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En: Theos-World Re: number seven

Dec 09, 2003 06:39 PM
by krishtar_a


Iīm having the rare pleasure of talking to a Genius.
Coulddnīt you be the Ombudsman of this list?

Krishtar



From: Bart Lidofsky 
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: number seven


krishtar_a wrote:
> No I donīt agree totally with this explanation, 7 is not arbitrary, 7
> is very present in many divisions of many phenomena occult or not. 
> One example is the seven principles in human being.

Which nobody can seem to agree exactly which is which. Because they are 
taking a continuity, and breaking it into 7 arbitrary parts.

> An example is the seventh day, God rested from the work of creation
> since it was full, complete, good and perfect. In relation to time,
> seven marks the week of seven days used by all nations. Seven tells
> of eternal Sabbath-keeping for the people of God in all its
> everlasting perfection.

In a book written by humans.

> In Daniel's "time-oriented" prophecy, the number seven also points to
> spiritual perfection or completeness for the Jewish people and many
> other cases, which means it is not undeliberately.

But it is bass akwards. People ascribe importance to the number 7 due 
to the observable planets. You have yet to give a single concrete 
example of the number 7 being important in and of itself, merely 
examples of humans assigning the number 7 to things.

Bart


   

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