By Kieren Barry
This e-book can be of curiosity to quite a lot of readers, from scholars of old heritage and early Christianity, to Qabalists and sleek magicians. vast notes and citations from unique resources will make this authoritative paintings an essentialreference for researchers and practitioners for future years. comprises are appendices for tables of alphabetic symbolism, a listing of authors, and a numeric dictionary of Greek phrases, which represents the most important number of gematria in print.
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4 The Pythagoreans regarded the number ten as especially sacred, and the decad was pictorially represented in the form of a four-tiered triangular pattern of ten dots known as the tetraktys, a sacred symbol upon which oaths were sworn. The tetraktys (from tetra, four, after its four levels) was drawn thus: • • • · · · · · · The triangular representation of the decad in the tetraktys probably had its origins in the arrangements of pebbles used to study mathematics, as well as in the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for the decad (ΔΕΚΑ, deka) was itself a triangle, and was used in the Herodianic numerical system as a symbol for the number ten.