangers, unreliable friends, and grief and deception caused by members of the opposite sex. This number gives grave warning if it comes in anything concerning future events.

30. This is a highly spiritual number a number of mental superiority over colleagues. The person it represents is likely to put all the material things at one end not because they have to but with their own will. This is neither fortunate nor unfortunate as it depends on the mentality of the person. This number can be all powerful or the extreme opposite totally depending on the desire of the person.

31. This number is more or less similar to the preceding one. This person is even more self-contained, lonely and isolated from his fellows. It is not a fortunate number from worldly or material point of view.

32. It is a magical number and is similar to the compound number “14 or 23”.This number people should stand by their own judgment and opinions or else their plans are likely to become wrecked by the stubbornness and stupidity of others. It is indeed a fortunate number if it appears in connection with future events.

33. Has the same meaning of the number 24.

34. Has the same meaning of the number 25.

35. Has the same meaning of the number 26.

36. Has the same meaning of the number 27.

37. It is a fortunate distinct number of its own. This number is highly beneficial in friendship, love and partnership of all kinds. Any combination with the opposite sex will be very fortunate. It has proved to be a lucky number in relation with future events.

38. Has the same meaning of the number 29.

39. Has the same meaning of the number 30.

40. Has the same meaning of the number 31

41. Has the same meaning of the number 32.

42. Has the same meaning of the number 24.

43. This is a very unfortunate number. It indicates revolution, upheaval, strife, failure and prevention. This number is not at all fortunate for future events.

44. Has the same meaning of the number 26.

45. Has the same meaning of the number 27.

46. Has the same meaning of the number 37.

47. Has the same meaning of the number 29.

48. Has the same meaning of the number 30.

49. Has the same meaning of the number 31.

50. Has the same meaning of the number 32.

51. This is a powerful number. It represents a warrior. It promises sudden advancement. It works out very favorable in military or naval life and for leaders in any cause. It threatens enemies, danger and the likelihood of assassination.

52. Has the same meaning of the number 43.

13: A Secret Number of Sacred Power

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http://www.thevesselofgod.com/thirteen.html

We are told that 13 is an unlucky number. The date Friday the 13th is taboo because the Knights Templar were arrested and condemned by the seneschals of Philippe IV, King of France, in a "pre-dawn raid" on Friday, October 13th, 1307. The number 13 has been shunned for centuries. Some architects omit the 13th floor from office buildings to this very day. Is it possible that the folklore associated with the number 13 is absolutely apocryphal? Or that it has become a demonized numeral precisely because it was sacred in pre-Christian times? Think about it. It is an oddly recurring sum. 12 apostles and a messiah. 12 Knights of the Round Table and King Arthur. The number 13 recurs too consistently in such significant contexts to be purely arbitrary. And of course, it’s not.

13 was a number central to certain traditions of sacred geometry, because it reflected a pattern which could be seen to exist in man, nature, and the heavens. For instance, there are 13 major joints in your body. There are 13 lunar cycles in a solar year, and the moon travels 13 degrees across the sky every day. Six circles placed around a seventh central circle is a model of geometric efficiency and perfection in the second dimension that has been known to mathematicians for ages. But this same configuration in three dimensions consists of 12 spheres arranged around one central sphere, making 13 in all - the most compact three-dimensional arrangement recurrent in nature. A commentator writing about the Aztec calendar once said that, "Thirteen is a basic structural unit in nature. It means the attracting center around which elements focus and collect." Is this, then, the reason for Christ’s 12 disciples, King Arthur’s 12 knights, or the 12 major constellations in relation to our sun? The likelihood seems great indeed.

Assuming that the number 13 played a prominent role in the sacred traditions being preserved by the Knights Templar, and that the Vatican wished to keep this from coming to light, does it not follow that they purposely chose Friday the 13th as the date upon which to arrest the Templars? In many traditions, Friday is a holy day. If our assumptions are correct, Friday the 13th would be doubly sacred to the Templars. This may well have constituted the Church’s final "screw you" to the Order whose power they so feared and envied.

13 is of particular interest to us because of Tracy Twyman’s work on the "Golden Calendar", which is based on multiples of 13, such as 26 and 52. Interestingly, our modern calendar still bears vestiges of this, and retains the concept of 52 weeks in a calendar year. According to the website dayofdestiny.com, the Aztec century was based on a unit of 52 years, and native people in South America, who believed in an impending apocalypse that would occur on a certain date, would, "ritually demolish and destroy their civilization every 52 years", as a sort of "dress rehearsal." The glyph which represents both the start and end of the Aztec calendar is known as "13 Cane", and symbolizes the death of one cycles, followed by the birth of another - the Alpha and Omega. Strangely, this is very much what the 13th rune - called "Eiwaz" - means in the Northern European mythos. It represents the balance point between light and dark, the creative force and the destructive force, or the heavens and the Underworld. It too is the Alpha and Omega at the same time. It signifies death, but it also signifies eternal life. In the traditional tarot deck, the 13th card is the Death card. It also represents not merely death, but rebirth and renewal. These were obviously pivotal concepts to ancient cultures, the understanding of which has faded down the centuries. But isn’t it remarkable that this specific notion always seems to be associated with the number 13, even in cultures as seemingly dissimilar as those of Northern Europe and South America?

It is interesting to note that although the 13th rune was the central rune in the oldest runic alphabet, and the symbol around which all the others were ordered; by the time the second runic alphabet emerged, the "Eiwaz" rune was absent. What this seems to indicate is that even in very ancient times, this symbol so representative of the world-view central to Northern European thought had vanished due to the fact that the idea it represented had also been lost. This idea seems to constitute some ancient understanding of Hermetic thought. Of course, the idea didn’t simply disappear, it was kept alive by certain initiates who preserved and passed down the secrets of an esoteric tradition. Perhaps this is why the number 13 has always been associated with magic and the occult, and why it is a number perceived to possess some mysterious yet tangible power. It is an emblem of a secret knowledge, a knowledge which does indeed confer power upon those conversant with it. It is a knowledge that religious orthodoxies have long feared and tried to suppress. 13 may be perceived as unlucky to those who fear the secret gnosis it represents, but for adherents of that gnosis it is (as it always was), a sacred number.

Vigintitresology: The Web of Numbers 23- 203-32

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http://www.simoniff.com/203/vigintitresology.html

Austin O. Spare

The principle of the Number 23, or Vigintitriplicity, to coin a term — a corollary to C.G. Jung's Principle of Syncronicity — has an uncanny tendency to cluster seeingly unrelated "facts:" into strangely beautiful and meaningful patterns. For some reson, as yet undetermined, there operates in the human unconscious an ordering principle which manifests itself through the number 23. As proof of this assertion is offered a vigintitresological analysis of the life of Aleister Crowley. But to properly set the stage for the daemonic set of "coincedences" uncovered, we must go back to the year 1666 and briefly consider Sir Isaac Newton's interest in Alchemy.

1666 was Newton's 23rd year and historians of science have designated it as hs annus mirabilis. This was the year in which his genius as a physical scientist first flowered. But Isaac Newton was a many-sided genius, and not the least of his interests was numerology. For him the number 23 took on an unusual significance.

In Newton's private library was found a heavily annotated copy of Introitus Apertus, or The Open Entrance by Eirenaeus Philalethes; the marginalia are in Sir Isaac's own hand. But what seems to have fascinated Newton about this work, to the point of fanaticism, was Philalethes' claim or boast that he had attained to the Philosopher's Stone at the age of 23! Newton was not a little vain about his own achievements and was obviously irked that he could not make the same claim. But he was somewhat placated by the fact that 23 had been his annus mirabilis and drew a parallel between his and Philalethes' attainments. So, in Sir Isaac's honor is proposed The Law of Alchemical Initiation. Such a law would recognize the importance of the 23rd year in the alchemical adept's quest for the Philosopher's Stone — the age of Initiation in any adept's life.

If anyone's life should be the example which proves the "law", certainly it should be Aleister Crowley's, one of the most advanced adepts of the occult sciences in the twentieth century. It was not with a little excitement that all the basic evidence needed was furnished in Chapter 6 of Kennth Grant's "Cults of the Shadow".

Crowley was born in October, 1875; his 23rd birthday was in October of 1898; on November 18, 1898, Crowley was Initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn!

In his Magickal Record, however, Crowley reveals that he took the Oath of Ipsissimus on May 23, 1921 and that this Great Initiation ran its course for the following three years. — Here we hava a clear case of 23 to the third power: May is the 5th month (2 + 3), the 23rd day of the month, and a series of three years which includes 1923.

32 is the number of total manifestion. It is Ichid - ego/self - the prism through which is projected phenomenal manifestation on the obverse of the Tree. 32 is of the Tree of Life (obverse / manifestation / being / phenomena). 23 is the reverse of 32. Hence, 23 is the number emblematic of the other or reverse side of the Tree. 23 is the essence of the Tree of Death (reverse / non-manifestaion / non-being / noumena). 23 'manifests' by dividing itself (into being): 2 ÷ 3 = .666 (the Beast). As 666 is to 32, so 23 is to the reverse of 666 that is 999. — The Beast 'made flesh' is a reflection or ingress of 23 / 999 (noumena) into phenomena as 32 / 666.

On another level, number 23 signals the chaotic state between two stable states. As such, it fits into the category of 'inbetweenness'. It is therefore one of those things which is Not. 23 is one from the demonic hosts of Non-being about to invade Being. The 93 Current will split apart the unconsciously created world we inhabit. 23 is not identical with 93, but an emanation from it. 203, as the extension of 23, reveals its full nature. 0 as the dis-illusion within 203 is the ingress from, and the gateway to, the Nightside. There will be more on these matters, and its implications.

A Synthetic Revisioning of Number Dynamics In Light of Ancient Metrology & Modern Cosmography

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INTRODUCTION
to the Philosophical and Scientific Background

"Number makes its appearance in this context as the vinculum amoris, the bond of love which unites the two principles [psyche and matter] by jointly ordering them. In its profoundest sense number thus possesses the significance of an all-uniting Eros, although it connotes something different from the usual sense of the words love and Eros...Because there seems to exist such a clear spiritual "objective" order at the base of Eros, it is expressed in the seemingly abstract, feelingless, impersonal order of numbers, as a clear, immutable factor free from illusions...this cosmic ordering of the Self constitutes the ultimate mystery behind all human desire and behavior, an unfathomable and fearsome mystery."
M.L. von Franz, Number and Time, p292-3

"The unexpectedness of a mathematical result gives us the feeling that it is not our own creation, that the world of number exists in its own right, while its necessity and symmetry are balm after the ragged edges of life, or pure joy to those who do not yet know them. The appeal of mathematical form reaches deep into human character. L. L. Whyte

"Very vigorous applause your very intelligent, scientifically systematic synchrograph evolved elucidations binomial symmetries, tantalizing manifestations...which to me clearly related several fundamentals...Your cyclic synchrographing work clarifies and simplifies this whole matter to an epochal degree...your work fills me with joy." B. Fuller letter to Bob Marshall, 3/3/81

NUMBER MYSTICISM & ALPHANUMERIC WRITING

Number mysticism reached a zenith in ancient Greece, since the Greeks were fascinated with the essence of the integers themselves to the point of worshipful devotion. The relation between numbers (and number words) and magic remained alive throughout the ages. It is visible in Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy, the Qabala, and various other forms of religious mysticism.

The Pythagoreans believed that numbers were the key to understanding the order of the universe, and to them numbers meant whole numbers or integers. They believed that the soul could ascend through the spheres, to eventual union with God, by means of mathematics. This peculiar fascination with numbers as individuals created an obstacle to developing a collective theory of numbers, i.e. arithmetic.

The main thread of the number concept in the crossroads cultures passed from Sumeria-Akkadia-Babylonia to Phoenicia to Hellenistic (and Hebrew), to Indian to Islamic to European cultures. Key numbers, cosmic cycles, and divine numbers permeate the number concepts of all these cultures. The Greeks and Hebrews had alphanumeric systems which developed into numerology and numberword mysticism.

Number mystics from the Pythagoreans onward considered number 'one' as the Infinite God, the First Cause, the One who transcends all multiplicity. To the Greeks, numbers were divine concepts, ideas in the mind the god who had fashioned the world. God was a great mathematician. In the Hebrew Qabala, the world is made with numbers and letters. In more accurate terms, the characters representing manifestation were alphanumeric.

Whether 'one' was actually a number at all was answered by the concept that it is the essence or underlying principle of number. All the numbers are made of it. In the West, ten (10) is the number of completion and perfection which returns the essential numbers back to unity. In China, eleven is the number of Tao, but not in the quantitative sense of ten plus one, but signifying the unity of the decade in its wholeness.

Jung echoes these ancient sentiments in Memories, Dreams, and Reflections (pp. 287 f.) by stating:

One, as the first numeral, is unity. But it is also "The unity,": the One, All-oneness, individuality and non-duality--not a numeral but a philosophical concept, an archetype and attribute of God, the monad.

In Number and Time, M.L. von Franz carries this thought further:

The number one possesses these unique qualities to a particular degree...it does not multiply by itself, or reduce itself by division because it is a divisor of all other numbers...It is the first triangular and also the first square number...it has no predecessor. In this sense it does not yet "count"; if it did it would be the first uneven prime number...in mathematics the number one is not reckoned among prime numbers.

This is supported by experimentation: "dealing with the wave configurations of sand vibrations on thin plates of metal, all prime numbers figure with the exception of the one."

Influenced by Pythagorean ideas and Qabala, in which 10 Sephiroth (Spheres) emanate from God, the occult tradition asserts that the succession of numbers 1 through 10 symbolizes and is, in fact, identical with the emanation of the manifest Universe. The 22 letters of the alphanumeric Hebrew alphabet contained and created the secret structure of all things.

The SEFIR YETZIRAH, the Book of Creation or Formation (300-600 AD) describes how God created the manifest universe by means of letters and numbers which are the foundation of all things. The letters are part of 'one body,' the alphabet which is an extension of God's own being. All created things, made by means of the letters, are also parts of the one body which is God.

True being for the Hebrew is the 'word,' dabhar, which comprises all Hebraic realities: word, deed, and concrete object. Non-being, nothing (no thing) is signified correspondingly by 'not word,' lo dabhar.

In European magical tradition, the most important of all alphanumeric alphabets is the Hebrew which had 22 letters, all of which were consonants. Vowels were inferred from context. Contemplation (theory) and application (practice) is the mystical tradition of Qabala. In this alphabet there are no vowels (our a,e,i,o, and u) represented. The same is true of the older Phoenician (Canaanite) alphabet, from which our own alphabet is descended--by way of the Greek, Etruscan, and Latin alphabets.

All over the ancient orient, in Assyria and Babylonia, as well as Egypt, the word and particularly the word of God, was not only nor even primarily an expression of thought; it was a mighty and dynamic force. The Assyrians and Babylonians conceived of the divine word under the image of a physical-cosmic power.

In Egypt, the power of creating and sustaining everything was traced back to the divine word, the ever-active fluid or ethereal divine substance proceeding out of the mouth of divinity. For example, in Memphis, Ptah is the Creator of the world. The specific organ of creation is 'the mouth which named all things.'
ALPHANUMERIC WRITING

All things nameable can be recorded or counted by symbols for things. Writing (like naming) is an ancient, magical art, assumed to have been invented by the gods. Emerging around 3200 B.C., writing contained mysterious, hidden, even divine Wisdom, for those contemporary minds. The archaic history of writing records its evolution from pictographs and ideograms, to phonetic and syllabic cuneiform, and the alphabetic form, whose sequential letters are also used as numbers.
Certain milestones in the development of alphanumeric characters have been documented archaeologically. Interaction along trade routes in crossroads cultures contributed both to the development (from syllabic hieroglyphics and phonetic cuneiform), and dispersal of a letter sequence which could be adapted to the phonetics of local dialects.

A tablet has been found from the 14th Century B.C. showing Ugaritic letters arranged opposite a column of known Babylonian syllabic signs, which supplied the sounds for the characters a, be, ga---and so on---in basically the same order and roughly the same sounds that would appear 300 years later in the Phoenician alphabet. By 1000 B.C., the Phoenician alphabet had come to full flower.

According to Isaac Asimov (1989), this is why the alphabet was never invented independently by any other society:

"Between the Egyptians and the Babylonians were the Canaanites, inhabiting the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, (the Greeks called them the Phoenicians). They were traders who acted among other things, as intermediaries between the Egyptians and Babylonians. It was necessary for such traders to know both the Egyptian and Babylonian languages, and that was a hard chore indeed."

"It occurred to some nameless Canaanite to simplify writing by adopting a kind of shorthand. Why not give a separate symbol to each of the common sounds made by human beings in speaking a language? You could then build up any words of any language by using those sound-symbols. Sound-symbols had, in fact, been used by the Egyptians, but they also preserved symbols for syllables and for whole words. The Canaanite inventor had the notion that the sound symbols should be used exclusively and that words should be built up out of them."

That same alphabet could be used as numerals.
(scan alphanumeric table)

TIMETABLE

The Ancient Development of Alphanumeric Characters:

2800-2600 BC Sumerian cuneiform; pictographs, ideograms
2500 BC Cuneiform spreads through Near East; adapted
Sumerian signs to the
phonetics of local languages (Akkadian 2300-2150)

2100-1300 BC Syllabic cuneiform (Semitic style 2500-2000)

1800-1600 BC Old Babylonia

1500-1400 BC Ugaritic cuneiform of 30 characters; first ABC letter sequence;
phonetics of a Canaanite dialect corresponding with
Babylonian syllabic signs; precedes alphabetic cuneiform

1400-1300 BC ALPHABETIC CUNEIFORM from Babylon

1100- 900 BC Phoenicians spread precursor of modern alphabets; script of 22
characters, no vowels; rise of Assyria

800 BC Greeks and Hebrews adopt Phoenician alphabet;
Greeks add first vowels;
Babylon rebuilt; ALPHABETIC NUMERALS

500 BC Sanskrit alphabet and grammar codified

1000 AD Hindu-Arabic numerals and decimal system introduced into
Europe by Pope Sylvester II

It is now generally agreed that all existing alphabets as well as those no longer used, derived from one original alphabet (Paleo-Sinatic, Syria and Palestine 1750-1500 BC). There is obviously a real advantage in the use of single symbols for single sounds, compared with thousands of symbols for representing things or ideas (pictograms). The simplicity of alphabetic writing removed the monopoly on learning. The alphabet expanded literacy.

But all alphabets are inherently flawed, or at least limited. The shortcoming is that it lacks the delicate variations necessary to indicate all the subtleties of the human voice. So perfection has eluded any alphabet for that would mean the accurate rendering of every speech-sound.

In an ideal alphabet each sound would have to be represented by a single letter, and each letter would be limited to one sound. Every alphabet so far has omitted symbols for some sounds, and most have contained redundant letters. The adaption of a script to a language is not easy when it contains sounds not occuring in the speech from which it was borrowed.

In any event, the prototype of alphabetic writing was spread by the Phoencians. Local scribes embellished it, or pared it down and evolved local variations. Historians and linguists cite four main branches of the Original:

1) North Semitic, included Canaanite, ancient Sinatic Hebrew, and Phoenician;

2) Aramaic includes Persian, Syriac, Mongolian, Armenian, Georgian alphabets, and the Indian main branch with 200 offshoots of Sanskrit; also the square Hebrew alphabet;

3) South Semitic is mainly Arabic;

4) Greek main branch includes all European alphabets: Etruscan, Cyrillic, Slavonic.
Romans adopted only 21 letters from the early Etruscan alphabet, as well as their
names for letters, which were different from the ones Greeks derived from Semitic
letter names.

It made writing far easier to learn with its economy of symbols, and its direct relationship to the sounds of spoken languages and numbers. Literacy spread dramatically.

COSMIC CYCLES OF CREATION & DESTRUCTION
THE HINDU DOCTRINE OF YUGAS

After the burning and plundering of the Hellenistic Library at Alexandria, Egypt, the exact science of ancient mathematics was lost to the west. The vanguard of mathematical discovery passed to medieval India.

Hindu mathematicians had little direct influence on Europe. But it is certain that the Arabs got their arithmetic and algebra from Brahmin knowledge. Caliphs entertained Indian mathematicians in the ninth and tenth centuries. Both Sansrit and Greek classics of science were avidly translated into Arabic during the Moslem Empire.

The Crusaders were exposed to this Arab knowledge in the Holy Land, and their knowledge gradually penetrated Europe also through Islamic Spain (Toledo). This led directly to a revival of European learning after the Middle Ages.

Therefore, we attribute our present system of so-called Arabic numerals to those near-eastern cultures which preserved them through Europe's Dark Ages. However, this decimal system of numeration originated in India and was one of the many kinds of knowledge translated into Arabic during the cultural flowering of that area. The numerical characters and such notions as the zero and place valuation came directly into modern society from India, even though they had been tentatively used in older societies.

Prior to the introduction of Hindu numerals, the alphanumeric characters developed by the Phoenicians predominated. Numbers were represented by the letters of an alphabet in their spoken succession. Both the Greeks (800 B.C.) and the Hebrews adopted this principle. Not only the alphabet, but the sounds of the letters were retained.

This adoption of an alphanumeric model led to the mathematical backwater of Gematria where every sum was a word or many words, and every word had a numerical equivalent. Number mysticism then concerned itself with various cryptographic messages and numerical codes. While good for mysticism and possibly promoting superstition, it was no favor to the advancement of mathematics. The old Phoenician "acrophonic" numerals were abbreviations of number words. Alphanumerics permeated the crossroads cultures.

Cultural concepts of time, real and divine, differ dramatically and underlie and condition each culture's worldview. The background of Hindu cosmology and science has its roots in the crossroads cultures. It involves notions of time and history, astronomy, and the idea of the Divine Word.

Ethnopsychology, psychology of language, philosophy of language, logic of language, semantics and comparative linguistics show that, relatively speaking, Hebrew thinking is dynamic and temporal, while Greek thinking is static and spatial--even the Greek conception of time is spatial--boundless.

The concept of number can be understood either as spatially quantitative or dynamically qualitative quantities. For the temporally-oriented Jews, there is an inner connection between plurality and intensity. Hebrew thinking moves in time, while the Greeks employ space as their thought-form. Hebrews used a lunar calendar, while Greeks used the solar year.

Both Indo-European and Semitic languages reveal a cross-cultural ambiguity when using spatial expressions to designate tempral notions. "Before" and "behind" can mean "future" and "past." This double temporal meaning of the same words reveals two different notions of time, as eternal rhythms. In Semitic languages, the notion of recurrence coincides with that of duration. Time is the stream of events, the historical content of occurrence.

The European sense of time is a confused mixture of time and space, a legacy of Greek thought. The Indo-Germanic framework of past, present, future is foreign to Semitic thinking where tense comes principally from the dynamic of completed or incomplete action.

Our modern concept of time is spatialized. For us actions are oriented objectively, impersonally and spatially; the ancient Hebrews thought subjectively, personally, and temporally. Europeans got both space/time views mixed together as Bible cosmology.

These notions came down ambiguously because the Hebrews had no notions of firm boundaries to objects, while the Greeks delighted in thinking geometrically. They relate to quantity and number as spatially quantitative (Greek) and dynamically qualitative quantities (Hebrew).

The Hebrew language has no expressions for the simplest geometric figures such as the triangle, quadrilateral, or square, nor the corresponding adjectives. Numbers are distinguished qualitatively as rhythms, each with its own peculiarity.

The form and syntax of the Hebrew numbers two to ten indicate that the smallest and basic numbers were thought of as qualitatively different totalities. From there it was just a step further to the conception of holy numbers...concrete numerical gestalts, an intuitive quality adhering to a totally unarticulated general impression of quantity. Hebrew plural forms are preferably designated as intensive.

God revealed himself to Israel in History, not Ideas. Therefore, the Israelites developed no mathematical science, though it flourished in neighboring Phoenician and Mesopotamian cultures.

The mathematical ideas of the Greeks cannot be comprehended without bringing geometry into the inquiry. The Greek Ideas were geometrical basic forms, the eternal blueprint of reality.

Space perception is the given thought-form of the Greeks, and the visible form of things occupied their attention. Geometry for them was the most important branch of mathematics.

The Greeks, including Euclid, thought geometrically even when they dealt with numbers. The square was a visual representation of the second power and the cube of the third. For the Greeks, the concept of large, quantity (largeness) was mostly a spatial idea.

The Indian concept of time has differences and similarities with the Greek and Hebrew notions revealed by linguistics of their respective languages. Language (syntax, grammar, verb tenses, etc.) displays the basic worldview of a culture, notions about how real-time experiences are processed and conditioned by the basic philosophy of a culture. Linguistic perculiarities come from the underlying assumptions about existence in time and space, perception, being and becoming, active/passive, etc.

Like the Greeks, the Indian view of time is static, that is it is conceived statically rather than dynamically, as the Jews also do. The early Greek, Heraclitus posits that flux and becoming aloneare real, permanence and constancy are merely apparent. The Hindus believe the exact opposite.

Indians recognize, of course, that the things of this world are always moving and changing. But the substance of things is seen as basically unchanging; its underlying reality is unaffected by the ceaseless flux. Indian thought places a high value on universality, and the connection between this, and the static conception of phenomena, is of course not accidental. "The one remains, the many change and flee."

The static conception of time permeates Indian thought. It could hardly fail to do so, for it is present in the very forms of language itself, conditioning all philosophical thinking. In classical Indian languages, there are no words corresponding to the concept "to become." "To become" is "to exist."

"Being born" and "existing" come from the same root. So to become is to be born. Indians express change at all as "being otherwise." Becoming is expressed in terms of being; dynamic is seen as a phase of static. This point of view permeates the language and conditions the philosophy.

The classic Western expression of the sense of flux uses a vivid and specific verb: "All things flow." The corresponding idea in India is expressed in Sanskrit as sarvan anityam, "all existences are impermanent." It always directs the attention away from the action to the stable state of the actor, from the changing aspect of the action to the unchanging universal: "to appear" does not equal "appearance;" nothing can disappear or arise. The adverb isn't even a part of speech in Sanskrit.

In Indian philosophy, the Absolute is a Being beyond all temporal appearances. These exist and change in time; the Absolute is essentially static. The great unborn Self is imperishable, incorruptible, eternal, fearless Brahman, which is coequivalent with Atman.

Indian philosophers replaced the concept of Becoming with three aspects of temporal existence: Appearance, Extinction and Continuance, which are fundamentals in their cosmology. All three states are clearly conceived as static.

Here is a similarity to Platonic thought: Plato formulated the antithesis between Being and Becoming with the true essence of reality consisting of changeless, timeless Forms. This is why geometry was important, but Greek physical sciences only developed statics. Modern scientific thought, in contrast is concerned with kinetics, dynamics, synergetics.

Preoccupied with a more metaphysical time-sense, the numbness to the passage and flow of specific events makes non-Indians regard Indians as lacking in common sense. They simply do not seem to have a clear awareness of discrimination of "real time," historical time, and it shows in their language through the discrimination of tense. Children in India will ask you, "What is time?," not "what time is it?"

The difference between absolute past and relative past is not clearly made in the Indian language. Terms can be determined only through context. They don't grasp time quantitatively, and with historical accuracy. They exist through multiple lives repeated in limitless time: appearance, extinction, continuance, over and over through cosmic cycles of creation and destruction.

According to the Indian worldview, the universe, the world and social order are eternal. The personal is fleeting, and the basic assumption of transmigration is pervasive in language, thought, and philosophy. So, passing phenomena have no real significance, and no importance is given to providing them with accurate dates. In quasi-historical fashion they resort to hyperbole, idealization, and exaggerate to astronomical proportions. Therefore, much of Indian so-called history is confabulated, the product of pure imagination.

They are more interested in religion and poetry than historical documentation. Proper observance of ancient precepts is stronger than the regard for historical accuracy. They contemplate eternal paradigms of human experience which are by their nature timeless and in that sense, outside history.

This is a contemplative orientation and worldview, expressed in the forms of Sanskrit itself. In sanskrit, it is "effect and cause" syntactically, rather than the Western "cause and effect." The Western order of thought is to proceed temporally from cause to effect; the relationship is seen in time.

In Sanskrit, progressive phenomena are seen as already complete. Rather than "the relation of the knower and the knowable," it is "the relation of the knowable and the knower."

This way of thinking is retrospective and different from the approach which starts from the cause. Things are evaluated in terms of a final cause or aim, a teleological relation. But Indians do have a concept of abstract time and changing phases of the world. They just adhere to the universal principle that whatever is subject to organization is subject also to destruction, in lesser or greater duration.

There is no substance which abides forever. All matter is force; all substance is motion; every individual is unstable; all things pass away. Modern physics, the bastion of science's "cause and effect" confirms this curiously enough through inductive and deductive reasoning which would be alien to Indian thought.

All this is the essential background on Indian language, thought, and philosophy which provides the fertile matrix from which their cosmology of cosmic cycles of creation and destruction arose. In fact, the philosophy conditioned the language and vice versa.

And the nutshell of this philosophy and language is contained in the divine rootsyllable, the sacred numberword AUM, the sound of the mystery of the Word everywhere, whose personal realization is a peak experience.

Joseph Campbell explains AUM in THE POWER OF MYTH(1988):

AUM is a word that represents to our ears that sound of the energy of the universe of which all things are manifestations. You start in the back of the mouth "ahh," and then "oo," you fill the mouth, and "mm," closes the mouth. When you pronounce this properly, all vowel sounds are included in the pronunciation. AUM. Consonants are here regarded as interrutions of the essential vowel sound. All words are thus fragments of AUM, just as all images are fragments of the Form of forms. AUM is a symbolic sound that puts you in touch with that resounding being that is the universe. To be in touch with that and to get the sense of that is the peak experience of all.

A-U-M. The birth, the coming into being, and the dissolution that cycles back. AUM is called the "four-element syllable." What is the fourth element? The silence out of which AUM arises, and back into which it goes, and which underlies it. My life is the AUM, but there is silence underlying it too. That is what we would call the Immortal.

As well as philosophy, Hindu cosmology also mixed space and time concepts derived from astronomical and geodetic measurements. They were influenced by the ancient Sumerian lunar reckoning which came with the Aryan invasion, and is, in fact, the legacy of all neolithic cultures. Later Hellenistic notions permeated their astronomy.

The figure the ancients used to define the circumference of the earth came from their foot and their cubit. These two numbers, 1296 and 864, are basic to many ancient systems of measure.

Is it a coincidence that a circle of 1,296,000 units has a radius of 206,265 units, the length of both an English and Egyptian cubit? The Hebrew shekel weighs 129.6 grams, and the English guinea 129.6 grains. The measure of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple was 1296 inches.

129600 is the numeric basis for astronomical measures and played a role in Plato's mystic symbolism. Multiples and submultiples of 12960 are easily memorized: 1728, 864, 720, 432, 360, 216, 180, 90, 40, 36, 20, 16, 10, 8, 5, 4, 2. These sacred numbers were used everywhere in the building of sacred temples. The Babylonian Tablet (Igi-Gal-Bi) uses all of them, plus 144, 162, and 810.

In IDEAL METROLOGY, W. H. Wood points out the meaning of these figures in the East: "In the law of the yoga, all periodic actions developed under the inspiration of The Invisible are measured by ideal cycles, expressed in geometric form by the number 1296 in thousands or thousands of thousands. The third stage of Yoga is represented by the third of 1296 or 432, which is considered the symbol of consecration, or standing in harmony with nature's beauty and order. The exalted life of a disciple of Buddha called for a cycle of 4320 million years."

In his classic, THE BOOK, Alan Watts points to the Hindu myth which says that as time goes on, life in the world gets worse and worse until at last the destructive aspect of the Self, the god Shiva dances a terrible dance which consumes everything in fire. There follows, says the myth 4,320,000 years of total peace during which the Self abides in itself and does not play or hide. Then the game begins again in a universe of perfect splendour which begins to deteriorate only after 1,728,000 years.

In ANCIENT CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Dr. Charles Muses wrote on the origin of certain Babylonian numbers. He noticed embedded in cosmic structure certain deeply fundamental numbers, which constitute an "alphabet" of sacred numbers. Among those still used today are 360 degrees of a circle; 60 minutes for an hour; 60 seconds for a minute and 24 hours for a day; 7 days a week; 12 months a year. Muses makes a list of 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 24, 60, and 360. He proceeds to show how all these numbers are related to patterns of circular arrangement.

Twofold twelveness, or 24 comes from uniting the 12 signs of the Zodiac with 12 hours of the day. Thus, from 360, 60 and 24 came a circle of time of 24 x 60 x 60 or 86,400 seconds. And a circle for space of 360 x 60 x 60 or 1,296,000 seconds.

Another research project of mathematician Dr. Muses is even more stunning in its results. He discovered that the roots an ancient Tantric lunar meditation practices were timed to certain anomolies in the moon's orbit. The Satapatha Brahmana and the Taittireya Sanhita recount the proceedures for a Tantric Lunar Resonance Meditation, associated with the Indo-European soma saccrifice. They are linked to the phases of the moon, but not the obvious points. The practice specifically divided the lunar month into 9 special days in both the waxing and waning halves, a cycle composed of 18 days total.

There is a striking correspondence between the two-fold cycle of lunar phases (9 + 9 = 18) each month and the hypernumber w, a lunar elliptic orbit function developed by NASA for the space program.

This hypernumber w and it's phases of the elliptical orbits provide the only available mathematical paradigm corresponding to the anomolies distinct to the waxing and waning lunar fortnights. It is amazing that they could be known through some unknown form of calculation in pre-Vedic times.

It is not necessary to describe the source and functions of hypernumbers here. It is enought to know that the hypernumber w has the remarkable property that, when multiplied successively by itself, all the resulting numbers lie on a certain ellipse. The number resulting from multiplying the square root of w successively by itself also lie on the very same ellipse. Exactly 12 distinct points are generated by both these processes.

There are three principle irregularities in the lunar orbit known since Ptolemy of Alexandria, but this cannot be the Vedic source, since it came later. Together these irregularities furnish a set of eight places in the lunar orbit where these reflecting configurations of force are maximum. These eight places map on the eight points furnished by the integer powers of the hypernumber w. W was conceived by 20th century mathematicians to describe these irregulartities of the lunar orbit.

In ancient Indo-Iranian tradition the holiest time of the month is the dark of the moon, where it is conjoined by the sun itself.

The sun travels through the celestial sphere of 360 degrees. Multiples of 360 reveal a cascade of ancient sacred numbers, which are instrumental in the arithmetical construction of Divine Ages of the Hindus.

1 x 360 = 360
2 x 360 = 720
3 x 360 = 1080 - OM
4 x 360 = 1440
5 x 360 = 1800 - half circle
6 x 360 = 2160; age of years
7 x 360 = 2520; Auric Key
8 x 360 = 2880
9 x 360 = 3240; x 2 sum of ages 6480
10 x 360 = 3600; Sumerian sar
11 x 360 = 3960
12 x 360 = 4320 Maha Yuga div by 4 = 1080
x 2 = 8640 (4320 + 6480) Yugas + Ages

Hindu cosmology mixed time-space concepts derived from solar and lunar calendars with holy number words. The Hindus had their own numberwords, called mantras. These words held mystical and numerical values. They were based on metrological and cosmological constants as well as ancient mythology, and therein lay their sacredness or divinity.

Yogananda and other Hindu sources cite #108 as a divine number, "the number of the Universe." It is said to be the number of AUM, or OM, the universal sound which underlies all creation. OM or AUM is the Word of the creator of universe, Brahman, who is associated with number 43200.

This notion is fundamental in two Hindu astro-calendaric systems, the Ages and the Yugas, which delineate the number of divine years in different Epochs. Both the so-called Ages and Yugas are all multiples of #108 (see Tables which follow).

The Hindu religion is a vast ocean of religious thought, springing as it does from the earliest time, long before the dawn of history. It comprises in its multi-colored texture shade after shade, an endless variety of design and pattern as it grew in the human mind, from animism to Nature worship to number mysticism.
DIVINE AGES
FOUR YUGAS FOUR AGES

Kali 432 (108 x 4) Iron 648 (108 x 6)
Dvapara 864 x8) Copper 1296 x 12)
Treta 1296 x12) Silver 1944 x 18)
Krita 1728 x16) Gold 2592 x 24)

Maha Yuga 4320 x40) Sum 6480 x60)

36 x 3 = 108
36 x 36 = 1296
1296 x 2 = 2592 - 4 = 648
10800 x 4 = 43200

CREATION OF THE WORLD

According to Hindu cosmology, the world is created from an embryo, a "center," which also implies the construction of cosmic Time. This center concept is the root notion behind the mandala, a term which itself means "a circle."

Like our Synchrographs, the mandala represents a whole series of circles, concentric or otherwise, inscribed within a square. It is a symbol of the rite of penetration, which places the neophyte in a sort of labyrinth as an initiatory process. Mandalas clearly have a labyrinthine character, and so do mandalogs if viewed from that perspective. They help us to concentrate and find our own center in the microcosm.

This can lead directly to a more authentic and deeper personal experience and understanding, if traditional ritual has become fossilized; the need of a personal experience is for reactivating certain primordial symbols in our consciousness. The purely mental constructions act as a support for meditation.

The Hindu notion of deep time is revealed when Indra hears from the mouth of Vishnu the true story of the eternal creation and destruction of worlds, the Great Time, mythic time in which we find the true source of all beings and of all cosmic events. This helps us pierce the veil of illusion created by profane time and our own history, and like Indra cures us of our pride and ignorance. It is a redemptive function.

To transcend profane time and re-enter into mythical Great Time is equivalent to a revelation of ultimate reality--the reality which is strictly metaphysical, and can be approached in no other way than through myths and symbols.

The conception of cyclic and infinite Time, Presented by Vishnu is the general Indian conception of cosmic cycles. Though this belief is found in all archaic societies, it is first espoused in the Atharva Veda.

India elaborated the doctrine of cosmic cycles by amplifying the number of periodic creations and destructions of the Universe to ever more terrifying proportions. The transition of each age marks the beginning of a regression. The decreasing length of each yuga marks this durational degeneration toward the present Kali Yuga. It is so called for the "black" goddess Kali or (Shakti, the Great Goddess), whose name is akin to the Sanskrit kala, or "time." She is the personification of time.

Number 108 is also said to be the number of names of the great Mother Goddess.

The 12,000 years of one mahayuga has been counted as "divine years" of 360 each, which gives a total of 4,320,000 years for a single cosmic cycle. This is all we need to retain with the cyclic character of cosmic time. The life of Brahma comprises 2,560,000 of these mahayugas, each going through the same stages concluding with a pralaya, and grand dissolution.

THE HINDU CONCEPT OF NUMBER
Indian Philosophy, Cosmology, and Science

"The Hindu traditions were brought to the Indian subcontinent by 'Aryan' migrants from the shores of the Caspian Sea, cousins of the Indo-Europeans who were the Hittites of Asia Minor (today's Turkey) and of the Hurrians of the upper Euphrates River, through whom Sumerian knowledge and beliefs were transmitted to the Indo-Europeans. The Aryan migrations are believed to have taken place in the 2nd millenium BC and the Vedas were held to be 'not of human origin,' having been composed by the gods themselves in a previous age. In time the various components of the Vedas and the auxilliary literature that derived from them (the Mantras, Brahmanas, etc.) were augmented by the non-Vedic Puranas, and the great epic tales of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. In them, ages deriving from multiples of 3600 also predominate, [and the Divine Cycle of 432,000]."
Zecharia Sitchen, When Time Began

In the Bronze Age, the Indus Valley of Pakistan and Northwestern India was one of the cradles of civilization. Their lost language was proto-Dravidian. The Vedas were written in the Indo-European predecessor of the Indian root-tongue Sanskrit.
The two main cities were Mohenjo-Daro in Sind, and Harappa in the Punjab. Its original civilization, the Harappan, emerged about 2500 B.C. This was a sophisticated urban society with pictographic systems of writing and measurement (metrology). A thousand years later, Aryans brought cultural influences from the north with rituals that formed the foundation of Hinduism. These traditions apparently included number mysticism, but one of astronomical numbers, not integers..

Beginning with the Brahmanas, and even the Puranas, the Indians developed the doctrine of the four Yugas, the four Ages of the World. The essence of this theory is the cyclical creation and destruction of the World and the belief in "the perfection of the beginnings." As the Buddhists and Jains hold the same views, this doctrine of the eternal creation and destruction of the Universe is a pan-Indian idea.

In Indian cosmogony, the complete cycle is terminated by a dissolution (pralaya), with a great dissolution (mahapralaya) at the end of the thousandth cycle.

The names of the four Yugas first appear in the Aitareya Brahmana, VII, 14. In India, time is not a measure of quantity, but a means of expressing universal relationships. This doctrine of ages is a variation on the Myth of the Eternal Return, a primal conception of periodic renewal of the World.

In Hinduism, man plays no part in this re-creation, but desires to escape from the cosmic cycle. There is no final End of the World, just intervening annihilations of one Universe and the appearance of others.

In every age there is a turning-point, a new way of seeing and asserting the coherence of the world. Each culture tries to fix its visionary moment, when it was transformed by a new conception either of nature or man.

When seeking the roots of ancient sciences, it is important to remember that a language system may persist in the religious or sacred arena long after it is superceded by a more popular dialect. This has been the fate of Sumerian (which ceased to be spoken around 2000 BC), but was the language of sacred liturgy and divine knowledge for fifteen more centuries.

Other liturgical languages with a similar destiny include Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Latin, (as well as Old Slavic). The Akkadians preserved old Sumerian religious structure of a supreme Triad, and this reflected into India as Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva and the west as the Trinity.

The Akkadians promoted the Sun god over the Supreme Triad, and the Triad gradually lost cult supremacy to the sun as unrivaled universal divinity whose primary quality is the emanation of numinous light.

Another creation of Akkadian religious thought is divination. They multiplied magical practices and developed occult disciplines including astrology, which later became popular throughout the Asiatic and Mediterranean world. They added the personal experience to religious life and exalted certain divinities to supreme rank.

Astrology, a late development, was originally practiced primarily by the royal entourage. Over time, the ideas, beliefs and other techniques of Mesopotamian origin circulated from the western Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush. The Mesopotamian discoveries always emphasized a direct correspondence between heaven and earth, or macrocosm and microcosm. Contact with Sumerian culture mutated other civilizations, including the Egyptian.

The first cities of India, the indigenous Harappan civilization, were overrun by the Aryan warlords, who deplored writing and had no cities of their own. Their characteristic feature, before they settled down, was oral tradition, since after their encounter with the Near Eastern civilizations, they prohibited using writing.

This mixing of cultures led to a religious syncretism or mixing of the mental concepts of both groups, which very shortly spread Hinduism through the subcontinent. The Harappan religion provided the prototype of the Mother Goddess and her consort, the phallic Shiva (Shiva/Shakti). They echo Mesopotamian mythology.

Around 1750 BC, the Indus civilization was on its deathbed, and the Indo-Aryans gave it a mortal blow. But this happened progressively, over centuries of intermingling. Aryanization of the Punjab launched the movement of the synthesis that became Hinduism.

In the west, the Hellenic culture and religion was the result of the symbiosis between the Mediterranean substratum and the Indo-European conquerers from the north. Then Hellenism sent its roots into Egypt and Asia on the tide of Mycenaean conquerors.

Despite symbiosis with countless pre-Hellenic traditions, the Aryan-speaking conquerors succeeded in imposing their pantheon and in maintaining their specific religious style. The original home of the Indo-Europeans is the region north of the Black Sea between the Carpathians and the Caucasus.

The Indo-Europeans had elaborated a specific mythology and theology (pantheon headed by a storm god and Mother Goddess). They practiced sacrifices and knew the magico-religious value of the Word and of chanting.

They possessed concepts of rituals that enabled them to consecrate space to "cosmicize" the territories in which they settled, and enabled them to "periodically renew the world." 10800 bricks in the fire altar = recreating universe in a ritual imitation of creation.

The Indo-European tribes called themselves Aryan, "noble man." They progressively assimilated the survivors of the Dravidian Indus civilization, as shown by language. Vedic Sanskrit has a series of phonemes, especially the cerebral consonants, which are found in no other Indo-European idiom, not even in Iranian. Very probably these consonants reflect the pronunciation of the aborigines trying to learn the language of their masters. Similarly, the Vedic vocabulary preserves a large number of non-Aryan words.

The time of the Asuras preceded the present epoch, ruled by the Devas. In India as in a number of archaic and traditional religions, the passage from a primordial epoch to the present epoch is expressed in cosmogonic terms: passage from a state of chaos to an organized world, a cosmos.

The agnicayana ritual was an imitation of the creation which sacralized a locality, making it the local center of the universe. The altar was built with 10,800 bricks piled up in five courses, sometimes taking the form of a bird, symbolizing the sacrificer's mystical ascent to heaven.

Originally, it involved human sacrifice, repeating the self-sacrifice of Prajapati. The building of the altar symbolized the creation of the universe, which consecrates any land. The cosmologies, like so many other religious ideas and beliefs, represent a heritage transmitted from prehistory everywhere in the ancient world. The Indians revalorized and reinterpreted many cosmogonic myths.

In the most famous hymn of the Rig Veda, the cosmogony is presented as a metaphysics, revealing how Being came out of Non-being. There was an undifferentiated principle called "One" (neuter): "The One breathed from its own impulse, without there being any breath." Aside from that "nothing else existed."

Heat gave birth to the "One" potential and this potential developed desire which became Consciousness. The first seed then divided itself into genders, and the gods were born afterwards. The "One" transcended both Gods and Creation. The One precedes the universe and creates the world by emanation from his own being. Both consciousness and the universe are the product of procreative desire.

The Rig Veda's notion of the "One" is continued in the identity of Purusha/Prajapati. In the beginning Prajapati was the nonmanifested Unity-Totality.

The triple identification of Prajapati with the universe, with cyclic time (the year) and with the fire altar constitutes the great novelty of the Brahmanic theory of sacrifice.

They contain the thought that the world and life exhaust themselves by their very duration. Satapatha Brahmana states that, "This Prajapati, the Year, is made up of 720 days and nights; that is why the altar comprises 360 enclosing stones and 360 bricks." In short, every sacrifice repeats the primodial act of creation and guarantees the continuity of the world for the following year.

In the Brahmanas, sacrifice recreates the cosmos that has been exhausted by cyclic time (the year). This later becomes the conceptual basis of creating the atman, or indestructible spiritual being.

The self (atman) is equated with Brahman. The Brahman knows the structure and origin of the universe, because he knows the Word that expresses all that; for Vac, the Logos, can transform any person into a Brahman.

The identity atman-Brahman leads to the experience of "inner light." This spiritual exercise reflects the Vedic tradition that the sun and light are regarded as epiphanies of Being, of Spirit, of immortality and procreation. According to the Rig Veda 1.115.1, the sun is the life or atman--the Self--of all things. The atman is a form of "light in the heart." That Immortal, fearless being is atman. That is Brahman.

The identity brahman-atman constitutes the most important discovery of the Upanishads.

The MAHABHARATA, with 90,000 verses is the longest epic in world history. It recounts the conflict between two lines of Bharatas. By the fifth book of the series, they are preparing for battle, which is recounted in the sixth book--the Bhagavad Gita.

This monstrous war was decided upon by Brahma, to relieve the earth of a population that did not cease to multiply. Therefore, Brahma convinced a certain number of gods and demons to become incarnate in order to provoke a terrifying war of extermination.

Thus, the MAHABHARATA describes the end of a world (pralaya), followed by the emergence of a new world. The poem has an eschatological structure revealing a gigantic battle between good and evil. There is destruction on a cosmic scale followed by the resurgence of a new and pure world. It is the conclusion of a cosmic age.

The cyclical theory was popular from the earliest times of the Puranas. The eschatological myth is older than Hinduism; it is archaic and widely disseminated among crossroad cultures. The myth of the end of the world was known by the Indo-Europeans.

Even though the eschatological myth is not documented in the Vedic period, this doesn't prove that it did not exist. The Mahabharata contains Vedic and pre-Vedic notions. It is an epic transposition of an eschatological crisis, which Hindu mythology called the end of a yuga. It is a grandiose synthesis, much richer than the Indo-European prototype. In this cycle of the eternal return, Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna as an incarnation of Vishnu.

Vishnu is the author of catastrophic destructions and resurrections. This is as much to say that Vishnu, as a supreme being, is the ultimate reality. He governs both the creation and destruction of worlds. He is beyond good and evil, like all the gods.

But the poem also glorifies the complementarity of Shiva and Vishnu, the Aryan/Harappan synthesis. These gods, together with the Great Goddess (Shakti, Kali, Durga) have dominated Hinduism from the first centuries of our era to the present. Understanding the creative/destructive aspect of divinity is equivalent to a revelation and also constitutes a model to follow in obtaining deliverance.

Deliverance involves comprehension of the relations between the two modes of the real: immediate--that is, historically conditioned--reality and ultimate reality.

Curiously, this paradoxical work about a frightening war of extermination and the end of a yuga is the exemplary model for every spiritual synthesis achieved in Hinduism, especially the tendency to reconcile contraries. It justifies a certain mode of existing in time; it valorizes the historicity of the human condition. Arjuna's existential crisis ends with his exemplary revelation concerning the human condition and the "ways" of deliverance.

Like the Greeks and the Jews, the Hindus faced the dilemma of time's meaning:

In the History of Religious Ideas, Eliade puts it succinctly:

"How is it possible to resolve the paradoxical situation created by the twofold fact that man, on the one hand, finds himself existing in time, condemned to history, and, on the other hand, know that he will be 'damned" if he allows himself to be exhausted by temporality and by his own historicity, and that consequently, he must at all costs find in the world a way that leads to a transhistorical and atemporal plane."

Since the whole univese is the creation, (or even the epiphany of Krishna-Vishnu), to live in the world, to participate in its structures, does not constitute an evil act. The "evil act" is to believe that the world and time and history posses an independent reality of their own, that is, to believe that nothing else exists outside of the world and temporality. The idea is certainly pan-Indian, but it is in the Bhagavad Gita that it received its most consistent expression.

It is still Vishnu who periodically destroys the universe, at the end of each cosmic cycle. All is created and governed by God. Cosmic life, individual existence and history receive a religious meaning. The periodic destruction of the universe is a theophany...the resacralization of life and human existence.

In Hinduism, man plays no part in this re-creation, but desires to escape from the cosmic cycle. There is no final End of the World, just intervening annihilations of one Universe and the appearance of others.

In every age there is a turning-point, a new way of seeing and asserting the coherence of the world. Each culture tries to fix its visionary moment, when it was transformed by a new conception either of nature or man.

Hindi Baseten Numerals

The history of our base ten system emerges from this Hindu cosmogony and astronomy. Hindi-Arabic numerals penetrated into Europe beginning in the 12th Century. A unique property of Hindu numerals is that (unlike Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Mayan, Chinese, or other characters) the numerals are REVERSABLE and hold place value.

Without resorting to graphic depiction to reveal inherent symmetry and rhythms, they allow for the symbolic representation of palindromes and transpalindromes, the emergence of classes of numbers.

This is a singular property of this base ten system of notation, even though the Hindus were influenced by Hellenistic culture as well. Greece and the Near East still employed alphabetic numerals, with no place values. With the advent of positional numeration and its universal acceptance, the decimal cryptogram of a number automatically provided it with a name.

According to the Hindu view, all the aspects of the manifest world spring from similar principles. There is a correspondence or equivalence between sounds, forms, numbers, colors, ideals, as there is also between the abstractions of subtle and metaphysical worlds on one side and the forms of the perceptible universe on the other. Astronomical phenomena form the basic symbols of universal principles.

According to the Nondual Principle, the Supreme Cause must be beyond Number, otherwise Number would be the First Cause. But one is considered a number just like two, or three, or ten, or a million. If "God" is one, he is not beyond number any more than if he is two, three, or a million. But, although a million is not any nearer to infinity than any number, it seems to be so. The number one is in a way the number farthest removed from infinity, so divinity is best represented by an immense number of different gods.

In the Puranas, it says, "The nature of illusion (maya) is [represented by] the number one."

To speak of the manifest force of a unique God implies a confusion between different orders. God manifest cannot be one, nor can the number one apply to an unmanifest causal aspect. At no stage can unity be taken as the cause of anything, since the existence implies a relation and unity would mean existence without relation.

Divinity as ultimate essence, is neither one, nor two (dual), nor many. The nondual principle transcends all forms of manifest divinity. This nondual Immensity is the Brahman, on a plane different from that of existence. Existence is multiplicity.

The identity of the macrocosm and microcosm can be observed in the permanence of the relations found as the substratum of all the aspects of the perceptible universe. These relations can best be expressed in terms of number. Hence NUMBER is easily seen as the common element of all forms, the all-pervading unity of all substance. Modern physics reflects and confirms this philosophy.

The creative or revealed Word of Brahm in the Vedas is AUM, or OM. It is the first manifestation of articulate language, the root monosyllable, which includes all language and meaning. It is the seed syllable of all human speech, a nutshell containing the whole of wisdom. The four Vedas are merely comments on and amplifications of this infintely meaningful syllable. It is more than past, present, and future; it is an indestructible Immensity

AUM is said to issue through a process of MULTIFOLD REFLECTION.

Taken as a symbol of divinity, AUM appears as the form from which the universe develops; the first thought-form of Brahman, the Creator. From this basic syllable spring forth all the elemental sounds, the roots of manifestation, keys of all language.

The number 4,320,000 (108 x 40) has a very ancient symbolic or "divine" meaning. It came to India with the Aryan migration and became codified in the Rigveda, Book of Sacred Verses. Among other things, it is the number of syllables in the Rigveda, which has 40 syllables per stanza, (10800 stanzas x 40 syllables = 432,000).

Hindu tradition associated the "divine" number 432,000 with the Brahman and the Yugas and Ages. This number of the catayuga divided by four yields ages of diminishing length.

Golden Age = 4 x 4,320,000 = 1,728,000
Age of Knowledge = 3x =1,296,000
Age of Sacrifice = 2x =864,000
Age of Discord = 1x =432,000

Ten eons = 1000 cycles of caturyuga = 4,320,000,0000 years; "Day of Lord Brahman," This is a close estimate to the age of the Solar System, 4.5 billion years..

These are divine, not human years...the corresponding duration for the Kali Yuga is 36,000 mortal years. 32 x 12.

Indian Science and Cosmology

The Golden Age of Indian science came to medieval India during the Gupta Empire (320-647 AD) when culture and the arts flourished. The most famous scientist of the period was the astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata. He discussed, in verse, quadratic equations, sinces, the value of pi, eclipses, solstices, and equinoxes, and the spherical shape of the earth, and its daily revolution on its axis. His successor, Brahmagupta, systematized the astronomic knowledge of India.

Other Indian astronomers made up a calendar of 12 month, each of 30 days, each day of 30 hours, inserting an intercalary month every five years. The Buddhists still use a lunar calendar. They also predicted eclipses accurately, calculated the moon's diameter, and expounded the theory of gravity.

Indian astronomy and mathematics were unequaled (except in geometry) by those of any ancient western people. Our Arabic numerals and decimal system which come from them are far more fluid and versatile than any before them. The numerals can be found on the rock edicts of Asoka (256 BC), while the scientists used the decimals system long before the Arbs, Syrians, and Chinese had a chance to borrow them. The mathematicians also created the concept of a negative quantity (without which algebra could not exist), and found the square root of 2, and solved complicated equations.

The discovery sometime in the first centuries of our era of the Principle of Position became a world-wide event. It was a radical departure in method, which in Syndex Theory makes reciprocity possible. Without this principle of position no progress in arithmetic was possible.

Place position probably was inspired by the use of counting boards. ZERO was probably conceived this way also from an empty column, and became the Indian SUNYA. It reprents a turning point for modern science, industry, and commerce. It paved the way to a generalized number concept, and plays a fundamental role in nearly every branch of mathematics. It is one of the single greatest achievements of human thought.

There is an ancient code of numbers and proportion based on metrological standards of measure. Such constants as astronomical Precession, and geodetic measures such as polar diameter provided the basic context. Fractions of the earth's principle dimensions mirrored numerical patterns in the appearance and movement of nature.

These numbers are the vestiges of the Sumerian sexagesimal system and calendar. Earlier measures of astronomy, astrology, and cosmology were usually in units of 12, as were various ancient units of measurement of time.

Mankind counted days and the changing of the moon and seasons for millennia before recorded history. As early as 3760 BC, the Sumerians created a lunar calendar. By 2800 B.C., they had worked our a cycle of 19 years which kept it synchronized with the solar year and seasons. Certain years had 12 lunar months, while others had thirteen. This lunar calendar was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Greeks and Jews. The Nippur calendar is still the basis of Jewish religious ceremonies.

Sumerian astronomy included the concept of "deep time," as recounted in the Enuma Elish, the Epic of Creation. Ancient texts known as the Sumerian King Lists describe the settling of the divine Anunnaki on Earth before the deluge. They list the governorships of the first 10 leaders which lasted a total of 120 sars, or 432,000 Earth-years.

This is a direct source for divine eras in Hindu lore, but they expand the vastness to an overall time span of 4,320,000, and then to a Divine Year or Day of Lord Brahma--4,320,000,000--a thousandfold great yugas. The Sumerian formula is echoed in the Hindu traditions.

From Sumeria comes the ubiquitous concept of a sky divided into 360 degrees of Latitude, 60 minutes of 3600 seconds; 12 month years beginning on Spring Equinox; 12 hours of day and night (2x12=24); 12 signs of the Zodiac, etc.

Sumerian fractions were geared to the principle of repeated halving. Whole unit or natural fractions are important in arranging metrological units. The system based on 60 is evenly divisibly by 2,3,4,5,6,10,15, and 30 eliminating the frequent need of fractions. This naturally leads to grouping higher units in 12, 30, or 60. All these ratios occur in one or another of the parallel systems of units in Mesopotamian metrology. 4320 is one such number; so is 108000.

The Greek astronomers adopted this system, and so did their followers in India, the Islamic Empire, and Europe. Much of the mathematical knowledge commonly ascribed to the early Greek philosophers was already known to the Egyptians and Mesopotamians centuries before the rise of Greek civilization. However, the Greeks preserved and spread this knowledge. They were the first to consider mathematical concepts as abstractions not part of the real world, but of the idealized "sacred space" of the human mind.

There is some evidence of ancient India having direct contact with Sumeria around 2500 B.C. This is difficult to document, but not to deduce. However, nevertheless, Hindus contributed the final step to mathematical astronomy, namely, the use of the place value notation for the smaller decimal units. This is where we get our divisions of 60, 24, 12, and 2.

AS WE HAVE SHOWN ELSEWHERE, THESE ARE CLOSELY ALLIED TO THE HOLOTOMIC SEQUENCE: 12 - 24 - 72 - 360 - 2520, ETC.

These numbers are the vestiges of the Sumerian sexagesimal system and calendar.

ROOTS OF
THE NUMBER CONCEPT IN INDIA

2500-1500 BC Contact with ancient Sumerians. Indus civilization; proto-Dravidian language; pictographic script; no firm evidence of separate numerals. Pre-Vedic PURANAS, "Ancient Writings."

1500-1001 BC UPANISHADS: Vedic period begins; RIGVEDA, Sacred Book of Verses.

1000-801 BC Pantheistic religion develops; Brahmanism; astronomy; lunar year adjusted to correspond with solar year; In Greece, alphabetic number system.

700-600 BC Indian VEDAS completed; doctrine of transmigration.

585 BC In Greece, Thales uses Babylonian methods to predict eclipse of sun.

500 BC Era of Buddha; Sanskrit alphabet and grammar codified.

500-451 BC RAMAYANA text.

326 BC Alexander invades India; Greco-Indian kingdoms established; Greek influence on art and science. Hellenistic culture flourishes. Barrier between East and West broken.

300 BC MAHABHARATA text.

250 BC In Greece Erathosthenes sieve reveals distribution of primes among first 100 integers.

Early centuries AD Invention of the Zero (Sunya) & negative numbers in India.

150 AD In Greece, Ptolemy's ALMAGEST, a unified method for representing celestial phenomena, circular cycles and epicycles.

300-400 AD Christians vandalize Library at Alexandria, Egypt.

375-413 AD Astronomical and mathematical advances of medieval India; Aryabhata,
Brahmagupta.

400 AD SURYA SIDDHANTA, classical astronomical text; spherical geometry; epicycles; formula for length of day; solar velocity; earliest place value; #108 = numberword AUM (OM) = Universe.

500 AD Aryabhata argues for a moveable and rotating earth.

505 AD PANCA SIDDHANTA, by Viraha Mihira, summary of five classical astronomical treatises; sine tables.

595 AD Powers and roots of numbers; first recorded decimal reckoning.

600-700 AD Moslem Empire; Moslems burn Alexandria Library, ancient exact science lost to west.

760 AD Hindu numerals known in Bagdad; Arabs bring decimal system from India.

810 AD Al-Khwarizmi uses zero and positional notation to create algebra.

814 AD Arabs adopt Indian numerals, including zero to multiply by 10.

850 AD Mahavir, Indian mathematician; Pythagorean triplet construction known in India.

975 AD Present arithmetical notation taken into Europse by Arabs, Jews, and Crusaders; penetrates by 12th century.

1000 AD Sridhara recognizes the importance of zero; present version of SURYA SIDDHANTA.

1030 AD al-Biruni's report on Hindu astronomy and astrology derived from Viraha Mihira.

1100 AD Europe begins adopting Hindu-Arabic numeral system from Jewish scholars who learned it in Babylon, Jerusalem and Islamic Spain. First brought to Europe by Moors; introduced by Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II), about 1000 AD.

1202 AD Liber Abaci (Book of the Abacus) written by Italian mathematician
Leonardo Fibonacci, who derived it from Al-Khwarizmi during his North African travels. Introduced Arabic-Hindu numerals to Europe in Latin translation.

THE SURYA SIDDHANTA
THE CLASSIC OF INDIAN ASTRONOMY

"The time by which the worlds come to an end is different from the time which measures life. Time is thus of two kinds, gross and subtle, manifest and unmanifest."

Surya Siddhanta 1.10 [371]

The worship of the sun was common in antiquity and India was no exception. There is a famous sun temple in Konark in South India, and in the historic town of Mooltan or the land of the Sun, in the North. The sacred wordnumber 108 had to do with the numbers of revolutions of the sun in the various epochs, which are all multiples of #108.

The Holotomic Sequence was discovered through a systematic graphic analysis of the enspiralment of number 108 (or 3 x 36).

Not only sacred to the Hindus, this number also appears in Tibetan Buddhism, where it is considered highly auspicious, being the number of beads on each strand of the malla, or Tibetan rosary beads. Therefore, it reveals its character as an ancient symbolic form of circular unity.

The Hindu calendar claims an amazing antiquity. Its alleged starting point is the divine beginning of Brahman, the first god of the Holy Triad Brahman/Vishnu/Shiva. Its unit is the Kalpa, equivalent to one day of Brahma's life (4,320,000,000 years--a close estimate to the age of the Solar System). Brahma's alloted life span is 100 years of 365 Kalpas each. The present epoch is the Kali Yuga and this Hindu year exceeds the figure 155,521,972,849,000 and counting.

In both solar and lunar calculations, the ancient Hindus fixed certain points of time back as epochs. They each begin when the planets are assumed to fall into a line of mean conjunction with the Sun in the beginning of Aries. In the classic astronomical text, the Surya Siddhanta (400 A.D.), the zodiacal signs are used to denote arcs on any great circle.

In the Surya Siddhanta, the least cycle of years in which the Sun, Moon, and planets are supposed to return to a line of mean conjunction at the beginning of Aries is 1080,000 years, a fourth of a Maha Yuga of 4,320,000,000 years or revolutions of the Sun (Surya). The revolutions given in the Surya Siddhanta must always be divisible by four, or no mean conjunction could take place at the beginning of the Kali Yuga.

There are two primary astrocalendaric systems in India, solar and lunar: Yugas and Ages denoted by metals:

According to Neugebauer (1952), the sixth chapter of the Surya Siddhanta deals with a graphical representaion of the different phases of an eclipse; the thirteenth chapter deals with the construction of a celestial globe. These mysteries were reserved for initiates: "This mystery of the gods is not to be imparted indiscriminately: it is to be made known to the welltried pupil, who remains a year under instruction."

Spherical astronomy methods are characterized by the use of the interior of a sphere for determining the length of circular arcs on the sphere. This method was used in the Surya Siddhanta to determine the length of daylight from the shadow of a sundial of known height.

Another astronomical text, the Panca Siddhanta (505 A.D.), written by Varaha Mihiri is a summary of five great classical astronomical treatises. It reveals a close relationship in methods of calculation to the Babylonian linear (arithmetic) method. This method of determining the position of the sun works with zigzag functions or step functions which approximate greatest and smallest solar velocity. There is no direct evidence for a direct link from Babylon to India, but it cannot be ruled out. However, the Hellenistic influences in the texts are obvious to scholars.

Despite its origin, the apparently Babylonian knowledge was passed back to Asia Minor in an improved form by al-Biruni, who reported on Hindu astronomy and astrology in 1030 A.D. The Panca Siddhanta also contained rules for computing lunar motion based on processes now known to us from Greek sources.

But the Surya Siddhanta arguably remained the main canon of Hindu astronomy. It was allegedly revealed by the Sun (Surya) at the end of the Golden Age (2163102 B.C.) to a Maya Asura. Its contents, however, reflect the Hellenistic influence.

While the original may be dated to 400 A.D., the consistently-modified present version may have been written as late as 1000 A.D., long after the conquests of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), and his death in Babylon. From that point forward, Hellenistic and Mesopotamian sources are definitely mixed.

The terminology and methods of Hindu astrology are certainly of Greek origin. For example, the names of the zodiacal signs are Greek loan-words. Similarly, the basic concepts of the planetary theory of the Surya Siddhanta are influenced by the Greek epicyclic models and not by Babylonian linear methods.

In the chronology of Hindu astronomy, linear methods as well as trigonometric models point to the early centuries AD, not BC. Babylonian methods and concepts reached India either via Persia or Roman/Greek sea routes to Pondicherry where these methods first surface in the subcontinent. They appear only in the form of Hellenistic astronomy and astrology.

The Surya Siddhanta combines older, very primitive sections with the Greek theory of epicyclic motion. But even though this Greek influence is apparent, it has obviously undergone a quite independent transformation in many details of the general theory.

Modifications of certain types, such as the values of numerical constants, went on almost continuously. They moved closer into accord with the Hellenistic sources. The time of the Surya Siddhanta's origin and this cultural contact is the same--about 400 AD.

The source book of the Panca Siddhanta is the Paulisa Siddhanta which contained the earliest documented sources on place value notation. Hindu astronomy reflects here the oldest strata of Greek astronomy, without Ptolemaic theory's refinements, (150 BC-150AD).

Latin translations of the astronomical tables of Al-Khwarizmi are a curious mixture of the Hindu and Greek methods. He translated SLOKAS, or Hindu sacred verses, for the west. Another Arab scholar, Al-Biruni translated an astrological work of Varaha Mihiri's into Arabic.

According to Neugebauer:

"There are many evident indications of a direct contact of Hindu astronomy with Hellenistic tradition, e.g. the use of epicycles or the use of tables of chords which were transformed by the Hindus into tables of sines. The same mixture of ecliptic arcs and declination circles is found with Hipparchus and in the early Siddhantas, [where they referred to polar longitude and polar latitude]." The extensive use of the sexagesimal system is common in both Greek and Mesopotamian astronomy.

"Indian asterisms appear in Abu Ma'shar, and their source is found in the astrological writings of varaha Mihira, the same author of the sixth century AD in whose astronomical work we found the use of the linear methods for the lunar motion, otherwise known to us from Greek papyri and finally from cuneiform tablets. Following the unmistakable traces of very specific astrological doctrines, one can reconstruct the road which connected Hellenistic Mesopotamia with Hellenistic Egypt, with pre-Islamic Persia, and with India."

The lunar theory presented in the Panca Siddhanta is essentially the same step functions described in Babylonian texts. In the Surya Siddhanta, the zodiacal signs are used to denote arcs on any great cicle, as did the Greek Hipparchus. In the Surya Siddhanta, lunar months are described of fixed length, but later in Hindu astronomy they are of variable length as in the adjusted lunar calendar. Decimal place value notation probably was a modification of the sexagesimal place value notation with which the Hindus became familiar through Hellenistic astronomy.

So, it appears that even in the ancient world, "there is not much new under the sun." Concepts travelled along cultural exchange routes, and were widely shared and modified, then recycled back to where they came from...in the so-called beginning.

However, for the case of the Hindu calendar systems, this is hardly as far back as their huge cosmolgical epochs would have us believe. Even though the Maha Yuga is a good pre-scientific guess for the age of the Solar System, (4.5 billion years), there is another, symbolic meaning to these great sums. The key numbers' importance comes from basic metrological constants. 25,920 = 2160 x 12 is the formula of the "Great Year" or or Precessional Cycle. 500 such cycles 500 x 25920 = 12,960,000.

The Aryan, or pre-Vedic Puranas derived ages from multiples of 3,600: 3600 x 3600 = 12,960,000. The globe is divided into 360 degrees of latitude, each degree containing 60 minutes of 3,600 seconds. 3600 = 602 . 3168 - 1008 = 3.1428571. #1080 is a cross-cultural lunar number, and close to the radius of the moon in miles.

Haraclitus spoke of 10800 years between successive destructions of civilizations. Its Aryan roots show in the Germanic 1080 pillars of Valhalla. In oriental astronomy, it is an important metrological unit (1080): divide a circumference of 3393 by 108 = 3.1416666.

60, 602 , 603 , 604 , = 12,960,000

The Secret of Nine

2009-03-13T18:52:00.000-07:00

I truncated some of this to stay on the subject.

http://www.greatdreams.com/nine/nine.htm

Early this morning, while meditating on the number nine, I was reminded of the numbers 153 and 72 which will have their own pages. Recall that there are 72 names of God and 108 Goddesses, both divisible by 9.

We all recall this great cliche I'm sure:
"A stitch in time saves nine". Anybody
ever wonder why the stitch saves nine
instead of 6 or 3 instead?
Or why they say cats have nine lives?

Multiplying by nine reveals a mirror symmetry among numbers. If any number is multiplied by nine the resulting digits always add to nine. For example 2 x 9 = 18; 3 x 9 = 27, 4 x 9 = 36 and so on. Thus, the Hebrews referred to nine as the symbol of immutable Truth.

The Ennead, or nine pointed star, is an ancient and sacred symbol. It comprises three trinities. The Egyptian, Celtic, Greek and Christian myths all have an ennead of nine gods and goddesses, representing the entire archetypal range of principles.

The magic square is also considered sacred and full of power in the Islamic, Tibetan, Buddhist, Celtic, Indian and Jewish traditions. A magic square is when each number is used only once, but the horizontal, vertical and diagonal sums are all equal. The Chinese have patterned their architectural temples along the harmonious principles of the magic square.

Gurdjieff also uses it, called the Enneagram. This system is very old, and is believed to have originated with the Sufis in the Middle East. It groups people into nine types ('ennea' is Greek for the number nine.) The system teaches that people in a given type often behave and react in similar ways. Personality Types

Nine Pointed Star symbolize the Fruits of the Spirit
The Bahai's also use the 9 pointed star as their symbol

Numerologically speaking, the number nine is the transition number. It is the last period of work before the end and starting over.

In the hierarchy of events to come, I find this to be said:

There is an electro-magnetic null zone creates of vacuum area in space which changes the magnetic forces of creation. The Councils which oversee this particular creation are helping us to make this transition so that those who wish to become more Christ-like will be assisted into the upward spiral of Light while those who are not interested in making this change will be allowed to leave through the old 'technology of death'.

The Councils in charge of this transition are the Council of Nine which governs our local universe, the Council of Twelve which governs new programs of creation, and the Council of 144 which oversees the spiritual Hierarchies.

Miami-Mayan alphanumeric connections identified by the significance of the number "9".

"9 is the number of the mythic Lords of Time, the number representing the original Mayan galactic masters themselves." - Arguelles, The Mayan Factor

"9 = Magic number of the Maya. All relevant numbers compound to 9 (except the Special Number 260)". - Gilbert & Cotterell, The Mayan Prophecies

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MIAMI=45 (9)
FORTY FIVE=126 (9)
MAYAN=54 (9)
FIFTY FOUR=126 (9)
QUETZALCOATL=153 (9)

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NINE = 33
THIRTY THREE = 156
THE STONE CIRCLE = 156
156 + 33 = 189 (9) and fractal of Mayan "long count"18,980

When we take a close look at creation, we see that everything is mathematically related so even if one doesn't like math in school, one cannot get away from fact. Joseph Campbell, our favorite mythologist has this to say in his book "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space" - Metaphor As Myth And As Religion:

"Some notion of the whole, profoundly conceived, macro-microcosmic import may be gained from a consideration of the mathematics of the mythological and actual cycles of the calendars of the rites of various ancient peoples. For example, in the Hindu sacred epics and puranas (popular tellings of ancient lore), the number of years reckoned to the present cycle of time, the so-called Kali Yuga, is 432,000, the number reckoned to the "great cycle" (mahayuga) within which this yuga falls being 4,320,000. But then reading one day in the Icelandic Eddas, I discovered that in Othin's (Wotan's) warrior hall, Valholl, there were 540 doors, through each of which, on the "Day of the Wolf" (that is to say, at the end of the present cycle of time), there would pass 800 divine warriors to engage the antigods in a battle of mutual annihilation. (800 x 540 - 432,000.) And so I asked myself how it might ever have come to pass that in tenth-to-thirteenth century Iceland the same number of years were reckoned to the present cycle of time as in India.

In Babylon, I then recalled, there had been a Chaldean priest Berossos, who, c. 280 BC, had rendered in Greek an account of the history and mythology of Babylonia, wherein it was told that between the time of the rise of the first city, Kish, and the coming of the Babylonian mythological flood (from which that of the Bible is taken), there elapsed 432,000 years , during which antediluvian era, ten kings reigned. Very long lives! Longer even than Methuselah's (Genesis 5:27), which had been of only 969.

When counting the begats of the Patriarchs from Adam to Noah and the first drop of rain came to 1656 years. Any relation to 432,000? Julius Oppert, a distinguished Jewish Assyriologist of the last century, (written in 1986) in 1877 presented before the Royal Society for Sciences in Gottingen a paper on "Dates in Genesis" in which it was shown that in 1656 years there are 86,400 seven-day weeks. 86,400 divided by 2 = 43,200.

And so, it appears that in the Book of Genesis there are two contrary theologies represented in relation to the legend of the Deluge. One is the old tribal, popular tale of a willful, personal creator-god, who saw that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth . . . and was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them' " (Genesis 6:5-7).

The other idea, which is in fundamental contrast, is that of the disguised number, 86,400, which is a deeply hidden reference to the Gentile, Sumero-Babylonian, mathematical cosmology of the ever-revolving cycles of impersonal time, with whole universes and their populations coming into being, flowering for a season of 43,200 (43,200 or 4,320,000) years, dissolving back into the cosmic mother-sea to rest for an equal spell of years before returning, and so again, and again, and again. The Jews, it will be remembered, were for fifty years exiled from their Capital to Babylon (586-539 BC), when they were subject, willy, nilly, to Babylonian influences, so that although the popular, exoteric version of their Deluge legend is from the period of David's kingdom, tenth century or so BC, the exquisitely secreted indication of priestly knowledge, beyond that, of a larger, cyclic version of the legend - where the god himself would have come into being and gone out of being with the universe of which he was the lord - is post-Exilic, as are, also , the genealogical datings of Genesis Chapter 5, which are so very nicely contrived to join the 600 years of Noah's age at the time of the Flood to furnish a total exactly of 1656.

It is to be noticed, by the way, that 1+6+5+6 = 18, which is twice 9, while 4+3+2=9: 9 being a number traditionally associated with the Goddess Mother of the World and its gods. In India the number of recited names in a litany of this goddess is 108. 1_-0_8=99, while 108 x 4-432.

In Roman Catholic Europe, when the Angelus tolls (at morning, noon, and evening), it ring 3+3+3 and then 9 times, in celebration of the Virgin's conception of the Savior. The recited prayer at those junctures, "The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, and she conceived by the Holy Ghost . . . and THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH . . ." is in recognition of this miracle at the opening of a new world age.

In ancient Greece, 9 was the number of the Muses, patron goddesses of the arts. They were the daughters of Mnemosyne ("memory"), the source of imagination, which in turn is the carrier of archetypal, elementary ideas to artistic, realization in the field of space-time.

The number 9, that is to say, relates traditionally to the Great Goddess of Many Names (Devi, Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Artemis, Venus, etc.) as matrix of the cosmic process, whether in the macrocosm or in a microcosmic field of manifestation. The reason for the suppression of her image by a clergy interested in the claims only of a divinity heavily bearded, therefore, can be readily surmised; but why the same company of priestly doctors so artfully concealed in their document an unmistakable notice of their own knowledge of her power awaits interpretation.

This complete cycle of the twelve zodiacal signs exactly 25,920 years, which term is known as a "great" or "Platonic" year. But if we divide 25,920 by 60 (which is the ancient Mesopotamian soss, or basic segesimal unit of astronomical measurement, still used in the measurement of circles whether of time or of space), the quotient is 432. Moreover: 2+5+9+2+0 = 18.

And regarding the second, the inward clock: I have read in a popular book on physical education that "A conditioned man, who exercises regularly, will have a resting heart rate of about 60 beats per minute or less . . . Sixty per minute time 60 minutes, equals 3600 beats per hour. Times 24 hours, equals 86,400 beats a day.

The heart rests in between beats for 9 hours a day.

It is strange that in our history books, the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes should be attributed always to the Greek Hipparchus, second century BC, when the magic number 432 (which when multiplied by 60 produces 25,920) was already employed in the reckoning of major cycles of time before that century. "

Pacal VOTAN was the Mayan prophet who lived in the seventh century of this Christian era between the years 631 and 683. It took nine years after 683, when he disincarnated, to build the nine-leveled Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque, and at the bottom of the temple in his tomb. His tomb was dedicated in the year 692. When the departure of the Maya took place in 830 A.D. at the end of the tenth baktun, no one knew about that tomb any longer.
The History of Palenque

The Castillo is part of the Mayan calender's Path of the Sun (solar calendar) with 4 stone stairways of 91 steps each plus an upper platform for a total of 365. The Maya had an 18-base for their mathematics and 18 months in a year. The pyramid has nine levels divided by the staircases or 18. The relationship of the Sun to the Earth at this sensitive point creates the phenomenon of the dramatic Shadow of the Seven Triangles, shadow triangles projected on the north staircase with serpent heads at the base. The triangles undulate in an ascending fashion in March and descend during the fall equinox.

Following 360-day Maya solar calendar are five "nameless days." The New Year started after this five-day period, a time unfit for work; a time for ceremony when the old world is symbolically destroyed and a new one created. These 5 days are considered unlucky days comparable to the time of chaos before creation and before world order was established. Ancient Egypt also commemorated these 5 days. Coincidentally(?), on the first of these five days both the Egyptian grain god, Osiris, and the Mayan grain god, Hun Hunahpu, were born.

UXMAL - The Great Pyramid

Originally nine levels high, the Great Pyramid has been partially restored. It seems that another temple was to be superimposed on the existing structure and some demolition had taken place before the plans were halted, leaving the pyramid in bad condition.

Mictecacihuatl

(Aztec) Mictlantecuhtli's wife who helped govern the nine layers of the underworld and its nine rivers.

Mictlantecuhtli

(Aztec) Creator and ruler of the underworld (Mictlan).

If we examine Maya inscriptions, we find evidence that implies an understanding of the Fibonacci numbers. The ancient Mesoamericans viewed the cosmos as a layered universe. The heavens were conceived of as thirteen in number, with the earth included as the first layer. There was also a nine-layered underworld, beginning with the earth again as the first layer. This is depicted on page 2 of the Codex Vaticanus A.65 This is one of the examples of the use of the Fibonacci numbers 8, 13 and 21. There are 21 "worlds," when the earth is "counted" twice as the first world. (We note that the number one appears twice at the beginning of the Fibonacci series). There is evidence that the Maya also expressed the day as having 13 hours of daylight (the Thirteen Birds of the Day) and 9 hours of darkness (The Nine Lords of the Night).

Most relevant for our discussion here, there is the 260-day calendar, which is based on Fibonacci numbers. There have been many theories that attempt to explain the origins of the 260-day cycle, and most of them show the connection with natural cycles. For example, the cycle of seed-to-harvest for certain types of corn grown in Guatemala is about 260 days. In the Dresden Codex, there are 258 days between Venus rising as an evening star and its emergence as a morning star, a period which correlates with the Aztec myth of Quetzacoatl's journey to the underworld. Perhaps the most significant correspondence is the period of human gestation. Nine lunar months are approximately equal to 260 days. One Mayan scholar discovered that some modern Mayan people explicitly state the human gestation period as the explanation for the origin of the tzolkin.

There is much evidence that multiples of 364 days, particularly 20 x 364, were used by the Maya. The quantity 20 x 819 (or 45 x 364 = 16,380 days) was also used. The 819 days is equivalent to three tzolkins (39 veintenas) plus 39 days (or 20 x 41, minus one), which means it could function as a "footstep." In 819 days, the trecena coefficient and that of the Lord of the Night (a multiple of nine) remains the same, but the day name (and the kin coefficient in the Long Count) drops by one

Fibonacci Numbers

The Ruins of Temples Found in Bimini, Bahamas

The ruins of temples dated at 12,000 years old have been found near Bimini, Bahamas. Preliminary analysis has revealed that the original structures, although smaller in size than the Great Pyramid of Giza, appear to have been more advanced. Casing stones have been measured which are of the same unique angle as those at the Great Pyramid.

The ruins are megalithic and bear a remarkable resemblance to ancient sites in Egypt. So called "quarry marks" found in the Aswan quarries and also on the Great Pyramid, itself, appear to be identical matches with those found on the Bimini temple stones. Other characteristics closely match features at megalithic sites in Peru, the Yucatan, Ireland and Scandinavia. The stones are already drawing international attention and aggressive research and analysis projects are being set up which hope to commence more involved investigations shortly.

Analysis of these enigmatic ancient temples built near Bimini over 12,000 years ago has only just begun. Although many maps of the heavenly realm adorn various walls of these mysterious Bimini temples, there is an almost complete lack of other markings. Of the limited glyphs that do exist, however, several match those found in the famous Altamira Cave in Spain which contains the well-known bison painting. In addition, there are exact orbital plots of the planets and what seem to have been intricate star shafts, metal-coated walls, and intermingled stones of various colors. (including red, white, and black.)

Preliminary analysis has revealed that the original structures, although smaller in size, appear to have been more advanced than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Casing stones have been measured which are of the same unique angle as those at the Great Pyramid.

Other characteristics either closely match or are identical to features at megalithic sites in Peru, Mexico, the Yucatan, Ireland, and Scandinavia.

It appears that the most important or revered numbers associated with these ruins were the numbers five and nine. These numbers were also of great significance to the ancients of Egypt and Mesoamerica. Evidence indicates that a "checkerboard" calculator system was being used. Examples of this system were found on top of the Great Pyramid and were long used for numerical calculations in Mesoamerica. This same checkerboard pattern shows up on the lintel stones of temples built by Celts of Iberian origin. Also, according to some astronomers, this pattern served as a calendar regulator to measure the sunrise and sunset directions on solstices and equinoxes.

THE NINE MUSES: in Greek mythology, the
nine patron goddesses of the arts; daughters of
ZEUS and Mnemosyne, a TITAN who
personified memory. They were: Calliope (epic
poetry and eloquence), Euterpe (music and
lyric poetry), Erato (love poetry), Polyhymnia
(oratory or sacred poetry), Clio (history),
Melpomene (tragedy), Thalia (comedy),
Terpsichore (choral song and dance), and Urania
(astronomy).

"The Symbolism and Spiritual Significance of the
Number Three"

The Greeks used the number three a lot. There
were the three Fates, three Graces, three Gorgons
and the three Furies. Even Apollo's Pythia sat on
a three legged chair (tripod) and Cerberus was a
three headed dog. Multiples of three also seemed
to be used such as the nine Muses and the twelve
Olympian gods.

ANGELS

The angelic beings, or celestial intelligences, are divided into three triads, containing the nine orders, and whose names, as we shall see, represent the divine attributes that they manifest to all below them. Continuing from the fine introduction to the work, Dionysius says these divine attributes also have an inner relation with every human soul, for through their ministrations the aspiring soul becomes liberated from the bondage of material things, receives knowledge of that soul's purpose, and is enabled to live its true life, ultimately attaining its divine likeness to the full.

The first order of the first triad is seraphim. They are described in the passage already quoted from Isaiah as the "burning" or "fiery" ones, from whom the stream of superessential grace flows (God transcends all essence). Like fire, the seraphim consume all that separates the human from God. The second order is cherubim. The name "cherub" means "fullness of knowledge". Through cherubim, the energy of God streams forth as a transcendental light that perfectly illuminates the soul and unites it with the divine wisdom. It imparts a full and lucid understanding to the universal divine immanence. In the Bible, cherubs are depicted as great winged creatures - for instance, in the construction of the Ark in the wilderness (Exodus 25.18 passim), King Solomon's majestic temple (1 Kings 6.23 passim) and the visions of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1.10 and 10.1 passim). In one passage, the cherub is portrayed as a flying creature on which God travelled in order to help King David (2 Samuel 22.11). All this shows how hard it is for the human mind to avoid conceptualizing a formless energy The third order of the first triad are the thrones; these are divine seats through which the soul is lifted up to God and becomes established in the constancy of the divine service. This first triad is closest at all times to the divine presence.

In the second triad come first the dominions, or dominations, that are free from all earthly passions, from all inward inclination to the bondage of discord, and from all that is low; they display a liberal superiority to harsh tyranny, and an exemptness from degrading servility. They are true lords, perpetually aspiring to true lordship, and to the Source of Lordship. The second order of the second triad are the virtues, that have a powerful and unshakable virility welling forth into all their God-like energies. There is no weakness in them: instead, they ascend unwaveringly to the superessential virtue which is the Source of Virtue, and flow forth providentially to those below. The third order are the powers, or authorities, that are invested with a capacity to regulate intellectual and supermundane power which never debases its authority by tyrannical force, but is irresistibly urged onward in due order to the Divine. This order beneficently leads those below it, as far as possible, to the supreme power which is the Source of Power. It re-directs the forces that fetter the human mind to earthly things. Through this second triad, the soul is liberated from all that is below, and assimilated to that which is above.

The third, and lowest, triad is concerned with the final execution of the work of providence, which is God's beneficent care for his creatures. The principalities exhibit divine lordship and true service; through them, the soul may turn from attachment to earthly activities to the service of God, so as ultimately to become a co-worker with the divine ministers. The archangels imprint the divine seal on all things, whereby the universe is the written word of God. They impart to the soul the spiritual light through which it may learn to read the Bible, and also to know and use its own faculties correctly. The lowest order of this triad is the angels, who minister to all things of nature, including humans, by purifying and uplifting them.

In this triadic scheme, the higher orders inspire those lower than they, but not vice versa. Thus it is clear that the third triad is nearest the world, and transmits the illumination received from above. The end of the process is the transfiguration of the whole of the universe in the glorious light that proceeds from on high. This whole hierarchy spreads the divine light through the cosmos, that vast realm that includes the universe, as far as human understanding can define it, and also the psychic plane where we may meet the spirits of the dead and also the communion of saints and the ministry of angels. The great work of the angelic hierarchy is to praise and glorify God. This praise is not a rational acclaim so much as a great paean of joy that the world is as it is and that the angels are privileged both to know it and to participate in it. This is how we should say the Gloria of the Eucharist: that we are privileged to partake of the body and blood of the Saviour If the whole cosmos could resound to that praise, and move beyond prejudice and emotional bonds, we would pour out peace and goodwill to all creatures. The angelic hierarchy, with its enlightened will turned resolutely to the divine presence, helps to bring forward the Kingdom of God on earth - and elsewhere in our unimaginably glorious cosmos.

And so it is that all aspiring human souls move to the divine presence, aided by an immense angelic hierarchy, none more important than the other. If the humble angel leads the way, the destination is through the cherub and seraph to the source of all being whom we call God. It may well be that much illumination from the Holy Spirit comes to us through the angelic hierarchy, centering on our own guardian angel. One thing is certain, though: we must worship the Holy Trinity and no other power.

99 Islamic Holy Names Of God

Many people are very familiar with the 72 names of God in Hebrew. Unless you are Muslim, many are not aware of the 99 names of God in Arabic; the ninety-nine names as revealed in the Holy Koran. What sacred names these are, and beautifully descriptive of the qualities of Allah.

MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES

Aegir (Eagor) - Germanic god of the ocean, and husband of Ran. His nine daughters, known as the "billow maidens", directed the swirling waves under his orders. He was sometimes depicted as a very old man with white hair and claw-like fingers. Whenever he left his glistening underwater palace it was with the single-minded purpose of destroying ships and their crews. To placate him the Vikings often sacrificed some prisoners before setting sail.

Heimdall (Heimdalr) - (Norse) He is said to be the son of nine mothers. He lived at the foot of Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, and guarded it. He was known as the watchman of the gods. Heimdall was the keeper of the Gjallahorn, the "ringing" horn, which he was to sound when Ragnarök, the end of the world, was near. In an Irish myth he is called Rígr, and is considered the father of mankind. He consorted with three women, from whom descend the three classes of mankind: serf(thrall), freeman(karl), and nobleman(jarl).

Jotunheim - (Norse) The abode of the giants. It is on the edge of the ocean, far to the northeast. It is one of the nine worlds sheltered by the cosmic tree, Yggdrasil.

The Great Seal of the United States

In the radiant disk above the American bald eagle's head the stars of the original 13 states are composed to form a Solomon's seal symbolic of the union of soul and body, spirit and matter. Each of the interlaced equilateral triangles, one upward turned, the other downward, is a Pythagorean tetraktys, or "perfect triangle of fourness," of nine points, four to a side, enclosing a tenth representing the generative center ("still point of the turning world") our of which the others derive their force. The upward triangle is of spiritual, the downward pointing, of physical energy. thus interlaced, the two represent the physical world recognized as informed by the spiritual, and in exactly this sense they appear at the Lotus Center of the awakened heart.

In the classical imagination, the 9 circumferential points of the Pythagorean tetraktys were identified with the Muses and the pont in the center with Apollo, around whose radiant form the 9 dance. In Jewish thought, the sign of the two triangles together is known as "magen david" (Hebrew, maghen Dawidh), "Shield of David," and read as connoting the shekinah, or presence of God in Israel (as originally in the burning bush and in the cloud on the summit of Mt. Sinai). In the Great Seal of the United States the reference is to the inspiration of the light of Reason in the constitution of the originating colonies brought together as one nation: e pluribus unum, "out of many, one." These are homologous, though culturally differentiated, interpretations of the same "elementary idea."

When viewed as outlining a pyramid, the upward pointing triangle matches the pyramid n the reverse of the Seal, with the single point at its apex corresponding to the Eye out of which the expanding form of the traktys, the energy emanating from that initial point (which is of the opening both from and to Eternity) yields, first, duality (2 point: measure and chaos, subject and object, light and dark, odd and even, male and female, etc. ), which then relate to each other in three ways (3 points: either a dominant, b dominant, or a and b in accord, whence derive all the phenomenal forms in the field of space time (4 points: 4 quarters of the earth and heavens). There is a verse in the Chinese Tao Teh Ching: "The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produce Three; Three produced All things" (Tao Teh Ching 42, translation, James Legge). Thus the ancient symbolism of the tetraktys: 1 point, 2 points, 3 points and 4; which series when read in the opposite sense, of ascending or returning to the source, yields the interesting series, 4 3 2 (for the sense of which is above)

Connotations of the same perfect order pertain of course, to the downward turned tetraktys, with its single point at the apex opening also from and to Eternity; so that, "What is above is below," and the energy of the Spirit (however named0, whether from without (as from the Eye, the apex above) or from within the world (apex below) is one. Moreover, since from every terminal point of the six-pointed Solomon's seal the same increasing series of 2 to 3 to 4 proceeds, it follows the intended sense of the radiant symbol of 13 stars above the American bald eagle's head must have been the same essentially as that of Black Elk's remark, "The Center is everywhere", above and below, north, south, east, and west - with an additional eighteenth -century implication of the humanizing light of Reason reflected, universally , n the clarified consciousness of mankind.

The number of stripes on the American eagle's shield is 13; so also the number of the arrows and of the leaves of the laurel spray in its talons, while the number of the feathers of its tail is 9 to the eye, but through the eye to the intellect, the meanings of which can be known only to those already familiar with the illustrated tradition. Such a composition may grace the eye, but in itself it lacks magic, or as Joyce would say, the "radiance" (claritas) of an achieve work of "proper" art. One's heart is walked, not by the form of the work, but by its content, and if the latter is of a tradition either unknown or deceased, the work may be of interest, like the dollar bill, economically, but it is no longer a work of living art.

The artist fashioned a work of this kind serves in the way, rather of the priest of an assured tradition than of an innovating creator, and the refinement of his vocabulary can be astounding. Consider, for instance, the elegant concision of the statement of the relationship of the refinement of his vocabulary can be astounding. Consider for instance, the elegant concision of the statement of the relationship of a theological ground to the polity of this nation, founded in benevolence and reason, that is represented in the ideogram of the outward spread eagle on our dollar bill; overhead, the twofold tetraktys arranged in the form a Solomon's seal of 13 five-pointed stars, other recurrences of the number 13; the sum of the feathers in the eagle's tail (3 + 3 + 3);and the offered choices of either a spray of laurel or a sheaf of 13 arrows. It is ironical that today we should be passing around as legal tender these sociological manifestos without being able to read the message of democracy engraved on every one of them, the spiritual inspiration our of which their economic value has been derived. So, that, not only the message, but even its vocabulary, has been lost.

But also lost has been the power of all such rcondite, iconographic art to melt the mind, enchant the hard, and cast a spell of esthetic arrest. For there has been a vast transformation of consciousness, not only in the Western world, but over the whole face of the earth, in the two brief centuries that have elapsed since the dating in Roman numerals of that pyramid.

9 - Number of the Moon; Container of all numbers; Number of known astronomical planets. Eternity; Yesod; Endings, echatology; Moons of Saturn; Number of Muses; In the I Ching, 9 is the number of Yang. Arabic Ta (Secret Knowledge ). Number of absolute completion, perfection and wisdom. Since the ennead is the final limitation, it is the acceptance of solitude and the beginning of the inward journey to the Infinite.

999 - Symbolizes the three levels of the triune * completion"

Eternal Evolution (past, present, future). This is the most mystical number of all. It is the number of the Archon of the Ending Aeons. 999 is the year in which Kukulcan (Quetzalcoatl) died. It is the name of a very high IQ Society. 999 is the final transmutation of the current that began with 333, reached its culmination of evil mysticism in 666 and which will unlock the gates of the Otherworld at the end of this cycle's unfolding. It has also been appropriated by the J. R. "Bob" Dodds mock-cult (The Church of the Sub-Genius) as its seal, but is (for them) totally without significance or occult purpose, except as another symbol to subvert in their addiction to chaos.

9 to the 9th power is 387,420,489, which is sure to have some important meaning. Breaking that down, 3 + 8 + 7 = 18 = 9; 4 + 2 + 0 = 6; 4 + 8 + 9 = 21 = 3; and ultimately 9 + 6 + 3 = 18 = 1 + 8 = 9.

The first thing to remember about numbers is that each number, far from being just an accretion of previous numbers, really is unique. Numbers are the quintessence of symbology, and numerology appeals mostly to the abstract metaphysician, just as, in science, mathematics appeals to the abstract-minded scientist. Numerology, like astrology and palmistry, has a bad reputation because it's so easily misunderstood and misused. Since we can all recognize synchronicity, it's only natural to rush from there to the assumption that coincidence is the same thing as divination. But, synchronicity is nothing more than evidence that there are patterns of many kinds. It would be better if we could de-emphasize the practical side of everything and concentrate on the esthetics. The Egyptians used to teach that the most valuable things are the most useless: the arts, for example, or philosophy, or gold.

Finally, we should remember that it was through the indolent adoption of the easy decimal system (rather than the more perfect and exacting duodecimal system) that Atlantis finally brought itself down. This mathematically lazy way out is exactly the same path for which we have settled.

So numerology is simply the metaphysical side to numbers. One and one, for instance, are two, not because arithmetic says so, but because being equally "unique" they can't be reconciled as one, or "united," and are therefore at odds and in conflict with each other, as opposites in a mutual duality or "duel." Three, on the other hand, is a collection based on some kind of agreement, four a quaternity based on crossed oppositions in perfect balance, and so one.

There are also different ways of dealing with numerology -- theoria and praxis. In gematria, however, the idea is to add up the value of a word and then find other words that add up to the same number. They would thus be equivalents. This works rather well in Hebrew (to a lesser extent in Greek) but rather poorly in English -- simply because of the intrinsic differences between languages. Example: Jehovah has the same value as Chozeh ("seer" or "prophet"). Therefore, to the ancient Jews, God and Prophesy would be practically synonymous.

Numerological reduction is a convenience. It's easier to deal with numbers from 1 to 10 than with great blobs like 847 or 9,556,431. But numerologists also add before reducing. If a room contains 8 people, the numerology lecturer might perhaps decide to deliver his "octave" message. If 3 more people arrived, he'd change that to 11 which has an entirely different meaning from its reduction to 1 + 1 = 2. The higher the number, the more unstable its meaning becomes. For example, 11 stands symbolically for all the higher numbers (above 10), which is why 11 is the number of Sorcery.

The values of the Hebrew letters are: 1-ALEPH, 2-BETH, 3-GIMEL, 4-DALED, 5-HE, 6-VAU, 7-ZAYIN, 8-CHETH, 9-TETH, 10-YOD, 20-KAPH, 30-LAMED, 40-MEM, 50-NUN, 60-SAMECH, 70-AYIN, 80-PE, 90-TZADDE, 100-QOPH, 200-RESH, 300-SHIN, 400-TAV, 500-FINAL K, 600-FINAL M; 700-FINAL N, 800-FINAL P, 900-TZ, 1000-ALEPH (writ large).

In both Arab esoteric studies and in Judaic Cabal, such numbers form anagrams and extend the power of words: e.g., 93=Greek Agape, 398=Neshek, the serpent, and also Messiah.

This is one of the Universal Spiritual Laws which tells of the power of numbers:

The Law of Co-Creation states that two working in co-creative action have the power of four working individually; and three working in co-creative activity have the power of nine; and four working in co-creative activity have the power of sixteen; and one hundred and forty-four working in harmony can change the world. Wherein large groups of entities believe and agree on certain images as real and being stable, this agreement does hold the power of many times that number of energies, if such energies were held by individuals working separately. Wherein groups of entities agree upon certain images, these images do tend to manifest and hold their being in a magnified manner.

The Gifts of the Spirit.

There are nine gifts of the Spirit listed in I Cor. 12:8-10. Wisdom, knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, kinds of tongues, and the interpretation of tongues.

What was the purpose of these spiritual gifts?

1. Revelation: Man needs a revelation from his Creator "It is not in man to direct his own steps;" therefore God gave the gifts of knowledge and wisdom. (Jer. 10:23)

2.Proclamation: Man needed to proclaim the right message in the right language; therefore God gave the gifts of:

a."Prophecy" - the message.

b."Discerning of spirits" - the right message. (1 Jno. 4:1)

c."Interpretation of tongues" - the right language.

3.Confirmation: Early Christians did not have the Bible as we do today. They had to prove that the revelation they had received and were proclaiming was from God. How would the audience know they were speaking God's Word without miracles. (Acts 8:6) Therefore God gave the gifts of:

a.Faith - I Cor. 13:2.

b.Healing - Acts 3:11.

c.Miracles - Acts 13:11.

d.Tongues - I Cor. 14:22; Acts 2:1-5.

"These signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick; and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where the Lord working with them; and confirming the Word with signs following." (Mk. 16:17-20) "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him." (Heb.2:3) "Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto." (Gal. 3:15)

NINE IN NUMEROLOGY

Nine is composed of the all-powerful 3x3.

Nine - the result of 3x3, nine represents an even greater holiness found in three.

It is the Triple Triad.

IT represents completion; fulfilment; attainment; beginning and the end; the whole number; a celestial and angelic number. Nine represents the Earthly Paradise. Nine is seen as an incorruptible number. It is the number of the circumference, its division into 90 degrees and into 360 for the entire circumference. Nine is symbolized by the two triangles which are a symbol of male, fire, mountain and female, water, cave principles.

Cultural References

Buddhist tradition holds nine to be the supreme spiritual power, and a celestial number.

Celtic legend symbolizes nine as a highly significant number. It is a central number with the eight directions with the center making nine. The Triple Goddesses are thrice three. There are nine Celtic maidens and nine white stones that symbolize the nine virgins attendant on Bridgit. Nine is connected with the Beltane Fire rites which are attended by 81( 8+ 1= 9) men, nine at a time.

Chinese: Nine is qa celestial power. It is 3x3 being the most auspicious of all the numbers. Nine also signifies the eight directions with the center as the ninth point known as the Hall of Light. There are nine great social laws and classes of offials. In land divisions for Feng Shui there are eight exterior squares for cultivation of the land by holders and the central, and ninth, square is a "god's acre", dedicated to Shang-ti, the supreme ruler. It is also known as the Emperor's Field, giving homage and respect denoting the position of heavenly power.

Christian: Nine is one of the numbers that appears scantly in Christian symbolism. There are the triple triads of choirs of angels and nine spheres and nine rings around hell.

Egyptian mythology nine represents The Ennead.

Graeco-Roman: There are nine Gods and later nine muses.

Hebrew: Nine is pure intelligence ( eight was perfect intellingence ). Also represents truth, since it reproduces itself when multiplied.

Kabbalism nine symbolizes foundation.

Hindu: Nine is the number of Agni, fire. The square of the nine forms the mandala of eighty-one squares and leads to, and encloses the Universe.

Mayan: There are nine underworlds each ruled by a God. We find this reference to "nine underworlds" present in many cultures and beliefs.

Pythagorean: The nine is the limit of all numbers, all others existing and coming from the same. ie: 0 to 9 is all one needs to make up an infinite amount of numbers.

Scandinavian: Odin/Woden hung for nine days and nights on the Yggdrasil to win the secrets of wisdom for humankind. Skeldi, the northern Persephone, the goddess of snow, lives in her mountain for three months and by Niord's sea for nine months. Nine is the sacred number in Scandinavian-Teutonic symbolism.

THE SACRED HOOP [Note: A full circle is 360 degrees which is 9 numerologically]

The archaic, traditional peoples have basically used symbol as a way of communication. This establishes an ongoing relationship between the sign and the thing symbolized. All cognitions are expressed symbolically, since these peoples' sacred symbols manifest the energies they represent, and whose mediators they are, in a real and true fashion. Symbol is magical by virtue of the analogy binding it indestructibly (and identifying it) with that which it is symbolizing. Among these symbols, of extraordinary magical and sacred importance are the numbers and the geometrical figures. Every primitive or archaic society has known these, and has used them to symbolize the cosmos and its energies, by virtue of which these numbers and geometrical figures have possessed the invisible energies to which they themselves bore witness, in perfect correspondence with their visible characteristics.

Two of these geometrical symbols are very much to the fore in the indigenous societies. We mean the circle and the square (and their derivatives), the latter standing in close relationship with the number four, the cosmogonic number present in every manifestation (as well as with the number five, the possibility of the supracosmic and nonmanifest). As for the circle, let us hear Black Elk, the celebrated native sage, direct heir of the tradition of the North American plains:

I noticed that my people's sacred hoop was one of the many hoops in the form of a circle, wide as the light of day and the shining of the stars. And in the center was a mighty Flowering Tree, which covered all of the children of father and mother. And I observed that it was holy. . . .

The power of the universe acts ever by way of circles, and all things tend ever to be round. In ancient days, when we were a happy, strong people, we received our power from the hoop of the nation, which was holy, and while the circle remained complete, the people flourished. . . .

The Flowering Tree was the living center of the circle, and it was nourished by the life of the cycle of the four directions. . . .

Whatever is done by the power of the universe, it is done in the form of a circle.

This idea of circularity–associated to the whirling wind and to all natural, psychic, and material phenomena, as well as being linked to the idea of cycle, repetition, totality, and especially to that of center, axis, generation, and life–can be found in the various known traditions.

Among the Chinese, the circular figure is associated with heaven, and is assigned the numerical value of nine. The quadrangular form is linked with earth. There is an intimate relationship, however, between the two: both are constituted by four 90º angles, or 360º. As for the sphere and the cube, which are the volumetric representations of the circle and the square, these are also akin, although the former is more perfect than the latter (since all of its limit points are equidistant from its center), and the cube seems rigid and forced by comparison with the sphere.

THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE TAROT

There are significant Qabalistic metaphors associated with the number 24 as well; one pertaining to the Flaming Sword, which provides prime Qabalistic proof. The Flaming Sword or Lightning Flash is defined by nine Tarot Atus, or Paths, which describe the sequential emanations of the Ten Holy Sephiroth. Since there is no traditional Path which connects Binah with Chesed across the Abyss of Daath, Crowley rightfully assigned this hidden Path the Hebrew letter Gimel and the Atu the Priestess. While the Master did discover that the Hebrew letters attributed to these nine Paths add to 777, he never mentions the sum of the Atu numbers. We mention this because the Five Paths which are Above the center Sephira, Tiphareth, add to our ubiquitous number 24; that is, the Fool 0 + the Empress 3 + the Priestess 2 + Strength or Lust 8 + Judgement or Adjustment 11 = 24. The four Paths Below Tiphareth add to the Mystic number 69; that is, Death 13 + the Tower 16 + the Sun 19 + the World 21 = 69. Amazingly, 24 + 69 = 93, our Number of Thelema! Therefore, the 93 Current of Thelema is shown to be synonymous with the Lightning Flash of the Qabalistic Tree of Life.

Through the process of initiation we begin our ascent upward on the Tree. We must purify and learn deeply of the four elements first. Then we must learn to coordinate the four elements under the rulership of Spirit. The process of the elemental initiations changes our microscopic sphere of sensation to a given element on a daily basis. We then learn of the rewards and challenges of that element. Only initiation can concisely bring about these necessary changes in the microcosm.

The paths on the Tree of Life are the archetypal aspects of our Microcosm, whereas the Sephiroths are considered macrocosmic.

"In Roman Catholic Europe, when the Angelus tolls (at morning, noon, and evening), it rings 3 + 3 + 3 and then 9 times, in celebration of the Virgin's conception of the Savior. The recited prayer at those junctures, 'The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, and she conceived by the Holy Ghost . . . and THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH . . .' is in recognition of this miracle at the opening of a new world age."

In Genesis 1:26 the Lord declares, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.

"Adam", the first human (the Hebrew means man or mankind), possesses a very instructive gematria. Notice that Hebrew reads from right to left.

The Bible uses the plural form "our" with "in our image," and for emphasis and poetic effect repeats this as "in our likeness."

Among other things, this means the image of the Trinity, the likeness of the triangle.

To confirm the triangle nature of 45, see the image above. By applying the triangle function to the pre-image 9, we find the following: 9 ------> 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 9
= 45
= a triangle number

So 45 is the 9th triad, implying you can arrange that number of identical objects into a triangle. It's no accident that the last creation of God was the 9th. A symbolism more beautiful than our Lord's is difficult to imagine.

Taken from "The Pattern and the Prophecy - God's Great Code
by James Harrison

THE NUMBERS OF THE TRINITY

The first number, 13 = 1x1x1 = 1 symbolized
the First Person of the Trinity, God the Father

The second number, 23 = 2x2x2 = 8, symbolizes
the Second Person of the Trinity, God the Son

The third number, 33 = 3x3x3 = 27, symbolizes
the Third Person of the Trinity, God The Holy Spirit

The last connection is affirmed by the gematria of "The Holy Spirit"

1080 = 27 x 40
= 27 + 27 + .. . . + 27

If you want to know God, then you must approach Him through Jesus under the inSPIRation of The Holy Spirit. This word spirit or pneuma meant breath, soul, or spirit. Some of that meaning survives today in words like pneumatic and pneumonia.

The Fishes and the Net number dramatically points out that the path to 153/Jesus is only through 1080/The Holy Spirit. All the numbers in the third circle symbolize the Third Person. They are either 1080 or multiples of 27.

Yet, is is probably by chance that the average number of breaths a person takes in an hour is 1080 (test yourself). Regardless, the quantity has abundant connections with the physical world.

Introduction to the Pythagorean Tarot (Related to Pythagorean Numerology)

2009-03-13T18:41:00.000-07:00

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~Mclennan/BA/PT/Intro.html

Why a "Pythagorean" tarot? This deck began as a project to embody my interpretations of the tarot, based on traditional iconography, archetypal imagery and Pythagorean numerology, into a deck for my own use. In the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn one was expected to copy one's own tarot deck from a master copy and to color it; however, in only a few contemporary orders, such the Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), are students expected to even color their own decks. Although I enjoy and respect many commercial tarot decks, I believe that at some point each serious student should design his or her own deck embodying their understanding of the Arcana. Indeed, as one's understanding evolves over a lifetime, it's not unreasonable to expect to design and construct several decks. On the basis of these beliefs I started work on the Pythagorean Tarot.

Although the Pythagorean Tarot began as a personal project, I have been encouraged to make it generally available, since its interpretive framework is not the same as many other tarots, and so serious tarotists may find it useful both in itself, and as a starting point for their own designs.

The Pythagorean Tarot is based on Pythagorean numerology, which explains the significance of the numbers. Since the Pythagorean Tarot derives from the Greek cultural milieu, you can think of it as my idea of what a tarot designed by Pythagoras might have been like. However, it also draws from a number of other sources, including Mediterranean mythology, alchemy, Jungian psychology, other divinatory systems and traditional tarot interpretation. I hope this web of symbolic structures will help to illuminate the mysteries hidden in the tarot. Since the primary organizing principal is Pythagorean numerology, I will begin by discussing the archetypal significance of numbers and their role in divination.

Jung's elucidation of the archetypes of the collective unconscious is now familiar to many people, and it is apparent that the images of the tarot are archetypal. A number of tarot commentators (e.g. Gad, Nichols; see bibliography) have applied Jungian analysis to traditional tarot decks, and several recent decks (e.g. Wang's Jungian Tarot, Guiley & Place's Alchemical Tarot) make explicit use of archetypal imagery as described by Jung and his colleagues. The archetypes also underlie the symbolic system of alchemy and mythology, so I have also drawn on these in my interpretations and designs for the Major Arcana (comprising 22 obviously archetypal images). What is less well known, however, is that the numbers themselves are archetypes, and it is the structure of these archetypes that is expressed in Pythagorean numerology, the system of Sephirot in the Qabalah, and the number mysticism of many other cultures. An understanding of these archetypes illuminates the Minor Arcana (comprising four suits, with four court cards and ten pip cards each), as well as shedding additional light on the numerological structure of the Major Arcana. (The best source for understanding the numbers as archetypes in von Franz's Number and Time; Schimmel's Mystery of Numbers is a good source of number symbolism; Fordham's Introduction to Jung's Psychology is the most concise, yet accurate introduction to Jung's thought with which I'm familiar.)

The archetypes may be explained as follows. We experience existence in two quite different ways: physically (or materially) and psychically (or mentally). Nevertheless, one reality - which Jung calls the Unus Mundus (One World) - underlies both kinds of phenomena. The collective unconscious comprises all those unconscious structures and processes that we share with other people; some of them derive from our human brains, but other, deeper ones, from our biology and even from the laws of physics on which our biology is based. "The lowest collective level of our psyche is simply pure nature" (von Franz 7). The archetypes are active structures in this shared level of the unconscious, which predispose us toward certain patterns of psychic response to given situations, which in turn can manifest in many specific ways. An archetype appears in consciousness as a subjective reality, but because of its origin in the collective unconscious, it represents an objective reality. (von Franz 4-7, 15, 31, 54-5)

Jung became convinced that the most basic archetypes are numerical and that number is the key to the relation between the psychical and physical realms. This is because number is "a constituent of nature, both without and within" (von Franz 13); it "preconsciously orders both psychic thought processes and the manifestations of material reality" (von Franz 53). Jung wrote (von Franz 9), "I have a distinct feeling that number is a key to the mystery, since it is just as much discovered as invented. It is quantity as well as meaning."

Number is both quality and quantity (meaning and measurement). In the historical, conscious development of number, the West has favored the quantitative and abstract structural aspects, which has led to the development of modern science, whereas the East has favored the qualitative and affective (feeling-toned) aspects. That is, the West has emphasized the material pole and the East the mental pole, although both are essential aspects of the Unus Mundus. The Pythagoreans, however, viewed numbers as cosmic principles with both material and spiritual aspects. This perspective is the basis of the numerology found in many cultures. (von Franz 39, 215)

When the qualitative aspects are included in our conception of numbers, they become more than simple quantities 1, 2, 3, 4; they acquire an archetypal character as Unity, Opposition, Conjunction, Completion. They are then analogous to more familiar archetypes, such as the Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Maiden, and the Shadow, which are more obviously represented in the Major Arcana.

Divination

If we understand physical and psychical phenomena as two aspects of the underlying Unus Mundus, then Jung's idea of synchronicity becomes clearer. A synchronous event can be defined as a meaningful coincidence, that is, a coincidence that has symbolic significance to someone experiencing the event. "By a synchronistic phenomenon Jung understands the coincidence in time of two or more psychic and physical events which are connected, not causally, but by their identical meaning" (von Franz 6n2). The meaning is revealed in an image constellated by an archetype manifesting simultaneously in the physical and psychic realms. Synchronistic phenomena are important because they provide a glimpse of the Unus Mundus in its wholeness; the eternal archetypes break through into the world of ordinary time, and inner and outer aspects of experience move in harmony. (von Franz 199, 242-3)

Synchronistic phenomena are usually spontaneous, but in divination we arrange for a synchronistic event to take place. This is not a simple mechanical matter, for synchronicity usually requires that an archetype be "activated" in the unconscious, which in turn presupposes an emotion-laden, tension-charged situation. Thus divination is most successful when undertaken for a serious purpose; under these conditions divinatory techniques can "draw archetypal material into the center of the field of observation" (von Franz 223-4).

The method of science may be contrasted with that of divination. In science one makes a conscious "cut" in the world, separating the phenomenon of interest from the rest of existence. In divination, on the other hand, one makes an unconscious "cut," by isolating a qualitative moment in time, which retains the fullness of its participation in both the physical and psychic aspects of all existence. Numerical procedures, such as cutting a tarot deck, rolling dice, or dividing yarrow stalks, are used to determine the kairos, the "key moment," for the constellation of a unique synchronous phenomenon. With proper preparation, so that an archetype is already activated by a sufficiently high "charge" of psychic energy, the divinatory act can create a "hole" in the "field of consciousness through which the autonomous dynamism of the collective unconscious can break in" (von Franz 227). (von Franz 44, 199)

By bringing the eternal archetypes into temporal consciousness, the divinatory act creates a "hole in time," the alchemical Fenestra Aeternitatis (Window to Eternity). The alchemists also called this hole though which autonomous spirit passes the Spiraculum Aeternitatis, or Airhole to Eternity; it corresponds to the smokehole in the top of shamans' tents, through which they ascend to the heavens and return to the mundane world. (von Franz 260-1)

Throughout history there have been many ways of using numbers for divination. For example, the I Ching is a well-known Eastern method of divination, which was studied by Jung and his colleagues, and is now quite popular in the West. In a fundamental sense it is based on numerical archetypes since, as many have observed, the hexagrams (composed on Yin and Yang lines) correspond to binary numbers (composed of 0s and 1s). Similar binary divination systems have been used in the West since ancient times, including geomancy in Europe and Arabia, and the related Ifa divination system in Africa. (In an appendix, Tarot Divination Without Tarot Cards, I describe a similar binary method of selecting Tarot cards.)

Some of the most common numerical divination systems use dice: the combination of pips in the roll, or in some cases their sum, is used to consult a table of "oracles." Such methods were common in the ancient world (many temples had a dice table for consulting the gods) and are still in use today. Divination with dice is especially relevant to tarot, since there is some evidence that when playing cards were introduced into Europe from the Orient in the fourteenth century, methods of dice divination were transferred to cards. (See the "Introduction to the Major Arcana" for more on this.)

So much for the theory of divination; see the appendix ("Divinatio") for practical suggestions (spreads, etc.) on the use of the Pythagorean Tarot for divination, meditation and other purposes, as well as for the use of dice casting and similar methods with the Tarot.

Pythagoreanism

Pythogoras, who was born in Samos (an island of the coast of Asia Minor) and lived in the sixth century BCE, is the fountainhead of most later Greek philosophy, both esoteric and exoteric. Although it is difficult to separate fact from legend, we may say that he believed in metempsychosis (reincarnation) and that numbers are the foundation of the universe. Further, he founded in Kroton (mod. Crotone, Italy) a religious society (open to women as well as men), which taught a way of life devoted to escape from the wheel of reincarnation through knowledge. Their practice included self-examination, vegetarianism, purity and silence, as well as the study of esoteric mathematics and music. He is thought to have written nothing down, but his followers did, and they attributed their works to him. (OCD s.v. Pythagoras)

According to ancient biographies (Diogenes Laertius 8.1-15) - which might not be entirely factual - Pythagoras, when a young man, became an initiate of all mysteries in Greece; he studied with the Phoenicians, learned Egyptian and studied with the priests there, and then went to be initiated into the mysteries on Crete. He claimed that in a previous life he was a son of Hermes, and that his divine father had granted him the gift of keeping his memory from one incarnation to the next. Pythagorean doctrine was kept secret until Philolaus (born c.470 BCE) published three books of it. It has many connections with Orphism, although their exact relation is not clear. (For a scholarly study see Walter Burkert's Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism.)

It is apparent that Socrates (who also wrote nothing) and Plato (c.429-347 BCE) were both Pythagoreans, and, according to Diogenes, Plato bought copies of Philolaus' books for 100 minas (about 100 pounds of silver) as soon as they were available. Certainly some of Plato's dialogues, such as the Timaeus, are filled with Pythagorean esoterica.

A Neopythagorean revival began in the first century BCE and continued until it developed into Neoplatonism in the third century CE. It remained the dominant Pagan philosophy until the emperor Justinian ordered the Pagan schools closed in 529 CE. Among its more famous proponents were Numenius, Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus and Hypatia. It is from these philosophers that most of the numerology of the Pythagorean Tarot is drawn. (For a comprehensive collection of Pythagorean writings, see Kenneth Guthrie's Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library. Two excellent sources for Neopythagorean numerology are Robin Waterfield's translation of The Theology of Arithmetic (attributed to Iamblichus) and Thomas Taylor's Theoretic Arithmetic, which is drawn from many sources.) (OCD s.v. Neoplatonism, Neopythagoreanism)

The Neopythagoreanism of second century CE Alexandria was also one of the principal sources of Gnosticism, the group of esoteric religions that flourished in that society, which also gave us the Hermetica (the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus), the Chaldean Oracles and a number of other esoteric texts. This was also the cultural breeding ground for Plutarch's theosophical writings, Zosimos' alchemical work, and Numenius' Neopythagoreanism (which was, in turn, influenced by Gnosticism). (OCD s.v. Gnosticism)

Later, in the fifteenth century, when Plato and the Hermetica were first translated into Latin, a new efflorescence of Neopythagoreanism nourished the Renaissance at the Platonic Academy of Lorenzo de'Medici. Indeed, Renaissance art is saturated with Pythagorean and Hermetic symbols, and this is the cultural context in which the Tarot was born. A later, seventeenth century, efflorescence merged with the alchemical tradition, influencing philosophers such as Isaac Newton, Thomas Taylor and John Dee, and artists such as Shakespeare, Spenser and Blake, for Hermetic and alchemical themes are apparent in many of their works. (See Edgar Wind's Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance for the influence of Neopythagoreanism and Hermeticism on the Renaissance. The works of Dame Francis Yates, such as Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition and The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, are a good introduction to seventeenth-century Hermeticism.)
Alchemy

From a modern perspective, one of the weaknesses of Pythagoreanism is its one-sided exaltation of the mind and knowledge and its corresponding denigration of the material world and body. In this respect the alchemical perspective, which sees spirit embodied in matter and matter as a means of purifying and ennobling the spirit, is more balanced. This is expressed in the well-known alchemical maxim, "as above, so below." The masculine knowledge, Logos and spirit - the dry solar consciousness - requires its complement, feminine compassion, Eros and soul - the moist lunar consciousness. (In this respect it has some similarities with Tantric Buddhism.) The wisdom of the alchemical tradition is especially needed in our time.

Alchemy perhaps grew out of the secret lore of the first metallurgists. Their view was that metals were born out of the womb of Mother Earth, and that Nature caused them to develop toward ever greater nobility (manifested in gold); the earliest alchemists viewed their work as cooperating with Nature to hasten this process. Because early alchemists sought their goal through a combination of technology, magic and divine aid, we find in many cultures stories of an early generation of smith-gods and divine metallurgist-magicians (e.g. the Cabiri in Greek myths). Typically, they are also teachers of ecstatic dance and initiators into sacred mysteries of transformation. (See Mircea Eliade's Forge and Crucible.)

The doctrine of the four elements (earth, water, air, fire), a central principle of European alchemy, developed out of Greek philosophy. They appear first in the writings of Empedocles (c.493-c.433 BCE), who was a Greek shaman (iatromantis - healer-seer - in Greek). Closely connected is the idea of the opposed qualities (hot/cold, moist/dry) that give the elements their character, which was an outgrowth of Pythagorean speculation. Plato and Aristotle explained the relation of the elements and the qualities, and refined the theory into the form that it took in all later European alchemy; they also added the fifth element, the Quintessence, which is critical to the alchemical process, since it is the celestial principle that reconciles opposing mundane qualities. (See A. J. Hopkins' Alchemy: Child of Greek Philosophy.)

As alchemy developed after the Renaissance, alchemists became increasingly explicit in stating that their goal was not so much the transformation of metals as the transformation of the alchemist; they sought a "higher gold" than the common metal. This view has been confirmed by the well-known investigations of Jung, who has shown that the symbolical literature, emblems and procedures of alchemy are manifestations of the archetypal structure of the process of psychological individuation. Thus the alchemical worldview, which is closely allied with the Neopythagorean, becomes a valuable perspective from which to understand our growth and development as materially embodied spirits. Since at least the time of the Golden Dawn (late 19th cent.), alchemy has been a basis of tarot design, which effectively transcends the dualism of the Neopythagorean tradition. (Aside from Jung's own works, e.g., Psych. & Alch., Mys. Con., Alch. Stud., Aion, which are quite readable, there are now numerous selections and explications of his alchemical writings, e.g. von Franz's Alchemy and Edward Edinger's books.)
Qabalah

It is certainly suggestive that there are 22 Major Arcana and 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and one of major traditions of esoteric tarot interpretation is based on the Qabalistic interpretations of the Hebrew alphabet and the ten Sephirot. However, it appears that Court de Gebelin (1781) was the first associate Qabalah and tarot, and so it seems to be a comparatively new tradition. As we will see, the are historically more plausible reasons for there being 22 Major Arcana than the alleged esoteric connection with the Hebrew alphabet. Furthermore, different tarotists have assigned the letters to the trumps in different ways, none of which are likely to be very old, since they do not depend on the oldest order of the trumps. Therefore, I have abandoned assignments to the Hebrew alphabet (which has no special significance from a Pythagorean standpoint) and replaced it by assignments to the Greek letters, which are esoterically significant in Pythagoreanism. Tarotists will have to judge for themselves the success of the new assignments. (Hall 129-30; Kaplan I.15-6)

Another Qabalistic idea, which has been important in esoteric tarot interpretation, is the doctrine of the paths between the Sephirot on the Tree of Life, a symbolically rich structure relating ten divine emanations, connected with the numerology of the numbers 1 through 10. However, historical scholars of the Qabalah, such as Gershom Scholem (Kab. & Sym. 167) have said that the Sefer Yezirah, one of the principal Qabalistic texts, was written by a Jewish Neopythagorean (3-6 cent. CE) and that much of the later Qabalistic tradition incorporates a very large dose of Neopythagoreanism; there is even evidence that some of the specialized terms of Qabalah were translated into Hebrew from Greek (Scholem, Kab. 27). Therefore I felt it is less anachronistic, in a Pythagorean Tarot, to go back to the apparent source of these numerological ideas, rather than to try to retranslate the doctrine of the Sephirot back into a Hellenic idiom. Nevertheless, whether Qabalah borrowed from Neopythagoreanism (or vice versa), or both from a common source, or whether they are independent developments is, I think, unimportant from a practical standpoint, for the numbers are archetypes, and therefore, underneath their cultural trappings, they are the same for all humanity.

Finally, we have to consider the Qabalistic use of gematria: the esoteric interpretation of Hebrew words by means of the numerical values of their letters. This is not a major part of traditional tarot interpretation, but it is a standard esoteric technique, so I have used it to reinforce the symbolic analyses of the trumps. However, since I have used isopsephia ("Greek gematria") rather than the better known gematria based on the Hebrew alphabet, a few words of explanation are necessary. There are several reasons for this.

First, an analysis based on the Greek alphabet is more appropriate to a Pythagorean tarot than one based on the Hebrew alphabet since, presumably, that is the alphabet Pythagoras would have used for isopsephia. Second, there is considerable evidence that the Hebrew practice is later than the Greek and probably derived from it. We'll consider the evidence briefly.

First, the Greek use of their alphabet for numeration goes back at least to the end of the fourth century BCE, whereas use of the Hebrew alphabet for numeration goes no earlier than the end of the second century BCE (Ifrah, chs. 16, 17). Indeed, Fideler (75) argues that the standard spellings of the Greek gods' names were formulated according to isopsephic principles under the influence of the Pythagorean League c. 500 BCE. He further argues (216-9) that many Greek temples, such as the Parthenon (447 BCE) and Apollo's temple at Didyma (300 BCE), were constructed isopsephically. The Greeks may have learned the idea from the Babylonians, who as early as the eighth century BCE constructed buildings according to an isopsephia based on their syllabic writing system.

Second, the only explanation for the word gematria is that it derives from the Greek word gametria, which is an alternative spelling for geometria, "geometry," but literally, "land surveying" (LSJ s.v. gametria, geometria; OED s.v. gematria). This is suggestive of its use (in Greece, Babylonia and perhaps other places) for laying out temples and other important buildings.

Third, the archaic Greek alphabet had 27 letters; thus it divided naturally into three Enneads (groups of 9), which were assigned to the numbers 1-9, 10-90 and 100-900 in order.

A B G D E F Z E Q
I K L M N X O P q
R S T U F C Y W 3

The later alphabet dropped one letter from each group (F q 3), resulting in three Ogdoads (groups of eight), which was also considered to be esoterically significant. However, the three Enneads were retained for writing numbers, which is the basis of isopsephia. In contrast, the Hebrew alphabet had only 22 letters, so there were no numerals for 500, 600, 700, 800 or 900. (The use of the final forms of the letters for these numbers cannot predate their appearance in the Square Hebrew alphabet of the first or second century BCE; Diringer 135-7.)

How much significance should be attached to isopsephia? We cannot fail to be astonished when we discover that a square around Apollo's temple at Didyma has a perimeter of 1415 Greek feet, and that 1415 is the numerical value of O QEOS APOLLWN (ho Theos Apollon, the God Apollo); or that a hexagon inscribed in the same temple has a perimeter of 1061 feet, which is the numerical value of APOLLWN (Fideler 216-7). But should we consider these facts "mere coincidences"? Here Jung's concept of synchronicity is helpful, for we realize that if the coincidence is symbolically meaningful, then it is a synchronistic event bridging the physical and psychic worlds. Therefore, if these isopsephic connections are significant to you, then they are ipso facto meaningful. For this reason the Pythagorean Tarot includes analyses according to the principles of isopsephia.

Back Design

The back design of the Pythagorean Tarot incorporates three important Pythagorean symbols:
the Pentagram,
the Tetractys,
the Pythagorean Y.

The Pentagram

The Pentagram, which is also known as the Triple Triangle (because of the way it's drawn) or the Pentalpha (because it's made of five As), is an ancient protective symbol. It appears in Mesopotamia as early as 3000 BCE and on Greek shields and coins by the fifth century BCE. Pythagoras may have become acquainted with it during his pilgrimages to Babylonia and Egypt (perhaps 554-533 BCE). In any case, the Pythagoreans adopted it as an identifying sign (sumbolon), the Signum Pythagoricum, described by Iamblichus (fl. c. 165-180 CE). According to Lucian (c. 120 CE), they called the pentagram Hugíeia (`UGIEIA), which means "health of mind and body," but more generally soundness, and wholeness; it is also the name of the goddess of health and well-being, Hygeia, the daughter of Asclepius. [Schouten 15-28, LSJ s.v. hugieia. The use of the sign is described in Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras (XXXIII), which may be found in Guthrie (57-122); see p. 114 for the use of the sign.]
UGIEIA is a common inscription on amulets, frequently in the points or angles of a Pentagram, thus: U-G-I-EI-A. The Latin equivalent S-A-L-V-S (salus, health) is also found on pentagrams, and sometimes both words appear together (one in the points, the other in the angles). (Schouten figs. 25-7, 30, 32-3, 35-7, 39)

According to Lucian, Pythagoreans greet each other by saying Hugíaine (Be sound/healthy!) rather than by the usual greetings Khaire (Rejoice! Be happy!) or Eu prêsse (Do well! Prosper!), for they consider soundness of mind and body to be necessary for happiness, prosperity and all other goods [Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum ("On Slips of the Tongue in Greeting"); Schouten 15-7]. This is because "health," for Pythagoreans, means balance: first, a balance of the four elements (fire, water, earth, air) and their qualities (hot, cold, dry, wet), especially as they manifest in the four humours of the human body (yellow bile, phlegm, black bile, blood); second, but more importantly, a harmonious union of body and soul (represented by the fifth element, Aithêr). Thus the Pentagram Hugieia (the Salus Pythagorae) represents the perfect equilibrium of the five elements. Pythagoreans maintain this harmony by a variety of physical, aesthetic, intellectual, intuitive and spiritual exercises (corresponding to Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Aithêr respectively). (Schouten 15-18)

(For the last few hundred years it has been conventional to make the Pentagram with an upward point, symbolizing the subjugation of the body to the mind, but the ancients do not seem to have attached any significance to the orientation of the Pentagram. See 14.Devil for more on the inverted Pentagram.)

We have seen how the Pentagram symbolizes soundness and wholeness in the Microcosm, the individual mind-body. By the Hermetic Principle "As above, so below," it similarly represents in the Macrocosm the harmony between the spiritual and physical worlds. Further, Agrippa (De Occulta Philosophia, 1531, II.xxvii) says it symbolizes the harmony between Macrocosm and Microcosm, that is, between the external world and the world within.

For more on the Pentagram as a symbol of balance and the union of opposites, see the Fives in the Minor Arcana (in Part II) .
The Tetractys

Inside the Pentagram on the card back you will see a triangular arrangement of ten dots; this is the most sacred Pythagorean symbol, the Tetractys (or Tetraktus). Rather than swearing by Pythagoras' name, Pythagoreans use as their most solemn oath (Burkert, L&S 186):
Nay! By him that gave our family the Tetractys,
which holds the Fount and Root of everflowing Nature.
(Ou ma ton hameterai geneai paradonta Tetraktun,
Pagan aenaou Phuseôs Rhizôma t' ekhousan.)

The Tetractys shows how the Decad (10), the number of perfection and of Nature, grows out of the first four numbers, the Monad, Dyad, Triad and Tetrad. As the Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus (c.412-485 CE) says,

- Sacred Number springs
From th'uncorrupted Monad, and proceeds
To the Divine Tetractys, she who breeds
All; and assigns the proper bounds to all,
Whom we the pure immortal Decad call.
[Stanley's 1687 translation (Stanley 512) with modernized spelling]

Pythagoreans also call the Tetractys the "Principle or Beginning of Hugieia" (Hugieias Arkhê). [Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum ("On Slips of the Tongue in Greeting"); Schouten 17; Burkert, L&S 263-4] I will not say more about the Tetractys here, since it is discussed in connection with trumps I-IV of the Major Arcana, with the numbers Ace to Four of the Minors, and with the Tetractys Spread, as well as in the More on the Tetractys.
The Pythagorean Y

We come now to the Pythagorean Letter Y (Littera Pythagorae Y), which is perhaps less well known nowadays than the other Pythagorean symbols, but has been quite influential in European art, literature and thought. [Panofsky, Hercules 64-8, tafel XXXV, frontis.; Heninger, Touches 269-72; Chew 174-81, figs. 130-1; Smith 293-302. A first century CE example is discussed by Davidson (Hadot 9-11). For additional examples see Guthrie 158; Drucker 165. The Y is also known as the Furca Pythagorica (Pythagorean Fork) and the Ypsilon Cross (Liungmann 108).] Before discussing its meaning, it's necessary to explain that our letter Y was borrowed into the Roman alphabet from the Greek letter Y (upsilon) in order to spell Greek words (Z was imported for the same reason). Upsilon was a Greek addition to the Phoenician alphabet, but based on the Semitic letter waw. Thus the earliest form of upsilon was similar to the Semitic letter: a line sloping steeply upward to the right, with a shorter line or hook going more gradually up to the left from the middle of the longer (something like our y) (Jeffery 24-5, 35). Upsilon became the twenty-second letter of the archaic Greek alphabet (after T), and was the last letter until Phi, Chi, Psi and Omega were added. All this is relevant to the proper interpretation of the Pythagorean Y.

According to a legend, Y was called "the Pythagorean letter" (littera Pythagorica) because he himself had been responsible for adding it to the Greek alphabet (Persius/Conington 61n56; Persius/Gildersleeve 130-1nn56-7; Persius/Koenig 81nn56, 240n56). Aside from being the first letter of Hugieia (`UGIEIA) (Hadot 9), it was given a specific meaning, as explained by Isidore of Seville (c.560-636 CE, Etym. I.iii.10-16; tr. in Heninger, Touches 269):

Pythagoras of Samos was the first to fashion the letter Y into a pattern of human life. The straight portion at the bottom signifies the first, uncertain age, which at that point has been given over to neither vices nor virtues. The bifurcation at the top, however, begins at adolescence. The path to the right is difficult, but it tends toward a blessed life. The path to the left is easier, but it leads to ruin and destruction.

The same idea is expressed in an epigram traditionally (but probably incorrectly) attributed to Virgil:
The Pythagoric Letter two ways spread,
Shows the two paths in which Man's life is led.
The right-hand track to sacred Virtue tends,
Though steep and rough at first, in rest it ends;
The other broad and smooth, but from its Crown,
On rocks the Traveler is tumbled down.
He who to Virtue by harsh toils aspires,
Subduing pains, worth and renown acquires;
But who seeks slothful luxury, and flies
the labor of great acts, dishonor'd dies.

[Stanley tr. (Stanley 565) with modernized spelling and punctuation. Latin text of Maximinus (pseudo-Virgil) in Anthologia Latina, 652 Riese; Panofsky, Hercules 66-7. Chapman (Bartlett ed., 234-5) has translated it in "Virgil's Epigram of this Letter Y." Petrarch (Epist. III.32) and the famous Meistersinger Hans Sachs also paraphrased it (Panofsky, Her. 66-7).]

The opposition of "the steep and thorny way to heaven" and "the primrose path of dalliance" (Hamlet I.iii.47) is an old theme (it has Sumerian and Norse parallels, West, W&D 229). As Hesiod (fl. 700 BCE) wrote in his Works & Days (West, W&D 229):
Whereas to take a hold of Vice, in plenitude,
is easy, for the way is smooth, and near she dwells;
yet sweat was placed in front of Virtue by the gods
undying; and the road to her is long and steep,
and rough at first; yet when one has attained the peak,
indeed the way is easy, which was very hard.

[I have used the conventional translations Virtue and Vice for Aretê and Kakotês, although the meanings are closer to excellence, goodness, nobility, merit, success, as opposed to baseness, wickedness, badness, cowardice, failure. Hesiod's intent is more concrete and practical than later, moralistic interpretations (LSJ s.v. aretê, kakotês; West, W&D 229; Tandy & Neale 80, 82).]

Pythagoras was probably the first to use the archaic y to symbolize this "parting of the ways" (Bivium). The right-hand path is straight, and in this sense natural (i.e., in accord with Nature), but it is narrow and ascends steeply. The left-hand path, in contrast, is a deviation from "the straight and narrow," and therefore against Nature. However, it is wider and an easier slope, and therefore a more attractive choice (Persius/Conington 61nn56-7; Persius/Gildersleeve 130-1nn56-7; Persius/Koenig 81nn56, 240n56-7). (We can see this even in our printed Y.)

The same myth of the parting of the ways and the two paths (upward to the right for the virtuous, downward to the left for the wicked) also appears in descriptions of the progress of the soul between incarnations (e.g., Plato's "Myth of Er," Rep. X.614b-621d, and Plutarch's Face in the Moon, 943-4). The good go to the Fields of Elysium, but the wicked to the Pits of Tartarus.

Closely related to the Pythagorean Y, and often associated with it in art, is the myth of "Heracles' Choice," which Xenophon heard from Socrates, who credited Prodicus the Wise with it (Xenophon, Memorabilia II.i.21-33). The gist of the story is this: When the adolescent Heracles (Hercules) was deciding which path to take in life, he was approached by two goddesses, "Vice" (Kakia) and "Virtue" (Aretê), coming along the paths. Lady Vice attempts to entice Heracles to a life of ease, but Lady Virtue encourages him to follow the more difficult path leading to a blessed life with the gods. They are the Kakodaimôn (Evil Spirit), the guide on the Way of Death (Via Mortis) toward misery (dusdaimonia), and the Agathodaimôn (Good Spirit), the guide on the Way of Life (Via Vitae) toward true happiness (eudaimonia). [Good and Evil Spirits, happiness and misery: Stanley 575; Ways of Life and Death: Chew 176.] Heracles chose to follow Lady Virtue. It is perhaps not so well known that in the ancient world (especially among the Stoics), and later in the Renaissance, Heracles was considered a liberator, savior and moral hero (Smith 293; Heninger, Touches 271). The image of "Heracles at the Crossroads" was already common by the third century CE (according to Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana VI.x, Smith 294). Raphael's Dream of Scipio (1500) is a more recent example. In many tarots (e.g. the Marseilles deck, but not the Pythagorean), the "Lovers" trump shows a young man faced with a choice between the Ladies Vice and Virtue.

We have completed an overview of the exoteric meaning of the Pythagorean Y, and now will consider its esoteric meaning, for the Y originally represented the choice faced by Pythagorean initiates at a certain stage of their initiations. The choice is between the Active Life (Vita Activa) of the ordinary person on the left and the Contemplative Life (Vita Contemplativa) of the initiate on the right. Clearly, from the Pythagorean perspective, the right-hand path is preferable, although more arduous. The choice is between ignorance and enlightenment, between indulgence of the appetites and development of the mind, between worldly and spiritual pursuits, between the quests for earthly success and divine wisdom. [These lives are dramatized by Mephistopheles and Faust in Goethe's drama; Homunculus is the naive, primordial union of opposites (Raphael 156-7).] Thus we may say that the Pythagorean Y represents the power of choice and the commitment to take responsibility for, and conscious control of, your life's purpose and direction (Hall lxvi-lxvii; Drucker 111).

This interpretation of the Pythagorean Y is clearly judgmental and may seem moralistic: the right-hand path is the better; this was part of the message the ancient Pythagoreans offered to their time. Indeed, it is a symbol of Virtue (Chew 177), for it also represents raising the arms in celestial invocation (Koch 6-7). However, as previously discussed (see Alchemy), Pythagoreanism developed into alchemy, which offers a more balanced approach, better suited to our age, which synthesizes the opposites into a higher unity, rather than suppressing one for the sake of the other. Already in antiquity, but especially in the Renaissance, people began to realize the importance (and difficulty!) of uniting the active and contemplative lives (Smith 300-3). Therefore we see the significance of the modern Y: it represents the union of opposites in a complete life. [Indeed, the forked stick is a symbol of life in many cultures (Hall lxvii), and the Pythagorean Y is associated with the Tree of Life (Chew 178).] Recall that Y (Upsilon) is the initial of UGIEIA (Hugieia), which means soundness and wholeness. In general, the symmetric Y represents the alchemical principle of the differentiation of a primordial unity (the stem) into a consciously discriminated opposition (the arms), which is but a manifestation of the underlying unity. (See 21.World for more on the Y in this sense.)

This brings us to the form of the Y used in the Pythagorean Tarot back design: three equal arms. In addition to the preceding meanings, the Pythagorean Tarot Y symbolizes what Paracelsus called the Tria Prima (Primal Triad), the alchemical union of (philosophical) salt, mercury and sulphur, that is, of body, soul and spirit. [Read 27. Note that Paracelsus reversed sulphur and mercury from the usual correspondences, which are used in the Pythagorean Tarot.] It also represents the meeting of three ways (called Triodos in Greek and Trivium in Latin), a place especially sacred to Hecate, a very important Goddess for Pythagoreans (Opsopaus, "Anc. Grk. Eso. Doctr. Elem.," part IV; Kingsley, APMM chs. 16-19). (For more on the Pythagorean Y, see 21.World .)

In summary, the card back design represents the first five Pythagorean numbers. The card back as a whole is the primal unity, the Monad. The two opposed pentacles are the primary duality, the Dyad. The three-armed Pythagorean Y represents the unified Triad. The Tetractys, built as it is on 1, 2, 3, 4, is the elementary Tetrad. Finally the pentagram represents the Pentad, and, together with its surrounding pentagon, it represents the Decad, the Pythagorean number of Perfection. Many other relationships will become apparent if you look for them, but that is enough for now.

Textual Conventions

The Pythagorean Tarot is a creative symbolic synthesis, and is perhaps more akin to poetry (in content, not form) than to scientific or scholarly writing. Nevertheless, I have tried to give citations wherever I have drawn ideas from other authors. In this way you will be able to tell the source of an idea, and make an informed decision in deciding whether or not to agree with it. Many ideas have been synthesized in the Pythagorean Tarot, and specific interpretations may blend ideas of several authors. Therefore citations usually come at the ends of paragraphs, and it may be assumed that the content of the paragraph is drawn from the cited sources. Occasionally the degree of synthesis is sufficiently great that I have placed the citations in a paragraph by themselves, in which case they should be assumed to apply to all the immediately preceding paragraphs without citations. In other cases, in particular when I'm quoting directly, I have placed citations in individual sentences. Where there are no citations, it can be assumed that, as far as I know, the ideas are original, although I have often discovered that I have been thinking down paths already well trod. My purpose is not to claim originality, but simply to point to sources when I am aware of them.
In general, words of the form XVII.Moon or 17.Moon represent trumps in the Major Arcana. They may be numbered by Roman numerals, which tend to exhibit their Pythagorean meanings, or by Hindu-Arabic numerals when I want to stress the arithmetical properties of the number, which are more easily seen in the Hindu-Arabic notation.

I have transliterated all foreign words into the Roman alphabet, except those Greek words subject to isopsephia, for which the exact Greek spelling is required. Long vowels in Greek (eta, omega), Sumerian, Babylonian and Sanskrit are represented by a circumflex accent (e^, o^, etc.). The Greek chi has been translated kh to forestall any tendency to pronounce it as English ch; similarly upsilon is written u rather than y (except when the word is already anglicized with the y) and should be pronounced like German u:. In general Greek names are transliterated (approximately) phonetically, unless they are already well known by a conventional English spelling; thus I write 'Circe' rather than 'Kirke^', which is more accurate. Occasionally I will use several spellings, for example, 'Circe' for familiarity, but 'Kirke^' when discussing the connection to kirkos. I have not distinguished the Akkadian and Sumerian emphatic consonants p and t from the usual ones, nor the laryngeal h from the usual h. Determinatives are written in capitals, thus: ILU-shamash. Sanskrit words are spelled more or less phonetically (thus chakra rather than cakra); retroflex consonants are written t., d., n., etc. (and may be pronounced like t, d, n, etc.); n~ is the palatal n. In all these languages I have used the spelling sh for the sound that it normally represents in English, even though scholarly transliterations often represent this sound by an s with a diacritical mark.

Numerology Article

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According to numerologists, each number possesses a certain power that exists in the occult connection between the relations of things and the principles in nature which they express. All that humans are capable of experiencing can be reduced to the digits one through nine. These single numbers are derived from the simplification of all combinations of numbers to their basic essence. This essence then vibrates through the single digit.

Because numerology became popular among New Age diviners in the 1970s, many people who have been introduced to the technique for the first time believe that it is of recent origin. On the contrary, numerology is among the oldest of the psychic sciences, and numerological divination and number charms are found in India, Greece, Egypt, China, and Europe.

Pythagoras (c. 580–c. 500 B.C.E.), the great Greek mathematician and mystic, proclaimed that the very world is built upon the magical power of numbers. According to his doctrines, numbers contained within them the essence of all that is in the natural and the spiritual worlds. For those who followed the teachings of Pythagoras, the number one symbolized unity and therefore the Creator-God. Two represented the duality of good and evil and stood for the devil. Four, symbolizing balance, was considered by Pythagoreans as their most holy and sacred number, and their most solemn oaths were sworn on four. Pythagoreans also used numbers to represent various planets and elements. For example, five stood for fire; six, earth; eight, air; twelve, water.

In addition to the teachings of Pythagoras, Cornelius Agrippa's (1486–1535) work Occult Philosophy (1533) quite likely furnished the basis for much of the belief in numerology practiced in the Western world. Agrippa also emphasized the powers inherent in numbers and even prescribed certain numbers as tools in banishing evil, promoting healing, and summoning benign spirits. The energy found in the number five, for instance, could exorcise demons and serve as an antidote to poisons.

Contemporary numerologists use their various systems to produce assessments of an individual's personality traits, behavior patterns, and to describe compatibility and a possible course of future events for their clients. Depending upon the numerological system, the first and most important number derives from one's birth date and is determined by reducing the numbers of that date into single digits. Beyond this cycle of nine, though, are the two Master Numbers 11 and 22. These never are reduced to single digits. Take the following birthdate for purposes of illustration:

March 29, 1985
3 11 23 3 + 11 + 5 = 19
1 + 9 = 10

The number has been found in this manner: March, the third month, provides the number 3. The day gives 2 + 9 = 11. 1 + 9 + 8 + 5 = 23. Three reduces no further. Eleven does not reduce, being a Master Number. Twenty three (2 + 3) reduces to 5; 3 + 11 + 5 = 19, 1 + 9 = 10 reduces to 1.

The number one, then, is the most important number in this person's life. It is his or her destiny, which cannot be changed, but which he or she does have the ability to direct. From this number, individuals may determine their potential; their hidden aptitudes, talents, and desires; and their specific mission in life.

According to numerology, there are specific meanings for each number, with both positive and negative aspects. Interpretations of the nine numbers may vary with the individual numerologist, but here, briefly, are some basic meanings for each number:

1—Number one people are independent and need to be, as they tend to be the oak that shelters multitudes. They must control and direct their body, mind, and spirit to the utmost efficiency. They should accept no limitations, yet they must learn to cooperate without losing their individuality. The negative aspect of the number one lies in the danger of emphasizing the needs of self over others.

2—People of the number two will naturally follow the lead of others. Those with this number become excellent diplomats, peacemakers, and go-betweens. Here, as opposed to the number one, the attraction is to groups, to communities. The number two is a perfect wife or husband, for all other numbers are compatible with them. The negative aspect of number two lies in the hazard of withdrawing from others and becoming extremely self-effacing.

3—Those on this path through life have discovered the joy of living. They will tend to find their opportunities on the lighter side of life, in circulating and socializing. An artistic environment is best for the three personalities as they are always seeking expression through writing, speaking, or art. The negative polarity for the number three personality is to become superficial.

4—These people are the builders, those who start with a firm foundation and build something of lasting importance. People who are "fours" serve patiently and dependably and are capable of great achievements. They do the job at hand, striving to perfect the form of the task before them. The opposite polarity for the four personality is to become distant and removed from others.

5— Those with the number five as their destiny must be prepared for frequent, unexpected change and variety. Five personalities do a lot of traveling and learn to understand all classes and conditions of people, and they are generally without racial prejudice. Five people always are seeking the new and progressive. Number five personalities must guard against becoming self-indulgent.

6—Because six is the number of devotional, impersonal love, these people serve quietly, cheerfully, and efficiently, applying the law of balance to adjust inharmonious conditions. People often come to six personalities for material or spiritual aid, and they must always be ready to give it. Some persons with a six life-path are musically endowed, but their real love is for the home and the harmony therein. The opposite polarity for the six personality is to become tyrannical.

7—Seven is a cosmic number related to the seven planets, seven days of the week, seven colors, and seven notes on the musical scale. Things and opportunities are brought to the seven persons, without their actively seeking them. Those with this number should use their mental abilities to probe the deep mysteries and hidden truths of the universe. They are potential mystics; and with their extreme sensitivity, the seven personalities must guard against their tendency to wish to withdraw from the larger society in which they find themselves.

8—Those bearing the number eight in their life-path are the practical people of the material world. They usually desire and achieve love, power, and success. Eight is the number associated with large corporations and organizations. It is a powerful number, and those bearing the responsibilities of the number eight may succumb to the negative polarity of becoming demanding individuals.

9—Nine is the number representing humanitarianism. Those under this vibration must be prepared to give up all personal desire and ambitions. Number nine operates under the Law of Fulfillment, and its appeal is to the all-inclusive, to the many. The negative polarity of the number nine personality is to become egocentric.

11—A Master Number: This is the number of the dreamers, the visionaries, the ones who receive their ideals intuitively. Their destiny is to reveal something new and uplifting to the world. Number 11 is the messenger, the spokesman or broadcaster. The negative polarity for revelators is to become fanatical and judgmental in their beliefs.

22—A Master Number: This is the practical idealist who is concerned with the benefit and progress of humankind. A 22 readily conceives philanthropic plans and seeks to help the masses with their improvement, expansion, and growth. The negative vibrations that accrue around the 22 personalities may lead them to become self-promoters, rather than idealists who work for the general good of the many.

According to the precepts of numerology, one's name is very important, as it is concerned with sound, a direct manifestation of vibration. Therefore, since each letter of every alphabet has its distinctive sound, it follows that each letter would have its own distinctive number. Using the one to nine cycle it is imperative to establish the essence of the number.

The graph that follows, with a name given as an example, shows how to arrive at the number vibration.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Example:

M A R Y J O H A Y E S
4 1 9 7 1 6 8 1 7 5 1
21 7 22
3 7 4
14 (1+4)= 5
The five is the number of this person's name, and according to numerology such a number relates to the person's character and personality. Referring back to the basic explanation of the number vibration, a five would make Mary a progressively minded who must be prepared for much travel and many changes in her life.

Numerologists claim that numbers hold the key to determining many aspects of one's life and destiny. Some who practice numerology even believe that totaling the number of the vowels of one's name can identify the essence of a person's inner self and the soul. Using Mary's name again, we get the numbers 1 + 6 + 1 + 5. By totaling and simplifying these we arrive at the final digit of four. This number represents Mary's inner self. It expresses her real potential, longings, and hidden talents. As a four, her expression is to serve others patiently and dependably and to create something of lasting importance.

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Numerology

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Divination by numbers. The basis of numerology is the belief that numbers connect the world of humans to the structure of the universe. A superstitious fear of the number 13 is its most common expression in the West.

Western numerology was rationalized by the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras. He assigned numbers to letters to arrive at the occult meaning of names, for example. The discovery that musical intervals can be expressed in numbers contributed to the belief in the supernatural significance of numbers. Numerology played a large part in Christian thought in the early Middle Ages.

In both Hindu and Western belief, the Sun, Moon, and planets rule one each of the numbers one to nine, connecting numerology with astrology.

Chinese numerology is based on the number of strokes in a Chinese written character. By adding up the strokes and using an ancient system called ‘Chu-Ko's spirit calculation’, one can divine the personality of a person from their written name, or discover if a name, for example of a new business, will be auspicious.

The number one in Western numerology is the number of God. It is associated with the Sun, with masculinity and power.

The number two is associated with the Moon and femininity. It also symbolizes duality.

The number three is generally considered powerful, probably because a triangle is the simplest stable figure. The Christian Trinity incorporates this idea. It represents the union of opposites to create something new. The belief that bad or good things come in threes is very old, and the number recurs in folklore and magic; for example, many formulas had to be repeated three times. It is associated with the planet Jupiter.

The number four stands for physical strength and stability. The name of God had four letters in Assyrian, Turkish, Arabic, and Egyptian. Four is associated with the planet Uranus.

The number five is considered powerful in Western magic, and is represented by the pentagram, or five-pointed star. This was a talisman against evil spirits in ancient Rome. It symbolizes the four directions plus the centre, and humanity as ruler of nature, among other things. It is

associated with the planet Mercury.

The number six symbolizes harmony between the physical and spiritual. It can be represented by two intersecting triangles. The number six is associated with the planet Venus.

The number seven is almost universally thought to be important, usually lucky. It stands for the victory of spirit over matter. Among the Hebrews, seven was the perfect number and denoted completeness. Derived from this, the whole Christian church is symbolized in the Book of Revelation by seven candlesticks, and the perfect power of the Lamb is denoted by seven horns. The use of the number was also frequent among the Greeks. The seventh son of a seventh son was in Britain believed to have psychic or magical powers. In a person's life, there was supposed to be a seven-year cycle. The number seven is associated with the planet Neptune.

The number eight stands for infinity and, in Christian belief, life after death. It is associated with the planet Saturn.

The number nine, being 3 × 3, is regarded as lucky. It represents completeness. Every ninth year in a person's life was thought to bring significant change or danger. The number nine is associated with the planet Mars.

The number 11 stands for transcendental knowledge, adversity, and strength.

The number 13 has been associated with bad luck at least since Roman times. The 13 people present at the Last Supper incorporates this idea, and it is still considered unlucky to have 13 people at a table. A coven of witches was supposed to have 13 members. The 13th day of the month is considered unlucky, especially when it falls on a Friday.

The number 22 in Western occult belief is associated with psychic powers.

The number 23 has in the 20th century been mythologized by the US writer William Burroughs. He attributed significance to it and invented a calendar with 23 days in the month. References to the number 23 are often found in the work of his followers.

The number 40 figures largely in the Bible and in Islamic writings. Muslims mourn 40 days for their dead, and consider women ceremonially unclean until 40 days after childbirth. Similarly the number 40 appears repeatedly in Muslim fiction, as in the Arabian Nights collection of tales. In Wales 40 loaves of bread and 40 dishes of butter commonly occur in records of rent paid to the bishop of Llandaff. A bard's fee for his song was 40 pence if a disciple, twice 40 pence if a master. Ships suspected of carrying infectious disease are placed under quarantine, forbidden to land passengers or cargo, for 40 days. The privileges of sanctuary lasted 40 days.

The Apocalyptic Numbers of the Book of Revelation

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1st Resurrection, Revelation xx. 5. 2nd Death, xx. 14.

2 Witnesses, xi. 3.

2 Olive Trees and 2 Candlesticks (before throne of God of the Earth, xi. 4.

2 Horned Beast who spoke like a Dragon, xiii. ii; his number is 666.

3 Woes, ix. 12.

1/3 part of Vegetation killed, viii. 7 do. of Sea became Blood and do. of Fish died, viii. 8 do. of Waters be-came bitter, viii. 11-do. of Sun, Moon, Stars, viii. 12.

3 days, Bodies lay unburied, xxi. 9.

4 quarters of the Earth, xx. 8.

4 Beasts, full of eyes and have 6 wings, iv. 6-9 ( Beasts" should be living beings. W.).

4 Horses, White, Red, Pale, Black.

4 Horns of the Golden Altar before God, ix. 13. 4 Angels of the Euphrates, ix. 14.

4 Angels of the Winds of the 4 corners of the Earth, vii.

5 Months, the Locusts had power to hurt Men, ix. 5-10.

6 Wings of the Beasts (living beings), full of eyes, iv. 8.

7 Churches, i. 20.

7 Candlesticks, i. 20. Represent the 7 Churches.

7 Stars, i. 20; ii. 1. Represent 7 angels of the Churches. 7 Angels of the Churches, i. 20.
7 Lamps stand near the Throne, iv. 5.

7 Seals, v. 5, opened by the Lamb, produce 4 horses, etc. 7 Trumpets, viii. 2. Given to 7 Angels.

7 Thunders utter their voices, x. 3. 7 Plagues held by 7 Angels, xv. I. 7 Vials of Wrath, xv. 7.

7 Spirits of God, v. 6.

7 Horned and 7 Eyed Lamb, v. 6; near the Throne are the 7 Spirits of God.

7 Headed and 10 horned Scarlet Beast, on which is a Woman, xvii. 3.

7 Headed and 10 Horned Dragon with 7 Crowns, xii. 3. 7 Headed and 10 Horned Beast rose out of Sea, xiii. I.

10 Crowns on Ten horns of beast which had 7 heads, xiii. I.

10 Horned Dragon with 7 heads, xii. 3.

10 Horned Beast with 7 heads rose out of sea, xiii. I.

10 Horned Scarlet Beast with 7 heads, on which was a woman, xvii. 3.

12 Tribes of Israel.

12 Apostles of the Lamb, xxi. 14.

12 Gates of New Jerusalem and 12 Angels guarding them (xxi. 12.).

12 Foundations of the Walls of the New Jerusalem. 12 Stars on the head of the Woman, xii. I.

24 Elders around the Throne, on 24 seats, iv. 4-10.

42 months, the Gentiles tread over the outer court of Temple, xi. 2.

42 months, the 7 headed Beast to have power to blaspheme xiii. 5.

144 cubits, the height of the Walls of the New Jerusalem, xxi. 17.

666, the number of "The Beast."

1000 years, the Dragon bound for, xx. 2-3.

1000 years, Souls of the Faithful to live and reign, xx. 4. 1260 days, the two Witnesses prophesy, xi. 3.

1260 days, the Woman to be in the wilderness, xii. 6. 12,000 of each Tribe chosen.

12,000 furlongs, length of the sides of the New Jerusalem, xxi. 16.

144,000 chosen from the whole of the Tribes.

100,000,000, or ten thousand times ten thousand Angels, round the Throne, v. ii.

Other Higher Numbers

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The 14 Days of Burial, in the Masters degree. 14 parts into which the body of Osiris was divided. A type of Christ, sacrificed on the 14th day of the month. An amulet of 14 points has been used to cure the sick.

There are 14 Books of the Apocrypha. They were written originally in Greek, never in Hebrew. An Israelite had to partake of 14 meals in the Booth during the Feast of Tabernacle.

The Israelites killed the Paschal Lamb on the 14th day of the Month Nisan.

In Matthew, chap. I., we find the genealogy of Jesus re-cited in three series of 14 names, the first under Patriarchs and judges, the second under Kings, the third under Priests and Governors.

The ancient physicians considered that the 14th day was the crisis of fevers.

15 was the number of Pairs of the Aeons, or Holy Principles in the Gnostic scheme of Valentinus.

15 is the number by Gematria of the 8th Sephirah, Hod.

There were 15 steps in the Temple between the ante-court of Israel and the Women's Court and in these were sung the 15 Psalms of Degrees. Psalms cxx. - cxxxiv., 15 is the number of Jah, a name of God. So the Jews who wrote letters for numbers, never wrote Jah, 10, 5, for 15, but Tv, 9, 6=15.

The great day of joyful recreation for Jewish Maidens was the 15th Day of the Month Ab. The Deluge covered the hills to the depth of 15 cubits.

A Jewish boy in the olden time was ordered to begin the study of the Gemara when 15 years of age.

16 means Felicity and also a square number. There are 16 Court Cards in a Tarot pack.

In the Treatise De Iside et Osiride," Plutarch says Osiris was killed on the 17th Day of the Moon and hence when the Moon was at the full and from that reason, the Egyptians abominate the number 17, and so did the Pythagoreans they called in Antiphraxis (obstruction), because it falls between the square number of 16 and the oblong number 18.

18 was deemed a protection against thieves.

18. Isaiah made 18 denunciations against Israel. At 18, years of age a girl should go to the Nuptial Colony. The Golden Candlestick of the Temple was 18 hands-breadths tall. There are 18 Blessings in the Hebrew Liturgy. There were only 18 High Priests during the existence of the First or Solomonic Temple at Jerusalem.

19. The number 19 is famous as being the number of years in the Metonic Cycle. The cycle of the revolutions of the Moon, after which she returns to have her changes on the same day of the Solar Year. Meto lived 433 B.C. He was an Athenian. He published his discovery at the Olympic Games in the above year. The exact period is, however, 18 years and 10 days. The Calippic period of four cycles or twenty-six years was invented by Calippus, B.C. 330, to correct Meto. John Heydon says that the number 19 facilitates births and menses.

20. The Kiddushin, 29. 2 says God may curse a man who does not marry at least when 20 years old, for his life is a constant transgression. A woman marrying be-fore 20 may bear children up to sixty. At 20, until 40, and after 40 will have none. Bava Bathra, 119. 2. To die after 20 days diarrhoea is to die pure.

21. A hen sits 21 days, and the Almond is ripe 21 days after the flower falls.

22. 22 Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, used also as numerals. The realization of a good Dream may be deferred 22 years. Berachoth, 55. 2.

From the Works of Hermes Trismegistus are abstracted 22 axioms on the Human Will. They can be found in Tukaram Tatyas Guide to Theosophy," Bombay 1887.

23. In the Sanhedrin, 23 judges were required to try cases of punishable death. This day of September is no-table because the Moon, which comes to the Full within a fortnight of it, is called the Harvest Moon, which rises three days in succession at the same time, instead of getting daily later.

24. 24 is an Evil Number, referring to Cain, Qin, but not of his numeration, which is 100+ 10+50=160, or else 100+10+700=810. There are 24 birds unclean as food. 24 ribs both in man and women.

26. The number of Jehovah, IHVH, 10+5+6+5=26. In the English language, which uses 26 letters, it is found that the letters occur in very different proportions. In a fair example of modern English it has been calculated that the proportion between the frequency of the use of the letters was, of A, 85; B, 16; C, 30; D, 44; E, 120; F, 25; G, 17; H, 64; I, 80; J, 4; K, 8; L, 40; M, 30; N, 80; O, 80; P, 17; Q, 5; R, 62; S, 80; T, 90; U, 34; V, 12; W, 20; X, 4; Y, 20; Z, 2.

27. The number of the Izeds or Angels who ruled under the supervision of the Seven Amshaspands of the Zoroastrian Theology.

28. A division of the Zodiac into 28 mansions of the Moon, was probably earlier than the Solar Division into 12 parts. The names and symbols can be obtained in Sanskrit and in Arabic. Proctor believes that Solar Astronomy of the 12 signs arose about 2170 B.C., in a country of about 36 degrees of north latitude, and at a period when Taurus was the first constellation of the Zodiac.

29. The Rosh Hashanah says the period of the Moons Revolution is 29 days, 6 hours and 40 minutes.

30. A meal of Lentils once in 30 days keeps off the Quinsy. At 30 years of age Jesus began his ministry; Joseph was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh; David was 30 years old when he began to reign; 30 pieces of silver was the price Judas received and Jair had 30 sons.

31. The number of El, God=Al. 1+ 30. Joshua did not complete the conquest of Canaan until he had slain 31 kings.

32. The number of the Paths of Wisdom, of the Sepher Yetzirah, being 10 Sephiroth and 22 letters of the He-brew Alphabet.

33. The years of the life of Jesus. King David reigned in Jerusalem 33 years. The number of vertebrae in the human spinal column.

35. The number of Agla, AGLA, a composite Kabalistic wonder-working name. See page 27.

36. Abaji said there are never less than 36 holy men of any regeneration upon whom the Shekinah does not rest. Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride," calls the Tetractys, the power of the number 36, and on this was the greatest oath of the Pythagoreans sworn; and it was denominated the World, in consequence of its being composed of the first four even and the first four odd numbers; for 1 and 3 and 5 and 7 are 16; add 2 and 4 and 6 and 8, and obtain 36.

39. The number of Articles of the Protestant Christian Church belief.

40. Up to 40 years of age eating is best for a man, after 40 drinking suits best. He who has passed 40 days with-out an affliction has had his reward in this life.

For 40 days, the Flood lasted, for 40 days, the spies searched the promised land, for 40 days, Goliath challenged Israel, 40 days of Ezekiel's penitence, the Jews were 40 years in the Wilderness, 40 days of waiting be-fore embalming the dead, Genesis 1. 3; for days, the woman's purification lasted after childbirth; for 40 days, Moses fasted twice; for 40 days, Elijah fasted, and for 40 days, Jesus fasted in the Wilderness and 40 days elapsed between the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus. Moses was 40 years in Egypt, 40 in Midian, and 40 in the Wilderness. The Israelites were 40 years among the Philistines.

42. 42 is notable because of the 42-lettered name of God, taught by the Kabalists. There were 42 Judges in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. See Bettany, The Worlds Religions," pg. 166, on the events of the 42nd day after death.

The Talmud of Babylon in Kiddushin 71, mentions the 42-lettered Name, and it is given by Ignatz Stern as composed of the Divine Names of the Bible; thus Eheyeh asher Eheyeh, Al, Jah, Jehovah, Elohim, Jehovah Sabaoth, El Chai and Adonai. Ahih Ashr Ahih; Ih; Ihvih; Al; Alhim; IHVH Tzbavt; Al Chi; Adni, or 4, 3, 4, 2, 5, 2, 5, 4, 5, 2, 2, 4=42.

It is very curious that the Ten Sephiroth which denote the attributes of God will show, when these letters are added together, and a V added for and before the last one, this same number 42; if Chesed be called Gedulah, as was common among Kabalists.

45. The number of Adam, Adm. The world is preserved for the sake of 45 righteous persons. Chullin, 92.

48. There have been 48 prophets in Israel. 48 cities were assigned to the Levites.

49. Moses received 49 reasons for the cleanness and uncleanness of each thing; so says The Talmud.

50. The number of the Gates of Binah (Binh) the Understanding. The Kabalah states that even Moses only reached the 49th. See my Sepher Yetzirah," Third Edition, 1911.

58. Noah, Nch.

60. Aristotle stated that the Crocodile lives naturally 60 years, and sits 60 days on 60 eggs. The Chinese have a time cycle of 60 years, and call it Kya-tse. The people of Malabar call this period Chi-tam. The Talmud refers to 60 deadly drugs and 60 sorts of wines; the sow bears her litter in 60 days.

61. The number Ain, Negative existence of the Deity.

64. Aletheia, truth.

65. The number of Adonai, translated Lord" (Adni) and of Hs, Hes, keep silence.

67. The number of Binah, Supernal Mother, the 3rd Sephirah.

70. The number of Sud, Sod, a secret doctrine and private assembly. The earliest name for the Kabalah. Also Iin, Yayin, wine, also meant a secret. The Rabbis considered that there were 70 nations, and Mordecai is said to have known 70 languages. The Jewish 70 years of the captivity are reckoned from their conquest by Nebuchadnezzar to the accession of Cyrus.

71. The number of the Members of the Sanhedrin.

72. 72 has a large number of mystic references to the 72 angels bearing the names of God derived from Exodus xiv. 19, 20, 21 by the Kabalists. There is an important set of 72 pentacles which, placed in pairs, forms a series of 36 talismans (see Dr. Rudd, the Lemegeton, Harleian MSS.). It is also the number of Chesed (Chsd) the Sephirah, Mercy.

It is said that Ptolemy, King of Egypt, collected 72 He-brew Rabbis and confined each in a separate room, and ordered each to write out the Mosaic Law, and that by the help of God, each wrote out the same words. Megillah of the Talmud, 9.1. This account is similar to that of Josephus and Aristaeus, but different to that of Philo. Hence the name Septuagint.

73. The number of Chokmah (Chkmh), Wisdom, the 2nd Sephirah.

78. The number of cards in a Tarot pack. 40 numerals, 16 court cards and 22 Trumps (Major).

79. Boz, Boaz, the left-hand brazen Pillar at the entrance to Solomon's Temple.

80. The number of Yesod, foundation, 9th Sephirah. The venerable Rabbi Hillel had 80 points.

81. According to the Book of Rites of Chao Kung, B.C. 1112, an Emperor of China should have 3 concubines of the First Rank, 9 of the Second, 27 of the Third and 81 of the Fourth Rank.

90. Ikin, Jachin, the right-hand Pillar of Solomons Temple.

91. 91 is the number of Amn and of Tetragrammaton Adonai (IHVH, Adni).

96. According to Vitruvius, the natural height of a typical adult man is 96 digits, which equaled 24 palms, or six feet.

99. The Mahometans have 99 names attributed to God.

100. This is the number of Mdvn, which means strife, and it is the beginning of 100 lawsuits.

The Jerusalem Talmud, Bava Metzia, 85. 1, says that Rabbi Zira fasted 100 times to enable him to forget the Talmud of Babylon, in favor of the Talmud of Jerusalem.

Obadiah was considered worthy to be called prophet, because he concealed 100 prophets in a cave.

103. The family of Herod Asmonaeus ruled Jewry 103 years.

120. For 120 years, the secret vault of Christian Rosenkreutz remained unopened, as he had ordered, 1484 to 1604.

The Shemaneh Esreh, the 18 Blessings, were composed by 120 Elders.

130. The Rabbis said that after the curse, Adam fasted 130 years as a penance. This number is referred to Elijah, Alihv, and to the word prophet, Hnbia. These names number 120, add 10 to this, the number of letters. The Kabalists make a Mystical Square (rectangle) or Kamea of Alihv of 130 permutations - ten by thirteen.

152. The number of Maria, the Greek name for Mary the Virgin, being 40, 1, 100, 10, 1=152.

153. The number of the great fishes caught in an unbroken net by the Apostles after the Resurrection.

200. The number of bones in the human body.

207. This is the number of Ain Soph, Ain, Svp, the Boundless, and Aur, Avr, Light, and of Adonai Olam, Adni Ovlam, Lord of the Universe.

216. The cube of six (6); 216 years, the period of the Pythagorean Metempsychosis.

221. The Cup of David in heaven contains 221 logs of wine, (about 20 gallons) says the Talmud.

231. The sum of the numbers 1 to 21, the Gates of the Sepher Yetzirah.

243. Circles of Zoir Anpin; the number of the permutations, without reversal of the Hebrew Letters. Kalisch.
248.There are 248 members of the body, says Talmud Eiruvin, 53. 2, and an anathema enters into all of them. The word Chrm, accursed, is 248,but so is Rchm, Mercy.

252. It is said that the disciples of Rabbi Ishmael once dissected a low woman, and found she had 252 members; but it does not say what the extra ones were.

270. Worlds of the Idra Rabba, or Greater Holy Assembly.

271. The Talmud, in Niddah, says that the Hebrew woman pregnancy lasted 271, 272 or 273 days.

280. 280 days, the term of natural pregnancy, human; - ten times the Lunar 28-day period.

284. The number of Theos, God, in Greek letters.

294. Ekklesia, The Church and Rodon, the Rose, and also Melchisedek, King of Salem.

300. Mithras. The riches of Korah were so vast that it took 300 mules to carry them. There were 300 sorts of devils in Sichin. The Veil of the Temple required 300 priests to draw it aside, and 300 to cleanse it.

314. The number of Shaddai, Shdi and of Metatron, Mttrun.

345. This is the number of El Shaddai, Al Shdi, God Almighty; and of Shmh (Shemah), the Name of the Absolute God; also of MshH, Moses and Shilh, Shiloh.

358. The number of Messiah, Mshich and Nchsh, Nachash, the Serpent symbol of life.

364. The name Satan, the Shathan, HshThn, contains 364, and all these days of each year he can tempt man, but not on the 365th, the Day of Atonement.

365. Days of the year, Negative Jewish precepts, Dukes of Babylon, and Streets in the City of Rome.

370. Directions of the thought of Microprosopus. See Idra Rabba, 5. 537.

373. Logos.

375. ShlMH, Solomon.

394. There were this number of law-courts in the Jerusalem of the Kingdom period.

400. The body of Joseph was carried 400 miles to burial. David is said to have had a guard of 400 young men who rode in golden chariots at the head of his army.

410. The First Temple stood 410 years, and the Second Temple 420.

474. The number of Daath, Dot, Secret Wisdom, the union of Chokmah and Binah.

496. The number of Malkuth (Mlkt), the Kingdom, the 10th Sephirah.

500. Kosmos.

543. The number of the mystic name Aheie asher Aheie, I am that I am" (Ahih Ashr Ahih).

550. Shmir, the Shamir, the magical insect which cut the stones for Solomons Temple.

608. 608 is a very notable number, representing the Sun. Martianus Capella, of the 5th century, says: The Sun is called in Italy, the God Sol; at the Nile, Serapis; at Memphis, Osiris; he is also Attis; Adonis at Byblos; and Ammon in Libya; also Typhon, Mithras and Pluto; his holy name is of 3 letters, which number 608." In Chaldee and Hebrew 608 is Cham, or Ham (Chm), which also means, heat." In Greek Y.H.S. from U.H.S. =400+8+200=608. Tyre, Trch, is also an example of 608.

612. Zeus.

613. The words of Moses our Rabbi, MshH Rbinu; and Lord God of Israel, IHVH Alhi Ishrl, both number by Gematria 613. The 613 Precepts of the Jewish Law were delivered to Moses. David, it is said, reduced them to eleven (11), and Isaiah to six (6), and later to two (2). Habakkuk to One (1), viz., The just shall live by Faith. 613 also refers to the holy garment which had 600 fringes, eight (8) threads and five (5) knots.

620. The number of Kether, Ktr, the Crown, or 1st Sephirah.

622. 622 years from the Christian era is the date of the Hegira, or flight of Mahomet from Mecca, from which year the Mahometans reckon their calendar.

632. 632 years A.D. is the foundation of the Persian mode of reckoning years, from their King Yezdegird.

640. 640 is Shemesh, the Sun, Shmsh; Mem is water; place the three letters one above the other, and we get Sh, fire, Sun, rising above and sinking below the waters.
646. The total numeration of Elohim, or Aleim Alhim, being 1+30+5+10+600 (= 646); or avoiding the use of final Mem, we get 1+30+5+10+40 (= 86); neglecting the tens 1+3+5+1+4, and placing these numbers in a circle, we get the sequence 3.1415, notable as the value of Pi, or the relation of a diameter to circumference of every circle. Elohim is both a singular and a plural word.

650. 650 has been referred by Godfrey Higgins to Noah, Menes, and Bacchus. Noah, in Hebrew is Nvch or 64.

651. 651, Teletai, the Greek Ancient Mysteries and Episteme - Science.

666. 666 is the pet number of Godfrey Higgins, as referred to Rasit (Rsvt), 200+ 60+ 6+ 400, (= 666), which he insists means Wisdom or as most believe, - Beginning or Principle. The first words of Genesis are be-rasit, In the beginning. 666 is also the number of the Beast, the number of Man, has been associated with Satan, Mahomet, the Pope and a hundred others. It is also the number of Svrt, the Hebrew word for the Sun. it occurs in Revelations xiii. 18.

666. In addition, 666 is also the diameter of a circle whose circumference is 2093, which is the diagonal of a square whose sides are 1480, the number of Christos. It is also the sum of the numbers 1 to 36. It is also the number of Syene in Greek, a place in Egypt at which, if a pit be dug, said, Eratosthenes, the rays of the Sun at the Summer Solstice shine perpendicular into it.

700. The Talmud says there are 700 species of fishes, and in Eiruvin, 18. I, it says that God plaited Eves hair into 700 braids.

753. 753 B.C., the founding of the City of Rome. It is also the number alike of Abram with Sarai 243 and 510, and of Abraham with Sarah 248 and 505, the change which led to parenthood.

780. Ophis - serpent, and Sophia - wisdom.

801. 801 is the number of alpha and omega, 1+800, the Peristera or Dove, vehicle of the Holy Ghost; being 80+5+100+10+200+300+5+100+1=801.

813. 813 is the numeration of Ararita, a very important Kabalistic word, its letters being collected from the initials of the sentence, One principle of his unity, one beginning of his individuality, his vicissitude is one," or so it is rendered by S. L. Mathers

831. Puramis, a pyramid and Phallos.

888. The number of Iesous, Jesus, the great contrast with 666, the number of the Beast.

891. Uranus - ovpavos — Heaven.

903. The Talmud in Berachoth, 8. I says that there are 903 kinds of Death, for by Gematria of the word Tutzaut, which means outlets" see Psalm isviii. 20; this number is obtained, thus T, 400. V, 6, Tz, 90, A, 1, V, 6, T, 400=903. Death by the Divine kiss is the Euthanasia; death from quinsy is said to be the worst form, a sort of suffocation long drawn out.
950. According to Genesis ix. v. 29, Noah lived 950 years. The great ages given in the book of Genesis to the patriarchs have long been a cause of doubt. Recent re-searches by a Hebrew scholar have led to the opinion that these high numbers did not mean our Solar Years, but years of five months of thirty days and perhaps the earliest year was only one month. David spoke of 70 years as the length of human life; there was no such long period between Noah and David as could reduce human life by eleven-twelfths.

974. There were this number of generations from the writing of the Law by the Holy One before he created Man in the World.

999. At the Judgment, although there be 999 who condemn a man, he shall be saved if One plead for him.

1000. The 1000-headed serpent is Sesha of Ananta, the Hindu emblem of eternity.

1000. The daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon married, told him of 1000 forms of musical instruments and taught him the chants for all the idols. 1000 is the cube of Ten, a symbol of Perfection. Potiphars wife tempted Joseph with 1000 talents of silver, when her personal charms failed to move him. The thickness of the earths crust is 1000 ells, below this is an abyss of 15,000 ells. Succah, 53.2. — If you have a secret, tell it only to One in 1000.

1004. 1004 B.C. is The Consecration of Solomons Temple.

1081. This is the number of Tiphareth, the central Sephirah, the Sun, Beauty, Microprosopus, Sun-God.

1263. This the number of the word Gnosis.

1271. He Gnosis, The Gnosis and Stauros, the cross of Jesus.

1322. First year of Egyptian cycle of Sothis, B.C.; Rameses II came to the throne in this year, B. C.

1378. The reputed year of the birth of Christian Rosenkreutz, founder of the Rosicrucian philosophy.

1408. Christian Rosenkreutz founded this arcane society in Germania.

1459. The date of writing of the Hermetic Romance of the Chemical Wedding, by C.R.

1461. The Egyptian Sothic Period, calculated by the heliacal rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, at the Solstice.

1480. Christos, in Greek numeration meaning Anointed. According to The Canon" this number exhibits an important measure of the Cosmos, and was the foundation of the scientific pantheism upon which Christian theology was built, it was a part of The Gnosis and was de-rived from the priestly astronomers of Egypt.

1484. Christian Rosenkreutz died. The Vault closed over his body and the secrets of the Order he had founded.

1604. The Vault of C. R. opened by his successors after 120 years of secret study and benevolence.

1614. The Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis was printed. 1717. Grand Lodge of Freemasons was founded.

1752. New Years Day changed from March 25 to January 1.

1865. Frater Robert Wentworth Little founded the Rosicrucian Society of Freemasons of England, in its present form.

1885. Dr. Robert Woodman became Supreme Magus.

1892. Dr. William Wynn Westcott became Supreme Magus.

1911. This year A.D. is the 5013th year of the Kali-Yuga of the Hindu sages. This Yuga is to continue 432,000 years.

2000. A Sabbath days journey was 2000 paces. Rabbi Gamaliel had a tube made which, when he looked through, he could see objects at 2000 cubits distance. This is the earliest suggestion of the telescope. Eiruvin, 43. 2.

2368. The Greek number of Iesous Christos.

3000. Rav Hammunah says that Solomon spoke 3000 proverbs. At the mourning for Moses, 3000 precepts were forgotten.

3102. In B.C. 3102, in February, the Kali Yuga, the Black Age of humanity began, according to the Brahmins.

3761. The Jewish Era was calculated to commence 3761 years before the Christian Era.
4231. Years after the dispersion, said Rashi, the Jews will be restored to their own land.

4291. After these years, the wars of Gog and Magog will cease says the Talmud.

5888. The number of verses in the Pentateuch says the Kiddushin; but they are usually counted as 5845.

6000. The world was intended to last 6000 years. 2000 years of Disorder; 2000 of the Law and 2000 more be-fore Messiah should come; but his Coming has been delayed by our iniquities. So says the Talmudic treatise. Sanhedrin, 97. 1.

25,000. According to Ezekiel, the mystical city of Jerusalem was surrounded by a square space measuring 25,000 roods in length and this he called The Holy Oblation, and it was for the use of the priests, the sons of Zadok.

3.14159 This is the value of Pi, the ratio of diameter to circumference of a circle.

Bodes Law is a curious arithmetical and astronomical problem: -

Take the series of numbers 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192
Add 4 to each. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
And we obtain the numbers 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196
These show the relation of the ancient planets to the Sun, as to distance, in the order Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. The planet corresponding to 28 is missing, and seems to be replaced by the asteroids. Uranus was discovered in 1781.

The Platonic Year, or great Period, according to Tycho Brahe, is 25,816 years. Ricciolus, 25,920 years; Cassini, 24,800 years; Norman Lockyer now gives 24,450 years.

It is the period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space to time wherein the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes by means of a constant precession. The equinoxes moving backwards or westwards, meet the Sun constantly earlier. In the time of the oldest Greek observations, the equinoctial points were in the first stars of Aries and Libra respectively; they are now in Pisces and Virgo. When these names were given, the Sun entered Aries at the Vernal Equinox, and Sign and constellation coincided; now they do not, so do not be confused by our still calling the first Sign of spring Aries, although the Sun is now really at such time in Pisces; every 2160 years, the Sign is changed. Precedent to Aries, the Sun at the Vernal Equinox.

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Thirteen was the sacred number of the Mexicans and people of Yucatan; twelve of many tribes of North American Indians, as of so many nations of antiquity. This had an astronomical connection, because the Stars and Sun were Gods to them. The method of computation among the Mexican Priests was by weeks of 13 days; consult Dunlops Vestiges," Their year contained 28 weeks of 13 days and 1 day over, just as ours contains 52 of 7 days and one day over. Thirteen years formed another week. Four times 13, or 52, years was their cycle. In Yucatan, there were 13 Snake Gods" (see Stevens Yucatan," and Gamas Ancient Mexicans" ).

13 is the number of the Hebrew word Ahbh, Ahebah, love, and of Achad, Achd, unity. Old authors state that 13 is a number used to procure agreement among married people. Hebrew Ancient lore did not reckon the number 13 as unlucky; this idea arose from the fate of Judas after the Last Supper of Jesus, yet not for some centuries, but since the notion was started it has been prevalent among all Christians.

The 13 cards of each suit of a pack of Cards are some-times applied to the 13 Lunar Months for purposes of divination.
The Gnostic gems are often inscribed with a 13-lettered Name for God, Ablana Th Analba.
Rabbi Eliezer on account of a serious drought proclaimed 13 fasts, at the end of which rain fell at once.
The Temple used 13 collecting horns; and in it were 13 tables and 13 devotional reverential bows were used in the full service.
When a Hebrew boy reached the age of 13 years, he began to fast of for the full time. A girl began at twelve years.
The word Covenant is written 13 times in the chapter on Circumcision.
The Bava Metzia gives 13 reasons for a good breakfast.
In the Hebrew Liturgy are found the 13 logical rules for interpreting the law. Hershon, Talmud Miscellany," pg. 167.

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This number has a perfect and notable character and 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 360 arithmetical degrees of the circle. Each sign was further subdivided into three decans. There are many of the learned who believe the twelve sons of Jacob and twelve founders of tribes, are allegorical only. We may mention the Twelve Grand Points of Masonry," which used to form a part of the lectures in the Craft degrees. Twelve events in the ceremony of initiation, referred to the sons of Jacob, are given by Mackey:

To Reuben was referred the opening of the Lodge he was the first-born son.
To Simeon, the preparation of the land he prepared the destruction of the Shechemites.
To Levi, the report or signal he gave the signal in the attack on the men of Shechem.
To Judah, the entrance of the land that tribe first entered the Promised Land.
To Zebulum, the prayer the prayer and blessing of his father fell on him in preference to Issachar.
To Issachar, the circumambulation an indolent tribe, who required a leader.
To Dan, the advance to the Altar for a contrast to their rapid advance to idolatry.
To Gad, the obligation on account of Jephtahs vow.
To Asher, the entrusting; with rich Masonic blessings resembled the Fathers of their land.
To Naphtali, the investment and declared Free." The tribe of Naphtali had a peculiar freedom given by Moses.
To Joseph, the N.E. corner because Ephraim and Manasseh (grandsons) represented him, newest comers.
To Benjamin, the closing of the Lodge as being the last son of the Patriarch.
The following associations of Birds, Animals and Flowers with heavenly bodies has the authority the Greco-Roman mythology: -

Table of Birds, Animals and Flowers

Table of Birds, Animals and Flowers
Greek Latin Bird Animal Vegetable
Pallas Minerva Owl She-Goat Olive
Aphrodite Venus Dove He-Goat Myrtle
Helios Sol Cock Bull Laurel
Hermes Mercury Ibis Dog Hazel
Zeus Jupiter Eagle Hart Horse-chestnut
Demeter Ceres Sparrow Sow Apple
Hephaestos Vulcan Goose Ass Box
Aries Mars Magpie Wolf Dogwood
Artemis Diana Daw Hind Palm
Hestia Vesta Heron Lion Pine
Hera Juno Peacock Sheep Thorn
Poseidon Neptune Swan Horse Elm
The astrologers associated colors with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, thus: -

Table of Colors and Zodiac Signs
Zodiac Color
Pisces White
Aquarius Blue
Capricorn Black or brown
Sagittarius Yellow or green
Scorpio Brown
Libra Black or crimson
Virgo Black and blue
Leo Red and green
Cancer Green and brown
Gemini Red
Taurus White
Aries White and yellow
The Zodiacal Signs are also associated with Sex, and the contrast of Day and Night.

Table of Zodiac with Sex, day and night
Zodiac Sign Sex Day and Night
Pisces Female Nocturnal
Aquarius Male Diurnal
Capricorn Female Nocturnal
Sagittarius Male Diurnal
Scorpio Female Nocturnal
Libra Male Diurnal
Virgo Female Nocturnal
Leo Male Diurnal
Cancer Female Nocturnal
Gemini Male Diurnal
Taurus Female Nocturnal
Aries Male Diurnal
And, again, there are other characters which astrologers deem of importance, thus: -

Table of Zodiac with Directions
Zodiac Sign Element Direction Triplicity Sex
Pisces Water Northern Common
Aquarius Air Western Fixed
Capricorn Earth Southern Cardinal
Sagittarius Fire Eastern Common
Scorpio Water Northern Fixed Fruitful
Libra Air Western Cardinal
Virgo Earth Southern Common Barren
Leo Fire Eastern Fixed Barren
Cancer Water Northern Cardinal Fruitful
Gemini Air Western Common Barren
Taurus Earth Southern Fixed
Aries Fire Eastern Cardinal
Lastly, the twelve signs are allotted to the planets as their houses: -

Table of Zodiac and Planets
Zodiac Sign Planet
Pisces Night House of Jupiter
Aquarius Day House of Saturn (Uranus)
Capricorn Night House of Saturn
Sagittarius Night House of Jupiter
Scorpio Night House of Mars
Libra Day House of Venus
Virgo Night House of Mercury
Leo Sole House of Sun
Cancer Sole House of Moon
Gemini Day House of Mercury
Taurus Night House of Venus
Aries Day House of Mars
This is very fully explained by Coley in his Astrology," and also by John Middleton in his Astrology," 1679.

Herodotus tells us that the Egyptians founded the system of a Twelve-God theology, Euterpe iv. The He-brews certainly at times worshipped the Sun, Moon, seven planets, and the Star Rulers of the Twelve Zodiacal Signs see 2 Kings, xxiii. 5, and Job, xxxviii. 32. Dunlop, in his Vestiges," remarks that of the names of the twelve months in use among the Jews, several are identical with names of Deities, as Tammuz, Ab, Elul, Bul. Groups of twelve Gods are to be noticed in the religions of many of the ancient nations, as the Chaldeans, Etruscans, Mamertines, Romans etc.

In Scandinavia, the Great Odin had 12 names - personified attributes.

Table of 12 Permutations of YHVH
Permutations Full Spelling
YHVH YOD HEH VAV HEH
VHYH VAV HEH YOD HEH
HYHV HEH YOD HEH VAV
HVHY HEH VAV HEH YOD
YHHV YOD HEH HEH VAV
YVHH YOD VAV HEH HEH
HVYH HEH VAV YOD HEH
VYHH VAV YOD HEH HEH
HHVY HEH HEH VAV YOD
HHYV HEH HEH YOD VAV
HYVH HEY YOD VAV HEH
VHHY VAV HEH HEH YOD
The Kabalists esteem the 12 permutations of the Tetragrammaton and are as follows:

The Talmuds say: -

No deceased person is at heart lost to his relatives until after 12 months; see the Treatise Berachoth.

How was the Witch of Endor able to bring up Samuel by necromancy? To this question Rabbi Abhu answered, because he had not been dead 12 months; after that time it would not have been possible, for then the body is destroyed and the Soul has gone up into the next world.

The Rabbis said that at the first revelation, the True Name of God was a word of 12 letters. Kiddushin, 71. I.

The Mishna narrates the events of the first 12 hours; Adam fell into sin in the 10th Hour, was judged in the 11th Hour and was cast out of the Garden in the 12th Hour. So he abode not even one day in his dignity. Sanhedrin, 38. 2. Compare the Nuctemeron" of Apollonius of Tyana, given by Eliphas Levi in his Ritual de la Magie," Paris, 1861.

The 12 Stones of the High Priests Breastplate were named as follows:

Sardius.
Topaz.
Carbuncle.
Emerald.
Sapphire.
Diamond.
Ligure or Jacinth.
Agate.
Amethyst.
Beryl.
Onyx.
Jasper.
See Hebrew Ancient Version, Exodus xxviii.

The 12 Foundations of the Heavenly City, given in Revelations xxi, are Jasper, Sapphire, Chalcedony, Sardius, Sardonyx, Emerald, Topaz, Beryl, Chrysolite, Amethyst, Jacinth and Chrysophrasus.

The 12 Hebrew Months were Abib or Nizan (March-April) and are, Iyar or Zif, Sivan, Thammuz, Ab, Elul, Tisri, Bul, Chisleu, Tebeth, Shebat and Adar; and the inter-calary month Ve-Adar.

The 12 Sons of Jacob were related to the 12 Signs of the Zodiac by the Rosicrucians in a correct order; other schemes of attribution are given by Athanasius Kircher and others.

That by Sir William Drummond is: - Aries to Gad, Taurus to Ephraim, Gemini to Benjamin, Cancer to Issachar, Leo to Judah, Virgo to Naphtali, Libra to Asher, Scorpio to Dan, Sagittarius to Manasseh, Capricorn to Zebulun, Aquarius to Reuben and Pisces to Simeon and Levi.

The 12 Apostles of Jesus were Simon, Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew also called Levi, James son of Alphaeus, Judas called Lebbaeus and Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot. The Venerable Bede proposed to rename the Signs with the names of the apostles, and a scheme of allotment is to be found in The Sphere of Marcus Manilius," by Edward Sherburne, London, 1675. See Notes and Queries," Vol. xiv., Manchester, USA, pg. 211. Westcott on the Zodiac in Society Rosicrucian Reports gives the Christian allusions to the Zodiac.

In an ordinary pack of Playing Cards there are 12 Court Cards, but in the Tarot Pack there are also 4 Cavaliers.

The Kabalists greatly esteemed the 12-lettered Name of God, Hih-Hvvh-Vihih, meaning "fuit, est, erit," or, — He was, is, will be.

Less esoteric was the Triple Tetragrammaton, IHVH thrice written.

All Fratres of the Rosicrucian Society of England will also be familiar with Ab Ben V Ruch H Qdsh, Ab-Benve-Ruach-ha-Kodesh; meaning Father, Son and Holy Spirit.The Rosicrucian Society had a scheme of distributing 12shades of Color among the Zodiacal Signs, but this is a secret matter. Many erroneous schemes have been published.
The 12 Signs of the Zodiac are named in Hebrew, be-ginning with Aries; Taleh, Shur, Thaumim, Sartan, Ariah, Bethuleh, Mazanaim, Akrab, Kesith, Gedi, Deli, and Dagim. In Arabic; Al Hamal, Al Thaur, Al Tauman, Al Sartan, Al Asad, Sunbul, Al Zubena, Al Akrab, Al Kaus, Al Gedi, Debi and Al Haut. In Chinese, Pe yaugh, the sheep; Kin nieu, golden bull; Shang huing, two brothers; Kin hiai, crab; Sin, lion; Sha niu, the house girl; Tien tchingh, the claws of a scorpion; Tien Kie, the scorpion; Gun Ma, the man horse; Mu Thien, the hill sheep; Pao pingh, precious vase; and Shang Yu, two fishes.

The Old Sanskrit Hindu names used by astrologers at the present time are; Mesha, Rishaba, Mithuna, Katakam, Simha, Kanya, Tulam, Vrishchika, Dhanus, Makaram, Kumbha and Minam.

The 12 Simple Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet have affinities with the Zodiacal Signs, but the order of relation is a Rosicrucian private doctrine.

There were 12 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 seven apostles and others when fishing, to 500 brethren at once, to James the Less, to eleven apostles, to Stephen at his martyrdom, to Paul at his Conversion and to the apostle John.

The 12 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 Sun, and then the south will be half way between that hour and the figure XII.

The author of the Hymns of Orpheus, the Scholiast on Hesiod, and Porphyry state that the 12 Labors of Hercules are said to be emblems of the Sun in its passage through the 12 Signs, and this is repeated by the Mystagogus Poeticus," 1653, and they have been allotted as follows: - to Aries, the quest of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides; to Taurus, the slaying of the Cretan Bull; Gemini, Hercules and his twin brother strangle the serpents; Cancer, the taking of the Herds of Geryon; Leo, the slaying of the Nemaean Lion; Virgo, the victory over the Amazon Queen; Libra, the death of the Erymanthean boar; Scorpio, the death of the Lernaean Hydra; Sagittarius, the shooting of the five Stymphalian Birds; Capricornus, taking of the hind alive to Mycenae; Aquarius, cleaning the stables of Augeas; Pisces, the capture of the horses of Diomedes.

Janus of the Romans is the God of the 12 months and is drawn with 12 altars beneath his feet. He is the same as Assyrian Ain, Ion, Jan; On of Eastern nations (Dunlops Vestiges," 31).

John Heydon gives the following statements: -

Prosperous numbers are 1 2 3 4 7 9 11 13 14.

Very Good 16 17 19 20 22 23 10 26 27.

Indifferent 5 6 8 12 15 18 21.

Very Bad 24 25 28 29 30.

Eleven, 11

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This seems to have been the type of a number with an evil reputation among all peoples. The Kabalists contrasted it with the perfection of the Decad, and just as the Sephirotic number is the form of all good things, so eleven is the essence of all that is sinful, harmful and imperfect. With the Ten Sephiroth they contrasted the Eleven Averse Sephiroth, symbols of destruction, violence, defeat and death. 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 very much de-based.

John Heydon says that by it we know the bodies of Devils and their nature; the Jews understand by it Lilith, Adams first wife, a she-devil, dangerous to women in confinements; hence they wrote on the walls: Adam Chvh Chvo Lilit, that is, Adam, Eve, out of doors Lilith."

Jesus, in Matt. xii. 43, plainly allows the doctrine that evil spirits may haunt fields, which Grotius says the Jews think; and their word Demon and Field are similar, being Shdim (fields) and Shdim (evil deities); the Siddim are mentioned in Psalm cvi. 37.

It is called the Number of Sins" and the Penitent," because it exceeds the number of Commandments and is less than twelve, which is the number of Grace and Perfection. But sometimes even eleven receives a favor from God, as in the case of the man who was called in the Eleventh Hour to the vineyard, who yet received the same pay as the others.

Rabbi Jochanan says that eleven sorts of spices were mentioned by God to Moses on Mount Sinai as suitable for holy incense.

Eleven was the number of the Disciples of Jesus, after the fall of Judas Iscariot.

In the Hebrew Language, the word eleven was expressed as Achad Osher, or One in Ten.

The Decad, Ten, 10

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The Decad, number Ten, or Panteleia, which meant "All complete" or "fully accomplished," is the grand summit of numbers, which once reached cannot be passed. To increase the sum we must retrograde to the Monad.

The Pythagoreans were entranced with its virtues and called it Deity, Heaven, Eternity and the Sun.

Ten being the recipient or receptacle of all members was called Decad, from dechomai=to receive, and hence Heaven, which was ordained to receive all men.

Like the Deity it is a Circle, with visible center, but its circumference too vast for sight.

It is the sum of the units of the number four as previously mentioned, a holy and Deistic number, thus 4+3+2+1=10 and thus ten gains splendor from its parentage.

Also spoken of as Eternity," which is infinite life, be-cause it contains every number in itself, and number is infinite.

It is also called Kosmos, that is the Universe," Proclus says: The Decad is mundane also, it is the world, which receives the images of all the divine numbers, which are supernaturally imparted to it.

It is called the fountain of eternal nature," because if we take the half, five as the middle number and add together the next above and the next below, viz., 6 and 4, we make 10 and the next two in a similar manner 7 and 3 are 10; and so on 8 and 2 and 9 and 1 give the same result.

All nations reckon by the Decimal scale of notation, to which they were no doubt led from the convenience of counting the ten digits of the hands.

It is also spoken of as Kleidoukos, that is, having custody of others," the magazine of the other numbers, because other numbers are branches from it. Also called Fate, which comprises all sorts of events. Age, Power; Atlas, because it supports the 10 spheres of Heaven; Phanes; Memory; Urania; and The first Square, because it consists of the first four numbers."

Two old conceits were that the Tenth wave of the sea is always larger than others; and that birds laid the 10th egg of a larger size than the others.

The word Ten was used by the Hebrews, instead of a large number," so that care must be exercised in translating this; thus Nehemiah interprets ten generations" of Deuteronomy xxiii. V. 3 to mean for ever." Nehemiah xiii. 1.

The Kabalists called 5, 6 and 10 circular numbers, because when squared, the result shows the same number in the unit figure, thus:

5x5= 25 and 5x25= 125 6x6=36 and 6x36= 216 10x 10=100 and 10x 100=1000

An old periphrasis mentioned by Shakespeare is, Id set my Ten Commandments in your face," meaning the finger nails for scratching. See 2 Henry VI. I.3.

The Mahometans say that ten animals were admitted to Paradise and are as follows:

Kratim, the dog of the Seven Sleepers.
Ass of Balaam.
Ant of Solomon.
Whale of Jonah.
The Calf (not Ram) offered to Jehovah by Abraham instead of Isaac, his son.
The Ox of Moses.
The Camel of the prophet Salech.
The Cuckoo of Belkis.
The Ram of Ishmael.
Al Borek, the Animal which conveyed Mahomet.
We find 10 generations from Adam to Noah, 10 from Shem to Abraham. The 10 spiritual graces of Christianity are Love, joy, peace long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, prudence, meekness and temperature," says Dr. G. Oliver; although where he gets 10 generations from Adam to Noah, I know not.

Under 10 also falls the mention of the Pythagorean Triangle, Tetractys, consisting of an equilateral Triangle enclosing ten Yods. Thus the upper is the Monad, the second line the Dyad, the third the Triad, and the fourth the Quaternary or Tetrad thus representing the four forms of point, line, superficies and solid. A similar form is given by Hebrew Kabalists to form 72, the deity number, by placing in a triangle four Yods, three Hehs, two Vavs and one Heh final, being the letters IHVH of the Tetragrammaton; or they may be put conversely.

Note that ten is used as a sign of fellowship, love, peace and Union, in the Masonic third token, the union of two five points of Fellowship.

In the Bible, we notice 10 Commandments, 10 instruments to which Jewish Psalms were sung, 10 strings in the Psaltery, and that the Holy Ghost descended ten days after the Ascension.

Tucer, Rabanus and Raymond Lully associate the numbers 8 to Air, 5 to Fire, 6 to earth and 12 to water.

Apuleius states that among the Egyptians it was customary to fast 10 days before sacrificing and Budge says that they used a 10-day week.

The Ten Sephiroth form the essence of the Hebrew dogmatic Kabalah, a subject which is too vast and complex to be entered upon in this volume on numerals. A mere glance at the Sephirotic emanations of the Absolute Deity from the mathematical point of view is all that can be attempted; my Introduction to the Kabalah" may be referred to.

From the Absolute Passive Negativity Ain, proceeds Ain Suph the Limitless and then Ain Suph Aur, Boundless Light, which concentrates in the first manifestation of the Sephiroth, which is the Crown, Ktr, Kether; from Kether proceeds Chkmh, Chokmah, Wisdom, an active masculine potency, and Binh, Binah, Understanding, a passive feminine power.

These three form the Supernal Triad. The fourth and fifth are Chsd, Chesed, Mercy, active and male, and Gbvrh, Geburah, Strength, passive and female.

The sixth Sephirah is the notable Tpart, Tiphareth, Beauty, the Central Sun, the Logos, the Manifested Son. This completes a second triangle, the reflection of the former.

Number seven is Ntzch, Netzach, Victory, active and the eight is Hvd, Hod, Splendor, passive; the ninth is Ysvd, Yesod, the Foundation, completing the third trinity or triangle.

Mlkt, Malkuth, the Tenth Sephirah, completes the emanations. She is the Bride of Microprosopus the Son, the Sun, Logos; she is the Inferior Mother, Queen and the Manifested Universe.

The whole Ten are viewed as reigning over Four Worlds or Planes of Existence. These are the Worlds of Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and Assiah. Malkuth on the plane of Assiah alone is the visible tangible universe.

These Ten Sephiroth are the prototypes of everything spiritual and also of every part of creation. They are traced in the angelic host and in our universe. Three superior and seven 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 man; seven are objective and comprehensible. Thus Seven archangels are commonly named and we have known only of Seven great planets of our system.

But in some cases, even the whole of seven are unknown. We acknowledge but five senses in man, but there are two more awaiting perception by process of evolution.

These Ten Sephiroth are not only viewed as triads from above below, but are also imaged in three columns entitled the Pillars of Severity and Mercy, with the median of Benignity or Mildness. But this scheme is not for this treatise, nor can the Sephirotic alliance with the Planetary symbols, the angelic host, the divine names and the Book of Thoth, or Tarot be here described. These subjects present a mine of wisdom concealed in the rituals of the Kabalistic Chabrath zereh Aur bokher," from whose parent stem the Rosicrucian Fraternities also may have arisen. These Rituals contain a more complex scheme of the mediaeval occult symbolism than exists in any other form known to me, and I believe that it would not be possible for anyone to reconstitute so complete a system out of all extant literature.

There are 10 Grades in the Rosicrucian Society. They are Zelator, Theoricus, Practicus, Philosophus; Minor, Major and Exempt Adept; Master, Magus and King. Some Magi are known, but only Magi know of a Rex.

Rosicrucian private rituals give the correct names and Kabalistic spelling of the Ten heavens of the World of Assiah, which is the material universe.

H. P. Blavatsky declared that a scheme of the Zodiac of 10 Signs preceded that of 12 Signs, but I have been unable to verify the statement, by any ancient work.

Hebrew and Talmudic references are as follows: - 10 men were necessary to form a legally convened meeting at the Synagogue. In London, as much as 1000 (British pounds) a year has been spent in providing spare men for this duty. Ten curses were pronounced against Eve. See Talmud, Eiruvin, 100. 2.

Ten things were created during the twilight of the first Sabbath eve. Consult Pesachim, 54. 1.

Ten facts proved the presence of a Supernatural Power in the Temple. Yoma, 21.1.

The Rabbis taught that a man should divorce his wife if for 10 years she had no offspring.

At funerals, condolences were recited by 10 men, and at weddings by ten men including the bridegroom. Ten cups were drunk at a funeral party three before supper, three at supper and four after the meal at the recitation of the four blessings.

Abraham was tested 10 times; 10 Miracles were performed in Egypt to help the Children of Israel, and 10 at the Red Sea. Ten plagues were made to afflict the Egyptians. Ten times the Jews offended God in the Wilderness.

Ten times did the Shekinah come down into the world; at the Garden of Eden; at the Tower of Babel; at Sodom; in Egypt, see Exodus iii. 8; at the Red Sea, Psalm cviii. 9; on Mount Sinai; at the Temple; in the Pillar of Cloud; on the Mount of Olives, see Zechariah xiv. 4; the 10th is omitted in the original reference, Avoth d Rabbi Nathan, chapter 34.

There are 10 Hebrew words to designate Idols and 10 for Joy. Sodom was to be spared for 10 righteous men; Gideon took 10 servants to destroy the Altar of Baal; Boaz chose 10 witnesses for his marriage with Ruth; Joabs armor was borne by 10 young men. Jesus speaks of 10 talents, 10 cities, 10 pieces of silver and gave a par-able of 10 Virgins. The Tabernacle has many 10 dimensions. There are 10 Bible names of God, 10 Canticles, and 10 necessaries for mans life. Ecclus. 39. 26.

There were 10 Pythagorean Virtues of Initiation and the Buddhists teach 10 Paramitas of Perfection.

In the Alchymico-Kabalistic tract called Aesch Metzareph referred to by Eliphas Levi and collected from the Zohar of Knorr von Rosenroth and translated into English, and forming Volume IV of my Collectanea Hermetica," will be found 10 names for Gold all extracted from the Old Testament; they are there related to the Sephirah Geburah.

The Hindu Puranas tell us of the 10 Avatars of the God Vishnu, the Preserver of the Brahmanic Religion; the yare periodical incarnations of the God and are as follows.

First as the Fish, Matsya;
Kurma, the Tortoise.
Varaha, the Boar.
Narasingha, the Man-Lion.
Vamana, the Dwarf.
Parasu-Rama.
Rama Chandra.
Krishna.
Buddha.
Kalki, the Horse, is yet to come.
These Avatars are susceptible of a mystical explanation 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 occult student.

In the Yoga Vasishtha Maha Ramayana of Valmiki, edited by Vihari Lala Mitra, will be found an essay on Om-Tat-Sat, on-id-est, and this contains some very curious information on the 10 numerals as related to the mystical syllable Om or Aum.

Aum Mani padme hum" means literally, Oh, the jewel in the lotus," and is taken mystically to mean the spark of the Divine within me," as was fully explained by Blavatsky to her Esoteric section of Theosophists.

The meanings of The Ennead, Nine, 9

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The Ennead is the first square of an odd number, it was aid to be like the Ocean flowing around the other numbers within the Decad. No further elementary number is possible; hence it is like the Horizon because all the numbers are bounded by it. We find that it was called Prometheus, and Freedom from Strife," and Vulcan," because the ascent of numbers is as far as 9, just as the ascent of things decomposed by fire is as far as the sphere of Fire (the summit of the air), and Juno, because the Sphere of the air is arranged according to the novenary (nine) system, and sister and wife to Jupiter" from its conjunction with the Monad. And Telesphoros or "Bringing to an end" because the human offspring is carried 9 calendar months by the parent. And teleios or perfect for the same reason, and also called Perfect" because it is generated from the Triad, which is called Perfect."

Attention is called to its 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 18 and 8+1=9; and so on below:

Permutations of Number Nine
9x3=27; 2+7= 9 9x12=108; 1+8=9
9x4=36; 3+6=9 9x13=117; 7+1+1=9
9x5=45; 4+5= 9 9x14=126; 6+2+1=9
9x6=54; 5+4= 9 9x15=135; 5+3+1=9
9x7=63; 6+3= 9 9x16=144; 4+4+1=9
9x8=72; 7+2= 9 9x17=153; 3+5+1=9
9x9=81; 8+1=9 9x18=162; 2+6+1=9
9x10=90; 9+0=9 9x19=171; 1+7+1=9
9x11=99; 9x20=180; 8+1+0=9
In John Heydons Holy Guide," 1662, we find that he asserts that the number 9 to have other curious properties:

If writ or engraved on Silver, or Sardis, and carried with one, the wearer becomes invisible, as Caleron, the Brother-in-Law of Alexander, did, and by this means lay with his Brothers concubines as often as he did himself. Nine also obtaineth the love of Women. At the 9th hour our Savior breathed his last; on the ninth day the ancients buried their dead; after 9 years Numa, received his laws from Jove; note the 9 cubits length of the iron bed-stead of the giant Og, king of Basan, who is a type of the Devil, and there are 9 orders of Devils in Sheol (what we call Hell). It prevails against Plagues and Fevers; it causes Long life and Health, and by it Plato so ordered events that he died at the age of nine times 9."

There are nine orders of Angels, says Gregory, A.D. 381, in Homily 34. Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels and Angels.

From a Christian point of view, the number nine represents:

Unity of the Godhead.
The hypostatic union of Christ.
Trinity.
Evangelists.
Wounds of Jesus.
Is the number of sin.
Gifts of the spirit, Rev. i. 12; and Jesus 7 times spoke on the cross.
Beatitudes.
Orders of Angels.
Commandments.
Apostles besides Judas.
Original Apostolic College.
College completed by St. Paul.
The Nine Muses of ancient Greece were called daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory), and were Calliope, poetry; Clio, history; Melpomene, tragedy; Euterpe, music; Erato, love, inspiration and pantomime; Terpsichore, dancing; Urania, astronomy; Thalia, comedy and Polyhymnia, eloquence.

The Novensiles are the nine Sabine Gods: viz. Hercules, Romulus, Aesculapius, Bacchus, Aeneas, Vesta, Santa, Fortuna and Fides. The Sabines became merged with the Romans about 266 B.C.

The Nine Gods of the Etruscans were Juno, Minerva, Tinia, Vulcan, Mars, Saturn, Hercules, Summanus and Vedius; the Etruscans also became united with the Romans.

Note in Macaulays poem of Horatius," Lars Porsena of Clusium by the nine gods he swore," in 596 B.C. Lars Porsena led the Etruscans; they were then most powerful; from the Estrucans the Romans took much of their law, custom and superstition.

It is by nines that Eastern presents are given, when they would extend their magnificence to the greatest degree, as mentioned in Comte de Caylus, Oriental Tales." 1743.

Barretts Magus" notes also 9 precious stones, 9 orders of devils, 9 choirs of angels he copies from John Heydon.

Note in this connection, the Nundinals of the Romans, who marked the days by letters into parcels of 8 days, and on every 9th day the people left their pursuits and went to the towns to market. Hence, the jocular Latin saying, Tres mulieres Nundinas faciunt. These Nundinals are a type of our Dominical letters, a set of seven marking out the 8th days. The Romans also held a purification ceremony on male infants on the 9th day of life, hence the presiding goddess of this rite was called Nundina.

The Nones were one of the sets of days composing each calendar month. The Roman Novennalia was a feast in memory of the dead celebrated every 9th year. The Novendiale was an occasional Roman Catholic fast to avert calamities, from this arose the R.C. system of Neuvaines.

There is a Masonic order of Nine Elected Knights," in which 9 roses, 9 lights and 9 knocks are used.

The Mahometans have 99 names of the deity. Some Jews have taught that God has 9 times descended to earth; 1st in Eden, 2nd at the confusion of tongues, 3rd at the destruction of Sodom, 4th to Moses at Horeb, 5th at Sinai, 6th to Balaam, 7th to Elisha, 8th in the Tabernacle and 9th in the Temple at Jerusalem; and that his 10th comes as the Messiah will be final.

The ancients had a fear of the number Nine and its multiples, especially 81; they thought of them of evil presage, indicating change and fragility.

At the 9th hour Jesus the Savior died.

Nine is also the earth under evil influences."

John Heydon in the Holy Guide," and J. M. Ragon, in his Maconnerie Occulte," thus associate numbers with the Planets.

Table of Planets and Numbers

Table of Planets and Numbers
Planet Assigned Number
Sun One, 1 and Four, 4
Moon Two, 2 and Seven, 7
Jupiter Three, 3
Mercury Five, 5
Venus Six, 6
Saturn Eight, 8
Mars Nine, 9
The Zodiacal Signs were assigned the following numbers:

Table of Zodiacal Signs and Numbers
Zodiacal Sign Assigned Number
Leo One, 1
Aquarius Two, 2
Capricorn Three, 3
Sagittarius Four, 4
Cancer Five, 5
Taurus Six, 6
Aries Seven, 7
Libra Eight, 8
Scorpio Nine, 9
Virgo Ten, 10
Pisces Eleven, 11
Gemini Twelve, 12
The First and the Second Temples of the Jews were both destroyed on the 9th day of the Jewish month Ab. On the 9th day of Ab, modern Jews do not wear the Talith and Phylacteries until evening. The day should be spent in tears, and no good comes of work done on that day.

The Talmud in Soteh, 20. I, says that a woman prefers one measure of fun to 9 of Pharisaic professional goodness.

Nine persons have entered A live into the Jews Paradise; Enoch, Elijah, Messiah, Eliezer the servant of Abraham, Hiram, King of Tyre, Ebed Melek the Ethiop, Jabez the son of Jehuda the Prince, Bathia daughter of Pharaoh, and Sarah the daughter of Asher. Some Rabbis add Rabbi Yoshua son of Levi, but he entered not at the door, but climbed over the wall. See Kethuboth, 7. 2.

In the 145th Psalm, we find 9 reasons for praising God.

The Great Eleusinian Mysteries were the successors of the Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris, and were celebrated at Eleusis and possibly also at Athens, in honor of Demeter or Ceres; they occupied 9 days, and were commenced on the 15th day of the third Attic month, Boedromion, September. They took place once in every five years.

The Lesser Mysteries were performed in the month Elaphebolion, March, at Agrae on the River Ilyssus in honor of Persephone or Prosperine, daughter of Ceres.

Candidates after reception became Mystae. In the Greater Mysteries, they became Epoptae. The ceremonies were called Teletai, perfectings. They remained in use for 1800 years and were only ceased in the time of the Emperor Theodosius, A.D. 395.

Mention of 9 Worthies is found in literature. They were 3 Gentiles Hector son of King Priam, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. 3 Jews Joshua, David and Judas Maccabeus; 3 Christians King Arthur of Britain, Charlemagne and Godfrey de Bouillon.

The Ogdoad, Eight, 8

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In the first cube of 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."

Camerarius, in his edition of the Arithmetic of Nicomachus, calls it Universal Harmony, because musical ratios are distinguished by this number.

The Ratio of 9 to 8 is sesquioctave and this forms a tone and is attributed to the Moon.

Planetary Ratio Table of Tones
Planet Ratio
Mercury 12 to 9 is sesquitertian.
12 to 8 is sesquialter.
Venus 16 to 12 is sesquitertian.
16 to 8 is duple.
Sun 18 to 12 is sesquialter.
18 to 9 is duple.
Mars 21 to 9 is duple sesquitertian.
Jupiter 32 to 24 is sesquitertian.
32 to 8 is quadruple.
36 to 24 is sesquialter.
36 to 18 is duple.
Saturn 32 to 24 is sesquitertian.
32 to 8 is quadruple.
Inneratic Sphere (8th Sphere) 36 to 24 is sesquialter.
36 to 18 is duple.
36 to 8 is quadruple.
24 to 18 is sesquitertian.
Hence the Ogdoad was also called "Cadmeia," because Harmony was looked upon as the wife of Cadmus and Cadmus meant the Sub-lunary World, as Olympiodorus says. Eight was called also Mother, and Rhea, Cybele and Dindymene, from being the first cube, and a cube representing the earth.

The eight persons saved from the flood of Xisuthrus are synonyms of many octaves of gods, such as the 8 Cabiri great gods of Samothrace; see Bryant and Faber on this myth.

There are 8 Beatitudes of the Christian religion, Matthew, chap. V.

Eight is the number of the Moons of Saturn.

There have been several Masonic orders concerned with this Noachite Ogdoad, as the Prussian masons, Knights of the Royal Axe, or Prince of Libanus, the Noachites, and the Royal Ark Mariners, which is a subsidiary order to the Mark Master Masons.

Macrobius says the Ogdoad was the type of Justice, be-cause it consists of even numbers and on account of its equal divisions.

John Heydon tells us that 8 Events befall the Damned, and there are 8 rewards of the Blessed.

The number 8 was sacred to Dionysos, who was born at the 8th month; the isle of Naxos was dedicated to him and it was granted to the women of Naxos, that their children born in the 8th month should live, whereas it is usual for such to die, although those born either the 7th or the 9th month are usually reared.

The Jews were accustomed to practice Circumcision on male infants upon the 8th day after birth.

The Jews at the Chanukah or Feast of Dedication lit 8 candles and it lasted 8 days. This is the Engkainia of John x. 22. As to conjuring among the ancient Jews, it is said in Talmud, Succah, 53. I, that Levi played with 8 knives; Samuel in the presence of the King Sapor of Persia used 8 cups and Abaji before Rabbi Rava used 8 eggs.

Eight prophets were descended from Rahab the Harlot, viz., Neraiah, Seraiah, Maasiah, Jeremiah, Hilkiah, Hannemeel and Shallum. Note also that Huldah the prophetess was the grandchild of Rahab.

The last 8 verses of Deuteronomy, The Mosaic Law, The Pentateuch, were written by Joshua. Bava Bathra, 14. I.

Rabbi Nathan states that there were 8 sects of the Pharisees, but both of the Talmuds (Jerusalem and Babylon) name only seven. It is prophesized that the Harps, which will be played on earth before the Messiah, will have 8 strings. Erachin, 13. 2.

As seven was the number of the original Creation, so 8, says W. F. Shaw, may be considered as the Day of Re-generation. Eight souls were saved in the Ark of Noah, and Noah was the 8th in descent, his name was Nvch= 8 times 8=64.

888 is the special number of Jesus Christ as He who is that Resurrection and the Life." He is the great opponent of the 666, the number of the Beast, the number of Man.

The ancient Chinese writings refer to 8 musical sounds, the Pah-yin. (G. Schlegel).