Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00276)

Bart
You write:  <<<<any numerological significance is
unintentional>>>>>

The occult catechism, vol. I, p.120 starts:

"*Lift thy head, oh Lanoo*"

Ok, none of us are up to the Lanoo standard, but we can try and lift our
head, just a little, and spiral upwards.  We don't have to be linear about
everything.  Look to the Cosmos, or should it be Kosmos.   Does the SD have
a spiritual prototype?  If it is worked from the above or from within, sure
it is possible that there is relevance in the page 60 not being numbered.

HPB in her article "The Number Seven and Our Society" gives many instances
of happenings in relation to the number 7 and the TS.  Why do you think that
that happens?  The final paragraph serves as an example of what preceded,
but the final sentence gives the clue to why it happens (mysterious law of
numerical potentialities). It is no coincidence.  Similarly, it is no
coincidence that page 60 of vol. I of the SD is not numbered.  Volume I of
the SD is COSMOGENESIS......As above, so below:

"At Tuticorin, Mr. Padshah, one of our party, went ashore as his desire was
to return by rail to Bombay, so as to see Southern India; the little boat in
which he went ashore we noticed, after she had got clear from the crowd of
craft alongside, bore the number forty-seven. Going down the coast on our
outward voyage, our steamer touched at fourteen (7 X 2) ports; coming home,
our vessel, owing to the monsoon weather and the heavy surf along the
Malabar Coast, visited only seven. And finally, as though to show us that
our septenate destiny was not to be evaded, it was at exactly seven
o'clock--as the log of the S.S. Chanda shows--when we sighted the pilot off
Bombay harbour, at 7.27 the bell rang to slow down the engines, at 7.47 the
pilot stepped on the "bridge" and took command of the ship, and, at 9.37,
our anchor was dropped off the Apollo Bunder, and our voyage was thus ended
on the 24th of July, the seventy-seventh day after the one on which we had
sailed for Ceylon. To ascribe to mere coincidence this strange, if not
altogether unprecedented, concatenation of events, in which the Number Seven
was, as the astrologers might call it "in the ascendant," would be an
absurdity. The most superficial examination of the doctrine of chance will
suffice to show that. And, if, indeed, we must admit that some mysterious
law of numerical potentialities is asserting itself in shaping the fortunes
of the Theosophical Society, whither shall we turn for an explanation but to
those ancient Asiatic philosophies which were built upon the bed-rock of
Occult Science?"

Theosophist, September, 1880

Tony.


Bart wrote:
    <<<Your analysis might be more interesting if Blavatsky had anything to
do with
the details of the final form and page numbering of the 1st Edition;
unfortunately, it was edited by committee, so any numerological significance
is
unintentional (which is not to say that it is not there).>>>>>

    Bart Lidofsky

Tony wrote:

> You may find it interesting, in relation to what you write below, that in
> the original edition of THE SECRET DOCTRINE, page 60 of volume I is not
> numbered.  HPB died in her 60th year.  Page [60] starts (and states re
> Jehovah):



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