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COLLECTANEA HERMJETICA
VOL. IX.
THEIR
OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES
BY
W. WYNN WESTCOTT
SUPREME MAGUS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETY OF ENGLAND
AUTHOR OF
"the isiac tablet," "the SEPHER YETZIRAH,"
THIRD EDITION
LONDON
THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY
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CONTENTS
Preface to the First Edition
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PART I.
Pythagoras, his Tenets and his Followers
PART ll.
Pythagorean Views on Numbers
X PART III.
Kabalistic View^n Numbers
PART IV.
Properties of the Numbers according to the
Bible, the Talmuds, the Pythagoreans, the
Romans, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Hindoos, Medieval Magicians, Hermetic Students and the rosicrucians:—
1. Monad …
2. Dyad … … Z^
3. Triad …
3^. Three and a Half …
4. Tetrad …
5. Pentad …
6. Hexad …
7. Heptad … … … *''
8. Ogdoad …
9. Ennead …
10. Decad …
ll. Eleven …
12. Twelve …
13. Thirteen
Some Hindoo Uses of Numbers
Other Higher Numbers
Numbers of the Apocalypse
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1890.
Seven years hailv^ passed since this essay was written, and the MSS. pages have been lent to many friends and students of mystic lore and occult meanings. It is only at the earnest request of these kindly critics that …