Numbers, Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues

"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 had a grasp a wide range of occult correspondences, and this short book includes many rare snippets of information..."

Of particular interest here at the ILMJ:

Part I. Pythagoras, his Tenets and his Followers

Part II. Pythagorean Views on Numbers

Part III. The Kabalah On Numbers

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Pentacles, Pythagoras and the Mystery of Time

Pentacles, Pythagoras and the Mystery of Time

by

Bestia Mortale

"We talk about history, centuries of human experience, but sometimes the distant past is hard to remember, like the Sixties. Egyptians began building pyramids about 5000 years ago, but who can comprehend a thousand years? Then we think back to the Paleolithic artists who left us the cave paintings 15,000 years ago, and the Venus of Willendorf 15,000 years before that, and the hunters who left us splintered bones of saber-toothed tigers and mastodons as long ago again. We even try to imagine the nameless tribes who wandered across Europe and Asia thousands of centuries ago, and Lucy in the Olduvai a million years ago, who left us nothing but a few fragments of herself. It's worth keeping in mind that what we imagine, or even what we're taught, may be nothing like what actually happened, and that if history is what we know of the past, it is the tiniest bone fragment compared to all we do not remember..."

Read the full text here.