Part II.

CHAP. XX.
OF THE NUMBER FIVE, AND ITS SCALE.
THE number Five is of no fmall force ; for it confifts of the firft even, and the firft odd ; as of a female and male : for an odd number is the male, and the even the female ; whence arithmeticians call that the father, and this the mother. Therefore the number five is of no fmall perfection or virtue, which proceeds from the mixtion of thefe numbers ; it is, alfo, the juft middle of the univerfal number, viz. ten : for if you divide the number ten, there will be nine and one, or eight and two, and feven and three, or fix and four, and every collection makes the number ten, and the exaCt middle is always the number five, and its equa-diftant ; and therefore it is called, by the Pythagorians, the number of wedlock, as alfo of juftice, becaufe it divides the number ten in an even fcale. There are five fenfes in man — fight, hearing, fmelling, tailing, and feeling ; five powers in the foul — vegetative, fenfitive, concupifcible, irafcible, and rational ; five fingers on the hand •, five wandering planets in the heavens, according to which there are fivefold terms in every fign. In elements there are five kinds of mixed bodies, viz. ftones, metals, plants, plant-animals, animals ; and fo many kinds of animals — as men, four-footed beafts, creep- ing, fwimming, and flying. And there are five kinds by which all things are made of God, viz. effence, the fame, another, fenfe, and motion. The fwallow brings forth but five young, which the feeds with equity, beginning with the eldeft, and fo the reft according to their age. For in this number the father Noah found favour with God, and was preferved in the flood of waters. In the virtue of this number, Abraham, being an hundred years old, begat a fon of Sarah (Sarah being ninety years old, and a barren woman, and paft child- bearing), and grew up to be a great people. Hence, in time of grace, the name of Divine Omnipotency is called upon in five letters 5 in time of nature, the name of God was called upon with three letters n® Sadai ; in time of the law, the ineffable name of God was exprefled with four letters mrp, in- stead of which the Hebrews exprefs >nN Adonai ; in time of grace, the ineffable
name
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name of God was written with five letters nwn* Jhefu, which is called upon with no lefs myftery than that of three letters -ja».
THE SCALE OF THE NUMBER FIVE.
The Names of God with five letters. The
Name of Chrifl: with five letters,
ivfo
nt^rv
Eloim,
Elohi,
Jhefu,
In the exem- plary world.
Five intelligible fubflances.
Spirits of the firft hierarchy, called Gods, or the Tons of God,
Spirits of the fe- cond hierarchy, called Intelli- gences,
Spirits of the third hierarchy, called Angels which are fent,
Souls of celef- tial bodies,
Heroes and blefled fouls.
In the intel. le&ual world.
Five wandering liars, lords of the terms,
Saturn,
Jupiter,
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Mars,
Venus,
Mercury.
In the celeftial world.
Five kinds' of corruptible things,
Water,
Air,
Fire,
Earth,
A mixed body.
In the elemen- tary world.
Five kinds of mixed bodies,
Animal,
Plant,
Metal,
Stone,
Plant-
animal.
Five fenfes,
Tafte,
Hearing,
Seeing,
Touching,
Smelling.
In the lefler world.
Five corporeal torments,
Deadly bitter- nefs,
Horrible howl- ing,
Terrible dark- nefs,
Unquenchable
heat,
A piercing (link.
In the infernal world .
CHAP. XXL
OF THE NUMBER SIX, AND THE SCALE.
SIX is a number of perfe&ion, becaufe it is the moft perfect in nature, in the whole courfe of numbers, from one to ten ; and it alone is fo perfect that ia the collection of its parts, it refults the fame, neither wanting nor abound-
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