Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Decad. 10 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 93 THE DECAD. 10. The Decad, number Ten, or Panteleia, which meant "All complete" or fully accomplished," is the grand summit of numbers, which once reached cannot be passed; to increase the sum we must retrograde...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. Twelve. 12 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 102 TWELVE. 12. THIS number has a perfect and notable character, and was highly esteemed by most nations of antiquity. Almost all the twelves will be found to be allied, either obviously or in a concealed manner...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. Three : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 49 THREE AND A HALF. 3. W. F. Shaw calls attention to the number 3 as being of mystical importance, as the half of seven, typifying present suffering as compared with future joy. The famine in the time of Eli...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. Other Higher : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 111 OTHER HIGHER NUMBERS. The 14 days of Burial, in the Master's degree: 14 parts into which the body of Osiris was divided: a type of Christ, sacrificed on the 14th day of the month: an amulet of 14 points h...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. Thirteen. 13 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 109 THIRTEEN. 13. Thirteen was the sacred number of the Mexicans and people of Yucatan: twelve of many tribes of North American Indians, as of so many nations of antiquity: this had an astronomical connecti...
Part I. Pythagoras, His Tenets And His Followers : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 10 p. 11 NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES PART I. PYTHAGORAS, HIS TENETS AND HIS FOLLOWERS. Pythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Europe, was the son of Mnesarchus, an engraver. He...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. Some Hindoo : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 110 SOME HINDOO USES OF NUMBERS. In ancient India, in the Sanscrit language, certain words were used as equivalent to the low numbers: for One they said Moon or Earth: for Two they used many words of things...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Tetrad. 4 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 50 THE TETRAD. 4. THE Pythagoreans, said Nicomachus, call the number four "the greatest miracle, a God after another manner, a manifold divinity," the "fountain of Nature," and its "key bearer." It is...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Dyad. 2 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 36 THE DYAD. 2. As was the case with the Monad so the Dyad also was said to represent a large number of different objects and ideas; things indeed so dissimilar that it is difficult to understand how such...
Part Iii. The Kabalah On Numbers : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 22 PART III. THE KABALAH ON NUMBERS. Many nations of antiquity made use of the letters of their alphabets as substitutes for any independent signs to typify numerical conceptions. It is with the Hebrew letters...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Hexad. 6 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 66 THE HEXAD. 6. NICOMACHUS calls it "the form of form, the only number adapted to the Soul, the distinct union of the parts of the universe, the fabricator of the Soul, also Harmony," and it is properly "Venus"...
Preface To The Second Edition, 1902 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 7 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 1902. The first edition of this little book has been long out of print, and for several years I have been asked to enlarge it, but until the present time sufficient leisure has not...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. Eleven. 11 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 100 ELEVEN. 11. This seems to have been the type of a number with an evil reputation among all peoples. The Kabalists contrasted it with the perfection of the Decad, and just as the Sephirotic number is the form...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Apocalyptic : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 126 THE APOCALYPTIC NUMBERS. 1st Resurrection, Revelation xx. 5. 2nd Death, xx. 14. 2 Witnesses, xi. 3. 2 Olive Trees, 2 Candlesticks before throne of God of the Earth, xi. 4. 2-Horned Beast who spoke like a Drag...
Untitled : * This is a review of number lore by W. Wynn Westcott, an esoteric author of the 19th century. Westcott includes information on the Pythagoreans and the Kabbalah. The main portion of this book includes a series of chapters dealing with every-larger numbers, starting with the 'monad,' 1. Westcott...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Pentad. 5 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 59 THE PENTAD. 5. From the Nicomachean Extracts we derive our knowledge of the Pythagorean doctrine of the number five. It is an eminently spherical and circular number, because in every multiplication it restores...
Part Ii. Pythagorean Views On Numbers : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 16 PART II. PYTHAGOREAN VIEWS ON NUMBERS. The foundation of Pythagorean Mathematics was as follows: The first natural division of Numbers is into EVEN and ODD, an EVEN number being one which is divisible into two...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Ogdoad. 8 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 85 THE OGDOAD. 8. Is the first cube of energy, and is the only evenly even number within the decad. The Greeks thought it an all-powerful number; they had a Proverb "all things are eight." Camerarius, in his...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Heptad. 7 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 72 THE HEPTAD. 7. The Heptad, say the followers of "Pythagoras," was so called from the Greek verb "sebo," to venerate (and from the Hebrew ShBO, seven, or satisfied, abundance), being Septos, "Holy, divine,"...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Ennead. 9 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 88 THE ENNEAD. 9. THE Ennead is the first square of an odd number, it was said to be like the Ocean flowing around the other numbers within the Decad; no further elementary number is possible, hence it is like...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Monad. 1 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 33 PART IV. THE INDIVIDUAL NUMERALS. THE MONAD. 1. The number One or the Monad has been defined by the mathematician Theon of Smyrna as "the principal and element of numbers, which while multitute can be lessened...
Title Page : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES BY W. WYNN WESTCOTT SUPREME MAGUS OF THE ROSICRUCIAN SOCIETY OF ENGLAND London, Benares: Theosophical Pub. Society 3rd Edition [1911] Scanned, proofed and formatted...
Preface To The First Edition, 1890 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 4 p. 5 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1890. Seven years have passed since this essay was written, and the MSS. pages have been lent to many friends and students of mystic lore and occult meanings. It is only...
Part Iv. The Individual Numerals. The Triad. 3 : * "Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues", by W. Wynn Westcott, [1911], p. 41 THE TRIAD. 3. Photius observes that the Triad is the first odd number in energy, is the first perfect number, and is a middle and analogy. The Pythagoreans referred it to Physiology; it is the cause of all th...
