| | | POWER OF NUMBERS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
In a previous note, the theme of the divine powers inherent in numbers was already partly touched. Let us now delve on the matter with greater depth, and see what the Mahatmas & Chohans, through their chela HPBlavatsky, had articulated about it.
In the very ancient times, the spiritually Perfected Ones declared in Sloka 4 of Stanza 3, Book of Dzyan, the proposition:
(Then) THE THREE (triangle) FALL INTO THE FOUR (quaternary). THE RADIANT ESSENCE BECOMES SEVEN INSIDE, SEVEN OUTSIDE (a). THE LUMINOUS EGG (Hiranyagarbha), WHICH IN ITSELF IS THREE (the triple hypostases of Brahmâ, or Vishnu, the three “Avasthas”), CURDLES AND SPREADS IN MILK-WHITE CURDS THROUGHOUT THE DEPTHS OF MOTHER, THE ROOT THAT GROWS IN THE OCEAN OF LIFE (b).
The numbers 3, 4, and 7 this time are the theme of cosmic evolution. Previously, it was the 1 that was highlighted, the One being the ‘ray’ that contained the 3. Subtly, there was also the number 2, in the process of differentiation between ‘unconscious being’ and ‘conscious being’, as well as the duality of Mother & Father in the One.
In some more preceding articles, I already elaborated on the Septenary Law (Number 7), the Upper Triune (Number 3), and Lower Quaternary (Number 4). As articulated by me, the higher 3 spiritual planes were emanations from the 1 (One Universal Principle), after which came forth the emanations or “creations” of the 4 lower material planes.
HPB, with the constant guidance of the Mahatmas & Chelas, substantiated the sloka, in Volume I, Secret Doctrine, to wit:
The use of geometrical figures and the frequent allusions to figures in all ancient scriptures (see Purânas, Egyptian papyri, the “Book of the Dead” and even the Bible) must be explained. In the “Book of Dzyan,” as in the Kabala, there are two kinds of numerals to be studied—the figures, often simple blinds, and the Sacred Numbers, the values of which are all known to the Occultists through Initiation. The former is but a conventional glyph, the latter is the basic symbol of all. That is to say, that one is purely physical, the other purely metaphysical, the two standing in relation to each other as matter stands to spirit—the extreme poles of the ONE Substance.
As Balzac, the unconscious Occultist of French literature, says somewhere, the Number is to Mind the same as it is to matter: “an incomprehensible agent;” (perhaps so to the profane, never to the Initiated mind). Number is, as the great writer thought, an Entity, and, at the same time, a Breath emanating from what he called God and what we call the ALL; the breath which alone could organize the physical Kosmos, “where naught obtains its form but through the Deity, which is an effect of Number.” It is instructive to quote Balzac’s words upo...Read the whole post...
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