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Numeral |
Mystical Interpretation |
Derivation |
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0 |
The Void, The Yoni, the Egg, the receptacle, the all-absorbing, no reflection. |
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1 |
Consciousness, The Phallus, reproducing after itself, the all-reflecting. |
From 0 by extension |
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2 |
Consciousness aware of itself through reflection, thought, sound, reverberation. |
From 1 by reflection 1/1 (or by revolution of the line around its end) |
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3 |
Consciousness within and a part of Nuit, aware of itself, all-relation. |
From 1 and 2 by addition |
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4 |
Consciousness manifest (and profane), aware of itself as independent to all relation. |
From 2 by multiplication. |
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5 |
Consciousness aware and active upon the field of relation. |
From 2 and 3 by addition. |
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6 |
Consciousness in perfect relation, passive and balanced. |
From 2 and 3 by multiplication. |
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7 |
Consciousness unites through a particular relation. Union. |
From 2 and 3 by multiplication. |
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8 |
Consciousness perceives itself materially in this relation. |
From 3 and 4 by addition, also 8 = 23. |
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9 |
Consciousness wills this relation. |
From 2 and 3 by multiplication, also 9 = 32. |
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10 |
Consciousness (1) separate from Potential (0) for the possibility of Union. |
From 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. |
Interpretation of the Arabic Numeral Glyphs
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
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The Egg of the Universe The Yoni. |
The Light, The Arrow The Lingam. |
The Light concealing itself. The light hits and illumines an Object. The Union (of Lingam & Yoni) |
A Circle that will not be.* The Birth |
The Bow and Arrow. Authority |
A ploughshare, The lowered horns, The image of the 2 reflected. Power |
A taking into the circle from above. Harmony |
A crutch, a walking stick, a support.
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Two circles above and below informing each other. | A taking into the circle from below. |
* A circle open at the centre hinge; the below reflecting the above; two half circles: the self-reflection of the 2.
The glyph of 0, and the Idea it represents listed in this chapter under its various forms is seen to be the source and return of all things.
Other Interpretations
These interpretations arising as they do from the Old System are necessarily tainted by interpretations symptomatic of the Nihilism contained in the old Law and the religious viewpoint held in the past. As such we have the idea not of a Manifest Universe but of a Creation. Furthermore this degeneration is seen as progressive for as one moves away from the Unit, one moves away from Purity and the Godhead - so that the higher the number, or the more material the manifestation, the more corruptible it is seen to be.
Mystical:
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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The Infinite The Circle & the Point. |
The Unity The Positive The Finite; the Line. Supernal Being. |
The Dyad The Superfices. The Demiurge. Supernal Will. |
The Triad The Solid. Matter. Supernal Intelligence. |
The Quaternary Matter or the Solid manifest in Time |
The Quinary Force and Motion. The Supernal Will manifest into or acting upon Matter. |
The Senary Consciousness. |
The Septenary Desire. |
The Ogdoad Intellect |
The Ennead Ego |
The Decad The Body. |
Hermeneutical:
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| The Cosmic Egg. | The Self. | The God. | The Goddess. |
The Father Material Authority. |
The Mother Active Power. |
The Son Harmonizing 1 throughout 5. |
Emotion The lower reflection of the Mother. |
Reason The lower reflection of the Father. |
Animality The lower Reflection of the Son. |
Matter The lower reflection of the Daughter. |
Psychological:
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| The Intellectual Self and its functions: | ||||||||||
| Consciousness | Being, Id |
The Self or that which perceives “I” apart from the “not I” |
The Soul Id, & Super-ego. |
Memory. | Will. |
Imagination. The Conscious Self. The illusory Ego. |
Desire. | Reason. |
Animal being. The Unconscious Self, and his nervous, circulatory, digestive (and to an extent, his respiratory) systems. |
The Body containing 1 through 9 on the lower plane of the Elemental. |
Mathematical:
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Space |
The point: Position but no extension; 0th dimension ℝ0 |
Two points: Position & Extension Two points & their connection creates a line 1st dimension ℝ1 |
A line and a point: The third point is external to the line: all connections between this third point and points on the line create a flat plane or the: 2nd dimension ℝ2 |
A plane and a point: A point outside the plane, creates a cube. 3 dimensional space ℝ3 |
The Cube & Point The finite three dimensional solid and a point of relation outside of it (Vectorials) |
Identities The Equation, The Formulae |
Change Union or Addition |
Properties Geometry & Algebra |
Motion Derivative and Integral Calculus |
All operations, operators and operands. |