Starting with Number 7…
There are the 7 Liberal Arts which are referred to as ‘women’. Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music. There is also reference to the lost art of Mantics (The Great Cosmic Mother Book):
The Mantic Arts:
Ancient Science of Enabling
Divine Harmony with the Elements
And the Subtle Fields of Space and Time.•●
The Mantic Arts enhance the practice of well-being by aligning us more closely to Nature and the Cosmos.
Since the dawn of consciousness we have sought to understand the meaning of existence. All ancient cultures have some form of divination or oracle to pierce the veil between this world and the world of the spirits.
Why are we here?
Where do we come from?
Where are we going?
(From a FB post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/collectivespirituality/posts/4129459910643452/).
See research article here too: https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004514263/BP000010.xml?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOooKymsXFEgN7zg4qTEMpcIwU9XV2mpHn9sMbWP5_TZ8h1IKz175
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“Wisdom hath built her temple with seven pillars”, Proverbs (Keith Critchlow notebook, red Silvine notebook. Ref.139)
“Once we decide to look deeper into numbers we find there is a venerable tradition in most traditions, but in particular a tradition connected inseparably with the name of Pythagoras. Because the tradition is promoted by some of the most respected names in classical philosophy, it is quite unimportant whether or not Pythagoras as a specific person did or did not live.
The role he took was primarily a transmitter of the mathematical/cosmological doctrines as understood and taught in the Temples of Egypt.” KC p. 2/3 red notebook.
Talk about the etymological reference to Pythia - Python, Dragon/Serpentess. The great primordial waters of creation: Mary/Mer/Sea - blue coloured cloak - ‘M’ first chevrons of geometry?
From the great ‘one-ness’ duality was born - Ordered, boundaries around ‘infinity’ for us to have a point of reference for our existence in this realm. 3D - laws that govern and cohere start with creating Order out of Chaos (state original Greek meaning of the word chaos: gaping void; empty, immeasurable space - from Greek khaos "abyss, that which gapes wide open, that which is vast and empty": https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=chaos
Cosmos = ordered Universe: “Latinized form of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement” - from etymonline.com
Page 5: “Number starts at 3 and completes at 10. Thus we have 7 cardinal numbers. Between 1 and 2 is the principle octave and the seven numbers and the 7 numbers are are like the intervals of the primordial octave. Ten being both the completion of this octave and the first note of the next. This brings us on to the Seven. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 - seven qualities of unity” p. 5
Draw pictures of sacred geometry in 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Seven is a number that is neither generated from other numbers nor a generator of numbers - “this is why the ancients called it the Virgin Number” p. 7
So seven is unique within the decad (10) as being ‘inviolable’ and ‘motherless’ and was allocated as a number to Athena - Athena is an archetypal expression of the quality of seveness (as Athena was motherless and sprung from the Head of Zeus). 7 is woven into the name ‘Athena’ as when analysed into it’s numerical constituents it results in an affirmation of seveness.
Seven is physically evident in our visible cosmos in two ways: the first is the gestalt or moon shape changes - the only heavenly light that changes shape dramatically over a 28 day cycle. (p. 8)
It is this close connection between this pattern cycle of the moon and the human female fertility cycle, that once again connects the seven to femininity.
Mensis = month, menses - menstruation - month - go into some of my own research here about the moon/words.