Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00301)

    I took a look at the page, and found the same thing as I have found in most
"mystic number" systems; the significance is attached to the number, then the
number is attached to the phenomena, and then the phenomena are used as evidence
of the importance of the number. Most of these "mystic numbers" are chosen for
purely sensory reasons; we have 5 fingers on each hand, 12 and 60 are easily
divisble, and 7 is the number of objects in the sky that, from the point of view
of the unaided human eye, appear to move relative to the stars.

    There is actually a significance to the number 7, but it is entirely
illusory. That becomes clear from a reading of THE DIVINE PLAN.

    Bart Lidofsky

Kim Poulsen wrote:

> Bart:
> (I like being asked for my sources) You ask:
> >     Where do those seven fractions come from? And how do they yield those
> whole
> > numbers?
> (you problably did not read the beginning of the thread?)
>
> First check out this URL
> http://www.new-universe.com/pythagoras/mcclain.html
> Which contain the essay "Musical Theory and Ancient Cosmology" by Ernest G.
> McClain.


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