Significance of the Number 7
Significance of the Number 7
The number 1 is the first number. It represents the ‘. Cause, Creator, God or Spirit, call it what you like. Circle or the zero, “o” has always been taken as symbol of endlessness — otherwise Eternity. Place 1 and the figure zero by its side, and you get the significant symbol of eternity such as 1 plus 0 is 10, and then place as many of these emblems of eternity by its side as you like, and you get such a figure as 1,000,000.
Divided it by the mystic number 7 and you get the number 142.
1,000,000 divided by 7 gives 142857.
Add as many zeros as you like to 1, and keep on dividing by 7, and you yourself may go on through all eternity, you can only get repetitions of the same 142857.
This from time immemorial, 7 has been called the “sacred numberâ€?. Now add this number wherever you find natural addition, it will give you the figure 27, you keep adding till only one number: remains, to arrive”. You add again 27 by natural addition and 7 plus 7 equals 9, or in other words you get the full range of the first series of numbers on which all materialist or human calculations can be built. Now, let us return to the symbolism of seven for the moment.
You know, of course, that Buddha is always represented as sitting in the centre of a Lotus. Let us examine, then, the secret of such a selection.
It is number perhaps, generally known that the 7 is reproduced in many strange ways in Nature herself, and that flowers that have not been crossed by intermingling with other flowers have their outside petals in the number of seven, but as flower are so easily crossed with other varieties, and it is so difficult to find a pure type, Buddha took the Lotus, which never becomes crossed or loses its individuality, as the emblem of the religion he taught, because, first, its sever foundation petals are always in evidence, and further, the religion he taught was that the creative Spirit was the foundation and origin of all things, and thus again bore silent but unmistakable testimony to the creative action of the seven planets from which all religions have had their origin.
Long before man made his creeds or civilizations their laws, the influence of these seven planets had become known on the earth. Out of the dark night of antiquity their light became law, and as far as we car penetrate, even to the very confines of prehistoric days. In all races, in all countries, we find the influence of the seven planets through all and in all.