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Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues, by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], at sacred-texts.com


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CONTENTS

 

PAGE

Preface to the First Edition

5

„ „ Second Edition

7

„ „ Third Edition

9

PART I.

 

Pythagoras, his Tenets and his Followers

11

PART II.

 

Pythagorean Views on Numbers

16

PART III.

 

Kabalistic View on Numbers

22

PART IV.

 

Properties of the Numbers According to the Bible, the Talmuds, the Pythagoreans, the Romans, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Hindoos, Mediæval Magicians, Hermetic Students and the Rosicrucians:—

 

    1. Monad

33

    2. Dyad

36

    3. Triad

41

    3½. Three and a Half

49

    4. Tetrad

50

    5. Pentad

59

    6. Hexad

66

    7. Heptad

72

    8. Ogdoad

85

    9. Ennead

88

    10. Decad

93

    11. Eleven

100

    12. Twelve

102

    13. Thirteen

109

    Some Hindoo Uses of Numbers

110

    Other Higher Numbers

111

    Numbers of the Apocalypse

126


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