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ing ; for if the parts thereof, viz. the middle, third, and fixth part, which are three, two, one, be gathered together, they perfectly till up the whole body of fix, which perfection all the other numbers want. Hence, by the Pythagorians, it is faid to be altogether to be applied to generation and mar- riage, and is called the fcale of the world ; for the world is made of the num- ber fix — neither doth it abound, nor is defective : hence that is, becaufe the world was finifhed by God the fixth day •, for the fixth day God faw all things which he had made, and they were * very good ; therefore the heaven, and the earth, and all the hoft thereof, were finifhed. It is alfo called the number of man, becaufe the fixth day + man was created. And it is alfo the number of our redemption •, for on the fixth day Chrift fuffered for our redemption : whence there is a great affinity between the number fix and the crofs, labour, and fervitude. Hence it is commanded in the law, that in fix days the manna is to be gathered, and work to be done. Six years the ground was to be fown ; and that the Hebrew fervant was to ferve his matter fix years. Six days the glory of the Lord appeared upon Mount Sinai, covering it with a cloud. The Cherubims had fix wings. Six circles in the firmament : Artie, Antartic, two Tropics, Equinoctial, and Ecliptical. Six wandering planets : Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, running through the latitude of the Zodiac on both fides the Ecliptic. There are fix lubftantial qualities in the elements, viz. ffiarpnefs, thinnefs, motion ; and the contrary to thefe — dulnefs, thicknefs, and reft. There are fix differences of pofition : upwards, downwards, before, behind, on the right fide, and on the left fide. There are fix natural offices, without which nothing can be, viz. magnitude, colour, figure, interval, Handing, motion. Alfo, a folid figure of any four-fquare thing hath fix fuperfices. There are fix tones of all harmony, viz. five tones, and two half tones which make one tone, which is the fixth.
* The fixth day, the Eternal Wifdom pronounced all things created by his divine hand to be “ very good.” f Hence arofe the myfiery of the number of the beaft, fix hundred three fcore and fix, being the numbei q f a man — DCLXVI,
SCALE
Chap. XXII. TALISMANIC MAGIC.
THE SCALE OF THE NUMBER SIX.
In the Exemplary World,
D’n^irpm bN
Names of fix letters.
In the Intelligible World,
Seraphim,
Cherubim,
Thrones,
Domina-
tions,
Powers,
Virtues ;
Six orders of Angels, which are not fenttb inferiors.
In the Celeftial World.
Saturn,
J upiter,
Mars,
Venus,
Mercury,
The Moon ;
Six planets wan- dering through the latitude of the Zodiac from the Ecliptic.
In the Elemental World,
Reft,
Thinnefs,
Sharpnefs,
Dulnefs,
Thicknefs,
Motion ;
Six fubftantial qualities of the elements.
In the Leffer World,
The
Intelledl,
Memory,
Senfe,
Motion,
Life,
E Hence ;
Six degrees of the mind.
In the Infernal World,
Adieus,
Megalelius,
Ormenus,
Lycus,
Nicon,
Mimon ;
Six Devils, the authors of all calamities.
CHAP XXIL
OP THE NUMBER SEVEN, AND THE SCALE.
THE number Seven is of various and manifold power ; for it confifts of one and fix, or of two and five, or of three and four ; and it hath a unity, as it were the coupling* together of two threes : whence if we confider the feveral parts thereof, and the joining together of them, without doubt we fhall confefs that it is, as well by the joining together of the parts thereof as by its fulnefs apart, moll full of all majefty. And the Pythagorians call it the vehiculum of man’s life, which it doth not receive from its parts fo, as it perfects by its
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