Theos-Talk Archives (October 1998 Message tt00088)

777, the original edition of "The Voice of the Silence" and numbers.

With a work/design/poem/..... as "The Voice of the Silence," its form is of
interest too.  The book is made up of 7 gatherings.  That is 7 sheets of
paper, each sheet folded 3 times, then cut and stitched, becoming 8
leaves/16 pages (7 times).

The 7 sheets folded 3 times is reminiscent of the 3 gold dots in the upper
cover, within which are 7 invisible dots making up a triangle of 10 dots,
the Tetraktys. [Within again are another 7 invisible metaphysical abstract
mathematical points.]

There are 3 Fragments.   What do these represent?
Cycles/races/rounds/principles, or do they refer to the 3 jewels, the upper
imperishable triad, AUM, amongst many other things?


CONTENTS page:                     Page
  I  The Voice of the Silence . . .  1
 II  The Two Paths         . . . .  23
III  The Sevent Portals     . . . . 45

1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 (5 races/senses?) = 120

"The Voice of the Silence" has 3 Glossaries (a Glossary to each part).
Glossary 1 runs to  45 (notes/figures)
Glossary 2          38
Glossary 3          37

These added together come to 120 (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5)

"The Voice of the Silence" is divided into 3 sections.
Preface (or preliminaries)    1
The Voice of the Silence      3 parts
The Glossaries                3 parts
3 sections in 7 parts.

The preliminaries run to [xiv] pages (2 x 7).

The III fragments are 72 pages.
The Glossaries end on page 97
The Glossaries run to 25 pages (2 + 5 = 7).

The numbers (figures) mentioned in the text of the PREFACE are *II*. 70 and
*II*. 27 (70 + 27 = 97, the page on which the Glossaries end; also a kind of
three sevens)

There are 16 words on the upper cover (1 + 6 = 7).

Ther are 3 double lines and 1 single line on the upper cover making 7 lines
in all.

The measurement of the cover is 12 x 16cms or 120 x 160mm {1 + 2 = 3; 1 + 6
= 7; ("7 sheets thrice folded") 3 + 7 = 10 dots}

The book is publishe in:
London, at....7, Duke Street

New York, at...21, Park Row. (3 x 7)

Tony