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THE SYMBOLISM OF THE NUMBERS – II F
O U R The four symbolizes the physical Universe, the Earth, the form, the
stable things. The Earth and the man are composed by four elementary substances:
earth, water, air and fire. The square or the cube and also the cross are the geometric figures
that represent the four. The four is the symbol of the manifested, created, material
Universe limited by the four sides. The name o God was represented by Hebrews by Tetragram (literally:
four letters) or Tetragramaton, constituted of four letters: I E V E (JeHoVaH). In the main languages the name of
God has four letters: DEUS Latin-Portuguese ALAH Arab GOTT German GODT
Germanic DIOS Spanish
JHVH Hebrew (Jehovah) GOTH Swedish
BAAL Phoenician AMON Egyptian
GODH Danish TEOS Greek ADAT Assyrian ZEUS Old Greek NEBO Chaldean THOT Viking
SHIN Japanese The three it relates with the spiritual, divine, spiritual world and
the four to the material plan. Plato told that the three represents the idea and the four the
accomplishment. The name of the first man ADAM (Adam) owns four letters. In the Apocalypse, Ezequiel has the vision of “four alive beings”: the
man, the lion, the bull and the eagle. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: the hunger, the war, the
plague and the death. The Apocalypse talks about the four winds that blow of the four
extremities of the Earth. Besides the Bible other old civilizations mention the “four winds”
that blow of the four corners of the world. The Eden river when leaving
the Paradise it divides into four – this symbolizes man's fall in the matter
whose symbol is the four, the cross. According to science the four fundamental elements of the matter are
the carbon, the oxygen, the hydrogen and nitrogen. The four cardinals points:
north, south, east and west. The four phases of the moon:
new, crescent, full, and gibbous. The four seasons:
spring, summer, fall and winter. The four bases of a nation:
race, language, belief and tradition. The four fundamental operations of the Arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division. The four man's ages: CHILDHOOD – plays, hope. YOUTH – loves, action, work MATURITY – thinks, reflection, meditation. OLD AGE – reminds, serenity. The four man's temperaments: TRANQUIL (phlegmatic) NERVOUS (melancholic or pessimistic) ACTIVE (sanguine) VOLUNTEER (bilious or ambitious) C O R R E S P O N D E N C E S ELEMENTS Earth
Water Air Fire ELEMENTALS Gnomes Undines
Sylphs Salamanders CARDINAL POINTS North West East
South QUALITIES OF THE ELEMENTS Cold Humid
Dry Hot HIEROGLYPH Eagle Ox
Man Lion PHASES LIFE Old age Childhood
Maturity Youth SEASONS YEAR Winter Spring Fall
Summer * *
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I V E The number five symbolizes the domain of the spirit on the matter. It is the sum of the number 1, the creator principle, the spirit, with the 4, the matter, the four elements
– forming the human body. The symbol of the five is the star of five tips called of pentagram.
The pentagram was used as symbol of the Secret Society created by
Pythagoras. In the ceremonial magic the pentagram is used at the center of the
magic altar. The pentagram also symbolizes the man, because the five star's tips (2
legs, 2 arms and the head), seem a man with the extended arms. The pentagram with the tip upwards symbolizes the domain of the
intelligence and of the wish on the wishes and the matter; with the tip
downwards means the domain of the instincts on the reason. For magicians represents man's domain on the four elements: gnomes,
undines, sylphs and the salamanders. According to old the Quinte-essence would be an ethereal, very
pure and refined substance that would give life to the four elements that
form the alive beings. Pythagoras considered the odd numbers masculine and the even feminine.
The Pythagoreans considered the five as the number of the marriage,
because it consists of sum of the 2, first feminine with the 3, masculine;
the five unites a masculine quality to a feminine. The five in life: The man owns five senses: vision, audition, smell, palate and touch. The senses put the man in relation with the world; without them
we could not notice the great variety
of things that there are in the Universe. The human hand owns five fingers. Only the man and the monkeys own a flexible hand and with five
fingers; without them the brain highly developed of the man could not
execute, accomplish their mental creations. * * * S I X The number six symbolizes the balance between sky and the earth, the spirit and the matter. The geometric symbol of the six is the star of six tips, hexagram or
Salomon’s seal, who consists in two interlaced triangles. The superior triangle, with the tip upwards represents the divine
world, the spirit, the fire. The triangle inferior, with the tip downwards, symbolizes the physical
world, the matter, the water. The six establishes the balance among two forces: the cosmic and the
terrestrial. The hexagram represents the hermetic principle: “as well as it is
on top it is in low”. This principle help us to understand that the divine world is not very
different from the material world and the men that inhabit it; as well as a
cat has many of the psychic and physical qualities of a man: love (to the
nestlings), rage, fear, memory; eyes, legs, heart, lungs, etc. Although the hexagram is considered a Jewish symbol, it is much more
old than Salomon. It was found in the pyramids and Egyptian monuments; in India is known
as Vishnu’s Sign, being common to find him painted in many houses as a
talisman against the badly. The Bible says that God created the world in six days and His maxim
work, the man, was created in the sixth day. The six also can be considered as the symbol of the sexual union of
whose act arises a physical body united to a spiritual body. In latin sex = six, sexus = sex. In the mathematics is considered a perfect number. The perfect numbers
are the ones that are alike to the sum of their divisors. Example: 6 = 1 + 2 + 3. The perfect numbers are rare and just know the 6 first: 6 – 28 – 496 – 8128 and 33550336. The six is the unique perfect number whose divisors are consecutive:
1,2,3. Besides, the six is alike to the product of their divisors: 1 x 2 x 3
= 6. Concluding the six is a doubly perfect number.
(continue) + + + The best man cannot live in peace, if it doesn’t go of the pleasure of
your neighbor. Johann
Schiller What is, perhaps, the life? A true comedy. Each one represents in her a different character, each one
plays his paper always of placed mask, until the scene director sends go out
from the stage.
Gerard Erasmo The sensible not search revenge of his enemy: it lets that care to
life.
Paul Courty To live is a disease that the sleep us cure of fifteen in fifteen
hours: it is a palliative. Only the
death is the medicine.
Sebastien Chamfort They tell that for revenge is sweet: to the bee costs life. Carmen
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