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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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Here I will post a log of all the references to the number 7 I have come across in historical, traditional, mystical, occult, esoteric, conspiratorial, and other related literature.
Please post any information you have on this most intriguing subject of the number seven. Random (Traditional) ------- - the visible Light spectrum breaks down to 7 basic colors - (Bible; Genesis) God rests on the seventh day of creation - 7 days of the week - 7 candles in a Menorah - 7 sins, 7 virtues - Traditional western Seven Chakra system - Isaiah 30:26: Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. (King James Version) - Siddhartha - "Reclaiming his seat under the bodhi tree, Siddhartha descended into a deep trance and soon achieved the state of Nirvakalpa Samadhi, total immersion in transcendental Shiva, which is also known among the Buddhists as Nirvana, "the cosmic void". In this state the limited self is completely dissolved into the infinite ocean of the unlimited Self or Spirit. Siddhartha continued in this state of Samadhi for seven days during which a manifestation of the Primal Serpent, the seven headed cobra Muchilinda, expanded its hoods over his head and thereby protected him from all untoward elements and inimical intruders."- Mark Amaru Pinkham, The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom p.133 - THE SEVEN EVIL SPIRITS, ancient Babylonian text R.C. Thompson, translator [The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia, London 1903].[1] http://sacred-texts.com/ane/seve - The Seven Noaich Commands as Commanded by G-d and Taught in Ha Torah. [http://www.7commands.com/] Edited by Clean (11/08/07 05:14 PM)
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Random (Modern, Esoteric, Conspiracy etc..)
----------------------- - The Seven Sermons to the Dead by C.G. Jung. - H.P. Blavatsky's 7 races - 7 Reptilian species of Draco origin involved on Earth (Stewart Swerdlow - Jun 13 2007 Coast2Coast AM interview hour 3) Edited by Clean (11/10/07 09:07 PM)
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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FREEMASONRY-
-------------- - Freemasonic Seven Stars quoted from "The Symbolism on Our Lodge Officers" (http://www.mastermason.com/luxoc by Norman Senn, P.M. Mosaic Lodge #176 Fiat Lux Lodge of Research #1980 (keep in mind this is written by a Freemason, when it comes to symbolism like this they only know what their superiors want them to know) "Yet another symbol is found on the jewel in the form of a cluster of seven stars. These are specifically referred to in the Canadian teachings and are an important symbol in that they represent the etherial mansion, veiled from human eyes but the York mason learns only of the star-decked heavens. The significance of these stars which adorn the ceiling of many Lodge rooms is very complex, in that the stars and the number seven are almost constantly in symbolism. The stars themselves, in clusters tend to be associated with order and destiny and so to some degree reinforce the symbolism contained in that of the moon symbolism. When we come to the seven we are almost overwhelmed with the many facts associated with it. The number seven was said to be 'perfect' because it contained the numbers 3 and 4 and was itself indivisible and could not be created by multiplication. This gave it the name of the virgin number. There were seven years to an apprenticeship, there were seven planets known to man of the middle ages, and there are seven days in a week of which the 7th is the sabbath. The days of the week are named after the seven gods of the Goths, a seventh son has special powers, the Jews swore by the number seven, there was a need for seven witnesses to agreements, and Solomon's temple was said to have been built in seven years. Jericho was encircled seven times by seven priests, and these were the seven liberal arts and sciences know as the trivium and quadrivium which were thought to contain the total sum of human knowledge. Seven represents symbolically the combination of the Trinity and four cardinal virtues, it is the number of the basic musical notes, of colours and of the spheres. Seven is related to perfection, to religious truth and also with knowledge. It is hard to find a more astounding mass of facts associated with a number until we observe that three and five are similar. Within the Lodge we are reminded that it needs seven officers to open the Lodge and those seven steps of the staircase reminding us of the liberal arts and sciences. Jacob's ladder is usually shown with seven rungs of which 3 are considered most exemplary for masons. While then these seven small stars on the jewel are insignificant they are repeated as a symbol at least three times within our Lodges and give us much to think about. " - We then hear the next symbol although modern methods sometimes deny us the sound which adorns the apron, the seven chained tassel. This is a fairly late addition and is thought to be more a decorative copying of the ends of the original longer and centrally tied ribbon or belt. The changing to tassels was slowly developed and perhaps we could turn our thoughts again to the symbolism of the number seven, already related for the Masters jewel. -The Hidden Life in Freemasonryby C. W. Leadbeater 33° THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE ADYAR, MADRAS, INDIA 1926 Second Edition, http://www.anandgholap.net/Hidde - one of the steps in the sequence of First Degree initiation- "As the candidate entered he trod on the square, and, in so doing, it was supposed that he was treading on, and leaving, the lower quaternary or personality of man, in order to develop the higher triad, the ego or soul. (In modern Masonry the same idea is expressed in the First Lecture, where it is stated that a Mason comes to the Lodge “to learn to rule and subdue his passions, and to make further progress in Masonry”.) He was conducted through long passages, and led round the Lodge seven times; and, after having replied to many questions, he was eventually brought to the centre of the Lodge, and there asked what he required. He was told to answer: “Light”." - In ancient Egypt they recognized seven souls, or life-forces, coming forth from the Most High. Students of Eastern philosophy call them the primordial seven, and they are mentioned in The Book of Dzyan.* (*See The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky.) Six of these were prehuman; the seventh was our humanity, and was brought forth from the virgin Neith. The symbol attached to that bringing forth was that of the pelican, who was fabled to draw blood from her own breast in order to feed her young; this later became a prominent symbol in the Rosicrucian philosophy, which seems to have been derived largely from Egyptian teaching. - That the rituals and symbols should have been preserved to us with so wonderfully little alteration is surely a marvellous thing; it would be inexplicable but for the fact that the Great Powers behind evolution have taken an interest in the matter, and gradually brought people back to the true lines when they had swerved somewhat away from them. This business was always in the hands of the Chohan of the Seventh Ray, for that is the ray most especially connected with ceremonial of all kinds, and its Head was always the supreme Hierophant of the Mysteries of ancient Egypt. (Preservation of Rituals and Symbols) - Cagliostro's Egyption rite "Cagliostro's greatest contribution to the development of Freemasonry was to fashion masonic rites in accordance with ancient Egyptian and Atlantean models. Hismost famous creation, the Egyptian rite, was based upon Cagliostro's own direct experience in Egypt, as well as the Crata Repora, a compilation of Egyptian initiation rites taken from the ancient writings of Herodutus, Apulius, Didorus, Plutarch and others. To properly house his Egyptian Rite, Cagliostro created a Freemasonic Lodge in the image of Solomon's Temple and ornamented it with statues of certain Egyptian deities such as Isis, Anubis, and Apis." "Intrinsic to [the] rite were seven stages or degrees (the traditional number of death and transformation), each of which required a special initiation to enter. Some of the initiation rites were designed to awaken the inner fire serpent and assist in its movement up the spine." - Mark Amaru Pinkham, The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom p. 282-283
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Lana Corrinne Cantrell- "The Greatest Story Never Told"
------------ - (Egypt) A woman who refused Set's house-to-house searches for Isis had her child 'stung' by one of the 'seven scorpions'. p18-9. _ (Mahabharata) The 'Seven-of-the-Battle', the 'Seven Ill Winds' (weapons of some sort) "My lord hitched the Seven-of-the-Battle, The hero hitched the Seven Ill winds, The seven whirlwinds which stir up the dust..." p.18-15 - After 7 days Noah's Ark was completed. p.10-21 - Storm of the flood lasted 7 days. p.10-22 - (Gilgamesh epic) After mooring the ark at Mt. Nisir, Utnapishtim sets out seven and seven 'cult vessels' for ritual of some kind to invoke the Gods. "I poured a libation on the top of the mountain. Seven and Seven cult-vessels I set up, Upon their pot-stands I heaped cane, cedarwood, and myrtle. The gods smelled the savor, The gods smelled the sweet savor, the gods crowded like flies about the sacrificer." Cantrell p. 10-25 (source, The Ancient Near East - Vol 1, James B. Pritchard - Editor - 1958 - Princeton University Press.) - Ereshkigal one of the Anunnaki daughters of the "Gods", had established herself as "Queen" of the Underworld. (Cantrell says this is in reference to her literally being underground in the Earth) "Apparently, there was some dispute between Anu and her and he sent an emissary to her in her abode, forbidding her to come above as he refused to deal with her face to face." [quoting from text] Anu opened his mouth to say something to Kaka: "I will send thee, Kaka, to the Land of no Return, To Ereshkigal...thou shalt say: 'Thou art not able to come up, In thy year thou canst not ascent to our presence, And we cannot go down, In our month we cannot descend to thy presence. Therefore let thy messenger com,e, Let him remove the dish from the table, let him take thy share Whatever I give to him he will hand over all of it to thee.'" "Kaka then descends the "long staircase of the heavens" and reaches the gates of Ereshkigal, passing through seven, which is reminiscent of those in Egyptian and Hebrew histories. When the emissary Namtar arrived (from Ereshkigal's underworld abode) Ea and his people bowed to him but one Nergal, as an Nibiruian, would not probably, because they had placed a woman in a leadership position. His fears were right for she used eroticism to gain power and had seduced men to her side. It seems Ea then dared Nergal to go there himself if he were so pure to resist her charms. When he reached the gate he was seized. Namtar's (Ereshkigal's door man, as it were) face turned pale "like a cut down tamarisk". Namtar had rushed to Ereshkigal and told her of the episode of Nergal's disobedience and he feared, as one of the Gods, he was here to cause trouble. Said Ereshkigal, "Let him eat the bread of the Anunnaki, Let him drink the water of the Anunnaki. Go, bring this god into my presence!". He was then led through the seven gates. The text states that he bowed and kissed the ground before her but he did not sit on the throne or eat bread, meat or drink beer. To make a long story short, the two then made contact when she revealed her body which went on for seven days." Cantrell p.15-15, 15-16, 15-17 (source: "The Seven Tablets of Creation" [Sumerian]) In another story, Inanna (AKA Ishtar) descends to Ereshkigal's abode where she is made to remove seven garments relating to her power, one at each gate, before she is allowed to enter. p.24-2 - (Mahabharata) "7 seers as in heaven came to the great Indra, king of the gods.." - p.20-5 - (Mahabharata) "Kaki, Halima, Rudra and Brhan, Arya, Palala, and Mitra became the seven mothers of newborn sons, they had each a most terrifying, red-eyed, and frightening son by the grace of Skanda..." p.2-15 - "The women Indra had originally brought to earth were his own mother and other sisters it seems. There were seven goddesses, all of whom were either having trouble giving birth or becoming pregnant." p.4-3 - (Mahabharata) "A fierce war ensued that lasted until the sixth day and on the seventh Skanda beat back the Asuras." p.2-15 - (Mahabharata) For his strength in battle Skanda is anointed with the title of Indra (like our General, for example). "Indra, you became a hair of a horse's tail when Vrtra struck you on the corner of the mouth. You, the one god, the brave one, you won the cows; you won the Soma; you released the seven streams so that they could flow...". p.2-17 - Gnostic text On the Origin of the World : "Seven appeared in chaos as androgynous beings. They have their masculine name and their feminine name. The feminine name of Ialdabaoth is Pronoia Sambathas (;)), i.e. the Hebdomand. As for his son, called Yao, his feminine name is "riches." Astaphaios' feminine name is "Sophia." These are the seven powers of the seven heavens of Chaos. And they came into being as androgynous beings according to the deathless pattern which existed before them and in accord with the will of Pistis, so that the likeness of the one who existed from the first might rule until the end." - Cantrell p.5-3 Edited by Clean (11/03/07 03:36 PM)
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Erich von Daniken- "Gold of The Gods"
------------ - 7 mysterious chairs not made of stone, wood or steel were placed along side the conference table in a huge gallery hall inside underground tunnels in Ecuador found by Juan de Moricz (the seventh passage from the start of the tunnel lead to this particular hall) (Von Daniken - "Gold of the Gods" p.9) - Popol Vuh (Quiche Indian sacred ancient text, this particular passage is telling the story of man's creation by the gods) "But the name of the place to which Balam Quitze, Balam Acab, and Iqui Balam came was the caves of Tula, seven caves, seven gorges. The Tamub and Ilocal came there too. This was the name of the town where they received their gods." (p.62) - China - The legend of the goddess Chi Nu, "the patron saint of weavers". "When she was still young her father sent her to stay with a neighbor, who kept watch over the 'Silver Stream of the Heavens' (obviously the Milky Way). She grew up to be very beautiful and passed the days and nights playing and laughing, never was there a wilder or crazier lover in heaven than Chi Nu. The Sun king grew tired of these goings-on and when she bore a child to her guardian friend, he ordered the ardent lover to take up his post at the other end of the Silver Stream and only see the lovely Chi Nu once a year on the seventh night of the seventh month." (p78, 79)
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Cool thread.
This was actually quoted in the beginning of an episode of The Sopranos: The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls. Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret Name. This corresponds to the Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in. Second Soul, and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem. Energy, Power, Light. The Director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons. Number three is Khu, the Guardian Angel. He, she, or it is the third man out...depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light. Sort of thing you might see on a screen in an Indian restaurant in Panama. The Khu is responsible for the subject and can be injured in his defense--but not permanently, since the first three souls are eternal. They go back to Heaven for another vessel. The four remaining souls must take their chances with the subject in the Land of the Dead. Number four is Ba, the Heart, often treacherous. This is a hawk's body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist. Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba. Number five is Ka, the Double, most closely associated with the subject. The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the Land of the Dead to the Western Lands. Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives. Number seven is Sekhu, the Remains. --Norman Mailer (as paraphrased in The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs)
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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huh..
and some people still deny that what passes for pop culture might be an elaborate ritual. Mystic Seven Power Quote: Edited by Clean (11/03/07 06:26 PM)
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--=..Did Adam and ...?=-- Registered: 04/30/03 Posts: 3,910 Loc: isle de la muerte Last seen: 24 days, 7 hours |
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My favorite seven is the 43/7.
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The 7 liberal arts include the study of theology, literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science.
Links die, so I'll put it here. THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS "Wisdom builded her house; She has hewn out her seven pillars." Proverbs 9:1 Table of Contents * Introduction * Interpretations of Masonic Authors * The History of the Seven Liberal Arts * The Cathedral and School of Chartres * The Winding Staircase as a Symbol of Ascension * The Seven Liberal Arts I. Introduction The Staircase Lecture is presented to the Masonic candidate in the second degree of his work -that of Fellowcraft. The lecture is considered to be quite a long one as it covers many subjects pertinent to the Mysteries of Freemasonry. Within the dissertation are explanations of the three, five, and seven steps, which compose the staircase. Yet when the lecture reaches the seven steps we are merely told that they represent the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences; and, the seven subjects are named. There are no further explanations given, nor elaboration offered but for one exception -that of geometry. Being that the seven make up the bulk of the staircase, it would seem that further light would be forthcoming. But such is not the case. In this situation, we are left with more questions than answers. Why are these particular subjects mentioned? It is certainly debatable whether or not these are the most important academic disciplines. Why are there just seven? There are certainly more than just seven arts and sciences. Why are they in a staircase motif? If we took this to mean levels of prerequisite education or understanding or of importance, there would be considerable disagreement regarding this order. So what we are really left with are implications derived from the comments on geometry. That is, that these are subjects worthy of study and geometry is the most important of the seven. We are then left with the broadest question of them all: Is this the extent of the message to the candidate? In fact, that is the idea conveyed to most candidates. The apparent interpretation of the seven steps is the importance of acquiring a solid well-rounded education. And perhaps, highlighting the intimate connection between Masonry and geometry. What other notion could the candidate have? The importance of education has always been stressed in Freemasonry, not only for cultural reasons, but also for its role in promoting freedom and restricting tyranny. Indeed, there seems to be an inverse correlation between the education of the population and the success of tyranny. But, the importance of a good solid education seems obvious to most people. There is nothing very profound about the good sense of acquiring it. We do not need to join a fraternity nor participate in rituals to impress this wisdom upon us. The history of the Seven Liberal Arts tells us a completely different story. Its origin is in antiquity. Its role in the development of Western Civilization was immense. And its adoption among the Fraternity suggests far more than currently realized. And because its history and relevance to both our culture and our Craft was so central, it sadly points to the present situation of American Masonry as something near tragic. What was once a precious adornment of our Lodge has now become basically a footnote in one of our lectures. In the ongoing sacking of the Temple in order to attract more members and "modernize" our Craft, we are virtually draining the life- blood from this august body. The purpose of this paper is to look at something we have lost; to try and reestablish our connection with a part of our past; and, in a broader sense, issue a call to preserve one of the true beauties within our fraternity of Freemasonry. There are, of course, many commentaries on the winding staircase by the various Masonic writers. Usually the explanations of the Seven Liberal Arts are somewhat sketchy. It is common to find mere basic definitions of the seven subjects. Sometimes there is a little more elaboration but it never seems complete. But, as we combine the different views, the Masonic significance becomes clearer. The first section of this paper will look at some of these explanations. Following that I will explore the curriculum of the Seven Arts, how and where it developed and by whom. It is in the history of the Seven Liberal Arts that we begin to glean the high purpose for which it was intended. In the third part of the paper I will discuss the incomparable cathedral at Chartres and the Neoplatonic school that grew around it. In the last part I will explore the psychological and spiritual significance of the seven steps and the winding staircase. II. Interpretations of Masonic Authors There are many Masonic writers who have given at least some explanation of the Seven Liberal Arts. Space only permits my mention of only a few. My criteria for selecting the authors I have is only a function of providing a sample of the differing views and depth. There is a common thread and that seems to be that most Masonic writers at least sense that the Winding Staircase is much more than it at first appears. From that point the opinions seem to diverge into several different directions. As H.L. Haywood states in his book Symbolical Masonry: "The Three, Five and Seven Steps have long been a puzzle to the candidate and a problem to Masonic writers;…" 1 Every writer I have investigated knows that the classification of the Seven Arts comes from the Medieval educational curriculum. The problem is not where it originated but why is it included in our Rites. But the answer seems to be approached in this sense: It is obviously in our Rites for some reason; so, it must mean this or that. First we will review what Masons have said; then, in the next section, we will explore the history of the curriculum itself and the intentions of its formulation. A view common among Masonic writers is portrayed by H.L. Haywood in this following statement in one of his books: "I believe that Masonry is justified in retaining the Liberal Arts and Sciences in its Ritual just because they still have power to humanize us, to 'improve us in social intercourse,' to make us broader of mind, more tolerant in opinion, more humane in action, and more brotherly in conduct. Besides, knowledge of them, …can make us more useful to the lodge." 2 He goes on to explain the usefulness of people in the lodge that can write, play music, and to speak. He obviously considers the Seven Arts as merely having useful educational purposes. This view is consistent with California monitors at least dating from 1927 wherein a small explanation of each discipline is given in the lecture. H.P.H. Bromwell (1823 -1903) wrote in his massive tome Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry that: "Although the number of recognized sciences far exceeds seven, yet, giving to that number the benefit of its symbolic meaning, it stands for the whole circle of sciences, whether specifically named among the seven or not." 3 Here is an example of someone who considers that the number seven is used in its symbolic sense of meaning "the whole picture" or "all encompassing". We can speculate that his interpretation is that the Seven Liberal Arts refers to all knowledge. In Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy by Robert Hewitt Brown, he wants to interpret just about everything in the ritual in an astronomical way. He writes: "The wages of the faithful craftsmen, we are told, are 'com, oiL and wine.' The seven signs of the zodiac, from the vernal equinox to the first point of Scorpio, 'winding' in a glittering curve about the heavens, may in a like manner be said to be emblematic of seven winding steps, …thus corresponding with the more ancient versions of the fellow-craft legend;…" 4 This is an interesting scenario but completely ignores the subjects of the seven steps, and the history of the curriculum. There are Masonic authors who interpret the Seven Liberal Arts in ways that are not based upon historical knowledge but more upon a more psychological, philosophical or spiritual paradigm. For example, in the popular Art and Imagination series by Thames and Hudson, the volume on Freemasonry by W. Kirk MacNulty is a case in point. MacNulty writes the following: "In the most general terms the Winding Staircase defines seven 'levels of consciousness', from consciousness of the physical body at the bottom to consciousness of the Spirit and Divinity at the top. By summarizing a large body of ritual and lecture, we can say that the Stairs assign a step or level of consciousness to each of the seven Officers of the Lodge; …" 5 His correspondences are the following: Tyler with Grammar, Inner Guard with Logic, Junior Deacon with Rhetoric, Senior Deacon with Arithmetic, Junior Warden with Geometry, Senior Warden with Music, and the Worshipful Master with Astronomy. This type of explanation deals more with how one might currently interpret the Seven Liberal Arts but does not address the original intent of the founders of the Craft. Another author in this survey is George H. Steinmetz. In his book Freemasonry: Its Hidden Meaning he also tackles the seven steps. He makes the cryptic statement: "…the seven steps have a deep occult meaning which we will merely mention here. They are the vibrations producing color and sound." 6 He does not elaborate on this and so neither will I! A few pages later he states: "There are actually seven interpretations of Masonic symbolism, or more correctly, seven means of interpretation." 7 He goes on to explain how each discipline can individually be applied to the Rites of Freemasonry to garner ever deeper interpretations. There may be some truth here although it is a clumsy fit with some of the disciplines. There is much in Freemasonry of an astronomical nature. Much obviously, is related to geometrical and number symbolism. And you can make some case for the others but it begins to get weaker and weaker. In the Scottish Rite, the 30th Degree, that of "Knight Kadosh" or "Knight of the Holy Spirit", we again run into the Seven Liberal Arts. This time they are on a double seven-runged ladder. Albert Pike's explanation in the Liturgy is really based around the lessons of the Knight Kadosh degree but we get hints of a deeper and more mystical significance when we consider the corresponding words on the other side of the ladder. It is written in Hebrew and are obviously related to the Spheres on the Kabalistic Tree of Life. Pike directly states in the Legenda: "You conclude that, in this Degree, the words on the seven steps of the Ladder mean something more and higher than the mere elementary Sciences of which they are the names. You are right …" 8 As Pike's commentary continues he basically explains these Seven Arts as steps to ever larger vistas of God and Creation; and, with the corresponding rungs on the opposite side develops a much more exalted role of these Arts and Sciences. As we will see later, this is closer to the original intent. The last Masonic writer I want to consider is Walter Leslie Wilmshurst (1867- 1939). He is the author of several books including: The Meaning of Masonry, Masonic Initiation and The Ceremony of Passing. As we can tell from the passage I am about to quote, the ritual was somewhat different than what we now work today. Wilmshurst is a very spiritual and mystical writer and, as such, we should expect to find his interpretation down those lines. This lengthy quote displays just that: "The perambulations are made on the level floor of the Lodge, which the candidate keeps on "squaring," visiting each of its four sides in turn. But at the end of the third circuit the moment comes when his forward motion on the level ceases, and he is directed to mount spirally, by a series of winding steps. Linear motion gives way to circular; he advances now not merely forward, but up. … By this change of motion, this spiral ascent, is implied that the time has come when the Candidate must leave the level of the sense- world and rise to the supra-sensual; must divert his thoughts and desires from sensuous objects and concentrate them on the insensible and much more real things of the world of mind." 9 Clearly, Wilmshurst is of the opinion that the winding staircase, which includes the seven steps, is considerably more than an exhortation on the merits of an extensive education. The winding stairs become the vehicle of his ascension into the spiritual realm. He further states that: "From the moment of ascending the winding staircase, then, the Candidate is mentally leaving the outer world more and more behind him and rising into an inner invisible world. He is making what has often been called ltinerarium mentis in Deo, the ascent of the mind to the Source of Light; …"10 There can be no question that Wilmshurst sees a deeper role for the Seven Liberal Arts. The above sampling of Masonic writers and their comments on the winding staircase show different levels of possible meaning to this Second Degree motif. We know that there have been ritual changes in the past regarding the winding stairs. There were, indeed, different numbers of steps at different times. Haywood informs us that: "In some eighteenth century tracing boards the stair is composed of only five steps, in other of seven. Preston divided them into one, three, five, seven, nine and eleven, making thirty-six in all. The Hemming lectures, which replaced Preston's at the time of the Union, struck out the group of eleven steps, thus reducing the number to twenty-five. The American Ritual, in turn, further reduced the number to fifteen by striking out the one and the nine."11 Not only has the whole staircase changed but the Seven Liberal Arts were not always in the Second Degree. They were in the First Degree at the beginning of the eighteenth century.12 But regardless of the changes, the seven steps has always represented the Seven Liberal Arts. And it is those Arts which are our focus here. We have seen some Masonic authors consider these steps in their most obvious interpretations and we have seen others consider it the vehicle to mystical heights. In an attempt to get closer to the actual we have to go outside of the Fraternity and explore the history and development of this curriculum. III. The History of the Seven Liberal Arts The history of the Seven Liberal Arts is the history of the development of education up until the end of the Middle Ages. Its origins are in classical Athens. The different disciplines were developing at different times and it was not till later that they crystallized into a set of seven. The term "liberal" has lead to some confusion because we use the term somewhat differently now. We think of it as a broad education in contrast to a technical or professional education that is highly specialized. But liberal in the context of the Seven Liberal Arts means education suitable for the free man. The term is used as early as Plato. The term "arts" has to be thought of in the sense of "skills". Plato had a model curriculum as did his pupil Aristotle. Different subjects were stressed at different times. By the third century BC the curriculum begin to formulate into a foundational work consisting of: gymnastics, grammar, music, drawing, arithmetic and geometry. Other subjects taught were medicine and architecture. Later, the Romans adopted the Greek ideas of education. It was not until the fourth century AD that the Pagan schools fixed their curriculum to seven arts. With the decline of paganism and the rise of Christianity we find the Christians adopting similar methods of education. The first Christian to use the term "seven liberal arts" was Cassiodorus (480-575). This curriculum was readily adopted into the Latin West and remained fixed all throughout the Middle Ages. Its full flowering was seen at the Cathedral School at Chartres in the 12th century. These seven subjects -grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy -were considered a unity. They were divided into two parts: the trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic; and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. All seven made an integrated whole which also made all seven necessary. And it must be remembered who put these subjects together. William Stahl explains that: "...the people who were most interested in the full span of subjects were philosophers; and the seven liberal arts were in essence, and always remained, a philosophers' curriculum." 14 There are some important issues to be aware of in considering the individual subject matters. The study of grammar encompassed not only parts of speech and rules but also literature, reading, exposition, etymologies and what we now call linguistics. All instruction was in Latin; therefore, mastery of the Latin language was preliminary to everything else. Rhetoric is the training of the orator or developing the practice of speaking to the level of an art. But in the Latin West it took the forms of learning how to produce proper letters and documents. How to make appropriate addresses and petitions and so on. Logic was not so much as a preparation for philosophy but the study of formal logical methods. Arithmetic was basically the art of computation but there was strong interest in the mystical and symbolic elements due to the influence from Pythagoras. Geometry was not anything like we now think of it until the tenth century. It was not until the 12th and 13th centuries that complete translations of Euclid from the Arabic were available. Music was completely theoretical. It was only a mathematical and speculative science. There the influence of Pythagoras was apparent again. Astronomy was the most popular as there was a great interest to all things astronomical including astrology. What is important to keep in mind is the intention of the schoolmasters in using this curriculum. This can not be better illustrated than by the activities going on at the magnificent gothic cathedral of Chartres and its appendant school in the 12th century. To this we will now turn our attention. IV. The Cathedral and School of Chartres We know that as early as the sixth century that a cathedral school existed at Chartres. But it was not until the twelfth century that it became the center of Latin Platonism and a school where students flocked to learn the highest philosophy of the land. The geographic area itself is interesting. It is thought that prior to the early school that it was a center used by the Celtic druids for their purposes. The cathedral also sits on a granite promontory that cuts through the limestone plain. This fact corresponds to the structure of Stonehenge where the concentric circles were hewn out of granite and set on the limestone of Salisbury Plain. 15 The cathedral and school are important to us here because the Seven Liberal Arts reached not only a high degree of perfection as taught but it seems that the architecture also gave witness to this same spirit. The Seven Liberal Arts ''as a means to the knowledge of God finds visible expression in the cathedral at Chartres."16 Adolf Katzenellenbogen states in his work that: "If one studies the representations of the Seven Liberal Arts in the twelfth century one realizes that they are only a link in the whole chain of representations of this subject, and that a long tradition of ideas and forms lies behind their images." 17 and "It is generally agreed that the first facade on which the Seven Arts were represented was that of the Royal Portal of Chartres Cathedral. ...these systems of decoration indicate in different ways the relation of secular learning to theological truths." 18 We also know that Thierry was chancellor of the School when the figures were carved. Thierry was not only chancellor but in charge of supervising various parts of the building the Cathedral. There is no doubt that there is a connection between the sculptural and architect's design and his philosophical conceptions. In Thierry's own handbook on the Seven Liberal Arts he defined the specific role of the Quadrivium as illuminating the mind and that of the Trivium as making its expression. His influence was great not only within the School but also for all of Europe. Raymond Klibansky explains why is so: "Under him Chartres became the center of the liberal arts to which students came from all over Europe. In search of new sources of knowledge, his pupils crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps. They brought back mathematical and astronomical works in translations made from the Arabic, and new texts of Aristotle in versions made from the Greek. From Chartres this new learning was handed on to the Latin world." 19 It is true that the School laid emphasis on the quadrivium but as Klibansky informs us that the purpose was: "… to attain, through knowledge of the structure of the created world, knowledge of the Creator. As the world, ...is ordered according to number, measure, and weight, the sciences of the quadrivium -arithmetic and geometry, music and astronomy -are the instruments which the human mind has at its disposal for recognizing the art of the Creator." 20 It was a grand school with grand designs. As David Luscombe states: "... the Chartrains attempted to establish the existence of God by numerical speculations, to synthesize Platonic cosmology and biblical revelation, and to compare the Platonic world soul with the Holy spirit, ...[and] God was considered to be the form of all being." 21 V. The Winding Staircase as a Symbol A full understanding of the Seven Liberal Arts in a Masonic context must take into account its use as symbolism. The Seven are actually contained within another symbol -the Winding Staircase. It is interesting to look at how the symbol has been interpreted in psychological ways and also how it has been portrayed in religious art, story and legends. The winding staircase is an image that refers to upward movement -of moving from one level to a higher level. Related images include: ladders, mountains, flying and towers. We can also include the image of climbing a rope or cosmic pillar and in this modern time, taking an elevator. The Jungian psychologist Edward F. Edinger classifies this type of image under the term Sublimatio. It is an alchemical term he finds convenient to use. I suppose he likes to use the Latin spelling to distinguish it from the Freudian term sublimation which is not the same psychological mechanism. Freud used it to refer to the way we channel our instincts into socially acceptable behavior. The alchemical definition is the basic chemical operation of turning material into air by volatilizing it, it then turns into air and reformulates in a higher place. In a lab it works like this: take a certain solid -apply heat -turns into gas -ascends -then cools -then resolidifies. Distillation is related but is applied to liquids as when we heat water to boil, capture the steam, and it recondenses to water as it cools leaving the heavy contaminants behind in the original vessel. So according to Edinger: "... the crucial feature of sublimatio is an elevating process whereby a low substance is translated into a higher form by an ascending movement." 22 Lets go back to our Latin studies and find that sublimis means "high". Its meaning in Jungian psychological circles is the following: "Sublimatio is an ascent that raises us above the confining entanglements of immediate earthly existence and its concrete, personal particulars." 23 From their point of view this process can take different forms. It can manifest as seeing a problem from a broader perspective; maybe, something has troubled an individual to where his functioning in some area of his life is restricted and then by some event or change his view of the situation completely alters and he sees it from a higher perspective which lessens its original hold upon him. Or even to the extreme event of some mystical experience which usually overturns ones life and washes away many of the petty things we once felt were so important; and consequently frees us -or volatizes our consciousness -where we can view things "from on high". Ediniger points out that many of the alchemical processes overlap. Overlapping with sublimation is the process of separation or separatio. They are both extraction processes. The "spirit" is extracted from "matter". Therefore, the ultimate sublimation is death which would remind us of the Degree following the Fellowcraft. The alchemists sometimes referred to the spirit of man as quicksilver. Ediniger states that: "This 'expulsion of the quicksilver' is done by sublimatio, which releases the spirit hidden in matter. In the largest sense, this refers psychologically to the redemption of the Self from its original unconscious state." 24 This statement is also interesting in a cabalistic sense in Freemasonry. The words Aur Ganuz (Hebrew: AVR GNVZ) meaning "hidden light' have the same numerological value as Hiram Abiff (that is: 273) The situation as the alchemists saw it was that matter and spirit was intermixed in a basic state of contamination. Thus, the need for the alchemical procedures of extraction. The procedures produced a purified state by separation. The Seven Liberal Arts were thought of as achieving the same ends. It was considered a way of purifying the soul so that it could ascend to the spiritual realms. Another aspect of sublimation that Edinger mentions is the theme of translation to eternity. For examples he relates the stories of ancient heroes being taken to the realms of the gods such as Heracles, Elijah, Christ and the Virgin Mary. We find this theme in ancient Egypt as well. This is a quote from the Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge: "...the model of a ladder was often placed on or near the dead body in the tomb, and a special composition was prepared which had the effect of making the ladder become the means of the ascent of the deceased into heaven. Thus in the text written for Pepi the deceased is made to address the ladder in these words: "Homage to thee, 0 divine Ladder! Homage to thee, 0 Ladder of Set! Stand thou upright, 0 divine Ladder! Stand thou upright, 0 Ladder of Set! Stand thou upright, 0 Ladder of Horus, whereby Osiris came forth into heaven." 25 The resurrected Osiris is sometimes pictured in Egyptian art as a ladder with arms holding the Crook and Scourge. We find ladder and stair symbolism in many myths which of course are symbols of ascending and descending. The phenomenon is prevalent throughout the world. The historian of world religions Mircea Eliade comments in his book on shamanism that: The preeminently shamanic technique is the passage from one cosmic region to another -from earth to the sky or from earth to the underworld. The shaman knows the mystery of the break-through in plane. ...the essential schema is always to be seen, ...there are three great cosmic regions, which can be successively traversed because they are linked together by a central axis. Certain ancient Mystery Schools and religious traditions also show a parallel with our tradition. Eliade mentions a few: "A ladder with seven rungs is documented in the Mithraic mysteries, ...An ascent to heaven by ceremonially climbing a ladder probably formed part of the Orphic initiation. ...the symbolism of ascension by means of stairs was known in Greece. ...Jacob dreams of a ladder whose top reaches heaven, ...Mohammed sees a ladder rising from the temple in Jerusalem to heaven, ... in Islamic mysticism: to ascend to God, the soul must mount seven successive steps, ...In the heaven of Saturn Dante sees a golden ladder rising dizzyingly to the last celestial sphere and trodden by the souls of the blessed." 28 These are only a few examples that could be given. A study of world mythology reveals this same motif all over the planet from the most "primitive" tribes to the most sophisticated cosmologies. We can now see the powerful use that Freemasonry developed in the Fellowcraft degree as regards the Seven Liberal Arts and the Winding Staircase. There is symbolism nested within symbolism. Not only do we have a symbol of ascending in that of the Winding Staircase; but also that of steps divided into three, five, and seven -all mystical numbers with their own significance. Corresponding with the Seven Steps are the Seven Liberal Arts; and, as we have seen, the whole point of this curriculum was to be a launching point of the mind to scale the realms of the Spirit. Footnotes 1. Haywood, Symbolical Masonry, p. 216. 2. Ibid., p. 237. 3. Bromwell, Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbology, p. 355. 4. Brown, Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, p. 57. 5. MacNulty, Freemasonry: A Journey through Ritual and Symbol, p. 23. 6. Steinmetz, Freemasonry: Its Hidden Meaning, p. 120. 7. Ibid., p. 124. 8. Pike, Legenda of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, pp. 134-135. 9. Wilmshurst, The Ceremony of Passing, p. 20. 10. Ibid., p. 21. 11. Haywood, Symbolical Masonry, p. 218. 12. Ibid., p. 236. 13. Abelson, The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Medieval Culture. P. 3. 14. Stahl, Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts, p. 91. 15. Querido, The Golden Age of Chartres, p. 21. 16. Klibansky, The School of Chartres, p. 13. 17. Katzenellenbogen, The Representation of the Seven Liberal Arts, p. 39. 18. Ibid., p. 39. 19. Klibansky, p. 9. 20. Ibid., p. 9. 21. Luscombe, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, volume 1, p. 83. 22. Edinger, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical symbolism in Psychotherapy, p. 117. 23. Ibid., p. 118. 24. Ibid., p. 123. 25. Ibid., pp. 133-134. 26. Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, p. 259. 27. Ibid., pp. 488 - 489.
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Quote: could you write a little more about that for those who don't know what you mean? (such as myself)
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"The Eternal Parent, wrapped in her Ever-Invisible Robes, had slumbered once again for Seven Eternities.
Time was not, for it lay asleep in the Infinite Bosom of Duration. Universal mind was not, for there were no Ah-hi to contain it. The Seven Ways to Bliss were not. The Great Causes of Misery were not, for there was no one to produce and get ensnared by them. Darkness alone filled the Boundless All, for Father, Mother and Son were once more one, and the Son had not yet awakened for the new Wheel and his Pilgrimage thereon. The Seven Sublime Lords and the Seven Truths had ceased to be, and the Universe, the Son of Necessity, was immersed in Paranishpanna, to be outbreathed by that which is, and yet is not. Naught was. The causes of Existence had been done away with; the Visible that was, and the Invisible that is, rested in Eternal Non-Being - the One Being. Alone, the One Form of Existence stretched boundless, infinite, causeless, in Dreamless Sleep; and Life pulsated unconscious in Universal Space..." - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, from the Seven Stanzas of the Book of Dzyan in "The Secret Doctrine" vol. 1 (Theosophical Publishing House, 1971) pp. 91-92. Edited by Clean (11/10/07 09:35 PM)
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![]() Irish heritage contains reverence for their Seven Noble Trees: Apple, Alder, Birch, Hazel, Holly, Oak and Willow. Deliberate destruction of any of these carried a penalty under tradition and later even in common law. Deliberate destruction of the apple or hazel tree was punishable by death. Oak Apple ![]() Holly ![]() Alder ![]() Birch ![]() Willow ![]() Hazel ![]()
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Quote: I'm sorry but could you explain this I can't come up w/ seven 3 primary (red, Blue, Yellow) 3 secondary (green, purple, orange) 1 shade (black) 1 tint (white) --------------------
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Black and white are not colors, black is all colors absorbed and white is all colors reflected.
The 7 colors of the spectrum are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet and Indigo.
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Quote: By that standard, no colors are colors, as they all involve the absorption of certain frequencies and reflection of others. --------------------
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By proper definition, something colored red is all colors but red, as red is the only frequency not absorbed by the object.
The point is that black and white are ALL colors either way.
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Quote: I never said they were colors I said one was a tint and one was a shade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col Red 700 nm Orange 620 nm Yellow 580 nm Green 530 nm Blue 470 nm Violet 420 nm the pure spectral colors form a continuous spectrum, and how it is divided into distinct colors is a matter of culture, taste, and language. A common list identifies six main bands: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Newton's conception included a seventh color, indigo, between blue and violet – but most people do not distinguish it, and most color scientists do not recognize it as a separate color; it is sometimes designated as wavelengths of 420–440 nm. indigo has only half the wave length of the other colors and it cuts violets wave length in half too. --------------------
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Why is everyone so anal lately?
There are traditionally seven colors in the rainbow, unless you're gay. Proud homosexuals use 6 colors in their flag, so there.
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Quote: You would think homos would know their rainbows so if they use six I'd say there's six. and I could be even worse and mention there are 9 candles in a Hanukkah menorah --------------------
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maybe so, but everywhere I look I see SEVENS.
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Stranger Registered: 12/16/04 Posts: 11,123 Loc: Texas |
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seven is just another prime number
what about perfect numbers, those numbers equal to the sum of their divisors 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 there are only 44 perfect numbers known to exist and it is possible that there are a finite number of perfect numbers
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Seal Whisperer Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5,440 Loc: Over the rainbow |
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"As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks, each sack 7 cats, and each cat 7 kits. How many were going to St. Ives?" As the age old riddle goes:D. A wealth of info here. Gratitude towards all research expounded, I have little to add. Forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong, but I did'nt notice the obvious qabalistic reference to Netzach and all it's attributions. Of note to a forum such as this, cannabis indica is the drug of 7, the consumer of which inkoves the Venusian influence of Netzach(the ever dwindling sativa= hod/mercury). In relation to the elements 7 is water of water(the tui hexagram of the I-Ching). Of note, perhaps I'm stretching it a bit here, the mystic number of 7, 49, is of profound importance in the Enochian system. Namely, the 49 gates of wisdom and the 49 calls. 93 93/93 Edited by lavod (11/11/07 06:18 PM)
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Teh Cat.... Registered: 09/07/04 Posts: 5,908 Loc: My Youniverse... Last seen: 14 years, 11 months |
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Quote: Well hell, if indigo has a wavelength of 420, I personally say it may just have to be a standard color - because of the number, if nothing else.... ![]() >^;;^< -------------------- "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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Heh 420 nm, cool.
Newton saw a strong relation between colour and music, and was the first to divide purple into violent and indigo as a basic colour, yielding seven that matched the five whole tones (red, yellow, blue, green, violet) and two semitones (orange and indigo). Kepler had argued that musical harmony was the basis of the universe. By the 19th century music was widely considered the highest and unifying art, in effect replacing theology and philosophy and neatly managing to sidestep much ethical tradition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal
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In the biblical story of the flood the Lord gave Noah seven days to build the ark upon his warning of the coming deluge. (Gen.7,4. 7,10.) also Noah was instructed to take animals by sevens onto the ark: "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth." -Gen. 7,2. As we saw in the rendition of the ark story from the epic of Gilgamesh back on the first page of this thread, Utnapishtim (aka Noah) set out "seven and seven cult vessels" for an offering to the lord after mooring the ark on the mountain. In the biblical version Noah: "built an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour..." - Gen. 7, 20. - 21. See the similarity between the two texts?
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thanks lavod.
my qabalistic studies are lacking. any info from this realm would be welcome.
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Gurdjieff said everything follows the law of the the octave (WWHWWWH)
In the chapter "Beelzebub in America" in Book 3 of _Beelzebub's Tales_ the triad of making (unleavened) bread is discussed, in such a way as to make the octave easily sketched in. Its page 156 of the Dover paper back edition. Flour, according to Beelzebub is Passive, Water Active, and Fire Neutralizing. (He discusses this in the context of ways of preserving foods, here he is talking of the preservation of water!) Do is the flour. (Passive) Re and Mi refer to the sifting and other preparation of the flour. At =>Mi-Fa the water enters (Active) At Fa the flour has been saturated with water, the flour and water are "mixed". At Sol the flour has been turned into bread dough, kneaded and shaped. At =>Sol-Fa fire enters, the oven. (Neutralizing). At Fa the bread is baked. At Ti or "Si" it is cooled and ready for eating.
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Elegant Universe Registered: 09/02/04 Posts: 3,310 Last seen: 9 years, 4 months |
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20 - 12 = 8.
The end of 7. impressed? -------------------- Flowing through beginningless time since time without beginning...
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Nice, but I don't really dig numerology.
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Seal Whisperer Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5,440 Loc: Over the rainbow |
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Quote: 93 Well, my Qabalistic studies are'nt as extensive as I'd like, but it's interesting to note that one does'nt really need to be adept to start to associate the sephira and paths of the tree of life with the facets of perception. The TOL(which, of course, does'nt encompass the totality of Kabballa) is a map, yet one so constructed as to assimilate the microcosm and the macrocosm in a way so simple, yet open for expansion finite only to the advancement of discovery. However, the kabala shares many similarities with nearly all other religious and spiritual systems of old. Take a sundry group of people on a walk through a forest and ask them to describe it at the end. Every account will be different at the end, determined by each person's conditioning and form of langauge, but every account can be assimilated to certain aspects to form an outlook far more exact than could be expounded by a single person. Thus, 7 not only represents netzachian desire and reflection, but also the perception of Christ the messiah. 7 is the egyptian godess Hathoor, who is the sun at noon in the southern blue sky, naked lest she conceal her true identity. 7 is pisces, the fish who sees the air as the fisherman does water. 7 is Aphrodite, the emerald, and the lamp illuminating the beauty of the aspirant. 7 is also the dove, the classic bird of love. But lets not forget that "Nor let the fools mistake love;for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath choosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God." Al I,57. Netzach is the sephira(yet malkuth is in kether, is it not?) of the philosophus, grade 4=7, thereby being the last venture before attainment of the grade of lover from the man of earth. The transcendence of 7 represents the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the HGA, reconciling the divine and intimate spark of the aspirant in tiphareth, the solar plexus(some say heart) charka. The qlipothic vice of 7 is a'arab zaraq, the ravens dispersed from the earthly bowels who break the aspirant's concentration by mimicing the sound of hir eyes(also, the Northern quarter of my empyrean void ritual) Many noted magicians note that working the sephirot of netzach is not easy and leads many astray. I am not one to disagree. I feel this is likely due to 7 being the number of desire, and the aspirant's neglect of the ever profound verse of Al I,44 : " For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect". 93 93/93 Edited by lavod (11/14/07 06:38 PM)
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There are seven keys to the great gate,
Being eight in one and one in eight. First, let the body of thee be still, Bound by the cerements of will, Corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort The fidget-babes that tease the thought. Next, let the breath-rhythm be low, Easy, regular, and slow; So that thy being be in tune With the great sea's Pacific swoon. Third, let thy life be pure and calm, Swayed softly as a windless palm. Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound To the one love of the profound. Fifth, let the thought, divinely free From sense, observe its entity. Watch every thought that springs; enhance Hour after hour thy vigilance! Intense and keen, turned inward miss No atom of analysis! Sixth, on one thought securely pinned Still every whisper of the wind! So like a flame straight and unstirred Burn up thy being in one word! Next, still that ecstacy, prolong Thy meditation steep and strong, Slaying even God, should he distract Thy attention from the chosen act! Last, all these things in one o'erpowered, Time that the midnight blossom flowered! The oneness is. Yet even in this, My son, thou shalt not do amiss If thou restrain the expression, shoot Thy glance to raptures darkling root, Discarding name, form, sight, and stress Even of this high consciousness; Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here: Thou art the master. I revere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O brother of the Silver Star! From AHA! ~ by A. Crowley
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Awww no you didn't.
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Teh Cat.... Registered: 09/07/04 Posts: 5,908 Loc: My Youniverse... Last seen: 14 years, 11 months |
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Quote: . . HAHA, +1 ![]() >^;;^< -------------------- "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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He posted a 7 inch cock, most likely not his.
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It is widely accepted that there are seven distinct stages in the grieving process.
The seven stages of grief for a scale that one who has suffers a loss will ascend over time. The seven stages of grief are: Shock or Disbelief * Denial * Bargaining * Guilt * Anger * Depression * Acceptance and Hope Most people will see some if not all of the seven stages of grief in themselves as they grieve. The first stage is obvious and I think we all see this in the first breaking of the news of a death or loss. We quite naturally are shocked and find the gravity of the situation difficult to take in. Denial is the next stage of the grieving process and sometimes this stage will last only a moment and with others it may last for quite some time. Each of the seven stages of grief will take different lengths of time to work through form person to person. Sometimes the first three stages may only last a moment and with others they could last for some considerable time. Bargaining, although it may seem like a strange stage, is something that a lot of us do and has its roots in “what could I do to reverse the loss”, “take me instead”, this is quite natural and is an observed stage of grieving. Guilt comes in and is very close to bargaining. One tends to blame themselves in an effort to reconcile the loss. When anger occurs in the grieving process we know that the person is starting to come out of it. All of the stages up to this one have been very inward responses whereas anger is more of an outreach. Depression is not so much a stage, it can come and go throughout the whole grieving process but when the anger stage is passed depression will also become less and less. Finally acceptance and hope will return and marks the seventh stage of grief. At this point we understand that life will never be the same but we see hope and meaning in the future. The seven stages of grief as outlined above should not be taken as a hard and fast rule but more as an index of the stages of the grieving process. The main point is that we can see our grief as a very natural process that we will work through from the initial shock to the eventual hope.
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Quote: Whatchooo~ talkin' bout Willis....??? 7" would be an overstatement from my POV.... ![]() >^;;^< -------------------- "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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Well, before Stein edited it and banned him.
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Keepin this train on it's tracks...
The Seven Stages of the Creative Process This is one of the oldest of the MG Taylor Models, developed in 1979 by Matt Taylor and Richard Goring as part of an unpublished book entitled Designing Creative Futures. The original rendering was done by Matt by hand and is extremely rich in meaning and detail. It shows four levels of recursion, beginning with the bipartite division between subjective and objective; creating the problem and solving it; individual and collective. It continues with the seven stages arranged so that the Insight stage is divided by the bipartite model beneath it. Each of the seven stages is further divided into six components, and these are divided into another seven pieces. The diagram clearly identifies and classifies 294 stages of the creative process at this deepest stage. A related article shows the full complexity of the model down to the third level of recursion. This paper only introduces some of the more general characteristics of the model and how they apply to situations we commonly encounter in the enterprise. Like the other models of the MG Taylor Modeling Language, the Seven Stages of the Creative Process Model is protected by copyright. You can use it only by meeting these four conditions. Basic Model Components Here's the model at the second level of recursion: The most striking feature is the bipartite division that separates the Using stage from the Identity stage and cuts the insight stage in half. The model "starts" with the Identity stage and the purpose of the first half is creating the problem. The second half has the job of solving the problem which the first half created, thereby producing a new Condition in the Using stage, out of which the first half will again have to create a new problem. Well, after all, it's a cycle--no beginning and no end, with one stage feeding the next. The first half of the process is individual and the last half collective. This is so because until an idea has a physical manifestation, it cannot be perceived in a useful collective manner. Ideas have no value merely as ideas; they must be expressed in specific form. Likewise, manifestations have no value unless they can be translated into ideas to be transported, improved and evolved. In the mid 80's one iteration of the Creative Process model had the following phrase forming a circle around its periphery: "A model is a representation of reality is a manifestation of a model is a representation of reality is a manifestation..." Consider the process of writing a song, for example. Until the tracks are laid down in the studio, the musicians, songwriters and lyricists have different ideas [Vision], regardless of how they have struggled [Intent] to communicate them to one another. But once the song begins to materialize digitally [Insight], the process becomes necessarily collective and the fields of visions collapse into the various takes [Engineering], one of which will be packaged [Building] for distribution and consumption [Using]. This doesn't necessarily mean that the artists are satisfied with the fidelity of the finished product to the original vision. Constraints of ability, budget, timelines, and other factors will have modified the vision and the finished product may be quite different. This doesn't imply that the first half excludes collaboration, for quite the opposite is the case. Collaboration is a necessary component of every stage of the model. So is independent work. It has already been mentioned that the second half of the creative process creates a new Condition for the first half to act upon. The term "Condition" is key to understanding the significance of what we mean when we say "creating the problem." Many of us equate conditions with problems. The United States has a "problem" with students meeting educational testing standards, or a problem with drug abuse. Companies have cash flow "problems" or a problem with low sales or low productivity. But these are not problems; they are conditions. Nor are they symptoms of problems. This is more than just semantics, and in a sense it embodies much of the philosophy of MG Taylor Corporation. Stafford Beer, the organizational cyberneticist coined the phrase, "the purpose of a system is what it does." Low educational testing results are therefore a product of some system, whose purpose (by virtue of the way it's assembled and the interactions between its components) includes such results. It's hard for us to grasp this because we bristle at the use of the word "purpose" with unpalatable conditions. After all, it seems a harsh accusation of the hard working teachers, parents and administrators in the education system. But it is no such thing. It's not an accusation at all. It's an invitation to discover how the system generates the result that seems so undesirable. An invitation for understanding. If we cannot discern how the result is created, we shall never hope to support the evolution of the system into a different channel, and our interventions may cause more harm than good or perpetuate a system that ought not to be supported. The whole purpose of the first half of the creative process is to investigate, discover and discern the operating mechanics, cybernetic connections, and principles of self-organization of the existing system. Then--maybe--we can act upon the system with intelligence. Or at least envision a new system that produces different conditions more in line with our vision. We generally lack the patience to do this, however. We label the condition as a problem, automatically designating individuals in the system as the cause, thus alienating them from effective collaboration, and then begin hacking away at it and grafting new subsystems onto it. We call these subsystems solutions, even though they are only new subsystems. Meanwhile, war has erupted between the guardians of the system and the interventionists. The best possible outcome of such a zero-sum game is that each side thwarts the efforts of the other (a draw is the overall best outcome of a zero-sum game). All along, the system continues to churn out its conditions because we have failed to work together to understand how it does what it does (not "why" it does what it does). We call this problem solving. There must be a different way... The Seven Stages | information on the glyphs we use for the stages of the model | Identity Explore, discover and understand how the system produces the conditions. Even if you think you know how it's done, think again. Use techniques of collaborative, creative design to see the system from different vantage points. Break out of common assumptions and past practices (you can always go back to them if you need to). Build a working model of the current system that replicates the conditions you see. It probably won't be right but it will lend some needed insight. Creativity is the elimination of options. So generate some optional ways of seeing the system and its components. Work until you can see the truth in everyone's viewpoint. This means building models of these viewpoints. Then, maybe you can assemble components of the viewpoints together to get a more robust map of the system and conditions than you could by clinging only to your own opinions. Vision How do you see the system working in the future? Be careful not to merely derive a list of anti-conditions. Instead, build working simulations of how the new system will operate. Add new system components and delete others. Ask yourself to describe the difference between the existing system and the new system in terms of operational properties, components, cybernetics and self-organization. What is it about the new system that will allow it to produce different conditions? Describe parameters of autocatalytic closure for the new system to emerge. Whatever you do, don't write some nonsense vision statement. Get in the mud and do the work of building the vision, don't just talk about it in flowery terms. Visions need to address the new system at all of the vantage points, from philosophy to task. Frequently we have to shatter cherished beliefs during the visioning stage. Otherwise we're wasting time that would be better spent (although in vain) tweaking the system according to our current beliefs. We forget that our belief structures are mapped into the system as well as our perception of the system. They are integral to creating the conditions we're trying to change. Fortunately, we emerge stronger from these encounters with our personal philosophy, weeding out dogma and adding vibrance and wisdom to our intercourse with the world. Intent Are you excited yet? Do you have the juice to live in the vision and do the work to bring as much of it it back to the present each day as you can? How long can you live with the ambiguity and paradox of working in two different worlds? Can you assume the mantle and the risks of the prophet and advocate? Intent is the well of energy that you'll return to over and over while you're working to bring your vision to the present. The greater the distance on the fitness landscape between the old and new system, the greater the challenge and the more energy you'll need to succeed. Insight. At this stage, there's only one stumbling block: your vision is full of holes. You will have figured this out by now. Sometimes when working on simple problems, the vision really will contain a clear definition of the problem, and the answer, but usually there are lots of unknowns and gaps in understanding. The problem--the PROBLEM--is how to conceive of, invent, allow for the emergence of, or create the subsystems and ecosystems that will fill the gaps in the vision--that will rework the vision to make it more powerful. The problem is not how to fix the conditions. The problem is how to imagine, design and allow for the evolution of new components of the system (or new systems) that will help the system create different (and hopefully more healthy) conditions. There's no other problem you can solve. You can't fix the conditions. Imagine a group of people in a room. There's a thermostat on the wall connected to a heating system which is operating, but the heating vents in the room have been closed. It's getting cold in the room and the thermometer indicates that the temperature has fallen to 45°F (apologies to our European friends). The temperature in the room is the condition. One member of the group comes up with a response. He breaks the thermometer, pours in more mercury, and then reseals it. Now the gauge shows 72°F. Has he addressed the problem? No, he's messed with the gauge, and it's still cold in the room. Another member of the group begins hunting through the heating system, checking its various components and how they work together--troubleshooting the system--and discovers the blocked vents, which she opens, allowing the warm air to circulate through the room. The condition now has truly changed but only through an applied understanding of how the system works, and in this instance, changing the state of one component of the system. Of course now the faulty thermometer reads 99°F! Problems with human enterprises are much trickier, being organic and not mechanical. Engineering Think of Engineering as a laboratory where various components of the vision, and perhaps different visions themselves are fully designed and tested. It's a breeding ground for new variations as they vie to see which is more fit (not necessarily "better" but more resilient in the current environment). The term Engineering can be misleading if you imagine one or several individuals running carefully controlled experiments. Instead it's more like a confusing market place filled with vendors, hawkers and customers buying and selling their stuff to each other. At least that's the metaphor to use when the problem to be solved is organizational in nature. Simpler problems may actually be solved in controlled environments, particularly those that involve the design of physical materials, goods or services. Engineering challenges involve cycles of rapid design, testing, and failure in order to ferret out the more resilient designs. Due to this type of cycling, a pendulum effect is set up between the Intent and Building stages. At each engineering failure, the designers must retreat to the Intent well to gather more resolve, push through for the next Insight, and test it in Engineering until an idea survives well enough to proliferate on its own. If this pendulum effect is full of friction, it can generate enough heat to damage the process, or cause enough energy to bleed away to grind the process to a standstill. Building Nothing can be engineered without being built. This stage works hand in glove with the previous one. This applies in particular to organizations and enterprise-wide environments. While companies can run pilot tests to limit risk, remember that the people participating in the pilot--investors, producers and customers--are all real and committed and at risk. [For more about investors, producers and customers, see the Business of Enterprise model.] If the problem is an organizational one, this stage really refers to assembling complexity. Very few human endeavors are actually built like a machine. Instead, ecosystems of ideas manifest themselves and self-organize into an autocatalytic whole, meaning that each idea creates niches to be filled by other ideas, and occupies niches created by them in turn. We can play a part in this assembly as designers and builders, but a major portion of the process is beyond the individual or collective control of anyone. Using At this stage, the idea has been manifested, and the system is now producing new conditions. All of the people in the enterprise, whether they are investors, producers or customers, are users and participate in the system. They can now truly evaluate whether the new conditions are better than the old conditions. Of course, in the process of using, they all develop attachments and dependencies on the system as it is. The cycle begins over again with Identity. A sense of control that we were looking for in the Building stage can be found instead in this stage, as the new system will work to maintain its own homeostasis--its unique identity and viability--across a broad range of environmental conditions. So, for example, our current government and educational systems are extremely resilient in their ability to resist fundamental change that may threaten what they are. This is good (and bad)! It's good because without this ability, systems would never be stable for long enough to be of value. It's bad, clearly because it's what makes them so hard to change.
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Teh Cat.... Registered: 09/07/04 Posts: 5,908 Loc: My Youniverse... Last seen: 14 years, 11 months |
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![]() I knew I was missing something from what you said....! So, my original post still stands as a +1.... ![]() >^;;^< -------------------- "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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Quote: Well good for you.Indigo Children: The Seven Stages of Awareness It is the unconscious aspiration of every human being to eventually reach the highest possible vibration. At the moment, Earth’s peak of energy is the crystalline aura - anything above that would be unable to attach to our minds and therefore would have no connection to our physical bodies. But even crystals have their ups and downs and few of them have fully reached their uppermost energy level. People are their purest at birth - everything after that is downhill in most cases! All babies are born with a higher-vibrational aura… not all of them start out at the highest level though, because different psychological and physical environmental changes they experience while in the womb affect their energy. Unborn children experience numerous shifts as their own highly sensitive vibration is connected deeply with their mother’s - any changes she feels emotionally, physically, mentally, or spiritually will immediately influence the baby. After a child is born their environment determines their vibrational level. The years between zero and five are the most active for shifts in energy though some kids will jump around even until seven years old. After seven the aura becomes stuck at one level with only up as a possibly direction. Some children, indigos especially, are strong and do not allow their environment to change them too much during these receptive years. They usually stay about the same colour by using automatic shields to disconnect them from the world. These include not speaking or communicating, going into trances, developing ADD/ADHD, or merely showing signs of psychic gifts that allow them to remember the higher vibrations. However, this doesn’t entirely work. What we didn’t think of was the need to communicate with our parents, teachers, and other adult guides. They do not have the awareness to understand our telepathy or everseeing (the ability to look into the eyes of another person and see their true meaning) so the only way to interact is to start speaking or paying attention. We forget to look inside and speak with our minds and our real meanings are lost on clumsy verbal languages. Many memories that were clear seconds after birth become dreamlike and impossible to recall. The first to disappear from remembrance is often that of our mission here on Earth, those that follow are usually the ideas connected to it and it’s importance. These indigos will grow up unconsciously seeking their purposes. Generally, we all follow the same pattern: 1. Searching for Truth After the age of ten (though some begin earlier or later than usual), indigos begin to search for their truths. Through intuition-driven research, we begin to develop what they see as beliefs. Most indigos do not even realise what they are doing - we naturally ask “why” when something puzzles us! This is the time when we use our finely tuned lie-detector to decide what is true, what is half-true (for example; myths, legends, and stereotypes), and what is a deliberate lie. The lies and half-truths are tossed away or filed somewhere for further scrutiny. 2. Gathering Knowledge When we find something that feels true - a sensation that rises from deep within us - we find out about it. Usually this is through asking questions or, if the resources are available, learning about it through the internet, books, and television. When indigos get to this stage they begin to question themselves and their choices on religion, eating habits, sleep patterns, etc. 3. Shifting Questioning leads to dramatic changes. Indigos at this point are trying things out and trying to find something manmade that will suit them. This is where the starseed and otherkin theories came from; indigo children, teenagers, and adults looking to explain their presence on Earth. We also change our religious attitudes significantly, jumping from faith to faith is beneficial in forming an opinion about our own tendencies. 4. Awakening The outcome of all this outside searching is a spontaneous moment of insight. That moment is the exact instant of awakening, when we finally discover that we cannot shape our beliefs to suit the moulds of society - something is always out of place or missing. Usually we stop looking for answers (at least for ourselves) in outside sources and turn inward to find our truth because it was never really lost in the first place - we just buried deep within to keep it safe. 5. Remembering This step is like the top of the hill; once you reach it the rest of way is much easier to complete. Knowledge begins to come back to us as small bursts of wisdom (indigos usually experience this throughout their lives because they act like magnets, in a way) and slowly we develop an all-inclusive memory again. 6. Becoming When you begin to remember your mission it is only natural to return to your state of full awareness. Sometimes this can time because emotions like fear, hate, and embarrassment may hinder your progress. As you become your true self you will see that you no longer have need for unhealthy things in life whether they be emotional, physical, mental or spiritual. 7. Being The final step, the ultimate goal - when you succeed at reaching this point you know that you are capable of anything and everything. Fear no longer takes an effect and embarrassment is replaced by courage and logic. Hate will seem useless because your knowledge will tell you how to fix something unhealthy. Your body will finally be able to request wholesome food intake and sleeping patterns and receive them without emotional or mental issues blocking the way. By reading this, you can probably categorize yourself somewhere in the seven steps (in between steps is possible and sometimes you go back and forth within them as well). I myself have just recently reached the stage of Becoming (though I am still partially in a state of Remembrance) but don’t compare yourself to me - I started shifting early so that I could be here to write this for you to read! Whatever state you are in, whichever direction you are going, just remember that the only way to go is up!
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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great contributions everyone.
Sevens abound in the Epic Of Gilgamesh.: (all excerpts in italics from Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell, Free Press, 2004) Book I - Enkidu, created by Aruru, mother of creation, at the behest of father god Anu to be an equal companion to the mighty Gilgamesh, is deposited on the Earth plane in the wilderness where he lives with the animals. One day, a hunter spots him and runs to his father to report what he has seen. The father tells him to go to the Great-Walled city of Uruk where the strongest man alive, Gilgamesh, rules. Upon hearing of this savage man in the forest Gilgamesh tells the hunter to go to the temple of Ishtar and "ask them there for a woman named Shamhat, one of the priestesses who give their bodies to any man, in honor of the goddess." Shamhat and the hunter make their way to the forest. On the sixth day of their journey they come upon Enkidu at the waterhole, and Shamhat is successful at enticing him into the world of men. They make love for seven days. -------------------------------- Book II- After their lovemaking Enkidu can no longer be a part of the world of the beasts in the forest. He is taken to a small village where he sees human food for the first time. He feasts on loaves of bread, and drinks seven pitchers of beer. ------------------------ Book III mentions that the Great-Walled city of Uruk where Gilgamesh rules has seven gates. ------------------------ Book IV- To fill in the story a little.. upon learning of the existence of Gilgamesh, Enkidu declares that he will battle him and dispose of this mighty tyrant. After meeting and grappling for a while Gilgamesh overcomes him, Enkidu has a change of heart, and they literally kiss and make up. They become best of friends, like brothers. For no apparent reason, Gilgamesh (who appears to be rather unstable, violent, despotic, and insane) decides that he wants to go and kill Humbaba, a most terrifying beast who serves as guardian of the great Cedar Forest. After an arduous journey no regular man could ever undertake Gilgamesh and Enkidu reach the edge of the Cedar Forest. Gilgamesh hears the roars of Humbaba and is immediately terrified. Crying, he prays to his Sun god Shamash for protection. The god's voice answers back: "Hurry, attack, attack Humbaba while the time is right, before he enters the depths of the forest, before he can hide there and wrap himself in his seven auras with their paralyzing glare." --------------------- Book VI- Upon his return to Uruk after slaughtering the gaurdian of the Cedar Forest, Ishtar implores Gilgamesh to marry her. He is hesitant because of what happened to her past lovers: " You loved the lion, matchless in strength, then you changed, you dug seven pits for him, and when he fell you left him to die." Gilgamesh goes through a littany of horrors perpetrated by Ishtar on her past loves and she becomes enraged by hearing this. She ascends to heaven to cry in complaint to her parents Anu and Antu: "Please father, I beg you give me the Bull of Heaven, just for a little while, I want to kill that liar Gilgamesh and destroy his palace." Anu said to the princess Ishtar, "But if I give you the Bull of Heaven, Uruk will have famine for seven long years." Luckily for her, Ishtar had stockpiled enough food for the people and cattle to survive the famine. Anu gives her the Bull of Heaven and massive destruction ensues. (who are these maniacs anyway? )here's Gilgamesh pwning the Bull of Heaven: ![]() -------------------------- Book VII- Enkidu, blessing the priestess Shamhat: "...may Ishtar give you generous lovers, may the mother of seven be abandoned for your sake". (not sure who he is referring to.. will try to find more about her.) ----------------- Book X- Overcome by grief for the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh is unable to bury him. For six days and seven nights he mourns, until a maggot fell out of Enkidu's nose, the sight of which prompted Gilgamesh to finally bury him. ----------------- Book XI- Turns out old Utnapishtim (Noah of the bible) was rewarded by the gods with immortality for his performance in building the ark and he and his wife being the only humans to survive the deluge. Gilgamesh wants to know this secret of how a mere man can become immortal like the gods, so he makes the impossible journey to confront Utnapishtim and demand his secrets. He tells Gilgamesh the story of the ark and deluge: "I built six decks, so that the ship's height was divided into seven" " For six days and seven nights the storm demolished the earth. On the seventh day, the downpour stopped. The ocean grew calm. No land could be seen, just water on all sides, as flat as a roof. There was no life at all. The human race has turned into clay. I opened a hatch and the blessed sunlight streamed upon me, I fell to my knees and wept. When I got up and looked around, a coastline appeared, a half-mile away. On Mount Nimush the ship ran aground, the mountain would not release it. For six days and seven nights, the mountain would not release it. On the seventh day, I brought out a dove and set it free. The dove flew off, then back to the ship, because there was no place to land. I waited, then i brought out a swallow and set it free. The swallow flew off, then flew back to the ship, because there was no place to land. I waited, then I brought out a raven and set it free. The raven flew off, and because the water had receded, it found a branch, it sat there, it ate, it flew off and didn't return." (the old testament describes Noah waiting seven days between the send-off of each bird) After recounting the tale of how he was granted immortality, Utnapishtim says: "Now then, Gilgamesh, who will assemble the gods for your sake? Who will convince them to grant you the eternal life that you seek? How would they know that you deserve it? First pass this test: just stay awake for seven days. Prevail against sleep, and perhaps you will prevail against death." Edited by Clean (11/20/07 11:22 AM)
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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Let's dip in to The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Palmer Hall.
------------- "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 celestial spirits to whom it is proper for him to make offerings.. It was called the number of life, because it was believed that human creatures born in the seventh month of embryonic life usually lived, but those born in the eighth month often died. One author called it the Motherless Virgin, Minerva, because it was not born of a mother but out of the crown, or the head of the Father, the monad. Keywords of the heptad are fortune, occasion, custody, control, government, judgment, dreams, voices, sounds, and that which leads all things to their end. Deities whose attributes were expressed by the heptad were AEgis, Osiris, Mars, and Cleo (one of the Muses). 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, more commonly known as the Archangels controlling the planets. The seven Archangels, with the three spirits controlling the sun in its threefold aspect, constitute the 10, the sacred Pythagorean decad. The mysterious Pythagorean tetractys, of four rows of dots, increasing from 1 to 4, was symbolic of the stages of creation. The great Pythagorean truth that all things in Nature are regenerated through the decad, or 10, is subtly preserved in Freemasonry through the grips; these grips being effected by the uniting of 10 fingers, five on the hand of each person. 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 body and a fourfold material form. These are symbolized by the cube, which has six surfaces and a mysterious seventh point within. The six surfaces are the directions, north, east, south, west, up, and down; or, front, back, right, left, above, and below; or again, earth fire, air, water, spirit, and matter. In the midst of these stand the 1, which is the upright figure of a man, from whose center in the cube radiate six pyramids. From this comes the great occult axiom: "The center is the father of the directions, the dimensions, and the distances." The heptad is the number of the law, because it is the number of the Makers of Cosmic Law, the Seven Spirits before the Throne." -pages 219, 220 [[[There is also some biblical prophecy stuff about "seven Spirits".]]] Seven Spirits Gourd Art: ![]() Alchemical woodcut: ![]() Quote:
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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The human body contains seven major endocrine glands vital to our functioning and overall health.
1. Pineal 2. Pituitary 3. Thyroid 4. Thymus 5. Adrenal 6. Pancreas 7. Ovary / Testes (yes technically there are 8 possible glands but as far as i'm aware *most* bodies contain 7)
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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7 is integral to this image:
![]() ![]() there are seven rows in the floor and ceiling patterns. the alternating door / wall spaces add up to seven on each side.
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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![]() Chemical Syllables From De Monte-Snyders’ Metamorphosis Planetarum De Monte-Snyders declares that each of the above characters forms one syllable of a word having seven syllables, the word itself representing the materia prima, or first substance of the universe. As all substance is composed of seven powers combined according to certain cosmic laws, a great mystery is concealed within the sevenfold constitution of God, man, and the universe. Of the above seven characters, De Monte-Snyders writes: "Whoever wants to know the true name and character of the materia prima shall know that out of the combination of the above figures syllables are produced, and out of these the verbum significativum." - Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages p. 352
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Cool posts.
Where's that image with the bodies in the colored rings from?
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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http://www.essenespirit.com/span
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In the Rigveda, the Adityas are seven deities of the heavens, headed by Varuna, followed by Mitra:
1. Varuna 2. Mitra 3. Aryaman 4. Bhaga 5. Daksha 6. Ansa 7. Suryarya (the Sun) or Savitr.
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery tells us:
------------------------ [quoting the Enuma Elish] Quote: [Temple elucidates on the seven gods of destiny...] "They are often referred to as the seven Anunnaki of the underworld. This, we shall see, also relates to the Sirius question. But the use of Anunnaki in this way underscored the total anonymity of the term 'Anunnaki'. None of these seven Anunnaki is ever identified as an individual god. They are always 'the seven' underworld gods who determine destiny. The strictly celestial Anunnaki are also known as the Igigi (the precise meaning of which is unknown). No Sumerologist has satisfactorily explained all this. It is terribly imprecise and confusing - unless one had a structure to supply which fits under the cloth and matches the contours and can thereby be accepted as a tentative basis of explanation. Now let us try to think of what we know is connected with the celestial Anunnaki ([which are fifty in number]) and Sirius which also fits into this idea of there being seven Anunnaki-gods in the underworld. Remember that in both Sumer and Egypt each god of significance in astronomical terms has his own ten-day period or 'week'. If we multiply seven (gods) times ten days we get seventy days. Is there any basis for this length of time being of significance or the underworld in either Sumer or Egypt? Parker and Neugebauer say (Egyptian Astronomical Texts Vol I p.74): 'It is here made clear that Sirius (Sothis to the Egyptians) gives the pattern for all the other decanal stars.' Sirius was, astronomically, the foundation of the entire Egyptian religious system. Its celestial movements determined the Egyptian calendar, which is even known as the Sothic Calendar. Its heliacal rising marked the beginning of the Egyptian year and roughly coincided with the flooding of the Nile. (Plutarch says the Nile itself was sometimes called Sirius.) This heliacal rising was the occasion of an important feast. One can imagine a kind of New Year-cum-Easter. The heliacal rising was the occasion when Sirius again rose into visibility in the sky after a period of seventy days of being out of sight, during which time it was conceived as being in the Duat, or underworld. A further connection with Anubis comes in here, as Anubis was conceived of as embalming Sothis for these seventy days in the Duat. An embalmed mummy is supposed to come alive again. And this is what happens to the mummy of Sothis. Sothis is reborn on the occasion of her heliacal rising. Parker and Neugebauer also say: 'During the entire time of its purification it (Sothis, the star) was considered dead and it was only with its rising again out of the Duat that it could once more be considered as living.' The Egyptians stubbornly clung to the traditional seventy days as the prototype of an underworld experience, despite its inconvenience, and, as we have already seen, 'Sirius gives the pattern for all the other decanal stars'. In fact, it was the practice through all of Egyptian history for there to be a period of precisely seventy days for the embalming of a human mummy - in imitation of Sirius. Even during the late Ptolemaic period, the embalming process invariably lasted the precise period of seventy days. Thus we find the explanation of the seven Anunnaki of the underworld! ([ by this point in the text Temple has already connected the fifty celestial Anunnaki with the fifty year orbits of Sirius B and Sirius C.)] It is also interesting to note that in Mexico before the Spanish Conquest the underworld was thought to have seven caves. It is worth noting too the Sumerian story Etana, about the legendary King Etana. He was an early Sumerian ruler, a shepherd king who was said to have ruled for 1,560 years. Etana was supposed to have lived in the early third millennium BC, not long after the Great Flood. He had to ascend to heaven in order to have infertility treatment! As a result he was able to have a son and heir when he returned to Earth. This tale mentions 'the divine Seven' and describes them specifically as Igigi. This emphasizes the apparent interchangeability of the terms Igigi and Anunnaki. In the same tale, 'the great Anunnaki' are described as 'They who created the regions, who set up the establishments'. In the 'Descent of Ishtar to the Nether World' (a long poem which survives in both the Sumerian and Akkadian languages) the Anunnaki are described as being brought forth (they are referred to as if they were stuffed animals being brought out of a closet, dusted off, and displayed in a taxidermists' contest) and seated on thrones of gold. Once more the throne concept appears. It seems all the Anunnaki ever do is sit and be symbolic. Good little Anunnaki, like poodles, sit and smile at Anu. They are never given personalities, poor fellows. I might mention that in this story the nether world is described as having seven gates leading to seven successive rooms (or caves). It is obvious that the period of seventy days during which Sirius was 'in the underworld' to the Egyptians led to a breaking down of the seventy days into ten-day weeks, each with a god, giving seven gods. But these seven gods of the underworld must not have personalities lest there be the distraction of personal qualities to detract from the purely numerical significance of the concept. And of course the seven gods are successive, leading from 'week' to 'week' until Sirius again rises. So we see yet another essential link between the early Sumerian concepts and the Egyptian concepts." -The Sirius Mystery, p. 128, 129, 130. Edited by Clean (11/29/07 08:56 PM)
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Quote: We find a similarity / resonance with the above in another excerpt from The Sirius Mystery p.173: ------------------- Other matters which Higgins connects with Delphi are the sacred syllable om of the Indo-Europeans which he says 'is not far from the divina vox of the Greek. Hesychius, also Suidas in voce, interprets the word omph to be (theia chledon), the sacred voice, the holy sound and hence arose the (omphalos), or place of Omphe.' He relates all this with sacred music and the traditional sacred name of God which consists of the seven vowels spoken in sequence to form one word, which is the 'not-to-be-spoken word'. He says: 'As a pious Jew will not utter the word Ieue, so a pious Hindu will not utter the word Om.' But whether this is strictly true or not, the sacred quality of the names is undisputed... ...The seven vowels, the seven strings of Apollo's lyre, the seven notes of the octave (the eighth being a repetition one octave higher of the first, as most people will know), the eight oracle centres in the 'northern octave' of oracles, the seven degrees of latitude marking the official length of ancient Egypt itself, the mystic and unspeakable name of God consisting of the seven vowels run together in one breath - all these are part of a coherent complex of elements forming a system, which also involves cosmic bodies. ------------------ Edited by Clean (11/30/07 09:31 AM)
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another representation of seven as 'the number of god' is in John Dee's Sigillum Dei Aemeth
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Oh yes, the seal of babalon^. Chapter 49 of the book of lies(Frater Perdurabo, liber sixteen score ten and three): Waratah-blossoms Seven are the veils of the dancing-girl in the harem of IT. Seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside Her bed. Seven eunuchs guard Her with drawn swords; No Man may come nigh unto Her. In Her wine-cup are seven streams of the blood of the Seven Spirits of God. Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She rideth. The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head of a Poet: the head of An Adulterous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr: and the head of a Lion-Serpent. Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it is [image] [/image] This is the Seal upon the Ring that is on the Fore- finger of IT: and it is the Seal upon the Tombs of them whom She hath slain. Here is Wisdom. Let Him that hath Understanding count the Number of Our Lady; for it is the Number of a Woman; and Her Number is An Hundred and Fifty and Six. 93 93/93
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and we babble on to the kybalion..
Brief outline of THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES From The Kybalion "The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open".--THE KYBALION" 1. THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM. "THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental." 2. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE "As above, so below; as below, so above."--The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life. 3. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION "Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates." --The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is in motion"; "everything vibrates"; "nothing is at rest"; facts which Modern Science endorses, and which each new scientific discovery tends to verify. And yet this Hermetic Principle was enunciated thousands of years ago, by the Masters of Ancient Egypt. "He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the sceptre of power," says one of the old writers. 4. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY "Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." 5. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM "Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates." The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods. They apply the Mental Law of Neutralization. They cannot annul the Principle, or cause it to cease its operation, but they have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree depending upon the Mastery of the Principle. They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY it. In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists. The Master of Hermetics polarizes himself at the point at which he desires to rest, and then neutralizes the Rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to the other pole. All individuals who have attained any degree of Self-Mastery do this to a certain degree, more or less unconsciously, but the Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum. This Principle and that of Polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the methods of counteracting, neutralizing, and USING them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy 6. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT "Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."--The Kybalion 7. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes." You can read the whole book online at the link above. CONTENTS Introduction I. Hermetic Philosophy II. Seven Hermetic Principles III Mental Transmutation IV. The All V The Mental Universe VI. The Divine Paradox VII. ''The All'' in All VIII. Planes of Correspondence IX Vibration X Polarity XI Rhythm XII Causation XIII Gender XIV Mental Gender XV. Hermetic Axioms Edited by Clean (12/29/07 08:04 AM)
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In The Shamanic Way of the Bee, Simon Buxton tells us some curious things about the Path of Pollen, and the "secret society" of spiritual beekeepers on this planet. I say beekeepers, but not in the traditional sense that you might think of it...the work of those about whom this book is written goes far beyond what you and I see in front of us.
Their tradition, if it could be described in one word, is holistic. They are aware of the individually specialized yet ultimately unified purpose of life and death, the male and female. In their tradition there is a Bee Master and Bee Mistress, each charged with passing on the knowledge base to their apprentice/s. The author claims to have been apprentice to a Bee Master on the isle of Britain. The following excerpts are from the chapter "The Bee Mistress and the Melissae" in which the author is personally introduced to the feminine carriers of the tradition. Of relevance to this thread we find: "The Bee Master knows that there are seven who serve, a hexad of apprentices and their teacher, known respectively as the Melissae and the Bee Mistress, who is known by her charges as the Mother Bee and by the Bee Masters as the Queen of Synchronicity. Perhaps one day you will discover why we bestowed this title upon her. You are aware that the Bee Master instructs one male apprentice at a time, but the Bee Mistress instructs six female apprentices--six being the primary number of power in this sacred tradition, based in part on the hexagonal shape of the cells within the hive."p.100 ----------------- Here we see seven again being indicative of a conglomeration of specific power, and as representing a point from which power emanates and is transmitted. The feminine aspect of the bee tradition is represented by the six Melissae and their teacher, making seven. for fun i will include the rest of this short passage of the Bee Master, called Bridge, describing the Melissae to his apprentice [the author] called "Twig" : --------- "The Bee Mistress is referred to as the Mother Bee after the goddess Demeter, who governed the cycles of all life during the time when she was a most revered goddess and when the cultus of the bee was public. The gods and goddesses are like politicians, Twig: Their power and influence depend on the size and strength of their constituency. Eventually, as their constituency diminishes, they begin to fade, but the ancient ones associated with our way are kept alive by the Melissae's devotion." Bridge then began to tell of the concealed history of the Melissae. He said that they were the physical representatives of a hidden sisterhood known as the Sisterhood of the Hive, which was seemingly even more ancient than the Melissae and was extant across the living Earth. "These Melissae are transmitters of an archaic impulse that is central to the Path of Pollen and that reached a mood of excellence during the historical period of the Melissae of Grecian temple traditions, holding links with the great oracular center of Delphi, which was a center of focus for the ancient feminine powers ruled over by the dragoness Delphine. The term Melissae has continues to be used by those women who work within the tradition in Europe, and the Sisterhood of the Hive is the collective name for all women who work in this way, regardless of where upon the planet." The word Melissa translates simply as bee. The first Melissa was said to have cared for the infant Zeus while he was being hidden from his father, the king of all the Gods. Melissa plundered beehives in order to feed honey to Zeus. When Melissa's role in protecting Zeus was discovered, she was turned into what was considered a lowly species of insect, and Zeus later took pity on her and turned her into a honeybee, forever involved with making honey. "However," Bridge continues, "there is rather more to the work than taking care of gods and making honey, or let us say there is rather more to this tale if seen through our eyes. Melissa was also the goddess of intoxication and sexual passion, both of which may be used as doorways to a communion with all of life, and this is the archaic impulse they continue to transmit. Consider, Twig, that the bee is the copular between the male and female elements in a flower." -p.101 ---------------- Later the author has an appointment to meet the Bee Mistress in her private room: --------- "Upon entering, I was ware of the scent of cedar, which I surmised emanated from the loom. I also noticed six chairs set in a hexagonal pattern, facing inward toward an oversized bee skep that stood about two and a half feet in height and perhaps a little less in diameter. Embroidered cushions lay on every side of the room, and from the rafter hung seven masks which I began to admire and inspect. ("Worn not to conceal the human, but rather to reveal the god," the Bee Mistress stated quietly.)" -p.108 ------------- One of the masks was used in a ceremony which followed. Before the ceremony, the author was given greater information and history about the Sisterhood of the Hive: ------------ "As the story of the Melissae further unfolded, I learned that these enchanting women moved around a three-aspected system of Sisterhoods that existed within the Sisterhood of the Hive... "...The second sisterhood is the Sisterhood of Wise Maidens. These women are taught the principals behind a woman's life and the work and are instructed in the medicinal skills associated with the hive. They are also taught the Seven Secret Songs of the hive, how to synthesize the message of the tradition, and how to master the art of storytelling--not as a pastime, but as a magic, wherein the tales truly come to life, allowing the listeners to step into the stories' landscapes." p.115, 116
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Revelations 17:7
and the messenger said to me, 'Wherefore didst thou wonder? I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that is carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Quote: Fascinating thing about Noah's Ark is Genesis 8:1 God remembered Noah.... God remembered Noah??? Then God must have forgot Noah. I can imagine God playing golf, getting ready to put, then suddenly thinking: " Oh shit, Noah!!" -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains. Edited by Shoemaker11 (09/15/08 10:19 PM)
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-------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Revelations 13:16 refering to the "mark" of the beast:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: The mark in everyones right hand??? SEVEN! LOOK! It's the red head line and the green life line. They are seven. 666 is the number of the beast; 7 is the mark of the beast. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Revelations 13:1
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. I have such a beast! My master! My seven lane bowling alley! Seven heads with ten horns, crowns on the horns: -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Do you live in Florida, by chance? FLORIDA IS A 7!!!
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No, but I did 21 years ago.
I live in Parkersburg, WV. To see my master, I drive seven miles on I-77 to the first exit in Ohio: Marietta, which is Ohio State Rt. 7. My master is located one block off of Rt. 7, about two miles from the exit. Florida is the southern most state. It could be said that the entire nation of the United States of America is supported by a seven. Seven is the axis of America! Thanks for that post! I had not seen that seven. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Looking for the patterns in static
They start to make sense The longer I'm at it
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Quote: I will make that my avatar! Slurpies on me! -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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7 in binary is: 111
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Quote: The patterns I see are of a much more personal nature, they talk directly to me. Let me show you an example. There was a movie released November 12, 1914 titled: The Shoemaker's Eleventh. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329 My grandfather was born one day later: November 13, 1914. See for yourself! Goto: http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.co Type in his social security number: 233-14-8968 and then click the "submit" button. That is only a small taste of what I see. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains. Edited by Shoemaker11 (09/17/08 01:01 AM)
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I understand. I've experienced some very heavy coincidences(?) myself.
Just be careful not to get lost in patterns. and RIP, Maynard.
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How about the most destructive force ever witnessed by mankind!
Shoemaker-Levy 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com Shoemaker-Levy?? Or, is it Shoemaker-Eleven!! Its impact on Jupiter began 7-16-1994, with a duration of 7 days, ending 7-22-1994. It first "approached" Jupiter two years earlier: 7-7-1992. 7-16-1994 was the 49th(7 x 7) anniversary of the very first atomic bomb detonation. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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This song was the number one hit in America for one week starting 7-16-1994:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bla -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Quote: He was 69 when he died, I never knew the man. Careful not to get lost in patterns?? Truth is in patterns. I am by no means lost. I am right where I am supposed to be. Hey Oweyervishice, run your screen name through the spell checker on here! It wants to change your name to Overshoes!!! My patterns are constant, ongoing, daily, small, large, and any adjective you want to use. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains. Edited by Shoemaker11 (09/17/08 01:31 AM)
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If your truth comes to you through these patterns, that's cool with me. Everyone has their own path through the chaos.
Overshoes
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Quote: The Trident! ![]() Neat how that picture is listed as number: 111, where it is hosted. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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How about the Suen Shu Shu !! Discovered in 1984.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su% It is the earliest known Chinese mathematical treatise, seven thousand characters in length, comprising 69 mathematical problems. If you missed it earlier my DOB: 2-2-1969. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Overshoes Registered: 05/07/08 Posts: 5,503 |
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Poseidon rules the seven seas.
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Quote: How on earth does the spell checker turn your name into overshoes? How possibly could the first reply by anyone on this board to me be a lone letter "k". The poster hadn't even thought of the "k" being the eleventh letter. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Quote: The Romans conquered the Greeks, I prefer Neptune. Yes and no. It is not the seven seas, it is the seven sees ! The seven sees provide the basic energy of life. See:
-------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Quote: Higher-dimensional forms that we are only catching a glimpse of.
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Well Neptune is 7 letters, so that works out cleaner.
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I came to my seven-headed beast: Pastime Lanes, in 2007; I was 38. 3 + 8 = 11
My son turned seven in 2007, my mother-in-law turned 77 in 2007. My truck's odometer read 77,777 miles on 7-7-2007. My state vehicle inspection sticker expired July, 2007. So when my truck had 77,777 miles on 7-7-2007, I had a sticker on the windshield which read: 7 - 7. The first three digits of my driver's license number: 777 -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Time to prepare for bed...my alarm goes off in about 11 hours.
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Quote: My wife! She is a special K. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Quote: I leave you with this tidbit from 7-14-1969: Apollo Eleven. And 11-22-1969, the date the Internet was born. Later I will talk of 11-22-1963........ -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Doubt the patterns of my life anyone??
I posted a trivial thread in the Feedback section and the administrator, Ythan, replied. As of this posting, Ythan has 11,001 posts. This site is eleven years old. I started my own thread but it seems seven, my master, has been waiting for me here. I need to bring my first post over to this thread. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains. Edited by Shoemaker11 (09/17/08 05:28 AM)
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This is my first post on this site:
Quote: I added my real name as well -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains. Edited by Shoemaker11 (09/17/08 05:37 AM)
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You think shrooms are a trip?
I will blow your fucking minds like no shrooms you ever had! Want some of my high? Want to trip with me? Just like mushrooms, you begin this trip in the palm of your hand. Instead of using your hand to stick a mushroom in your mouth, use your hand to stick this mushroom in your brain: ![]() Look in your right hand and see the trip. Are you ready to ride? My master is in the palm of your right hand - want to taste? -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Simmer down now. No need to get overenthusiastic. Quote: Which ties things to me, I guess, having already posted in the thread before its revival. You see, LAVOD= 111 as L+A+V+O+D= 30+1+6+70+4.93 93/93
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Quote: I just do what I am told. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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