Examining the Inner Connections
Between a Small Event and
Larger Ones
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
“As Below So Above”
(An old adage quoted in “The
Mahatma Letters”, TUP, p. 92)
symbol for the Universe - and for
the
Astral Light, where the
Internet operates.
According to the
hermetic principle of analogy, each fact in daily life is connected to the
universal law and its cycles. That which is immense reflects itself in that
which is small. The Moon can be seen on the surface of a lake. Each atom is a
summary of the solar system.
Everything in the
Universe is in unity, and words and numbers have several layers of meaning. They
point to both large and small dimensions of reality. The name of the e-group E-Theosophy, the numbers
involved in it, and the date when it was established, are no exceptions to the
rule.
The word Theosophy comes from the Greek
language. The expanded word E-Theosophy
has ten letters, or two times five, making the Pythagorean Decad, an ancient
symbol for Kosmos and Eternity.
The first letter in
the word E-Theosophy can be seen
as more than a reference to the electronic aspects of the Internet world. Such
a symbol has its own weight, its own tradition - which transcends short term
events.
Thousands of years
ago, the letter E was present at the oracle of Apollo in Delphi,
the city in ancient Greece
The E is the fifth letter in the
Greek alphabet. It corresponds to number five - and it is a symbol of it. There are five elements in Nature, and the fifth
element is the astral light, the abstract, non-physical space where every
Internet operation is made, and where E-Theosophy
works. The famous five platonic solids correspond to the five elements in
nature. The fifth element, astral light, is symbolized by the pentagonal Dodecahedron,
a geometrical figure with 12 faces.
Plutarch writes
that according to Plato our world is in a way “put together through the union
of five worlds”.
He describes them
thus:
“One is of earth,
another of water, a third of fire, a fourth of air; and the fifth, the heavens,
others call light, and others aether,
and others call this very thing a fifth substance (Quintessence) which alone of
the bodies has by nature a circular motion that is not the result of any
compelling power or any other incidental cause. Wherefore also Plato,
apparently noting the five most beautiful and most complete forms among those
found in Nature, pyramid, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron,
appropriately assigned each to each.” [1]
Elsewhere, Plutarch
writes:
“The nature of the
dodecahedron, which is comprehensive enough to include the other figures, may
well seem to be a model with reference to all corporeal being.” [2] And
these words are an excellent description of the astral light.
The number five of
letter E relates to the Sun,
or Apollo - the god who reads the future, the god of eternal being. There is no
need to discuss here the traditional sayings about a connection between each of
the five elements and the great initiations.
The future is
written in the astral light, the fifth element.
“Know Thyself”, the
motto at the Greek temple
of Delphi
Cosmic meanings are
indeed hidden in common, everyday words. E-Theosophy
is part of “Yahoo”; and Yahoo, or Yaho, as Helena P. Blavatsky explains,
is:
“…The Hebrew Yaho,
mysterious and unmentionable, and whose name was communicated to the initiated”. It constitutes - as H. P. Blavatsky writes -
“the supreme deity of the Semites”.[3]
The Metaphysics of Number
Seven
E-Theosophy was started in
Yahoo on July 7, 2010. July is the
seventh month of the year.
On its first day of existence, fourteen people joined the e-group. The
number is two times seven. If we take the zeros out of the year 2010, we
have the number “21” - which is three times seven. Twenty-one is also the number
of our century, on which HPB made a couple of optimistic prophecies regarding humanity.
It was on a July 7 that Helena Petrovna arrived at New
York , having gone to the United States
“1873 - After brief travels in Eastern Europe, went to Paris New York
In September 1880, Helena Petrovna published an article entitled “The
Number Seven and Our Society”. In it she makes a detailed list of events which
manifestly express the occult link between the number seven and the modern
esoteric movement. Among other
evidences, Helena Petrovna says, referring to the magazine she founded in India
“July 7, the first Prospectus, announcing the intended foundation of the
THEOSOPHIST was written…” [5]
The annual position of the Sun in the sky during July 7 makes a precise harmonious
astrological aspect named sextile (60 degrees), with its own position
two months later, September 7.
On September 7, 1875, 17 people were gathered in H.P.B.’s rooms in New York
On the general importance of number seven in theosophy, H.P.B.
wrote:
“A deep significance was attached to numbers in hoary antiquity. There
was not a people with anything like philosophy, but gave great prominence to
numbers in their application to religious observances, the establishment of
festival days, symbols, dogmas, and even the geographical distribution of
empires. The mysterious numerical system of Pythagoras was nothing novel when
it appeared far earlier than 600 years B.C. The occult meaning of figures and
their combinations entered into the meditations of the sages of every people;
and the day is not far off when, compelled by the eternal cyclic rotation of
events, our now sceptical unbelieving West will have to admit that in that
regular periodicity of ever recurring events there is something more than a
mere blind chance.” [6]
In the same article she added, quoting from a German journal:
“The number seven was considered sacred not only by all the cultured
nations of antiquity and the East, but was held in the greatest reverence even
by the later nations of the West. The astronomical origin of this number is
established beyond any doubt. Man, feeling himself time out of mind dependent
upon the heavenly powers, ever and everywhere made earth subject to heaven. The
largest and brightest of the luminaries thus became in his sight the most
important and highest of powers; such were the planets which the whole
antiquity numbered as seven. In course of time these were transformed into
seven deities. The Egyptians had seven original and higher gods; the Phœnicians
seven kabiris; the Persians, seven sacred horses of Mithra; the Parsees, seven
angels opposed by seven demons, and seven celestial abodes paralleled by seven
lower regions. To represent the more clearly this idea in its concrete form,
the seven gods were often represented as one seven-headed deity. The whole
heaven was subjected to the seven planets; hence, in nearly all the religious
systems we find seven heavens.”
The Number Seven and H.P.B.’s
Farewell in 1891
The seven
gives the proportion of life. Actions like writing and reading unfold in seven
layers. Words, consciousness, sounds, and music, are all septenary.
On the third day of
the seventh month, July, 1890, the Headquarters of the Blavatsky Lodge in London Lansdowne Road
“I shall never move again, they will take me from
here to the crematorium.”
The fact is
narrated by her sister Vera P. Jelihovsky. Vera explains:
“When asked why she foretold this, she gave as
a pretext that this house had not her lucky number; the number seven was
lacking.” [7]
Indeed, numbers
have power.
H.P.B. died, or
rather abandoned her physical body, in London
These astrological aspects
involve months number Five (May), Seven (July) and Nine (September).
The day seven of
the seventh month stands in the center, making two almost perfectly symmetrical
sextiles, one to eighth of May, the other to seventh and eighth of September.
As life naturally follows the law of analogy, each small event is
enlightened by its living connection to the greater rhythms in nature. Every little
aspect of our planet is in unity with the whole universe, and the occult correlations
around E-Theosophy are but a few practical examples of it.
NOTES:
[1] “The E At Delphi”, a treaty included in “Moralia”, by Plutarch,
Loeb Classical Library, Harvard, Volume V, 514 pp., see pp. 193-251.
[2] “Obsolescence
of Oracles”, a treaty included in “Moralia”, by Plutarch, Loeb Classical
Library, Harvard, Volume V, 514 pp., see p. 449.
[3] “Isis Unveiled”, H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophy Co., Los Angeles
[4] “HPB, The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky”, Sylvia
Cranston, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New
York
[5] See the article “The Number Seven and Our Society”, in “Theosophical
Articles”, H.P. Blavatsky, Theosophy Co., Los Angeles, 1981, 512 pp., Volume I,
p. 352.
[6] “The Number Seven”, an article by H. P.B. See “Theosophical Articles”, H.P. Blavatsky,
Theosophy Co., Los Angeles
[7] “Lucifer”
magazine, London
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