7 (number)

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 times, 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 colours comprise the rainbow and the musical scale has seven tones. 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. Philon of Alexandria characterises the nature of the 7 in detail in his writing "On the Creation of the World" (Latin: De opificio mundi).

Literature

• Helmut Werner: Lexikon der Numerologie und Zahlenmystik, Komet, ISBN 3-89836-132-2
• Ernst Bindel: Die geistigen Grundlagen der Zahlen, Vlg. Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7725-1251-8, Table of contents
• Rudolf Steiner: Kosmogonie, GA 94 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0940-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Mythen und Sagen. Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole, GA 101 (1987), Stuttgart, 15. September 1907 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1040-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Bilderschrift der Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104a (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1045-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der ersten Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule 1904 - 1914, GA 264 (1984) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken, V, GA 346 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-3460-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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