Septenary Principle
Mme. Blavatsky was among the first in modern times to point out to the sacredness of the number seven. This notion was at first rejected by people in different fields, who criticized her for this. As she wrote in 1883:
We were taunted by ignorant Brahmins and learned Europeans that our septenary divisions of nature and everything in it, including man, is arbitrary and not endorsed by the oldest religious systems of the East.[1]
The Master K.H. wrote:
In all the old Sanskrit works — Vedic and Tantrik — you find the number 6 mentioned more often than the 7 — this last figure, the central point being implied, for it is the germ of the six and their matrix.[2]
Mahatma K.H. also talked about the "unvarying septenary law which runs throughout the works of nature".[3]
Online resources
Articles
- The Septenary System Nomenclature at Theosopedia
- The Mysteries of the Hebdomad by H. P. Blavatsky
- The Number Seven by H. P. Blavatsky
- The Number Seven and Our Society by H. P. Blavatsky
- The Septenary Principle in Esotericism by H. P. Blavatsky
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. IV (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1991), 574.
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 111 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 378.
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 62 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 159.