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	'''Seven''' is the '''Number of Perfection''', for all development, small and great, takes place and is completed through seven stages. The triple [[7-7-7]] is also the [[Number of Fulfilment]]. Our whole world system develops through seven planetary stages of [[world evolution]]. Humanity passes through seven [[cultural epochs]] in [[post-Atlantean time]]s, and man develops in [[seven-year periods]] during his life on [[earth]]. The critical phase of development is characterised by the [[Number of the Beast]] ([[666]]).		'''Seven''' is the '''Number of Perfection''', for all development, small and great, takes place and is completed through seven stages. The triple [[7-7-7]] is also the [[Number of Fulfilment]]. Our whole world system develops through seven planetary stages of [[world evolution]]. Humanity passes through seven [[cultural epochs]] in [[post-Atlantean time]]s, and man develops in [[seven-year periods]] during his life on [[earth]]. The critical phase of development is characterised by the [[Number of the Beast]] ([[666]]).

	Seven [[colour]]s comprise the [[rainbow]] and the musical scale has seven [[tone]]s. However, '''septicity''' ({{Greek\|εβδομάς}} '''Hebdomas''') can also manifest spatially as the result of a living temporal process of development - the great macrocosmic example of this are the [[seven planetary spheres]]. [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]] characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" ({{Latin\|De opificio mundi}})<ref>[[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book1.html On the Creation]'', § 89-128 (English translation)</ref>.		Seven [[colour]]s comprise the [[rainbow]] and the musical scale has seven [[tone]]s. However, '''sevenness''' or '''septicity''' ({{Greek\|εβδομάς}} '''Hebdomas''') can also manifest spatially as the result of a living temporal process of development - the great macrocosmic example of this are the [[seven planetary spheres]]. [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]] characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" ({{Latin\|De opificio mundi}})<ref>[[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book1.html On the Creation]'', § 89-128 (English translation)</ref>.

	The Athenian poet and statesman [[w:Solon\|Solon]] (640 BC-559 BC) divided human life into ten hebdomads ({{Greek\|ἑβδομάς}} ''hebdomas'' "sevenness") of seven years each, which he described in his famous elegy {{lang\|grc\|Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ...}} ("Immature knave though ...") described:<ref>German by [[w:Wolfgang Schadewaldt\|Wolfgang Schadewaldt]] in: ''Lebenszeit und Greisenalter im frühen Griechentum''. Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des klassischen Altertums. Volume 9 (1933), p. 282. See also [http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/fundiert/archiv/2004_01/04_01_baltrusch/index.html Baltrusch]. Greek original in: [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CF%89%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82 Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource]'' (XXXV) 103 ([http://archive.org/stream/philonisalexandr0103philuoft#page/n159/mode/2up p. 36 f. archive.org]), and in: [[w:Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert\|Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]]: ''Die Geschichte der Seele''. 3rd Edition 1839, [http://books.google.de/books?id=UCJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA353 p. 353 books.google]</ref>		The Athenian poet and statesman [[w:Solon\|Solon]] (640 BC-559 BC) divided human life into ten hebdomads ({{Greek\|ἑβδομάς}} ''hebdomas'' "sevenness") of seven years each, which he described in his famous elegy {{lang\|grc\|Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ...}} ("Immature knave though ...") described:<ref>German by [[w:Wolfgang Schadewaldt\|Wolfgang Schadewaldt]] in: ''Lebenszeit und Greisenalter im frühen Griechentum''. Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des klassischen Altertums. Volume 9 (1933), p. 282. See also [http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/fundiert/archiv/2004_01/04_01_baltrusch/index.html Baltrusch]. Greek original in: [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CF%89%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82 Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource]'' (XXXV) 103 ([http://archive.org/stream/philonisalexandr0103philuoft#page/n159/mode/2up p. 36 f. archive.org]), and in: [[w:Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert\|Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]]: ''Die Geschichte der Seele''. 3rd Edition 1839, [http://books.google.de/books?id=UCJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA353 p. 353 books.google]</ref>

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			{{Characters\|7}}

	'''7''' is the '''Number of Time''' and thus at the same time also the number of the [[etheric world]] and of the [[etheric body]] taken from it, for the reality of time is founded in the etheric world.		'''7''' is the '''Number of Time''' and thus at the same time also the number of the [[etheric world]] and of the [[etheric body]] taken from it, for the reality of time is founded in the etheric world.

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	The [[septagram]] is the symbol of the [[Mystic Lamb]], the [[Christ]].		The [[septagram]] is the symbol of the [[Mystic Lamb]], the [[Christ]].

			== Seven and the Capacity of Short-Term Memory ==

			The number 7 also seems to be of decisive importance for the capacity of short-term memory, which is related to the subjectively felt duration of the moment determined by the breathing rhythm. During this period of 3 - 4 seconds, up to about 7 objects (e.g. numbers, letters or whole words) can be grasped and recalled - and, insofar as they are grasped as a whole, largely independent of their specific information content. This so-called seven phenomenon was already discovered experimentally by John Locke in the 17th century and is today referred to as [[Miller's number]] (''[[The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two]]''), named after the US psychologist [[w:George Armitage Miller\|George Armitage Miller]]. Miller, who in his 1956 article "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information"[3], which is one of the most cited articles in the field of psychology, also established that humans can only record 7±2 memory units (chunks) at the same time with their short-term memory.

			{{Quote\|And finally, what about the magical number seven? What about the seven wonders of the world, the
			seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the
			seven levels of hell, the seven primary colors, the seven notes of the musical scale, and the seven days of
			the week? What about the seven-point rating scale, the seven categories for absolute judgment, the seven
			objects in the span of attention, and the seven digits in the span of immediate memory? For the present I
			propose to withhold judgment. Perhaps there is something deep and profound behind all these sevens,
			something just calling out for us to discover it. But I suspect that it is only a pernicious, Pythagorean
			coincidence.\|[[w:George Armitage Miller\|George A. Miller\|]]\|''The magical number seven, plus or minus two''\|ref=<ref>[[w:George Armitage Miller\|George A. Miller\|]]: ''The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. In: Psychological Review, 63, 1956, p.81-97 [[http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy430s2001/Miller%20GA%20Magical%20Seven%20Psych%20Review%201955.pdf pdf]</ref>}}

			== Seven Human Communities ==

			Seven human communities, representing seven successive stages of human development, must work together at any one time to promote the overall development of humanity.

			{{GZ\|If human communities are to work together, there must be seven; the eighth would be a repetition of one of the seven.\|346\|70}}

			A prime example of this are the [[seven Christian communities in Asia Minor]] to whom the [[seven epistles]] are addressed in [[John's Apocalypse]]. These seven communities stand for the seven [[cultural epochs]] of the [[post-Atlantean period]]. Four of them cultivate the fruits of the four cultural epochs already past ( [[ancient Indian culture]], [[ancient Persian culture]], [[Egyptian-Chaldean culture]], [[Greco-Latin culture]]), we are in the first third of the [[fifth cultural epoch]] today, and two communities are already anticipating the two epochs to come ([[Slavic culture]], [[American culture]]).

			== Seven Secrets of Life ==
			{{Main\|Seven Secrets of Life}}

			According to [[Rudolf Steiner]], there are [[seven secrets of life]] that are ultimately related to the seven great planetary stages of [[world evolution]] from [[Old Saturn]] to [[Vulcan]]. Steiner often discussed individual ones of these secrets of life, but rarely presented all seven in context.

			<div style="margin-left:20px">
			„There are seven secrets of life which have never yet been spoken of outside the occult brotherhoods. Only in the present epoch is it possible to speak of them exoterically. They are also called the seven "inexpressible" or "unspeakable" secrets.

			These are the secrets:

			#The [[Secret of the Abyss]].
			#The [[Secret of the Number]]. (One can study it in [[Pythagoreanism\|Pythagorean philosophy]]).
			#The [[Secret of Alchemy]]. (This can be understood through the works of [[w:Paracelsus\|Paracelsus]] and [[w:Jakob Böhme\|Jakob Böhme]]).
			#The [[Secret of Birth and Death]].
			#The [[Secret of Evil]], which the [[Apocalypse of John\|Apocalypse]] deals with.
			#The [[Secret of the Word]], the [[Logos]].
			#The [[Secret of Godliness]]; it is the most profoundly hidden.” {{Lit\|{{G\|246\|253}}/{{G\|094\|111}}<ref>The original paper by Edouard Schuré is in French. Instead of "unspeakable" it says "nameless" mysteries in GA 94, which is a translation error. Moreover, in the 4th secret, birth is not mentioned.</ref>}}
			</div>

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==

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	:Hardly at the unseasonable time, the nigh of death doth him bear.</poem>		:Hardly at the unseasonable time, the nigh of death doth him bear.</poem>

	The [[septagram]] is the symbol of the [[~~Mystical~~ Lamb]], the [[Christ]].		The [[septagram]] is the symbol of the [[Mystic Lamb]], the [[Christ]].

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==

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	The Athenian poet and statesman [[w:Solon\|Solon]] (640 BC-559 BC) divided human life into ten hebdomads ({{Greek\|ἑβδομάς}} ''hebdomas'' "sevenness") of seven years each, which he described in his famous elegy {{lang\|grc\|Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ...}} ("Immature knave though ...") described:<ref>German by [[w:Wolfgang Schadewaldt\|Wolfgang Schadewaldt]] in: ''Lebenszeit und Greisenalter im frühen Griechentum''. Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des klassischen Altertums. Volume 9 (1933), p. 282. See also [http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/fundiert/archiv/2004_01/04_01_baltrusch/index.html Baltrusch]. Greek original in: [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CF%89%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82 Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource]'' (XXXV) 103 ([http://archive.org/stream/philonisalexandr0103philuoft#page/n159/mode/2up p. 36 f. archive.org]), and in: [[w:Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert\|Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]]: ''Die Geschichte der Seele''. 3rd Edition 1839, [http://books.google.de/books?id=UCJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA353 p. 353 books.google]</ref>		The Athenian poet and statesman [[w:Solon\|Solon]] (640 BC-559 BC) divided human life into ten hebdomads ({{Greek\|ἑβδομάς}} ''hebdomas'' "sevenness") of seven years each, which he described in his famous elegy {{lang\|grc\|Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ...}} ("Immature knave though ...") described:<ref>German by [[w:Wolfgang Schadewaldt\|Wolfgang Schadewaldt]] in: ''Lebenszeit und Greisenalter im frühen Griechentum''. Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des klassischen Altertums. Volume 9 (1933), p. 282. See also [http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/fundiert/archiv/2004_01/04_01_baltrusch/index.html Baltrusch]. Greek original in: [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CF%89%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82 Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource]'' (XXXV) 103 ([http://archive.org/stream/philonisalexandr0103philuoft#page/n159/mode/2up p. 36 f. archive.org]), and in: [[w:Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert\|Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]]: ''Die Geschichte der Seele''. 3rd Edition 1839, [http://books.google.de/books?id=UCJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA353 p. 353 books.google]</ref>

			<poem style="margin-left:2em;">A boy first is man, immature: there he casteth out his teeth.
			:He casts off the teeth that sprouted from the child in the seventh year.
			When for the other time God closed the seven years,
			:Signs of manhood then sprout, the approaching.
			During the third, his chin curls - still the limbs grow -
			:Woolly fluff, as the skin's blossom in change is faded.
			Now, in the fourth, up to a high and full bloom.
			:Strength ripens, in it the man shows his worth.
			With the fifth thrives the time for him to think freely.
			:And that in sons a lasting tribe may arise.
			During the sixth, the spirit spreads on all sides into the right,
			:Never again will his courage drive him to useless deeds.
			Seven years of seven and eight: in full bloom
			:The tongue and the spirit stand together for fourteen years.
			Still in the ninth the man is fit, but show more laxity.
			:Against the full thriving tongue and wit henceforth.
			He who has reached the tenth, completing the tenth in measure,
			:Hardly at the unseasonable time, the nigh of death doth him bear.</poem>

			The [[septagram]] is the symbol of the [[Mystical Lamb]], the [[Christ]].

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	== The Number of Perfection and the Number of Fulfilment ==		== The Number of Perfection and the Number of Fulfilment ==
	[[File:~~Mystic_lamb~~.gif\|thumb\|250px\|The heptagram as a symbol of the [[Mystic Lamb]] (drawing from {{G\|96\|314}})]]		[[File:Mystic_Lamb.gif\|thumb\|250px\|The heptagram as a symbol of the [[Mystic Lamb]] (drawing from {{G\|96\|314}})]]

	'''Seven''' is the '''Number of Perfection''', for all development, small and great, takes place and is completed through seven stages. The triple [[7-7-7]] is also the [[Number of Fulfilment]]. Our whole world system develops through seven planetary stages of [[world evolution]]. Humanity passes through seven [[cultural epochs]] in [[post-Atlantean time]]s, and man develops in [[seven-year periods]] during his life on [[earth]]. The critical phase of development is characterised by the [[Number of the Beast]] ([[666]]).		'''Seven''' is the '''Number of Perfection''', for all development, small and great, takes place and is completed through seven stages. The triple [[7-7-7]] is also the [[Number of Fulfilment]]. Our whole world system develops through seven planetary stages of [[world evolution]]. Humanity passes through seven [[cultural epochs]] in [[post-Atlantean time]]s, and man develops in [[seven-year periods]] during his life on [[earth]]. The critical phase of development is characterised by the [[Number of the Beast]] ([[666]]).
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	Seven [[colour]]s comprise the [[rainbow]] and the musical scale has seven [[tone]]s. However, '''septicity''' ({{Greek\|εβδομάς}} '''Hebdomas''') can also manifest spatially as the result of a living temporal process of development - the great macrocosmic example of this are the [[seven planetary spheres]]. [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]] characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" ({{Latin\|De opificio mundi}})<ref>[[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book1.html On the Creation]'', § 89-128 (English translation)</ref>.		Seven [[colour]]s comprise the [[rainbow]] and the musical scale has seven [[tone]]s. However, '''septicity''' ({{Greek\|εβδομάς}} '''Hebdomas''') can also manifest spatially as the result of a living temporal process of development - the great macrocosmic example of this are the [[seven planetary spheres]]. [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]] characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" ({{Latin\|De opificio mundi}})<ref>[[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book1.html On the Creation]'', § 89-128 (English translation)</ref>.

	The Athenian poet and statesman [[w:Solon\|Solon]] (640 BC-559 BC) divided human life into ten hebdomads ({{Greek\|ἑβδομάς}} ''hebdomas'' "sevenness") of seven years each, which he described in his famous elegy {{lang\|grc\|Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ...}} ("Immature knave though ...") described:<ref>German by [[w:Wolfgang Schadewaldt\|Wolfgang Schadewaldt]] in: ''Lebenszeit und Greisenalter im frühen Griechentum''. Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des klassischen Altertums. Volume 9 (1933), p. 282. See also [http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/fundiert/archiv/2004_01/04_01_baltrusch/index.html Baltrusch]. Greek original in: [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CF%89%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82 Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource]'' (XXXV) 103 ([http://archive.org/stream/philonisalexandr0103philuoft#page/n159/mode/2up S. 36 f. archive.org]), and in: [[w:Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert\|Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]]: ''Die Geschichte der Seele''. 3rd Edition 1839, [http://books.google.de/books?id=UCJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA353 p. 353 books.google]</ref>		The Athenian poet and statesman [[w:Solon\|Solon]] (640 BC-559 BC) divided human life into ten hebdomads ({{Greek\|ἑβδομάς}} ''hebdomas'' "sevenness") of seven years each, which he described in his famous elegy {{lang\|grc\|Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ...}} ("Immature knave though ...") described:<ref>German by [[w:Wolfgang Schadewaldt\|Wolfgang Schadewaldt]] in: ''Lebenszeit und Greisenalter im frühen Griechentum''. Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des klassischen Altertums. Volume 9 (1933), p. 282. See also [http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/fundiert/archiv/2004_01/04_01_baltrusch/index.html Baltrusch]. Greek original in: [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CF%89%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82 Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource]'' (XXXV) 103 ([http://archive.org/stream/philonisalexandr0103philuoft#page/n159/mode/2up p. 36 f. archive.org]), and in: [[w:Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert\|Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]]: ''Die Geschichte der Seele''. 3rd Edition 1839, [http://books.google.de/books?id=UCJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA353 p. 353 books.google]</ref>

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	== The Number of Perfection and the Number of Fulfilment ==		== The Number of Perfection and the Number of Fulfilment ==
			[[File:Mystic_lamb.gif\|thumb\|250px\|The heptagram as a symbol of the [[Mystic Lamb]] (drawing from {{G\|96\|314}})]]

	'''Seven''' is the '''Number of Perfection''', for all development, small and great, takes place and is completed through seven stages. The triple [[7-7-7]] is also the [[Number of Fulfilment]]. Our whole world system develops through seven planetary stages of [[world evolution]]. Humanity passes through seven [[cultural epochs]] in [[post-Atlantean time]]s, and man develops in [[seven-year periods]] during his life on [[earth]]. The critical phase of development is characterised by the [[Number of the Beast]] ([[666]]).		'''Seven''' is the '''Number of Perfection''', for all development, small and great, takes place and is completed through seven stages. The triple [[7-7-7]] is also the [[Number of Fulfilment]]. Our whole world system develops through seven planetary stages of [[world evolution]]. Humanity passes through seven [[cultural epochs]] in [[post-Atlantean time]]s, and man develops in [[seven-year periods]] during his life on [[earth]]. The critical phase of development is characterised by the [[Number of the Beast]] ([[666]]).

	Seven [[colour]]s comprise the [[rainbow]] and the musical scale has seven [[tone]]s. However, '''septicity''' ({{Greek\|εβδομάς}} '''Hebdomas''') can also manifest spatially as the result of a living temporal process of development - the great macrocosmic example of this are the [[seven planetary spheres]]. [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]] characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" ({{Latin\|De opificio mundi}})<ref>[[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book1.html On the Creation]'', § 89-128 (English translation)</ref>.		Seven [[colour]]s comprise the [[rainbow]] and the musical scale has seven [[tone]]s. However, '''septicity''' ({{Greek\|εβδομάς}} '''Hebdomas''') can also manifest spatially as the result of a living temporal process of development - the great macrocosmic example of this are the [[seven planetary spheres]]. [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]] characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" ({{Latin\|De opificio mundi}})<ref>[[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book1.html On the Creation]'', § 89-128 (English translation)</ref>.

			The Athenian poet and statesman [[w:Solon\|Solon]] (640 BC-559 BC) divided human life into ten hebdomads ({{Greek\|ἑβδομάς}} ''hebdomas'' "sevenness") of seven years each, which he described in his famous elegy {{lang\|grc\|Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ...}} ("Immature knave though ...") described:<ref>German by [[w:Wolfgang Schadewaldt\|Wolfgang Schadewaldt]] in: ''Lebenszeit und Greisenalter im frühen Griechentum''. Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des klassischen Altertums. Volume 9 (1933), p. 282. See also [http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/fundiert/archiv/2004_01/04_01_baltrusch/index.html Baltrusch]. Greek original in: [[w:Philon of Alexandria\|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CE%9C%CF%89%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82 Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource]'' (XXXV) 103 ([http://archive.org/stream/philonisalexandr0103philuoft#page/n159/mode/2up S. 36 f. archive.org]), and in: [[w:Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert\|Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]]: ''Die Geschichte der Seele''. 3rd Edition 1839, [http://books.google.de/books?id=UCJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA353 p. 353 books.google]</ref>

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==

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'''7''' is the '''Number of Time''' and thus at the same time also the number of the [[etheric world]] and of the [[etheric body]] taken from it, for the reality of time is founded in the etheric world.

== The Number of Perfection and the Number of Fulfilment ==

'''Seven''' is the '''Number of Perfection''', for all development, small and great, takes place and is completed through seven stages. The triple [[7-7-7]] is also the [[Number of Fulfilment]]. Our whole world system develops through seven planetary stages of [[world evolution]]. Humanity passes through seven [[cultural epochs]] in [[post-Atlantean time]]s, and man develops in [[seven-year periods]] during his life on [[earth]]. The critical phase of development is characterised by the [[Number of the Beast]] ([[666]]).

Seven [[colour]]s comprise the [[rainbow]] and the musical scale has seven [[tone]]s. However, '''septicity''' ({{Greek|εβδομάς}} '''Hebdomas''') can also manifest spatially as the result of a living temporal process of development - the great macrocosmic example of this are the [[seven planetary spheres]]. [[w:Philon of Alexandria|Philon of Alexandria]] characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" ({{Latin|De opificio mundi}})<ref>[[w:Philon of Alexandria|Philon of Alexandria]]: ''[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book1.html On the Creation]'', § 89-128 (English translation)</ref>.

== Literature ==

* [[a:Helmut Werner|Helmut Werner]]: ''Lexikon der Numerologie und Zahlenmystik'', Komet, ISBN 3-89836-132-2
* [[a:Ernst Bindel|Ernst Bindel]]: ''Die geistigen Grundlagen der Zahlen'', Vlg. Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7725-1251-8, [http://d-nb.info/953552047/04 Table of contents]
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Kosmogonie'', [[GA 94]] (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0940-1 {{Lectures|094}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Mythen und Sagen. Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole'', [[GA 101]] (1987), Stuttgart, 15. September 1907 {{Lectures|094}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Die Apokalypse des Johannes'', [[GA 104]] (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1040-X {{Lectures|104}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Aus der Bilderschrift der Apokalypse des Johannes'', [[GA 104a]] (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1045-0 {{Lectures|104a}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der ersten Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule 1904 - 1914'', [[GA 264]] (1984) {{Lectures|264}}
* [[Rudolf Steiner]]: ''Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken, V'', [[GA 346]] (2001), ISBN 3-7274-3460-0 {{Lectures|346}}

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