Anyone interested in numerology?

by Sunnygal41 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Sunnygal41
    Sunnygal41

    I am. I find such things fascinating. Feel free to share anything you care to.

    As an example, I am sharing some information I found for the number 40:

    40

    40 = 4 = humanity's movement through time to completion, closure.

    Forty seems to have many meanings associated with it; especially religious. Many important events in history are linked to 40.

    It is the number of probation; trial; initiation; death.

    As an elevation of four it is wholeness and totality.

    The importance of the "forty days" probably comes from the Babylonian forty days' disappearance of the Pleiades, a period of rains, storms, floods and dangers. The return of the Pleiades was a time of rejoicing and a bundle of forty reeds was burned for the forty days of evil power.

    The Roman "quarantine" kept ships isolated for forty days in the harbor.

    Temples in Persia, Baalbec, Tartary, those of the Druids and the Temple of Ezekiel, had forty pillars.

    Bible: Jesus spent forty days in the desert being tempted by the devil.

    There are forty days to Lent, from which were from those forty days in the wilderness.

    There are forty of the resurrection, from Easter to Ascension.

    The are forty days to privileged sanctuary, and forty days to St. Swithin's weather.

    In the Old Testament Moses spent forty days on Mount Sinai; Moses' spies spent forty days in Canaan and Caleb, one of them, was forty years old - For forty years the Jews wandered in the wilderness;

    Forty days Elijah was in hiding; probation for Nineveh under Jonah;

    In the Flood it rained for forty days and Noah's raven was sent out forty days after mountain- tops appeared;

    Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca and Esau was also forty when he took a wife

    It took forty days to embalm Jacob;

    The standard legal beating consisted of forty blows;

    Othniel, Caleb's brother, was victorious over 'The King of Mesopotamia" and brought peace for forty years, and the later defeat of Sisera again brought a forty-year peace; a little later Gideon subdued the Midianites bringing peace for - forty years

    Abdon, one of the early Judges, had forty sons, but these were unable to prevent the Philistines from ruling Western Israel for forty years;

    At Succoth Saul's army and the Philistines sat and looked at each other for forty days;

    Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel,

    David reigned for forty years, and as did Solomon.

    Egypt: The forty days of the death and absence of Osiris - resurrection and rebirth - is a period of fasting) through the 'iris' or Eye.

    Islamic: The number of change and death, but also of reconciliation and return to the principle. Mohammed received his "call" at forty years; the Quran should be read every forty days.

    Mithraic: Forty is the number of days of initiation rites and of festivals and sacrifice.

    In mathematics forty is an octagonal number, and as the sum of the first four pentagonal numbers, it is a pentagonal pyramidal number. Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 1, 4, 5, 10 and 20) gives 40, hence 40 is a semiperfect number.

  • james_woods
    james_woods

    Thanks, but I got about all I needed of that from the WT.

  • Meeting Junkie No More
    Meeting Junkie No More

    I am very interested in numerology, especially as it relates to the numbers used in the Bible and really appreciate all your effort in putting this info together!

    Contrary to what the WT expounds in its reworked 'research', a lot of the meanings of the numbers used in the 'Scriptures' have been 'borrowed' from pagan mythology...for example, the 'third heaven' that Paul talks about regarding his mystical experience. Can't put my finger on it now, but the WT said something about 3 being a number used for 'repetition' or some such nonsense when in fact, there were some seven 'levels of heaven' in the thought of Jews or Greeks around the first century. Leolaia could probably fill in the details here - I love reading about this stuff but am not very good at being able to set it all out without my books at hand...many of the numbers set out in the Bible cannot be taken literally, they have a 'symbolic' as well as an allegorical meaning.

  • Sunnygal41
    Sunnygal41
    Thanks, but I got about all I needed of that from the WT.

    i hear ya, james, but, remember, numerology PRECEDED the WTS by thousands and thousands of years.........they just twisted it to support their own agenda. totally different from what true numerology is about. to my thinking why throw the baby out with the bath water?

  • Sirona
    Sirona

    Not numerology as such, but Gematria.

    In particular I like Crowley's gematria as outlined in Liber 777

  • Sunnygal41
    Sunnygal41

    Sirona, not to offend, but, Aleister Crowley was into "dark" magic, wasn't he? I steer clear of his stuff.

    T

  • Sirona
    Sirona

    I don't follow Crowley's advice regarding certain things (largely because he put in deliberate mistakes), but the guy was very influential and has a lot of very interesting things to say about Qaballah.

    One doesn't have to be into anything "dark" to read Crowley's work.

    Plus, intent is the real yardstick isn't it?

    Sirona

  • digderidoo
    digderidoo
    Anyone interested in numerology?

    C.T.Russell

    Paul

  • Octarine Prince
    Octarine Prince

    40

    4 x 10

    rock-solid

  • HappyDad
    HappyDad

    Only the numbers that come out at 7:00 PM on the Pennsylvania Lottery....."Cash 5" and on the PowerBall number every Wednesday and Saturday. HappyDad

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