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THE SCALE OF THE NUMBER TWO.
In the
Exemplary World,
iT Jah bn El
The Names of God, expreiTed with two Letters.
In the
Intelledlual World,
An Angel,
The Soul;
Two Intelligible Subftances.
In the
Celeftial World,
The Sun,
The Moon ;
Two great Lights.
In the
Elementary World,
The Earth,
The Water;
Two Elements producing a living Soul.
In the
Lefler World,
The Heart,
The Brain;
Two principal Seats of the Soul.
In the
Infernal World,
Beemoth,
weeping.
Leviathan, gnafhing of Teeth;
Two Chiefs of the Devils.
Two things Chrift threatens to the damned.
CHAP. XVIII.
or THE NUMBER THREE, AND SCALE.
THE number Three, is an uncompounded number, a holy number, a number of perfection, a molt powerful number : — for there are three perfons in Gc>d ; there are three theological virtues in religion. Hence it is that this number ccnduceth to the ceremonies of God and religion, that by the fo- lemnity of which, prayers and facrifices are thrice repeated ; for corporeal and fpiritual things confift of three things, viz. beginning, middle, and end. By three, as Trifmegiftus faith, the world is perfected— harmony, neceility, and order, i. e. concurrence of caufes (which many call fate), and the execu- tion of them to the fruit, or increafe, or a due diflribution of the increafe. The whole meafure of time is concluded in three, viz. pad, prefent, and to come j— all magnitude is contained in three — line, fuperfices, and body —
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every body confifts of three intervals,— length, breadth, and thicknefs. Har- i . e y contains three confents in time — diapafon, hemiolion, , diatefleron. Thww re alfo three kinds of fouls — vegetative, fenlitive, and intellectual, A r i as fuch, faith the Prophet, God orders the world by number, weight, and immure; and the number three is deputed to the ideal forms thereof, as the number two is the procreating matter, and unity to God the maker of it— Ma- gicians do conftitute three Princes of the world — Oromafis, Mithris, Araminis ; i. e. God, the mind, and the fpirit. By the three-fquare or folid, the three numbers of nine, of things produced, are diftributed, viz. of the fuperceleftial into nine orders of intelligences ; of celeftial, into nine orbs ; of inferiors, into nine kinds of generable and corruptible things. Laftly, into this eternal orb, viz. twenty-feven, all mufical proportions are included, as Plato and Proclus do at large difcourfe ; and the number three hath, in a harmony of five, the grace of the firft voice. Alfo, in intelligences, there are three hierarchies of angelical fpirits. There are three powers of intellectual creatures — memory, mind, and will. There are three orders of the Hefted, viz. martyrs, confeffors, and innocents. There are three quaternions of celeftial figns, viz. of fixed, moveable, and common •, as alfo of houfes, viz. centres, fucceeding, and fall- ing. There are, alfo, three faces and heads in every fign, and three Lords of each triplicity. There are three fortunes amongft the planets. In the infernal crew, three judges, three furies, three-headed Cerberus : we read, alfo, of a thrice-double Hecate. Three months of the Virgin Diana. Three perfons in the fuper-fubftantial Divinity. Three times— of nature, law, and
grace. Three theological virtues— faith, hope, and charity. Jonah was three days in the whale’s belly ; and fo many was Chrift in the grave.
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