“Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony”
Numbers Their Occult Power And Mystic Virtues
Quotes by W. Wynn Westcott
“The numerals of Pythagoras,” says Porphyry, who lived about 300 A.D, “were hieroglyphic symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of things,” and the same method of explaining the secrets of nature is once again being insisted upon in the new revelation of the “Secret Doctrine,” by H. P. Blavatsky.””
Numbers Their Occult Power And Mystic Virtues
“No doubt can exist that the ancient Egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that Greece, and neither Judea nor Babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient Egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the Hierophants of Sais, Memphis and Thebes Greek literature has transmitted to us.””
Numbers Their Occult Power And Mystic Virtues
W. Wynn WestcottW. Wynn Westcott was an English physician, writer, and prominent figure in the study of esoteric and occult traditions. He is best known for his work 'Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, ...