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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