Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00305)

To set the record a bit straighter for those who read these numerological 
dialogues and who are not overly fascinated by apparently mystical numbers 
that  -- while in many cases reflective of occult processes -- are sometimes 
presented and taken totally out of context... Consider the following.

Without showing the logical basis of such numbers and their cabalistic 
reductions -- with direct reference to and correlation with the nonlinear 
cyclic and spherical forces ("music of the spheres") from which they 
originate and reflect -- could be entirely superficial as well as meaningless 
and misleading to most serious students of occult or esoteric theosophy -- 
especially, beginners.

The "why" and "how" in these teachings and understandings are as equally 
important as the "what" and "wherefor."  The I Ching is a good example of 
this, since its  numbers and their relationships are simply a symbolic 
reflection of the esoteric teachings given out in its commentaries, and have 
no fundamental meaning in themselves -- except to serve as an symbolic 
mathematical or geometric tool linking the objective questioner indirectly 
with the subjectivity of the oracle -- whose metaphoric pronouncements, as 
translated by the ancient Chinese Taoist philosophers, still requires, for 
proper interpretation, a profound and intuitive knowledge of the spherical 
and multidimnsional "tai-chi" forms of primal energy fields and the nonlinear 
laws and relationships of their cycles and periodicities that require 
nonlinear forms of mathematical geometries -- yet to be fully understood or 
codified, except partially, perhaps, in the graphical interpretations of 
fractal and non-euclidian geometries used in the new sciences of chaos, 
"simplicity" and "complexity," as well as in some aspects of post modern 
quantum and sub-quantum physics such as Superstring and Membrane theories.

Notice that HPB in the Secret Doctrine, always explained the occult 
derivations, relationships and significances whenever she made reference to 
cabalistic numbers.  The reason for this is that one of the main purposes of 
HPB's (and the Master's) exposure of esoteric theosophy was to help us 
simultaneously combine nonlinear and linear (abstract and objective, 
macrocosmic and microcosmic, as above so below, etc.) understandings, while 
closing the gap and opening the bridge between linear left brain and 
nonlinear right brain network-type thinking -- which, to thoroughly 
comprehend the esoteric teachings, must be merged together.  Her purpose (as 
well as that of the Masters) was to awaken the intuition and assist in 
training the linear and nonlinear linked graphical imagination of prospective 
chelas and possible future initiates... The opposite of whom would be the 
possibly brain washed blind believers in pseudo esoteric dogmas... As is 
observed among many members of organized religions and followers of some so 
called psychic cultists and other neo-theosophists or "new age" teachers -- 
who would like to see a "new world order" based on hierarchical and linear 
numbers with the masses under easy control of their rulers (note the linear 
connotation of the word "rulers") while still maintaining a semblance of 
individual choice.
The quickest way to accomplish such mind control would be to teach their 
members to either concentrate solely on the abstract level of pure 
spirituality as well as its associated rituals (which makes them 
non-resistors to their "controllers" or "gurus" mystical pronouncements), or 
focus on the concrete level of numbers, formulas, letters and words (which 
gives them an inclination to confine their thinking into an externally 
determined linear order that blindly follows their leader's ends). 
Unfortunately, this is highly prevalent, today, in many schools of so called 
esoteric teachings, some of which profess to be based on fundamental 
theosophy.

It's good to remember, in light of the above, that the DNA linear numerical 
code, for example, cannot function unless it is linked to the actual 
multidimensional nonlinear Astral fields that organically empower the 
proteins and magnetically guides their elements into their 3-dimensional 
chemical forms and body positions.  Is this the reason that while science can 
superficially observe, count, and analyze the structure of the genes 
themselves, as well as understand the physical nature of the 4 chemical bases 
of amino acids that compose the genetic code, they can't entirely explain how 
such codes work to actually build and position the 3-dimensional protein 
molecules or biological organisms that the DNA-RNA (strings of code) 
partially serves to guide?  They see only what they believe to be the cause 
and the effect, but have little understanding of the actual coenergetic field 
related processes in between.  Perhaps if scientists could recognize the 
existence of an Astral body which is formed of pure field interference 
patterns of magnetic energy in a higher order dimensional space, they would 
have no trouble explaining these fundamental processes of life, as well as 
evolution, and their linkages to the DNA code.

Please don't take these observations as any denial of the validity of 
esoteric numerology (which can be very useful as both confirmation of occult 
principles as well as in the recognition of analogies and correspondences) -- 
but simply, as food for thought in self-determining its value in helping 
better understand the fundamental principles and the derivative teachings of 
theosophy along with its roots in esoteric occultism.

LHM


In a message dated 05/24/00 7:33:06 PM, kellogg@west.net writes:

>> <SNIP>
>
>> As above, so below:
>
>As (above) so (below)
>
>As 01414 so 14242
>
>As  0 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 so 1 + 4 + 2 + 4 + 2
>
>As 10 so 13
>
>As 10 so 1 + 3
>
>As 10 so 4
>
>The difference is six.
>
>60 = 6 + 0 = 6
>
>Descent = 3 + 4 + 8 + 2 + 4 + 3 + 9
>
>Descent = 33 = 3 + 3 = 6
>
>Tetragrammaton = 9 + 4 + 9 + 7 + 0 + 6 + 7 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 9  + 4 + 3
>= 58 =
>5 + 8 = 13 = 1 + 3 = 4
>
>Tetraktis =  9 + 4 + 9 + 7 + 0 + 1 + 9 + 8 + 8 = 55 = 5 + 5 = 10, "The
>Sacred
>Pythagorean number Number."
>
><SNIP>
>
>Spencer
>

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