The Sacred Numbers

About this book

Why seven days in a week, seven planets, twelve signs and ten commandments? This notebook is the second of Book II in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains Book II, chapters 10–15 — the numbers his century called sacred: the seven, which gets the longest chapter in the whole book (the planets, the week, the four quarters of the Moon and the seven ages of a human life); the eight as the number of rebirth; the nine with its nine orders of angels and nine Muses; the ten that returns into the one, with the ten divine names of the kabbalah; the eleven, the number of transgression, with no place in the heavens; the twelve in two complete scales — kabbalistic and Orphic; and finally the numbers above twelve.

What is inside

• 6 complete chapters of Agrippa's text, nothing shortened
• every chapter in four parts: In Agrippa's words · In plain words · Terms (with the Latin) · Historical note — where the idea comes from and what modern science says
• 6 original illustrations in an antique archival style, plus the original 1533 scale tables, including both scales of the twelve
• 2 printable charts: the seven in the heavens, the week, the Moon and the body; and the correspondences of the ten and the twelve
• foreword, closing words and a 36-term glossary

Who it is for

Readers of Hermeticism, kabbalah, Renaissance history, number symbolism and the Western esoteric tradition who want the original text made readable — and honestly explained.

About the series

1 The Power of Numbers · 2 The Sacred Numbers · 3 Marks and the Tables of the Planets · 4 Harmony and the Measure of Man · 5 Observations of the Heavens · 6 Images, Talismans and Characters · 7 The Soul of the World. Each notebook sold separately.

A historical text, not a manual.