Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-30
MEANINGS OF NUMBERS.
4 Science that Was Old When Moses
Lived-Ts,ismhns OF the
Planets Under Seals
OF the Guardian AngeIs-sevcn is the Noble
Number. Ten the attributes
of Divinity.
New York Press.


teric or hioden meaning of numbers, dates
back to time of which we in this day
have no record. II is supposed that it
was old when Semirsmis, the great queen,
ruled over the besrded and curled Assyri-
ans; that it was part Of the wisdom OF
the Egyptians which Moses, the lawgfver,
studied; that 1t formed part Of the mys-
tic knowledge OF the Msgi. The cabal-
lists, these learned doctors Of the ancient
Hebrew race, believed and taught that in
the power of numbers WAS the power of
God, and that in the scriptures
was hidden knowledge, which,
II Ii could be revealed. would sub
iect all forces OF nature to its possessor.
As in the days when the races which have
now passed away ruled and dominated
this old earth, numbers were expressed
by letters. Each word had nud erical
value, and it was by the everlasting pre-
seutstion of letters that men hoped to
arrive st the great hidden secret OF Sc
crets.
In time, as the knowledge Of the cabsl-
lists WAS welded to the astrological and
lachemical science, in which all learned
men dug and delvcd, the numbers them
selves became opce more the things
which contained the hidden meanings.
To esch was attached value, and each
expressed many different ideas of greater
or less importance. TIE transla-
ton Of them depended upon the
context, and, as they may be trans
lated in any one OF dozen or more dif-
ferent ways, the works Of the greatest
astrologers and alchemists may be under
stood in almost sny fashion one chooses
Il is this fact which makes the study Of
astrologY in the present age somewhat
alien to the thresning OF straw, the
student never being certain that he has
got at what his author meant to say.
Sill these esoteric meanings of numbers
are to the last degree curious, and, in
view of the fact that literally millions OF
hours have been spent over them, they
possess that interest which attaches itself
to any subject which has been the cause
Of great mental effort.
The number one, as the beginning OF
numbers, before which there is nothing
and from which all others are formed,
sym5olizes the one and only supre me
God. The name Of God is written in the
one Hebrew letter Zod, which is made
with one stroke. The number also repre-
sents the phenix, that mysterious bird
which never had 9 mate, and from whose
ashes the next phenix was born. There
is also but one philosophers stone, one
sun and one moon, one soul and one great
heart Of humanity. There were two hu-
man beings created. Adam and Eve, as
there are two sexes, male and female.
There are two Cherubim, there are
two tables of the law. There Is
81 Of Shn dre
typifying the ascending ard describing
nodes OF the moon. Day and night form
the day, represented, therefore, by the
ture, the spirit and soul, the sun and
and brain, are among the mystic douo-
let's. To every known object there is
form and substance, without which it
could not exist.
The number three is one Of the greatest
of all. The Trinity has three persons
Fsthar, Son and Holy Ghost, VINO are
served by the three degrees among the
angels, supreme, middle and infe-
rior. The soul has three principle
parts, intellectual, sensitive and
vegetable. 1t is difficult TO explain
what the vegetable part of the soul can
be, ard probably for that reason the old
astrologers contented themselves with
naming it and leaving their followers
chance to do some guessing on their own
account. Three theological or religious
virtues are mentioned by Saint Paul
faith, hope and charity-aud Saint Paul
is easily understood. But there are
three rulers of the world, chiefly remark
able for their curious names, Oramszim,
Mitrin and Araminim. Alchemy had
three principal elements, salt, sulphur
and mercury, while sstrologY has three
divisions of the signs Of the zodisc. NOV
able, fixed and common. The heavenly
bodies sre divided into cardinal, succe-
dent and cadent, and in all space there
are three dimensions.
The figure four represented the Tetra-
gamation, the unspeaksble name of God,
the real pronunciation OF which has been
lost for at least 1000 years. But there
are the four elements-eorth, air, fire and
water; four archsngels-Michsel, Rs
phael, Gabriel and Uriel; four winds
Eurus, Zepherus, Aquilo and Auster;
four cardinal points-four triplicites of
the signs Of the zodiaZ; four hamors In
the body-blood, the bile, the choler and
the melancholy. Four seasons are also
indicated by the number, and in certain
modern game much studied by philoso-
piers, four of kind is nice hand TO
hold. The numbers five and six
were not held in much estimation.
There were five fingers of the hand
and FIVE points of the body an
swering to the FIVE orders Of angels.
But with seven the noble number is
reached. The seven planets, Saturn, Jupi-
ter, Mars, the sun, Venus, Mercury, and
the moon. Esch had an srchsngel pre-
siding over 1t. These were in the order
named, Zaphkiel, Z.dkiel, Camael, Rs
phael, Hamel, Michael and Gabriel. Un-
der these were inferior angels, one of
whom was especially attached to each
planet. They acted IS lieutenants or
deputies of the others, and their names
were Cassiel. Sschiel, Ssmmsel, Michael,
Hsnael, Raphael and Gabriel. Although
1t seems IS if there was lack Of names,
forcing them to use the same one twice,
in point OF fact these names were arrived
at by some mysterious process only IN
oerstood by its inventor, II understood at
all. According to Paracelsus, who WAS