" Science: A Four Thousand Year History" by Patricia Fara ( 2009) 3 Iranian cats have seven lives, seven deities bring good luck in Japan, and a traditional Jewish cure for fever entailed taking seven prickles from seven palm trees and seven nails from seven doors. For numerologists, seven signifies creation, because it is the sum of the spiritual three and the material four for alchemists, there are clear parallels between the seven steps leading up to King Solomon's temple and the seven successive stages of chemical and spiritual purification. Similarly, the Egyptians mapped seven paths to heaven, Allah created a seven-layered Islamic heaven and earth, and the newborn Buddha took seven strides. According to the Jewish and Christian Old Testament, the world was created in seven days and Noah's dove returned seven days after the Flood. Sanskrit's most ancient holy book, the Rig Vega, describes seven stars, seven concentric continents, and seven streams of soma, the drink of the gods. “Seven has always been a very special number. Their very creation story is alluded to as the Seven Tablets of Creation 4.
Modern religions such as Christianity and Islam grew out of Mesopotamia, and some of that region's most ancient archaeological evidence shows us that the number 7 already had cosmic significance. The number 7 has been mythologized for a very long time. #7 #christianity #iran #islam #japan #judaism #religion #special_numbers The Number 7 in Religion, Mythology and Freemasonry Theosophy - The 7 Root Races, Each With 7 Sub Racesġ.In the Bible (Judaism and Christianity).The Number 7 in Religion, Mythology and Freemasonry.Such a simple division gave the number 7 astro-theological significance, noted far and wide as a religious number by those who like to give enhanced meaning to the vagaries of the natural world.
Many ancient cultures did so 2 as the historian Fara notes that "it's only a short step from being a special number to becoming a magical one" 3. It was easy to pick seven wandering astronomical bodies - the sun, the moon, and the five planets visible to the naked eye - and associate each one with a conscious, supernatural ruler 2. As the calendar (and cyclic events) has always been an essential part of organized religion, this division into 7s was something that religious authors felt the need to explain in cosmic and supernatural terms and such lunar symbology formed a key part of pagan lore. This was because it was in simplistic accordance with time intervals between phases of the moon 1. It recurs in religious texts as a special number, but why? Firstly, it has some very mundane uses and although it is a prime number and not particularly useful as a factor, the Babylonians, who otherwise adored factorable numbers, divided weeks into 7 days. The number 7 is one of the most magical and holy numbers, and has been revered in ancient pagan religions throughout the world.