The Gnostic X-Men
By Sir Godfrey Higgins – On this subject General Vallancey observes, “And hence the Sephiroth-tree, or tree of numbers, of the Cabalistical Jews:
Item, Spurius Liber de Caeremoniis Magicis, qui Quartus Agrippae habetur. Quibus accesserunt, Heptameron Petri de Abano. Ratio compendiaria Magiae naturalis, ex Plinio desumpta ; Disputatio de Fascinationibus ; Epistola de Incantatione & Adiuratione, collique suspensione. Iohannis Tritemij opuscula quaedam huius argumenti : Diversa divinationum genera a quodam Antiquitatis studioso collecta
and this tree contained ten names, viz corona, sapientia, prudentia, dementia, gravitas, ornatus, tri”umphus, confessio laudis, fundamentum, regnum.
The number ten seems to have been fixed on because, as relating “to numerals, ten was called perfection, as from thence all nations began to count anew.
For this reason the Egyptians “expressed the number ten by the word mid, that is, perfection; and the Irish call it deag, a word of like meaning: “and for this reason the Chaldeans formed the word jod, or number ten, by an equilateral triangle thus which was “the symbol of perfection with the Egyptians.”
The Egyptians doubled the triangle thus X, and then it became a cross “of St. Andrew, or the letter X or ten, that is, perfection, being the perfect number, or the number of figures on both “hands: hence it stood for ten with the Egyptians, Chinese, Phoenicians, Romans, and is so used with us at this “day. (more…)
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