Theos-Talk Archives (May 2007 Message tt00044)

This is from a christian organization. I wonder if it has an relevance.
  Cass
  Properties of the number 88  
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    Symbolism    
     The number eight being the symbol of the infinity, 88 symbolizes the double directions of the infinity of the universe, that is to say the infinitely small and the infinitely large.
  
     The number 88 is the numbered representation of the cross swastika - three times cranked. Symbolically, this cross represents the eternity or the cosmic Christ, and it is allotted to the number 16. And, by theosophical reduction, 8 + 8 gives 16.

  General    
     It is the period of revolution, in number of days, of the Mercury planet around the Sun.
  
     Among the abbreviations used in telegraphy and in telephony, and which are employed universally, we find the number 88 meaning "love and kisses".

  Gematria    
     By using as the correspondence table A=26, B=25, ..., Z=1, we find that, in French, "Dieu Un" (God One) gives 88.

  Occurrence    
     The cardinal number 7 is used 88 times in the NT.
  
     The sum of the occurrences of all the numbers of the New Testament multiple of 5 and written under their cardinal form gives 88. And the sum of the occurrences of all numbers multiple of 13, which are in the Bible of Jerusalem or in the NRSV, gives also 88.

  


Sveinn Freyr <Sven04@comhem.se> wrote:
          This controversial letter "No. 88"? Is by my 
opinion not a letter written by an adept. It is a note scrap
that should not have been issued and designated 
to master K.H. This scrap note has done much harm.

Sveinn Freyr

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"Now we come to what is probably the most 
controversial letter ... it is not a letter but some notes ...

These ?Notes? have caused some people to reject 
the whole occult philosophy because of the denial
of the traditional concept of God.

The student is therefore asked to withhold judgment."

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Letter No. 88 
1 (ML-10) Copied by APS Sept. 28, 1882

Now we come to what is probably the most 
controversial letter in the volume. Actually, it 
is not a letter but some notes made by the 
Mahatma K.H. on what Hume called a ?Preliminary 
Chapter on God,? intended as a preface to a book 
he was writing on Occult Philosophy. The copy in 
the British Museum is in Sinnett?s handwriting.
These ?Notes? have caused some people to reject 
the whole occult philosophy because of the denial 
of the traditional concept of God. The student is 
therefore asked to withhold judgment.

NOTES BY K.H. ON A ?PRELIMINARY CHAPTER? HEADED 
?GOD? BY HUME, INTENDED TO PREFACE AN EXPOSITION 
OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY (ABRIDGED).

Received at Simla, Sept. 1882.

Neither our philosophy nor ourselves believe in a God, ...

least of all in one whose pronoun necessitates 
a capital H. Our philosophy falls under the 
definition of Hobbes. It is preeminently the 
science of effects by their causes and of causes 
by their effects, and since it is also the 
science of things deduced from first principle, 
as Bacon defines it, before we admit any such 
principle we must know it, and have no right to 
admit even its possibility. Your whole 
explanation is based upon one solitary admission 
made simply for argument?s sake in October last.

You were told that our knowledge was limited to 
this our solar system: ergo as philosophers who 
desired to remain worthy of the name we could not 
either deny or affirm the existence of what you 
termed a supreme, omnipotent, intelligent being 
of some sort beyond the limits of that solar 
system. But if such an existence is not absolutely impossible, ...

yet unless the uniformity of nature?s law breaks 
at those limits we maintain that it is highly 
improbable. Nevertheless we deny most 
emphatically the position of agnosticism in this 
direction, and as regards the solar system. Our 
doctrine knows no compromises. It either affirms 
or denies, for it never teaches but that which it 
knows to be the truth. Therefore, we deny God 
both as philosophers and as Buddhists.

We know there are planetary and other spiritual 
lives, and we know there is in our system no such 
thing as God, either personal or impersonal. 
Parabrahm is not a God, but absolute immutable 
law, and Iswar is the effect of Avidya and Maya, 
ignorance based upon the great delusion.

The word ?God? was invented to designate the 
unknown cause of those effects which man has 
either admired or dreaded without understanding 
them, and since we claim and that we are able to 
prove what we claim i.e. the knowledge of that 
cause and causes we are in a position to 
maintain there is no God or Gods behind them. ...

Copied out Simla, Sept. 28, 1882.

1 Transcribed from a copy in Mr. Sinnett?s handwriting. ? ED.

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