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may be traced, and the actual number of the objective worlds which constitute
may be traced, and the actual number of the objective worlds which constitute
our system, and of which the earth is one, is seven also.<ref>Sinnett, Alfred Percy. ''Esoteric Buddhism''</ref></blockquote>
our system, and of which the earth is one, is seven also.<ref>Sinnett, Alfred Percy. ''Esoteric Buddhism''</ref></blockquote>
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Revision as of 18:08, 13 August 2012

William Shakespeare ( b. April 26, 1564 - d, April 23, 1616) was a English playwright, poet, and dramatist.

Biography

Influence on H. P. Blavatsky

Theosophy and Shakespeare

Division of Seven

It is not Shakespeare only who divided the ages of man into a series of seven, but Nature herself.[1]


By what prophetic instinct Shakespeare pitched upon seven as the number which

suited his fantastic classification of the ages of man, is a question with which we need not be much concerned; but certain it is that he could not have made a more felicitous choice. In periods of sevens the evolution of the races of man may be traced, and the actual number of the objective worlds which constitute

our system, and of which the earth is one, is seven also.[2]

Notes

  1. Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. The Secret Doctrine Vol. II (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1979), 117.
  2. Sinnett, Alfred Percy. Esoteric Buddhism