Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue, Being a Résumé of the Views of the Kabbalists, Pythagoreans, Adepts of India, Chaldean Magi and Mediæval Magicians (Classic Reprint)
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Hebrew words I hae added the pronunciation. The Secret Doctrine of Mmc. JM avatsk} ,a work of immense erudition containing a vast fund of archaic doctrine, has supphed me with valuable quotations, which arc the only recent additions to this treatise. If an}- readers desire a deeper insight into the analogies between numbers and ideas, I refer them in addition to the works of Eliphaz Levi, xthanasius Kircher, Godfre- Higgins, Michael laier, and John Heydon ;I have quoted from each of these authorities, and Thomas Taylor sT heoretic Arithmetic has supplied me with a great part of the purely arithmetical notions of the Pythagoreans, the elucidation of which was mainly due to him. In conclusion, I request my readers, A utperlcge et vecte iiitellige, A nt abstine a censiira. W. Wynx Westcott, Fra. Ros. Cru., F.T.S. 396, Camden Road, London, N. The author will be pleased to receive additions and suggestions, from earnest students of either theE astern or Western schools ofO ccultism. PART I. PYTHAGORAS, HIS TENETS AND HIS FOLLOWERS. Pythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Euroje, was the son of Mnesarchus, an engraver, he was born about the year 580 B.C. either atS amos an island in the geanS ea, or as some saj-, atS idon in Phoenicia. Very little is known of his early life, beyond the fact that he won prizes for feats of agility at the 01}-mpic Games ;having attained manhood, and feeling dissatisfied with the amount of knowledge to be gained at home, he left his native land and spent many years in travel, visiting in turn most of the great centres of Learning. History narrates that his pilgrimage in search ot wisdom extended toE gypt, Hindostan, Persia, Crete, and Palestine, and that he gathered from each country fresh stores of information, and succeeded in becoming well acquainted with theE soteric Wisdom as well as with the popular esoteric kno
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