Let's return to the Kabbalists and numbers. So: the “sacred numbers of the Kabbalists” are simply observed properties of biological phases that are directly influenced by planetary dynamics. But these properties are “noted” correctly. There is nothing “sacred” in them, but they still reflect the objective dynamics of the Created World, which means they cannot simply be “swept aside.” They just need to “blow away the garbage of the occult” and ignorance. That's all. You can use it.
The basis of all “magic of numbers”, like “Kabbalah”, is simply calendar counting and cosmology. Everything else comes from dullness, superstition and deliberate hoaxes. The Pythagorean Nicomachus wrote: “Everything that is systematically created by nature in the Universe, both in its parts and as a whole, is determined and ordered in accordance with number according to the plan of the Creator of all things, for the plan was reflected in a preliminary scheme under the influence of the number conceived by God - the creator, a number that is still speculative and immaterial, but at the same time reflecting the essence and meaning. In accordance with it, with this artistic plan, everything must be created - things, time, movement, heavens, stars and all types of transformations."
There are “original” properties of numbers, which reflect precisely the properties of our world with which it was created, and there are piles of “nonsense” attributed to them, which are proof of man’s limitless possibility of making mistakes.
When Pythagoras studied in Egypt, there was already a mixed form of theogony, taught in different main temples (and there were 12 of them - it would be surprising if the number were different) in different ways. We are now most interested in the one that is known as the teaching of the priests of the Sophiz temple (at least no later than 600 BC, and it’s difficult to say how much earlier). I already wrote in “The Creation of the World” that the cosmogony of Hermopolis corresponded to the biblical one. Now let's read something from Sophiz:
And everything is God, and nothing is God. Everything came from God and nothing feeds Him.
God originated the principle. The principle turned into a primary shell and, ascending to heaven, became the firmament.
God breathed nature into every dead creature and made it alive.
Man rose from the dust and fell on his face before the sky. And this was the first god.
Lightning flashed in the sky and went into infinity. Night has come.
The man approached the fire and bowed to it.
The fire flashed seven times and plunged the man into darkness.
Then the man made himself a third idol, likening it to the murmuring of a forest stream.
The rain put out the fire, and this went on two times three.
And the man made a fourth idol - a stone one, so that he could withstand the elements. He brought all kinds of food to his feet and cried out: “Are you God?” “God... god... god... god... god...” answered the idol.
The man rejoiced at his creation and called it the greatest names. But he did not realize that it was only an echo that rolled through the mountains.
He who has an ear, let him hear; whoever has eyes, let him see; whoever has intelligence, let him understand. And having understood, let him put a lock on his lips.
If you noticed, the “vocabulary and phraseology” is almost “biblical”, and some phrases are downright “traditional”. In this case, the Egyptian priest formally talks about the emergence of pagan beliefs. They understood perfectly well that neither sky, nor fire, nor water, nor stone (earth) are gods (that is, nothing earthly). I have already shown this in “The Creation of the World” in a quotation from Noferka-Ra, which directly states that all the inscriptions in the pyramids and temples are “false,” that is, they actually have a different meaning. Ahmes, in his scroll known as "The Ladder" (On the acquisition of secret knowledge), described the "key". This key also applies to the 12-member text Sophiz. The general meaning is clear - everything in the Created World contains a Divine Plan, but not every plan leads us to God.
Sophiz's text contains a direct "Numeric Code". It is he, in the opinion of its author, that can lead to God (Ahmes said this in the form of a cat-mouse-grain problem, but here it is expressed in the form of a “history of paganism” in the manner of a cosmogonic legend).
These are pairs of numbers: 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5 “encrypted in text”
1 – the first “god” is the sky; 8 – infinity;
2 – second “god” fire; 7 – flashed seven times;
3 – the third “god” is water; 6 – two times three;
4 – fourth “god” earth; 5 – fivefold echo.
1+8=9; 2+7=9; 3+6=9; 4+5=9.
Numbers and elements are not gods, but numbers can lead to God, for they contain a “plan.” And God is most expressed in the number “9”. The Enead is well known to experts in antiquity, so we won’t repeat it. “Five Letters on the Teachings of Rosenkreutz” (letter one: On the true meaning of life): “The transitory cannot explain the Absolute and control it. It cannot lead us to God.” From this point of view, all philosophical and dogmatic religious teachings are transitory, and therefore do not lead to God. But then there is NOTHING left. No, it remains. Numbers.
We are well aware of three number systems (in fact, there are any number of them, only humanity is “historically” (cosmogonically, anthropologically) “tied” to three):
Twelve, because it is “heliocentric,” that is, it begins with the period of the Earth’s revolution around the Sun, 12 months, 12 lunar periods. That is, it is a “celestial system”. She is the oldest. Characterizes “nodal planetodynamics”.
Decimal, because it is “anthropological”, that is, it has as its “root” a “five-fingered” person, 10 fingers, 10 toes. That is, “counting on fingers.” This is the "earth system". She is more "young". Characterizes “anthropodynamics”.
Binary because it is “unambiguous”, that is, everything has only one answer out of two possible ones - either “yes” or “no”. Either "1" or "0". This is a "computer system". She is the “youngest”. Characterizes “information dynamics”.
Strictly speaking, “in the head” of the computer and programmers there is also a hexadecimal system through which programs are “disassembled”, well, that’s how the path to “machine languages” went.
From the point of view of pure mathematics, the decimal system is much more convenient than the decimal system, and Babylon was right here. While the number 5 (half of 10) is a prime number, 6 (half of 12) is the smallest value divisible by two numbers - 3 and 2; 50 is divisible by 2, 5, 10 and 25, and 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30. In addition, the number 6 is objectively a “perfect number” (that is, the sum of its fractions equal to the number itself: ½ of 6 = 3, 1/3 - 2, 1/6 - 1; 3+2+1=6; 6=6), and they are extremely rare. The 12-digit system has much more “vitality” and “flexibility” even in the process of calculation itself. The “remnants” of this ancient system are “dozens” of eggs in our refrigerators, a watch on our wrist, a calendar on the wall, an angular count in degrees, etc.
It is in the basis of “number systems” that many of the “magical properties” of numbers are already laid down. Well, for example, what are the “signs of divisibility” in the binary system, where there is nothing at all except two signs? Only sequences of tic-tac-toe, and no “magic” “3”, “7”, “12”, “40”, “70”. Therefore, we need to be clearly aware that it is we ourselves who first introduce a whole mountain of “subjectivity” into the “material”, then we rummage through it, find the footprints of our own shoes and begin to look for “little green men” in these footprints. Ward №6.
But the objective properties of numbers, which cannot follow from the subjectivity of the number system, give us “something”, “what they don’t talk about, what they don’t teach in school.”
And if someone once discovered these properties, then it is stupid to take an ostrich position on the simple grounds that we do not like the “biography” of the discoverer. What can you do, once upon a time all electric cars were perceived as “devils.” The Church has always denied what it did not understand. Everyone cannot go at the speed of the last one, otherwise no one will get there. Help is needed along the way, but the “groups” should be composed of approximately equal strength.
Everyone probably knows the I Ching. In Confucianism, it is the first of the books. The main means of communication between the ancient Chinese and the “otherworldly” world was fortune telling, which led to the creation of the “Canon of Changes” (“I Ching”), which essentially became a kind of philosophy for comprehending the givenness of this world. Chinese sources insist on dating the I Ching to the life of the semi-mythical Emperor Fudi 2852-2738. BC, which is quite doubtful. Probably when in 1027 BC. Zhou troops defeated Yin, and the god Shandi had to give up his place to the impersonal Sky, then the cult of ancestors and the cult of Shandi were transposed to the Zhou Heaven, which acquired the features of an ancestor and a “pair” to the Earth. At the same time, the concepts of two human souls and other features very similar to the concepts of Mesopotamia and Egypt appeared. Therefore, around the 8th century BC. in China, the “first version” of the I-Ching was formed. If you know, then the “I Ching” is a “tablet” of 8 by 8 “cells” in which 64 hexagrams are written, that is, combinations of solid and six stripes broken in the middle. I will give a short “interpretation”.
For example: 1 – “Qian”. Creation. "Ian." Men's. April. Favorable. Spring hopes. No later than six months later there will be changes. Personal uncertainty. You will pass the test if you are determined. All your forces are still waiting for action, like a diving dragon. Meeting with someone important
raised to the power of 7. Just by the name and the number “7,” any specialist will say that the papyrus is not “mathematical” at all, but “religious.”
Ahmes talks about how the main way to find all secret knowledge is power operations with numbers. Pythagoras never understood this. For more than 30 years of studying with the Egyptian priests, he was “primarily” initiated into the “magic” square, which they did not understand, which we now call the “Pythagorean table”. But he never understood its real meaning. Pythagoras multiplied the numbers of rows and columns, obtained an effective result, and then “operated” with the result. But the possibilities of the square were not limited to this. Thus he gave results for the primitive material world. Numbers had to be raised to a power, and then transferred to the “vibrating position” - this was the SECRET of AHMES, which gave access to the secrets of the “heavenly staircase”.
Pythagoreanism was dead from the very beginning, because its founder remained a dropout. The secret of the I Ching is exactly the same. Not one of the “great masters” of the I Ching living today knows the real secret of the “Book of Changes” (at least I couldn’t find one, maybe I don’t know the “greatest”). We will see all this in the next chapter, but for now let’s talk about the numbers themselves.
The secret of the "nine". Oh, how much nonsense there is here. To begin with, I will offer you a mathematical “trick” so that you understand that all “secrets” are obvious. Think of a three-digit number so that the first and last digits are different, write it backwards, subtract the smaller from the larger; “turn over” the resulting difference again and add it to the “unturned” one. Whatever number you initially came up with, there will always be only one answer - 1089.
The secret is simple. If you add 1+8+9=18, then 1+8=9, you will get the “digital root” of the number 1089. It is equal to “9”. If you take any three-digit number, turn it over, and subtract the smaller from the larger, then the sum of the extreme digits will always be “9”, and in the middle there will also be “9”. The “digital root” of the difference is always “9”.
The fastest way to obtain a "digital root" is the "dropping nines" method. Add the first two numbers, discard “9” from the sum and add the rest further, that is, 1089=1+8-9=0+9=9, leaving “9” - this is the “digital root”.
If you take any large number and rearrange its digits in any order, and then subtract the smaller from the larger, the “digital root” of the result will always be “9.”
Write any large number, add up all its digits and subtract the resulting sum from the initial number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”.
Come up with any large number, find the sum of its digits, multiply by “9” and add the result to the original number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. Etc. and so on.
A not very educated person will immediately start talking about the “magic nine”, the “sacred Enead”, the “great Sephiroth”, about... other near-religious nonsense. And “the casket opened simply”:
All the “mysterious” properties of nine are explained by a completely primitive fact - this figure is the last in the decimal system we use.
Would you like me to reveal to you the “magical secret” of the number 12 in the Babylonian system? Nevermind? You guessed it yourself. Well, yes, 12 is the last digit. Thus, “magical properties” can be given to any number, you just need to choose the appropriate number system for it. Seven will become “completely magical” in the octal system. Accordingly, the properties of the remaining numbers do not depend at all on the numbers themselves, but on their place in the number system.
The “digital root” of numbers is much more “stable” than the numbers themselves. We have already noticed this in the ability of the number “9” to appear in complex permutations of digits in numbers. If you take any number with a digital root of “9”, rearrange its digits in any way you like, add it to the original one, and repeat this process as many times as you like, then in the end the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”.
There are many such properties of the “digital root”, and they are not limited to addition. The “digital root” of the product of the “digital roots” of two factors is equal to the “digital root” of the product of these factors. This suggests that the “digital root” is like the “soul of a number”, which is preserved during rather complex operations with numbers.
Theosophical Kabbalists call the operation of obtaining a “digital root” “theosophical addition”, or “theosophical reduction”, and the root itself is considered as “the vibrating basis of the original multi-digit number”.
Poetic. With such allegories it is not far from magic.
With such “poetry” and “sacredness” we have already fooled the average person so much that in number theory there is even a section of “psychology”. If you ask an ordinary person to name a number from 1 to 10, he will name “7” with a very high probability. If you limit the range from 1 to 5, then it will be "3". Because we have drilled “magic numbers” into the average person’s head. The same will happen if you ask to name a number in the range from 1 to 50, but so that all the numbers are different and odd. Naturally, with the greatest probability it will be “37”, that is, a combination of the same
FROM THE HISTORY OF “MAGIC”” NUMBERS
Let's return to the Kabbalists and numbers. So: the “sacred numbers of the Kabbalists” are simply observed properties of biological phases that are directly influenced by planetary dynamics. But these properties are “noted” correctly. There is nothing “sacred” in them, but they still reflect the objective dynamics of the Created World, which means they cannot simply be “swept aside.” They just need to “blow away the garbage of the occult” and ignorance. That's all. You can use it. The basis of all “magic of numbers”, like “Kabbalah”, is simply calendar counting and cosmology. Everything else comes from dullness, superstition and deliberate hoaxes. The Pythagorean Nicomachus wrote: “Everything that is systematically created by nature in the Universe, both in its parts and as a whole, is determined and ordered in accordance with number according to the plan of the Creator of all things, for the plan was reflected in a preliminary scheme under the influence of the number conceived by God - the creator, a number that is still speculative and immaterial, but at the same time reflecting the essence and meaning. In accordance with it, with this artistic plan, everything must be created - things, time, movement, heavens, stars and all types of transformations." There are “original” properties of numbers, which reflect precisely the properties of our world with which it was created, and there are piles of “nonsense” attributed to them, which are proof of man’s limitless possibility of making mistakes. When Pythagoras studied in Egypt, there was already a mixed form of theogony, taught in different main temples (and there were 12 of them - it would be surprising if the number were different) in different ways. We are now most interested in the one that is known as the teaching of the priests of the Sophiz temple (at least no later than 600 BC, and it’s difficult to say how much earlier). I already wrote in “The Creation of the World” that the cosmogony of Hermopolis corresponded to the biblical one. Now let's read something from Sophiz:
If you noticed, the “vocabulary and phraseology” is almost “biblical”, and some phrases are downright “traditional”. In this case, the Egyptian priest formally talks about the emergence of pagan beliefs. They understood perfectly well that neither sky, nor fire, nor water, nor stone (earth) are gods (that is, nothing earthly). I have already shown this in “The Creation of the World” in a quotation from Noferka-Ra, which directly states that all the inscriptions in the pyramids and temples are “false,” that is, they actually have a different meaning. Ahmes, in his scroll known as "The Ladder" (On the acquisition of secret knowledge), described the "key". This key also applies to the 12-member text Sophiz. The general meaning is clear - everything in the Created World contains a Divine Plan, but not every plan leads us to God. Sophiz's text contains a direct "Numeric Code". It is he, in the opinion of its author, that can lead to God (Ahmes said this in the form of a cat-mouse-grain problem, but here it is expressed in the form of a “history of paganism” in the manner of a cosmogonic legend). These are pairs of numbers: 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5 “encrypted in text”
1 – the first “god” is the sky; 8 – infinity; 2 – second “god” fire; 7 – flashed seven times; 3 – the third “god” is water; 6 – two times three; 4 – fourth “god” earth; 5 – fivefold echo. 1+8=9; 2+7=9; 3+6=9; 4+5=9.
Numbers and elements are not gods, but numbers can lead to God, for they contain a “plan.” And God is most expressed in the number “9”. The Enead is well known to experts in antiquity, so we won’t repeat it. “Five Letters on the Teachings of Rosenkreutz” (letter one: On the true meaning of life): “The transitory cannot explain the Absolute and control it. It cannot lead us to God.” From this point of view, all philosophical and dogmatic religious teachings are transitory, and therefore do not lead to God. But then there is NOTHING left. No, it remains. Numbers.
We are well aware of three number systems (in fact, there are any number of them, only humanity is “historically” (cosmogonically, anthropologically) “tied” to three): Twelve, because it is “heliocentric,” that is, it begins with the period of the Earth’s revolution around the Sun, 12 months, 12 lunar periods. That is, it is a “celestial system”. She is the oldest. Characterizes “nodal planetodynamics”. Decimal, because it is “anthropological”, that is, it has as its “root” a “five-fingered” person, 10 fingers, 10 toes. That is, “counting on fingers.” This is the "earth system". She is more "young". Characterizes “anthropodynamics”. Binary because it is “unambiguous”, that is, everything has only one answer out of two possible ones - either “yes” or “no”. Either "1" or "0". This is a "computer system". She is the “youngest”. Characterizes “information dynamics”. Strictly speaking, “in the head” of the computer and programmers there is also a hexadecimal system through which programs are “disassembled”, well, that’s how the path to “machine languages” went. From the point of view of pure mathematics, the decimal system is much more convenient than the decimal system, and Babylon was right here. While the number 5 (half of 10) is a prime number, 6 (half of 12) is the smallest value divisible by two numbers - 3 and 2; 50 is divisible by 2, 5, 10 and 25, and 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30. In addition, the number 6 is objectively a “perfect number” (that is, the sum of its fractions equal to the number itself: ½ of 6 = 3, 1/3 - 2, 1/6 - 1; 3+2+1=6; 6=6), and they are extremely rare. The 12-digit system has much more “vitality” and “flexibility” even in the process of calculation itself. The “remnants” of this ancient system are “dozens” of eggs in our refrigerators, a watch on our wrist, a calendar on the wall, an angular count in degrees, etc. It is in the basis of “number systems” that many of the “magical properties” of numbers are already laid down. Well, for example, what are the “signs of divisibility” in the binary system, where there is nothing at all except two signs? Only sequences of tic-tac-toe, and no “magic” “3”, “7”, “12”, “40”, “70”. Therefore, we need to be clearly aware that it is we ourselves who first introduce a whole mountain of “subjectivity” into the “material”, then we rummage through it, find the footprints of our own shoes and begin to look for “little green men” in these footprints. Ward №6. But the objective properties of numbers, which cannot follow from the subjectivity of the number system, give us “something”, “what they don’t talk about, what they don’t teach in school.” And if someone once discovered these properties, then it is stupid to take an ostrich position on the simple grounds that we do not like the “biography” of the discoverer. What can you do, once upon a time all electric cars were perceived as “devils.” The Church has always denied what it did not understand. Everyone cannot go at the speed of the last one, otherwise no one will get there. Help is needed along the way, but the “groups” should be composed of approximately equal strength. Everyone probably knows the I Ching. In Confucianism, it is the first of the books. The main means of communication between the ancient Chinese and the “otherworldly” world was fortune telling, which led to the creation of the “Canon of Changes” (“I Ching”), which essentially became a kind of philosophy for comprehending the givenness of this world. Chinese sources insist on dating the I Ching to the life of the semi-mythical Emperor Fudi 2852-2738. BC, which is quite doubtful. Probably when in 1027 BC. Zhou troops defeated Yin, and the god Shandi had to give up his place to the impersonal Sky, then the cult of ancestors and the cult of Shandi were transposed to the Zhou Heaven, which acquired the features of an ancestor and a “pair” to the Earth. At the same time, the concepts of two human souls and other features very similar to the concepts of Mesopotamia and Egypt appeared. Therefore, around the 8th century BC. in China, the “first version” of the I-Ching was formed. If you know, then the “I Ching” is a “tablet” of 8 by 8 “cells” in which 64 hexagrams are written, that is, combinations of solid and six stripes broken in the middle. I will give a short “interpretation”. For example: 1 – “Qian”. Creation. "Ian." Men's. April. Favorable. Spring hopes. No later than six months later there will be changes. Personal uncertainty. You will pass the test if you are determined. All your forces are still waiting for action, like a diving dragon. Meeting with someone important
raised to the power of 7. Just by the name and the number “7,” any specialist will say that the papyrus is not “mathematical” at all, but “religious.” Ahmes talks about how the main way to find all secret knowledge is power operations with numbers. Pythagoras never understood this. For more than 30 years of studying with the Egyptian priests, he was “primarily” initiated into the “magic” square, which they did not understand, which we now call the “Pythagorean table”. But he never understood its real meaning. Pythagoras multiplied the numbers of rows and columns, obtained an effective result, and then “operated” with the result. But the possibilities of the square were not limited to this. Thus he gave results for the primitive material world. Numbers had to be raised to a power, and then transferred to the “vibrating position” - this was the SECRET of AHMES, which gave access to the secrets of the “heavenly staircase”. Pythagoreanism was dead from the very beginning, because its founder remained a dropout. The secret of the I Ching is exactly the same. Not one of the “great masters” of the I Ching living today knows the real secret of the “Book of Changes” (at least I couldn’t find one, maybe I don’t know the “greatest”). We will see all this in the next chapter, but for now let’s talk about the numbers themselves.
The secret of the "nine". Oh, how much nonsense there is here. To begin with, I will offer you a mathematical “trick” so that you understand that all “secrets” are obvious. Think of a three-digit number so that the first and last digits are different, write it backwards, subtract the smaller from the larger; “turn over” the resulting difference again and add it to the “unturned” one. Whatever number you initially came up with, there will always be only one answer - 1089. The secret is simple. If you add 1+8+9=18, then 1+8=9, you will get the “digital root” of the number 1089. It is equal to “9”. If you take any three-digit number, turn it over, and subtract the smaller from the larger, then the sum of the extreme digits will always be “9”, and in the middle there will also be “9”. The “digital root” of the difference is always “9”. The fastest way to obtain a "digital root" is the "dropping nines" method. Add the first two numbers, discard “9” from the sum and add the rest further, that is, 1089=1+8-9=0+9=9, leaving “9” - this is the “digital root”. If you take any large number and rearrange its digits in any order, and then subtract the smaller from the larger, the “digital root” of the result will always be “9.” Write any large number, add up all its digits and subtract the resulting sum from the initial number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. Come up with any large number, find the sum of its digits, multiply by “9” and add the result to the original number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. Etc. and so on. A not very educated person will immediately start talking about the “magic nine”, the “sacred Enead”, the “great Sephiroth”, about... other near-religious nonsense. And “the casket opened simply”: All the “mysterious” properties of nine are explained by a completely primitive fact - this figure is the last in the decimal system we use. Would you like me to reveal to you the “magical secret” of the number 12 in the Babylonian system? Nevermind? You guessed it yourself. Well, yes, 12 is the last digit. Thus, “magical properties” can be given to any number, you just need to choose the appropriate number system for it. Seven will become “completely magical” in the octal system. Accordingly, the properties of the remaining numbers do not depend at all on the numbers themselves, but on their place in the number system. The “digital root” of numbers is much more “stable” than the numbers themselves. We have already noticed this in the ability of the number “9” to appear in complex permutations of digits in numbers. If you take any number with a digital root of “9”, rearrange its digits in any way you like, add it to the original one, and repeat this process as many times as you like, then in the end the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. There are many such properties of the “digital root”, and they are not limited to addition. The “digital root” of the product of the “digital roots” of two factors is equal to the “digital root” of the product of these factors. This suggests that the “digital root” is like the “soul of a number”, which is preserved during rather complex operations with numbers. Theosophical Kabbalists call the operation of obtaining a “digital root” “theosophical addition”, or “theosophical reduction”, and the root itself is considered as “the vibrating basis of the original multi-digit number”. Poetic. With such allegories it is not far from magic.
With such “poetry” and “sacredness” we have already fooled the average person so much that in number theory there is even a section of “psychology”. If you ask an ordinary person to name a number from 1 to 10, he will name “7” with a very high probability. If you limit the range from 1 to 5, then it will be "3". Because we have drilled “magic numbers” into the average person’s head. The same will happen if you ask to name a number in the range from 1 to 50, but so that all the numbers are different and odd. Naturally, with the greatest probability it will be “37”, that is, a combination of the same