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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (22)
Such, again, is the number of the most general motions, according to which all origination takes place - up, down, to the right, to the left, forward, backward. Rightly, then, they reckon the number seven motherless and childless, interpreting the Sabbath, and figuratively expressing the nature of the rest, in which "they neither marry nor are given in marriage any more." For neither by taking from one number and adding to another of those within ten is seven produced; nor when added to any number within the ten does it make up any of them.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (64)
The seven double letters having been designed, established, purified, weighed, and exchanged by God, He formed of them seven planets in the universe, ...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(4)
From two letters, or forms He composed two dwellings; from three, six; from four, twenty-four; from five, one hundred and twenty; from six, seven...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Pythagorean Mathematics (128)
By the Pythagoreans the heptad--7--was called "worthy of veneration." It was held to be the number of religion, because man is controlled by seven...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (128)
The Motion of the three Births lasted the Length of six Days and Nights, wherein all the seven Spirits of God stood in a full moving Birth or...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (18)
The ten numbers (Sephiroth) out of Nothing are analogous to the ten fingers and the ten toes: five over against five. In the center between them is th...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (8)
And this Spirit is always generated from the six, and subsists always continually, and is never missing or wanting, nor does ever pass away, and it ag...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (53)
And in this Form consists Paradise, or the Kingdom of God, or the numberless divine Birth, out of one only Essence xinto all Essences.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (51)
The three Mothers, א מ ש, enclose a great, wonderful, and unknown mystery, and are sealed by six wings (or elementary circles), namely, air, water, fi...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (75)
With the seven double letters He also designed seven earths, seven heavens, seven continents, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days, sev...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Pythagorean Mathematics (130)
The 3 (spirit, mind, and soul) descend into the 4 (the world), the sum being the 7, or the mystic nature of man, consisting of a threefold spiritual...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(2)
Ten are the numbers, as are the Sephiroth, and twenty-two the letters, these are the Foundation of all things. Of these letters, three are mothers,...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (14)
Seven Spirits of God, the Figures and Creatures of the Transitories are formed, and not thus generated; though indeed the Birth or Geniture of all the...
Sefer Yetzirah
[Supplement to Chapter IV]:(8)
By these seven letters were also made seven worlds, seven heavens, seven lands, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days (as before),...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (16)
For the whole or total God stands in seven Species or Kinds, or in a sevenfold Form or Generating; and if these Births or Genitures were not, then the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Pythagorean Mathematics (129)
Among many ancient nations the heptad is a sacred number. The Elohim of the Jews were supposedly seven in number. They were the Spirits of the Dawn,...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (30)
The seventh Spirit is Nature, in which stands the corporeal Being of all six Spirits, for the six Spirits generate the seventh. In this Spirit stands...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (48)
For the Birth or Geniture of God also is thus; the seventh Nature-Spirit does not reach back into its Father, which generates it, but holds still and ...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (93)
The seven Wheels one in another, the one always generating the other, and going on every Side, and yet not one out of Sight, or turning back; these...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter V:(3)
Three mothers, seven double and twelve simple, these are the twenty-two letters with which I H V H Tetragrammaton, that is our Lord of Hosts,...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (18)
These seven Generatings in all are none of them the first, the second, or the third, or last, but they are all Seven, every one of them, both the...
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