{"collection":"ritual-magic","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_The_Magus_Book_1_Part_2_Chapter_23/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_The_Magus_Book_1_Part_2_Chapter_23","id":"wikisource_The_Magus_Book_1_Part_2_Chapter_23","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Magus/Book_1/Part_2/Chapter_23","summary":null,"tags":["Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Subpages"],"text":"CHAP. XXIII.\n\nOF THE NUMBER EIGHT, AND THE SCALE.\n\nTHE Pythagorians call Eight the number of justice, and fulness: first, because it is first of all divided into numbers equally even, viz. into four; and that division is, by the same reason, made into twice two, viz. twice two twice; and by reason of this equality of division it took to itself the name of justice. But the other received the name of fulness, by reason of the contexture of the corporeal solidity, since the first makes a solid body. Hence that custom of Orpheus swearing by the eight deities, if at any time he would beseech Divine justice, whose names are these:\u2014Fire, Water, Earth, the Heaven, Moon, Sun, Phanes, and the Night. There are only eight visible spheres of the heavens. Also, by it the property of corporeal nature is signified, which Orpheus comprehends in eight of his sea songs: this is also called the covenant, or circumcision, which was commanded to be done by the Jews the eighth day.\n\nThere were also, in the old law, eight ornaments of the priest, viz. a breast-plate, a coat, a girdle, a mitre, a robe, an ephod, a girdle of the ephod, and a golden plate. Hither belongs the number to eternity, and the end of the world, because it follows the number seven, which is the mystery of time. Hence, also, the number of blessedness, as you may see in Matthew. It is also called the number of safety, and conservation; for there were so many souls of the sons of Jesse, from which David was the eighth.\n\nTHE SCALE OF THE NUMBER EIGHT.\n\nThe name of God with eight letters,\n\nEloa Vadaath \u05d0\u05dc\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e8\u05d3\u05e2\u05ea Jehova Vedaath \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u05e8\u05d4\u05e2\u05d4\n\nIn the original world.\n\nEight rewards of the blessed,\n\nInheritance,\n\nIncorruption,\n\nPower,\n\nVictory,\n\nThe vision of God,\n\nGrace,\n\nA kingdom,\n\nJoy;\n\nIn the intelligible world.\n\nEight visible heavens,\n\nThe starry heaven,\n\nThe heaven of Saturn,\n\nThe heaven of Jupiter,\n\nThe heaven of Mars,\n\nThe heaven of the Sun,\n\nThe heaven of Venus,\n\nThe heaven of Mercury,\n\nThe heaven of the Moon;\n\nIn the celestial world.\n\nEight particular qualities,\n\nThe dryness of the earth,\n\nThe coldness of water,\n\nThe moisture of air,\n\nThe heat of fire,\n\nThe heat of air,\n\nThe moisture of water,\n\nThe dryness of fire,\n\nThe coldness of earth;\n\nIn the elementary world.\n\nEight kinds of blessed men,\n\nThe peace makers,\n\nThey that hunger and thirst after righteousness,\n\nThe meek,\n\nThey which are persecuted for righteousness sake,\n\nPure in heart,\n\nMerciful,\n\nPoor in spirit,\n\nMourners;\n\nIn the lesser world.\n\nEight punishments of the damned.\n\nPrison,\n\nDeath,\n\nJudgment,\n\nThe wrath of God,\n\nDarkness,\n\nIndignation,\n\nTribulation,\n\nAnguish;\n\nIn the infernal world.","title":"The Magus/Book 1/Part 2/Chapter 23","tradition":"ritual-magic","translated_text":null,"word_count":450}