Big Book of Numerology by Shirley Blackwell Lawrence

Author:Shirley Blackwell Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633411463
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

Heptad

Throughout the ages in every religion the 7 was a symbol of the ensouled, living man. The Pythagoreans called this number “the vehicle of life” since it contained body and soul: 6 applies to the physical dimensions of height and depth, front and back, right and left sides, and is animated by the seventh dimension, the living, vital essence within which is the immortal spirit.

Spiritual man is known to have seven senses, the five physical, including sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing, plus the sixth of mental perception and the seventh of spiritual understanding.

The 7 was sacred because it contained 3 and 4: 4 being matter and 3 being the spirit that activates it. The Kabbalah shows the cube representing matter when it is unfolded and becomes the cross of four squares down and three across. This is the Tau form that symbolizes the Element of life.

Sometimes it is shown as a triangle above the square. The triangle is the threefold spiritual body of spirit, mind, and soul descending into the physical form (the square) on Earth. After death they disconnect, the lower quarternary turning to dust and the spiritual body continuing. “Then the dust shall return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return to God who gave it” (Ecclesiastes 12:7).

The 7 was sacred to life because babies who are born in the seventh month generally live, while those born in the eighth month perish. Pythagoras said this was because 7 is composed of 3 and 4, masculine and feminine forces. But 8 is composed of 4 and 4 which is a purely feminine number or force and unable to supply the strength needed to survive.

The Heptad was called “Minerva,” the unmarried virgin goddess who was said to have sprung from the forehead of Zeus, or Jove. This was the same as if she had come directly from the Father of All, the Monad.

The figure 7 is like the Monad (1) but with a line extending from the head, thus: 7, to depict the event. It also portrays the helmet that Minerva wore. So 7 is representative of helmet shapes, horned shapes, crescent forms, and shapes with curves on the right side. In the law of opposites, 7 is “crooked and straight.”

There are seven creative double letters in the Sepher Yetzirah and there are seven Elohim who make up the manifested aspects of the Godhead. These are the same seven. In Christian scripture they are referred to as “the sons of God” and are the ones who say, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. . . .” (Genesis 2:26).

Every culture has reference to these seven primordial powers, which are the Elohim, nature powers, or planetary gods, the creative hierarchies. Their tools are the seven primary colors and the seven tones of music that supply the keynote of vibration to every living thing.

Pythagoras calculated the tones of the planets according to their distance from each other, reasoning that their movement creates a vibration, which in turn creates a musical sound.

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