Seven

[deviadah]

As may already be understood by most here on AF that numbers play a significant role. It would be interesting to discuss all the numbers individually (0-9). I will sacrifice myself and start, not with 1, but with 7. So first a little introduction (and I keep this extremly basic - m1thr0s you're free to complicate it... :cool:


The number seven is an important mystical and magical number. Since ancient times seven has been a revered and sacred symbol. The Babylonians translated the Sumerian word for seven into the Babylonian word for completeness or all. In Greek and Roman mythology the number seven occurs time and time again. In China seven is a celestial number (together with 1, 3 and 5).

The uraeus is a serpent as a head-dress of Egyptian kings and divinities. According to the pyramid texts: “the king absorbed the seven frontal cobras which then became the seven cervical vertebrae which commanded the entire dorsal spine.”

These cobras, which spit fire, recall the Kundalini serpent-fire of the Hindu tradition, and this passage also seems to refer to certain of the vital centres or chakras, one of which occupies precisely the place of the royal uraeua in the forehead. This spiritual light is called akh by the ancient Egyptians.

The Egyptians also divided the night sky into seven parts and the moon changes its phase every seven days resulting in the creation of the week, which completes its cycle four times every month. There are seven fundamental notes in music (the eighth is the beginning of the series again, the start of the higher octave.) In numerology seven represents philosophy and wisdom. There are, according to H.P. Blavatsky, seven root races. Then we have the significance of seven as a lucky number and the seven wonders of the world. Also in the Bible there are tons of sevens.

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, or the Unknown Philosopher, of the 18th century, declared that “numbers are the only sensible expression of the different properties of beings, which all proceed from the one and only essence.” Specifically of the number seven, which he viewed as the ruling number of the manifested universe.

There is also the Hebrew candlestick with seven branches each representing, as put by Warren Kenton in The Celestial Mirror: “a cosmic diagram of active and passive forces on either side of a central column of equilibrium.” Even in the Kabbalah itself all things depend on the seventh “for assuredly there can be no stability in those six, save (what they derive) from the seventh.”

Augustus Le Plongeon writes in his book Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11 500 years ago:
“Seven seems to have been the sacred number par excellence among all civilized nations of antiquity… That it was the number of numbers for those initiated to the sacred mysteries there can be no doubt. Pythagoras… calls it the ‘Vehicle of Life’, containing body and soul, since it is formed of a quaternary, that is: wisdom and intellect; and a Trinity, or action and matter.”

The Pythagorean Quaternary is the following sequence: 1+2+3+4 = 10 and has great significance since the union of the four numbers results in a oneness and it can be represented as a triangle within a square (the 3 points of the triangle plus the four corners of the square equals seven).

Of course seven relates to Alchemy and I have already elsewhere posted on the Lord's Prayer (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=1425).


RESOURCES - to name a few:

Wikipedea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(number))

The Number Seven (http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/arts/NumberSeven.htm) by H. P. Blavatsky

Theosophy and 7 (http://www.theosophycardiff.care4free.net/seven.htm) - several articles

Seven and Scripture (http://www.biblewheel.com/Topics/seven.asp)

More 7 info... (http://towerweb.net/alt-lib/seven.shtml)

Al-Ghazzali and the seven spheres (http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/mishkat/msh12.htm)

The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lang1k1/tale15.htm) - all art is Art :yes:

Liber 777 (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/crowley/liber777/777a.htm)

Pigeons and the Magical Number Seven (http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/psych/chase/Number%20Seven.pdf) - pdf (some fucked-up shit)

View the attachment for The Seven Stages of the Sublime!


Edit: Check out Zoroastrian Heavenly Hierarchy (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?p=32280)

[Ainsloch]

Seven... a number that resonates on many different levels with me. Here are a few things I find interesting about it:

A seven sided polygon (heptagon) cannot be constructed with a ruler and compass, adding to its mystery geometrically.

Six circles of the same size will enclose perfectly a seventh, central circle. (You can verify this personally with seven coins of the same value... or with any seven identical circular objects) Additionally 12 identical spheres will enclose a 13th central sphere.

On the topic of six and one making seven, Ancient Egypt was divided in two, and Upper Egypt had six degrees of latitude, and Lower Egypt one. The central boundary area between Upper and Lower Egypt is where the Great Pyramid is located. A pyramid is of course composed of a square (4) and triangles (3). Also, there were six "palms" in an Egyptian short cubit, and adding a seventh made a Royal cubit.

The Eye of Horus was composed of six parts, each representing a fraction (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64). Mysteriously however, if you add all of these fractions together you only get 63/64, so there is 1/64 part missing... thus a "magical" seventh part was needed to complete the Eye. The six parts of the Eye also represented the five physical senses and thought or mind. Might spirit be the missing seventh?

In the bible God creates the Earth in six days, and rests on the seventh. There were seven Sumerian tablets of creation also, probably where the account in Genesis originated from. The first word in Genesis translates as "In the beginning" but it can also be interpreted, when broken down into two parts, as "fire" and "six" or "thorn" or both together; "six-thorn". Thus the first word in Genesis can be literally interpreted as six about a seventh; fire.

White light splits into six basic colours.

Seven is a number heavily linked to initiation. Hence it is no coincidence the great teacher Quetzalcoatl was known as the "rainbow coloured feathered serpent."

There are five planets visible to the naked eye, and with the Sun and Moon make seven visible celestial bodies. There were seven tiers to the Babylonian ziggurat, each related to a celestial body.

Did you know that the numbers one to seven when multiplied together (1x2x3x4x5x6x7) give the combined radii of the Earth and Moon, 5040 miles? And on that six and one thing again, gravity on the Moon is one sixth of Earth's...

The size of the Earth when compared to the Moon is of the ratio 11:3. This means that if you draw the Moon sitting directly centered on top of the Earth (on paper!) the combined radii of the two circles is 7, and the combined diameters is 14. If you were to draw a square around the Earth circle, its sides would be 11. If you then drew a horizontal line at the center of the square, and that touched both sides of the square (so the line is also 11 in width), and from this base created a triangle whose apex point was the center of the Moon circle, you would have just drawn a scale model of the Great Pyramid (1:40 royal cubits)! The height of the Great Pyramid in our scale model is then 7... which is the sum of the Earth and Moon radii in our scale drawing (5.5+1.5)! The true height of the Great Pyramid is 7x40 or 280 Royal Cubits. The square that we drew around the Earth has a perimeter of 44. Amazingly a circle whose diameter is 14 (the combined diameters of Earth and Moon in our drawing) will have a circumference of 44! Thus from our diagram we can see that the Earth and Moon, as well as the Great Pyramid square the circle!

The height of the pyramid in our drawing is 7, yet in reality the Great Pyramid seems to have been built intentionally without a capstone. The missing seventh yet again!?

There are seven days in the week and 4x7 = 28, a lunar month.

Seven is indeed a special number...

These are a few things off the top of my head... there is a wealth more on this number.

[deviadah]

Good job...

Did you know that the teeth of a child appear in the seventh month?

Adding to this:

The child sheds them in the seventh year, at twice seven pyberty begins, three times seven mental and vital powers are developed and four times seven these are in full strength. Finally at five times seven passions are most developed.

Although I guess these facts depend on how you count, everyone has different experiences, even so...

White light splits into six basic colours.

:confused:

[Naomi]

As well as the 7th page of the Tarot, The Chariot!

Nice list of facts there Ainsloch, fascinating!

[Ainsloch]

Good job...

Did you know that the teeth of a child appear in the seventh month?

Adding to this:

The child sheds them in the seventh year, at twice seven pyberty begins, three times seven mental and vital powers are developed and four times seven these are in full strength. Finally at five times seven passions are most developed.

Although I guess these facts depend on how you count, everyone has different experiences, even so...

Interesting... but I think the above is taking a few liberties with the number perhaps... I mean for example puberty has no specific onset in a child, it can't be pinned down exactly to 14, neither can intellectual prowess... in some it is pronounced from an extremely early age, in others not until much later.



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Six or seven colours in the spectrum of light... depends on whether you separate indigo and blue really. Some do, some don't. I didn't in this instance! It doesn't really matter... the number 7 is key to light whatever way you look at it, as it is to sound. And a whole lot of other stuff...

[Kuroyagi]

Ahh thanks! 7 is my fav number! Its the wisest and the most advanced of numbers indeed!

The Big Dipper- or 7star- plays a prominent role in Taoist alchemy, and also (as Iron Maiden sang) there are 7 deadly sins, 7 ways to win...7 holy paths to hell..;)

1. Moonchild

[Smith / Dickinson]

Seven deadly sins
Seven ways to win
Seven holy paths to hell
And your trip begins

Seven downward slopes
Seven bloodied hopes
Seven are your burning fires,
Seven your desires...

I am he the bornless one
The fallen angel watching you
Babylon, the scarlet whore
I'll infiltrate your gratitude
Don't you dare to save your son
Kill him now and save the young ones
Be the mother of a birth strangled babe
Be the devils own, Lucifer's my name

Moonchild - hear the mandrake scream
Open the seventh seal
Moonchild - You'll be mine soon child
Moonchild - take my hand tonight

I count the heads of those unborn
The accursed ones I'll find them all
If you die by your own hand
As a suicide you shall be damned
And if you try to save your soul
I will torment you - you shall not grow old
With every second and passing breath
You'll be so alone your soul will bleed to death

The twins they are exhausted, seven is the night
Gemini is rising as the red lips kiss to bite
Seven angels seven demons battle for his soul
When Gabriel lies sleeping, this child was born to die

One more dies one more lives
One baby cries One mother grieves
For all the sins you will commit
You'll beg forgiveness and none I'll give
A web of fear shall be your coat
To clothe you in the night
A lucky escape for now young man
But I see you damned in endless night.


Ah yeah those were the days...:p

[fr.novumorganum]

and my b-day is 7/7/7x

[MythMath]

I guess you had no choice... :laugh:

[fr.novumorganum]

and my middle name is Damien.

what do they keep saying about born satanists around here:laugh:

[Kuroyagi]

The festival Tanabata (=7 evenings) is celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th month- which is today/tomorrow (depending on your location), its to celebrate our galaxy! Happy Birthday (also to frater Novum Organum!!!), I have on the 13th July which is even a friday this year- also very auspicious....7 and 13 are both magical numbers, too. My apartements doornumber is 7 also, btw (and Im living right above a pharmacy- AND a local wicca shop next door went bankrupt as soon as I moved in...well, there can be only one witch per block it seems..;))

Tanabata (七夕, tanabata? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Japanese)), meaning "Seven Evenings") is a Japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) star (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star) festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival), derived from Obon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Festival) traditions and the Chinese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China) star festival, Qi Xi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_Xi). The festival is usually held on July 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_7), and celebrates the meeting of Orihime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orihime) (Vega (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega)) and Hikoboshi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikoboshi) (Altair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair)). The Milky Way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way), a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year. This special day is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata

Best wishes from Tenkou/Sky-king, K.!

p.s. i also found out just now via wiki search. 13. July- that I also have the same birthday as John Dee (and Julius Caesar)...the plot thickens...:p

[Luke Saint]

I'm gonna celebrate this holiday by buying a boat!!

[Luke Saint]

Well, I bought a $5 dollar tube, but still had a blast. Actually I spent this holiday(?) by spending time in the morning having a jolly chat with the police which worked out in my favor so I can't complain. 8/8/08 is next, but what's the significance of that I wonder? Anyway, peace.

[deviadah]

The 7-pointed star or heptagram is a mystical occult symbol. Like the pentagram, it has been called the Witch's Star, also the Astrologer's Star.

The heptagram also relates to the seven chakras of the body.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Weekday_heptagram.ant.png/180px-Weekday_heptagram.ant.pnghttp://hpathy.co.uk/media/heptagram.gif

Wikipedia on Heptagrams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptagram)

[Picatrix]

The Nizari Isma'ilis ("Assassins") greatly revered the number 7.

http://ismaili.net/mirrors/22_assassins/assassins.html << do a page search on the word "seven" and you will see it crops up many times, e.g. seven Prophets, seven degrees of initiation, etc.

[deviadah]

Together with the Knights Templar I am sure the sacred number seven journeyed back and forth between the two... after all alchemists lived on both sides of the conflict - and in alchemy the number seven is important!

[Picatrix]

Interesting ... can you elaborate on the Knights Templar connection with the number 7?

[deviadah]

I was more talking about the Assassins (http://alternative-history.blogspot.com/2007/07/assasins.html) + Templar connection and the fact that the Templars and Masonry/Alchemy interlink in symbolisms and ideas. Seven is a thread through it all, but there are other more important threads, in my view, like for instant the concept of the Holy Grail/Philosopher's Stone/Paradise... nirvana... imagination. VITRIOL!

[Picatrix]

I was more talking about the Assassins (http://alternative-history.blogspot.com/2007/07/assasins.html) + Templar connection and the fact that the Templars and Masonry/Alchemy interlink in symbolisms and ideas. Seven is a thread through it all, but there are other more important threads, in my view, like for instant the concept of the Holy Grail/Philosopher's Stone/Paradise... nirvana... imagination. VITRIOL!

Ok l clicked on the link. Thanks.

[Picatrix]

There are 7 dimensions in total.

[deviadah]

Oh I have heard many theories on that: 4, 7, 10, 10 000 etc... guess the only way to know is to see through this Demiurgian World!

:)

[wiz-oz]

Seven is the only single digit number that doesn't divide 720 evenly.
That very few music ratios are in the range of 7ths. Look at the ratios of sevenths:

1/7 = 142 857
2/7 = 285 714
3/7 = 428 571
4/7 = 571 428
5/7 = 714 285
6/7 = 857 142
2,999,997 [ends in 7] divide by 7 = 428,571 [2,999,997/27 =111,111]
(remember the Menorah and the central staff 3 on each side.)

[1]........................ [2].................. [4] ..................=7
142,857 x 2 = 285,714 x 2 = 571,428.
[3]........................ [6] ........................................=9
428,571x2 = 857,142
[5]...................... [1] ...........................................=6
714,285x 2 = 142,587

857142 -142857 = 714285.
714285 - 285714 = 428571.
571428 - 428571 = 142857.

1+4+2+2+8+5+4+2+8+5+7+1+7+1+4+8+5+7 = 81 [8-1=7] or (9x9)

Circulation of sevenths in space & time:


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y175/Wiz-OZ/CirculationofSevenths.jpg





You won't find this stuff in school - I can see why seven is so revered and held sacred only for the initiated.

Cheers from OZ

Cheers from OZ

[wiz-oz]

Here's another mystical seven. When a emybro single cell divides, the first 64 cells are un-differientated. Eg: all T-Cells. Then after 64 to 128 division they begin to make different cells.

This takes place in the seventh octave see below.
octave: 1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6 -7
cells: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ,128

Again the work number of the universe is at hand too "6". Also notice using cross addition 2-4-8-7-5-1-2 complete round.

cheers from OZ

[MythMath]

Ahh, I like that:

'seventh octave = 64'

Made me think of N. Haramein's
64-Tetrahedral-cell/merkaba doodad:

http://theresonanceproject.org/images/graphics/3d_nosphere.png

theresonanceproject.org/graphics (http://theresonanceproject.org/graphics.html)

http://theresonanceproject.org/images/graphics/flablue.png

Haramein's Unification Theory (http://theresonanceproject.org/research.html)

[MythMath]

This graphic was inspired by Ainsloch's earlier post (#2 (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showpost.php?p=22944&postcount=2)):

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/EarthMoonPyramidcopy.jpg

[wiz-oz]

Mythmath, thanks for posting the You-Tube presentation of Nassim's. Nice confirmation of the post on this forum about the 3 tiered tetra made up of 10 tetras with a hidden inverted 11th one, see my post:

http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=2108&highlight=wiz-oz&page=5

Mind you, he's taken to next level and beyond.

I looked at one of his graphics of the cubeoctahedrons/vector equilibriums and manipulated it to match, in the same thread (different post) above, to my Base 9 harmonics grid numbers, and reference to 2-4-8-7-5-1-2 [see image]:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y175/Wiz-OZ/Haramein1.jpg

See triangle 5-2-8 (Solfeggio MI – 528 Hz –Miracles (DNA Repair)
and notice that the base 2-8 also forms a truncated Great Pyramid at the top of the central hexagon before it gets to 5.

So if you took one side of the hexagon as 44ft (top truncated length of one side of GP, the hexagon would measure (6x44ft) 264ft long. Note GP full height 480ft - (truncated) 453.6ft = 26.4ft. Our DNA unwinds at 7° 20’ = 26400 seconds of arc. One octave up from harmonic 264 is 528. there's also 5280ft in a mile or 1min of arc.
It gets even better, The mean radius of the earth is 3,960 miles. The height of the Great Pyramid 280 ancient cubits. 280 times the square root of two equals 396. Note my central grid numbers. The diameter of 7920miles of the earth to the Pyramid base in your graphic is 7920miles/1.5 (ancient cubits were equal to one and a half feet) = 5280cubits. See in my Number Grid 7-9-2.


Note also that in the image below you can fit the 4x4 Lo-shu within the red square grid and that the green Cross pattern underlying the square seems to match the Borromean Rings.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y175/Wiz-OZ/Haramein2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y175/Wiz-OZ/BorromeanRings-1.jpg

All is connected. Thanks Mythmath for stimulating this line of enquiry. I guess it gives further creditability on what Nassim is doing and provides me some comfort about the information I'm getting thru' which sometimes doesn't seem to fit - yet here's the confirmation.

(aussie lingo) Good-on-ya mate!

[MythMath]

More where that came from... ;)

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/GPTernarylinkcopy.jpg

15-point Ternary Matrix (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=2692)

[wiz-oz]

If Nassim is on the right track then it's a nice confirmation of your own work too. Seems we all have pieces of a puzzle. But I suspect the more one delves into the building blocks, the more one finds whether at micro or macro level. I'm beginning to believe the quest for the 'holy grail' is elusive. That the macro/micro world leads infinitely in either direction. This would be consistent with Hassim's equilibrium theory. It stands to reason that if CERN's LHC finds a basic building block, then we are in a finite universe. When they point telescopes out to the edges of the known universe and claim that it's the boundary of the big bang, I think they don't take into account that there's light waves still yet to reach us, so of course it would appear that way.

I'm not an astrophysicist, so not bound by the paradigns they've created.

cheers