Number 50 in spiritual numerology means creativity (both Divine and human), which fully expressed itself at a certain stage and can rest, ripening for the next achievements.
Number 50 - Human Life Expectancy
The number 50, in fact, implies the duration of human life! After all, a person does not die from diseases, they are only an external manifestation of the true cause.
The real Cause of death is when a person exhausts his original potential for Creation.
We are all creators and our Life has meaning only as long as we are able to create!
Someone will object to me: but there are many talented people who have passed away "at full gallop", they would still have created hundreds of books, films, and made a lot of scientific discoveries! Alas, this is a sad and sentimental delusion ...
If they could create something else, they would not die. Nothing in nature dies before it exhausts its inner, creative potential. Law of life!
In numerology, the value of the number 50 is considered as the combined meaning of five and zero. If you bring it down to a single digit, it turns out that code 5 affects life and fate, and zero enhances its effect.
Total value
Zero in numerology symbolizes a vicious circle: beginning and end, feminine and masculine. This figure is associated with the spiritual development of the individual.
The meaning of the number 5 is more related to the physical form of the person. It means activity, curiosity, striving for new knowledge, etc. The presence of zero enhances the influence of the five.
Number 50 is the relationship between body and soul, mind and heart. It unites spiritual and material principles, and also helps a person to achieve harmony.
The effect of numbers on a person
People under the influence of the number 50 have a deep inner peace. They have a developed sense of intuition, sometimes even psychic abilities and powerful energy. The personality is endowed with great potential. Such people love freedom and adventure. They are born travelers.
They easily tolerate changes, even strive for them. They are very curious, they are engaged in self-development, they are well trained in new skills. They know how to enjoy life.
The influence of number on a person's life is manifested in constant growth, development, upward movement, improvement. 50 is the number that emits positive influence, although it has a number of negative features.
Positive features
TO positive features relate:
- optimism;
- cheerfulness;
- purposefulness;
- desire to know oneself and the world;
- striving for new things;
- learnability;
- activity;
- not conflicting nature;
- friendliness;
- the ability to accept criticism and recognize your mistakes;
- the ability to share your positive energy.
Negative traits
The code has very powerful energy. People, whose number is 50, do not like routine, boredom and stagnation so much, in order to avoid this, they are inclined to rash and adventurous actions. Sometimes they cannot fulfill their interesting ideas into life and begin to suffer about it. It happens that they fall into depression, resort to alcohol and drugs.
When they are consumed by the ordinary, they lose their passion, become gloomy and sad. For the sake of getting emotions and diversity, they are ready to break the law and engage in criminal matters.
Freedom and a simple perception of life sometimes turn into frivolity and recklessness.
Career impact
Such people can be creative. The main thing is to find and develop your talent. They can paint or write poetry, dance and other arts. Thanks to creative thinking, they can create something new, see the solution where others do not see.
They can connect their lives with travel and make money on it. Become bloggers or photographers, sell tours, or arrange excursions. They easily find an approach to others, they like to communicate with other people. Therefore, you can devote your life to working with the community.
50 accidentally meets on the way
The value of the number 50 in people's lives, if it appears accidentally, is a sign indicating possible health problems. Another decoding of such a symbol is the impending change. Any change that 50 brings should be greeted with joy. They will definitely give a person some kind of benefits.
The number 50 means creativity, spiritual development... Indicates people who know how to have fun and appreciate life. Owners of 50 need to use their full potential, focus on the development of talents. Use your positive and creative outlook on life to the fullest. Do not be afraid of change, this is your element.
Numbers have their own ontology. The concept of number stems from the Trinity depths of the One God and permeates the entire created world - visible and invisible. The worlds of Heaven, the armies of angels and archangels and all ethereal spirits, the soul, heart and mind, sensual and mental, the laws of natural science, psychology, ethics, philosophy and religion, the mystery of the Church and salvation - everything reveals to us the mysticism and symbolism of numbers. The mysticism and symbolism of numbers is a kind of "mathematical Theophany", a manifestation of the Divine Logos and Divine Sophia to the world. This is the Logos and Sophia in creation.
Archpriest Gennady Fast. Interpretation of the Apocalypse.
1. Numerological riddles of the Bible.
The number does not appear in isolation in the biblical text. It is woven into the fabric of verbal (verbal) narration and, in terms of meaning, is inseparable from the words (names) associated with it. In the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, there are various "numerical messages", penetration into the meaning of which encounters certain difficulties and presupposes an appeal to special methods of interpretation.
Thus, in the Second Book of Ezra of the Old Testament, which deals with the return of the Israelites from Babylonian captivity for the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem, it is said: “All the Israelites from twelve years old and above, except for slaves and female servants, were forty two thousand three hundred and sixty; their male and female servants seven thousand three hundred forty-seven; singers and psalmists two hundred and forty-five. Four hundred thirty-five camels, seven thousand thirty-six horses, two hundred forty-five mules, five thousand five hundred twenty-five for draft animals ”(2 Ezd 5. 41-42). The question arises whether the number series 12, 42 360, 7 347, 245, 435, 7 036, 245, 5 525 mentioned in this text is something accidental, or is there some deep meaning behind it.
This question is addressed to St. Maximus the Confessor, an outstanding Christian mystic and theologian (c. 580-662), abbot of the Libyan monastery, St. Falassius: “Show love [and explain] these great and exalted words spoken by the Holy Spirit through the prophets about the exodus [of Israel] from [Babylonian] captivity. Why is this narrative written with such an inappropriate simplicity unworthy of the Spirit, and is it mentioning the exact number of camels, horses, mules, donkeys, and the like? " ...
Similar questions arise repeatedly and on the understanding of "numerical messages" in the New Testament. Most often when describing numerological interpretation Holy Scripture give two examples of miraculous satiety. The first is the feeding of five loaves of bread and two fish to five thousand, described in the Gospel of Mark (Mk 6. 35-44), the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 14. 15-21) and in the Gospel of John (John 6. 5-13). And the second is the feeding of four thousand with seven loaves and fishes in the Gospel of Mark (Mk 8. 1-9) and the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 15. 32-38).
Pondering the meaning of the episode about the miraculous feeding of five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fishes from the Gospel of John, St. Cyril of Alexandria (376-444) notes: “But since nothing useful should be left without research, we will try to say something little about the five loaves that the boy had, and about the two fish. Both the species itself and the number of (supplies) found have a mysterious meaning. Indeed, why, one of the most curious, may ask, not four loaves and three fish? Why not five or four fish? And what a need to tell about the number of what was found; and wouldn't it be better to say more simply and without additions that the immeasurable multitude of those who followed (after Christ) were saturated with the very little found supply? But if the blessed Evangelist narrates so carefully about this too, then by this of course he makes it clear that it is necessary and to investigate. "
St. Gregory the Theologian (329-389), who in his Word on St. Pentecost affirms: “Jesus Himself is pure perfection, he knew how to nourish five thousand people in the desert with five loaves of bread, and again with seven loaves of four thousand, and the remnants after being fed were in the first case two ten kosh(Mt 14.20), and in the second the seven cats(Mt 15:37); but both, I think, were not done without a reason and not unworthy of the Spirit. And you yourself, reading the Scripture, will notice many numbers, in which, in addition to the visible, a deeper meaning is hidden. "
2. Biblical exegesis, its principles and procedures.
Biblical exegesis or exegesis (Old Greek ἐξηγητικά from ἐξήγησις - "interpretation, exposition") deals with the question of the possibility of existence and revealing deep meanings in the Holy Scriptures.
Historically, two traditions of interpretation and explanation of the texts of Holy Scripture have developed, developed in two schools - Antioch (late III-V centuries), which deals with grammatical and cultural-historical approaches in the interpretation of the text, and Alexandria (III-VI centuries BC). ) aimed at revealing a special, spiritual, mystical meaning behind the text of the Holy Scriptures. The positions of these two schools are mutually complementary. Alexandrian exegesis starts from where the Antiochian tradition stops. In this regard, the beginning of the interpretation of one of the fragments of the Old Testament (Ex. 4. 24-25) by St. Maximus the Confessor, who writes: “So, we will omit the history that was already fulfilled in the time of Moses; let us examine the spiritual meaning of history with clever eyes, for it is constantly repeated in reality and, due to this, appears with even greater force. "
The Antiochian tradition of interpreting Holy Scripture is characterized by "attachment to the letter" in the perception of the text and focusing on the human (rational) moment in Revelation, which is imprinted in the text. The Alexandrian tradition is characterized by an emphasis on the "spirit" and not on the "letter", with full, however, and utmost attention to every word of Holy Scripture. And, besides, - emphasizing the synergistic principle in exegesis. In other words, the recognition that penetration into the inner meaning of the biblical allegory can be accomplished: 1) with the spiritual eye, 2) in pure speculation (contemplation), 3) “for the sake of divine glory alone,” 4) through the grace of the Holy Spirit. Holy Scripture as the word of Divine Revelation for the Orthodox Christian self-consciousness is "inspired by God" (2 Tim. 3. 16). This means that the perception of Scripture is deeply personal. It is living communion with the living God.
According to the expression of St. Cassian the Roman (360-435), the interpreter of Holy Scripture must have a pure soul and an unclouded eye. (According to the well-known maxim of Orthodox Christian asceticism: "... the soul sees the truth of God according to the power of living"). After all, "to penetrate into the essence of heavenly verbs and contemplate deep and hidden secrets with a clear eye" - all this "will not deliver human teaching, secular learning, but only the purity of spirit through the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit." According to the categorical maxim of St. Cyril of Alexandria, expressing the essence of this position: "it is impossible to interpret Holy Scripture without the superior gifts of grace."
Rev. Maximus the Confessor expresses the synergistic nature of exegesis in this way, referring to the sayings of "Wisdom" from the Old Testament Book of Proverbs of Solomon that all the words of the mouth of Wisdom are just and "all of them are clear to the prudent and just for those who have acquired knowledge": passages of Holy Scripture and for the sake of divine glory alone removes the letter from the Spirit, like a veil, that, according to the word of Wisdom, will find all rights (Proverbs 8. 9), because he will not encounter any obstacles in the impeccable movement of thought to the divine. "
In the vision of the exegetes themselves, grace in the interpretation of Holy Scripture is given and perceived as one gains purity of mind. As St. Maximus the Confessor, starting to explain the mentioned passage from the Second Book of Ezra: “The exact explanation of this is the lot of only those who, due to the great purity of [their] minds, have received from above all the grace of the Spirit, as far as is available to people ... the questions posed, I call on God for help, so that He becomes a Helper [to me in explaining] what has been said, since the power of my own thought does not exist, trying in any way to gain the [unattainable] height of the allegories of Scripture. "
According to the word of the reverend. Maximus the Confessor, the Holy Spirit understands how to “designate in writing” those who are called “husbands”, “young men and women”, “singers and singers”, “camels and horses”, “mules and donkeys” in the quoted passage from the Second Book of Ezra ". And such a designation "cannot embrace the bodily feeling - it is perceived only by a pure mind, since it is imprinted with a feather of grace."
In biblical hermeneutics, based on the Antiochian and Alexandrian traditions of exegesis, the most complex semantic stratification of the text of Holy Scripture was developed. In the biblical text, in accordance with this stratification, four types of meanings are distinguished: literal ("verbatim"), or historical, meaning and three spiritual meanings - allegorical, tropological (moral) and anagogical, or "super meaning", rising, according to Dante, to "Things of eternal glory" (see). Thus, Jerusalem, mentioned by the prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 16. 1-2), in the interpretation of Didim of Alexandria (c. 313 - c. 398) and bl. Jerome of Stridon (330 - 420), can be understood: 1) in the historical sense as the historical city of Jerusalem, “burnt down first by the Babylonians, and later by the Romans”; 2) in an allegorical sense as the Church of Christ; 3) in the tropological sense as a human soul, who join the contemplation of God through faith, and 4) in the anagogical, or “transcendental-eschatological” sense, as “heavenly Jerusalem” - the image of the “heavenly world” and the “Heavenly Church”.
In search of insight into the meaning of allegories in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the exegete plunges into deep speculations at various levels of contemplation, revealing different plans for the semantic organization of the text. The result of such exegesis is to obtain several complementary interpretations of the same fragment of the biblical text. So, St. Maximus the Confessor, who, according to historians, “perfected the symbolic exegesis born in Alexandria,” interprets the meaning of the numerical messages of Holy Scripture on four levels. Namely: 1) at the level of natural contemplation (φυσικώς), 2) doing (πρακτικώς) and 3) speculation (γνοστικώς), passing into level 4) mystical (mysterious) theology (μυστικώς), concerning the interpretation of the deepest planes of spiritual reality.
3. Ways and methods of deciphering the numerological layer of the biblical text: "mystical mathematics".
The central hermeneutic procedure of symbolic exegesis is the derivation of the intimate, mysterious meaning behind the direct meaning of the biblical text. In the language of St. Maximus the Confessor, the essence of the symbolic exegesis of Holy Scripture lies in seeing the logoi of the written, freed from the outer cover of the “letter”.
According to the remarks of the researcher of the creativity of Rev. Maxim the Confessor S.L. Epifanovich, the word "logos" (lόgoς) in the concept of St. Maxima is used in several senses. In relation to God, lόgoι is "divine ideas, desires"; in relation to each thing - “its forming principle, according to which it received being”; in relation to activity - "its meaning, purpose, intention ... plan ... rule." In relation to the subject of knowledge, lόgoι appear as "divine insights of our mind" and are subjectively perceived as thoughts, concepts, ideas, contemplation, truth. In this last broad sense, the word "logos" is used in the exegetical writings of St. Maxim. According to Rev. Maximus the Confessor, secret viewers who have received divine grace, crossing in a speculative way the boundless sea of mysterious contemplations, "see only the logos of the written, naked from the written signs superimposed on them." Such "never take for meaning any of the symbols that give outward form to these logoi."
The mystical-symbolic reading of the biblical text involves the solution of two types of problems. First, it is necessary to find for the realities mentioned in the numerical message in the text, their semantic correlates-realities from other levels of speculation, which, by assumption, are symbolically spoken of in the biblical text when reading it in depth. And, secondly, to reconstruct the message itself, received with this reading of the text.
These moments are clearly traced in the interpretations of two episodes of miraculous feeding in the Gospel of Mark by Bl. Theophylact of Bulgaria (second half of the 11th century - the beginning of the 12th century), which offers the following simplest reading of the numerical messages regarding the "five loaves", "two fish" and "five thousand people" from the first episode and the "seven loaves" and "four thousand "From the second episode.
By bl. Theophylact, the five loaves of the first episode in the spiritual sense mean the five books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). And the two fish signify the Apostle and the Gospel, which "feed on our five senses, signified by five thousand people." The seven loaves of the second episode mean, according to his interpretation, "the seven most spiritual words." For, as the interpreter notes: “... the number seven is the image of the Spirit. The Spirit brings everything to perfection, but our life and this age is accomplished in the sevenfold number ”. Twelve baskets of bread remaining during the "miraculous" over five loaves of bread, and during the miraculous over seven loaves of seven baskets - means Divine thoughts that the eaters could not contain.
In the second episode, with fewer people eating, fewer baskets of leftover bread were left. According to Bl. Theophylact, "servile to five senses", symbolized by five thousand, "could not eat much, but were satisfied with little, which is why there was much left in excess." Symbolized by the same four thousand "established in the four virtues" as stronger, according to the interpretation of bl. Theophylact, "they ate a lot and left little, for only that they could not eat, which is more spiritual and deep, and this means seven baskets." In the patristic tradition, the quaternary of the main virtues includes: chastity, courage, justice, prudence (St. Basil the Great).
The proposed interpretation of Bl. Theophylact takes place at the very initial level of speculation. More complex interpretations are obtained when interpreting the episodes of the Gospel text under consideration, taking into account the existence of levels of speculation of varying degrees of depth. This is the interpretation of the spiritual meaning of the five and seven loaves in the gospel narrative, offered by St. Maximus the Confessor. According to his interpretation: “... five barley loaves indicate the publicly available logos of natural contemplation. And fed by them five thousand husbands are moving within [their] nature, but not completely cleansed of the location of the corresponding passionate and wordless part of the soul. " Seven loaves for four thousand represent, according to this interpretation, "initiation into the mysteries of the law." In other words, they mean "his most divine logos, which the Word mysteriously gives three days to those who abide with Him, that is, with perseverance, patiently enduring the labor of acquiring enlightenment and knowledge in what relates to moral, natural and theological philosophy."
Asking the question about the “three days” in which the people stayed with the Lord in the wilderness (Matthew 15:32), St. Maximus the Confessor gives the following two explanations. According to the first view, the three days are "the three powers of the soul by which they abide with the divine Word of virtue and knowledge." According to the second view, three days means the three most general laws - "written, natural and spiritual, or the law of grace."
In the reconstruction of the meaning of a numerical message as a verbal-numerological (verbal-numerical) complex, the central role is assigned to the actual numerological interpretation - the search for symbolic connotations of numbers. This is especially true of situations when such complex numbers are used in a numerical message, as in the given numerical series from the Second Book of Ezra. Although number can be thought of in abstract terms, the philologist A.A. Reformed, but in society it functions as a word or as a sign, in particular, as a number. With numerological interpretation, it is obviously necessary to move from seeing a number as a number to the level of contemplating it in its “pure form”.
In the history of culture, there are two concepts of number, considering it in its "pure form". The first concept is “semantic”, characteristic of the archaic mythopoetic and religious-mystical consciousness (Pythagoras, Plato, Plotinus, neo-Platonists). It proceeds from the ontological understanding of number as a kind of independent, objective individuality (substance). According to this concept, numbers are not uniform. In many mystical and religious traditions, sacredly significant numbers are distinguished, endowed with special significance. So, in ancient Pythagoreanism, the quaternary was the most perfect number. According to legend, Pythagoras "called himself the herald," the hierophant of the quaternary, "which was sworn by the later Pythagoreans as the greatest shrine." According to the modern theologian protagonist G. Fast, in the Orthodox Christian tradition, the numbers are sacredly marked: 0 (implicitly), 1-14, 20, 24, 25, 30, 40, 50, 66, 70, 77, 80, 99, 100, 144, 666, 777, 888, 1000, 10,000 ("darkness"), 100,000,000 ("darkness of those"). As for the semantics of these numbers, which is manifested in the symbolic interpretations of biblical texts by individual exegetes, here they often deal with the Pythagorean tradition, adapted by patristic thought. (For a description of the semantics of numbers in the mytho-poetic and Pythagorean traditions, see).
The second concept of number - "desemantized", characteristic in general for modern secularized consciousness, comes from the understanding of numbers as abstract, homogeneous elements of counting. According to Aristotle, who develops such an understanding, numbers exist as abstractions from things and "are simply seen in things."
Symbolic egzegesis, with its search for innermost meaning, is based on the first concept of number, which implies the possibility of seeing some mysterious meaning behind numbers as individual entities.
According to ancient mystical teachings, the numbers of the first "ten" are endowed with an independent symbolic meaning in the series of sacred numbers. (True, such a meaning is not always easy to explicate. According to Archpriest G. Fast, this concerns the definition of the ontological meaning of the number "five" in the Orthodox Christian world outlook).
The mystical-symbolic meaning of other numbers is determined by applying to the numbers the decimal to which these other numbers are reduced, special operations of mystical mathematics - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, identification. So, at St. Maximus the Confessor, in one of his spiritual speculations, the number twelve is regarded as the sum of the sacred numbers four and eight. He writes: The number twelve means "the present and the future, since the present is naturally characterized by a fourfold number of elements and substances, and the future is mysteriously contemplated in it by the number eight, as [an expression] surpassing the sevenfold property of time." In other types of his speculations, the number 12 appears as the sum of sacredly marked numbers: 1) 5 + 7; 2) 4 + 5 + 3; 3) 10 + 2; 4) 3 + 6 + 1 + 1 + 1. Or - as a product of sacredly marked numbers 3 x 4.
To more complex cases of determining the spiritual meaning of numerical messages using mystical mathematics is the anagogical interpretation (interpretation through the search for "super meaning") of the mystical meaning of the number thirty (30) in St. Maximus the Confessor. The number thirty is interpreted by him as the sum of elementary sacred significant numbers in the Orthodox Christian tradition - seven, five, eight, ten and is symbolically associated with the person of Jesus Christ. In the interpretation of St. Maxima says: “The Lord, having revealed himself at the age of thirty, secretly teaches secrets concerning Him, which become visible thanks to this number. For the number thirty, comprehended in a mysterious sense, represents the Lord as the Creator and Provider of time, nature, and intelligible [beings] that are above nature. [After all, the Lord is the Creator] of time, thanks to the number seven, for time is sevenfold; nature due to the number five, for nature is fivefold and is divided into five parts by feeling; intelligible [beings] thanks to the number eight, for their existence exceeds the period measured by time. [The Lord] is Providence by virtue of the number ten; through the holy ten commandments, people are brought to prosperity, and this letter secretly begins the name of the Lord who became a man. " (The first letter of the Greek name of Jesus Christ Ἱ, or iota, corresponds to the number ten.) Adding five, seven, eight and ten makes thirty, he notes. And the leader is “how wonderful it is to follow the Lord - the Leader [our], does not remain in the dark about the reason that He was revealed at the age of thirty, already having the opportunity to proclaim the Gospel of the Kingdom”.
Mystical mathematics in the numerological interpretation of spiritual reality, however, has its limits, stemming from the very essence of number. Naturally, this kind of mathematics cannot be applied to God, who is above all numbers. The Most Holy Trinity surpasses any number, although it is theologically expressed and revealed in the language of numbers. According to the Orthodox Christian doctrine, God is the same and One "and the Trinity, the Monad and the Triad, He is" both one-trinity and three-one, with double equality, where 1 = 3 and 3 = 1. " the mysterious identity of the monad and the triad, the identity of a single nature and the difference between the three Hypostases.
But in this case, V.N. Lossky, we are no longer talking about the "material number" used for counting. Such a number cannot be applied to the spiritual realm, in which there is no quantitative increase. The "triple number", referred to "inseparably united Divine Hypostases, the totality of which (" sum ", if expressed in not quite suitable language) is always equal to only one (3 = 1)", is in no way a quantity. It denotes His "ineffable order" in the Divine. Consequently, Lossky sums up: “...“ three ”here is not the sum of addition; three completely different realities cannot be counted; three Absolutes cannot be added; “Three”, which is beyond the limits of any calculation, beyond the limits of any opposition, establishes an absolute difference ”.
V.N. Lossky relies in this reasoning on the patristic position of St. Basil the Great, who asserts: “We do not keep count, going from one to plurality by adding, saying one, two, three, or the first, second, third, for“ I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides Me ”(Is 44.6). Until now, they have never said: “the second God”, but, worshiping God from God, confessing the difference of Hypostases, without dividing nature into plurality, we remain under one-man command ”(quoted from).
Such a superlogical identity of the Monad and the Triad, inaccessible to logical interpretation, is revealed to the believer in a living religious experience. As Saint Gregory the Theologian says: "I have not yet begun to think about Ed" of the initiation, as the Trinity illumines me with Its radiance. As soon as I began to think of the Trinity, the Ed "innitsa again embraces me. When One of the Three appears to me, I think that It is the whole, until then my gaze is filled with Him, and the rest eludes me; for in my mind, too limited to understand One, there is no more room for the rest. When I unite the Three in one and the same thought, I see a single light, but I cannot in any way divide or consider the united light ”(quoted by). And again: “When I pronounce the word“ God ”, you are illuminated by one and threefold light ... God is divided, so to speak, inseparably and combined separately; because the Divine is One in the Three, and the three are one, in which the Divine, or, more precisely, which is the Divine. "
4. Symbolic interpretation of numerical messages: from "letter" to "spirit".
Rev. Maxim, completing his most complicated interpretation of the numerological series 12, 42 360, 7 347, 245, 435, 7 036, 245, 5 525 from the Second Book of Ezra, symbolizing, according to his interpretation, the spiritual exit from the captivity of this world and the movement to the high Jerusalem, writes: “Perhaps, thanks to acquired wealth ... leading grace ... having surveyed the previous with a spiritual eye, he will wisely reveal to us the thought hidden in these inscribed words, speculatively radiating the heavenly light of Truth to everyone and convincing those who can understand this that there is nothing inappropriate and vain written by the Holy Spirit. And although we are not able to contain [fully] such a thought, [we will perceive] everything in a mysterious way, in good time and for the sake of human salvation, the beginning and end of which is wisdom. " The idea that “nothing has been accomplished by the Lord is meaningless and unworthy of the Spirit” is developed by St. Maxim and in other works (see).
What thoughts, "radiating" the "heavenly light of Truth" to everyone in a speculative way, are revealed in the existing interpretations of the numerical messages of biblical texts using the operations of mystical mathematics? What plans of spiritual reality and Orthodox Christian doctrine do they relate to? And how do these invisible texts, behind the visible text of Holy Scripture, relate to the explicit teaching of the Church and Orthodoxy as a whole?
Let us consider some of these questions using the example of revealing, using the operations of mystical mathematics, the innermost meaning of the mysterious number 153 in the Gospel of John (John 21.1-11), which tells how, after Jesus appeared to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, they pulled a net out of the sea filled with one hundred and fifty-three large fish.
In the interpretation of St. Cyril of Alexandria, this number is understood as the sum of three terms: the number 100 (10 x 10), symbolizing the fullness of the pagans, the number 50 (100: 2), symbolizing the "remnant of Israel" and the number 3, symbolizing the Holy Trinity. Spiritual Meaning Behind the Number Message of 153 big fish, reads here as: "... the pagans and Israel are gathered together for the glory of the Holy Trinity."
A similar interpretation is proposed by Theophylactus of Bulgaria, according to which: “... not only pagans who can be called“ hundred ”are brought to Christ, but also the Israelites, who can be understood as“ fifty ”. For when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, then Israel will also be saved (Rom 11. 25-26). Three fish means faith in the Holy Trinity. For a hundred and fifty, that is, pagans and Jews, were not caught without three, since without faith in the Trinity no one is called caught. " The Gospel of Mark mentions that Jesus Himself, before the miracle of feeding five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fishes, commanded the apostles to "seat everyone in branches on the green grass": "And they sat down in rows, one hundred and fifty each" (Mark 6:39, 40 ).
According to the interpretation of Bl. Augustine, the number 153, represented as the number 50, repeated three times, with the addition of the number 3, symbolizing the Holy Trinity, expresses "the unity of the Spirit in His sevenfold action." According to one of the traditional interpretations, the number fifty appears as the number seven multiplied by itself, with the addition of one day, borrowed from the next century.
According to another interpretation of Bl. Augustine, the number 153 is understood as the number "saved by Divine grace, reconciled with the law." Indeed, the number 153 can be understood as the sum of the members of the natural series 1, 2, 3, etc. up to 17 inclusive (i.e. as 1 + 2 + 3, etc.). Of the number seventeen, interpreted as the sum of ten and seven, ten denotes the number of the law, and seven denotes the number of the Spirit.
With the same logic of decomposition of the number 153 into its symbolic components, St. Maximus the Confessor offers a more specific reading of the corresponding numerical message. Since, starting from one, he notes, one can come by adding up to the number 17, this number may mean that "the saved enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the fulfillment of the ten commandments and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit." According to another interpretation, the saved enter the Kingdom of Heaven “through faith in the Holy Trinity”, “the hope of the future [century]” (the number 50 is “exceeding the sevenfold time”) and “through the action of the commandments” (it is denoted by the number 100). Those, according to this interpretation, become "saved and worthy of the Kingdom Heavenly ".
With all the diversity of reading the numerical message under consideration, symbolized by the number 153, what is in common is that they all talk about the concept-mythologeme, fundamental for the Orthodox world outlook, “salvation” as entering the Kingdom of Heaven.
Some of the numerical messages of Scripture, as interpreted by the exegetes, convey the idea of "perfection" in symbolic form. Such a meaning, in the vision of St. Maximus the Confessor, carries the Gospel number 4000 in the episode of the miraculous feeding of seven loaves, interpreted by him as spiritual logoi. According to the interpretation of St. Maxim: "And the number of those who were fed with these spiritual logoi clearly testifies to their true perfection ...".
Substantiation of this thesis from St. The maxim is made on the basis of speculation of the number 4000 using the techniques of mystical mathematics and contemplation of the meaning of the resulting construction. According to the interpretation of St. Maxim, at the base of the number 4000 there are four "generic units" - one, ten, one hundred and a thousand. Each of these generic units, except for the first, is both one and ten at the same time. The very same number 4000, considered through the operations of tenfold and quadruple, appears in St. Maxima as: 1, 10 (1 x 10), 100 (10 x 10) and 1000 (100 x 10) and finally 4000 (4 x 1000). (In Alexandrian exegesis, the number ten is interpreted as the number "perfect").
In the composition of these generic units, the first unit, according to the speculation of St. Maximus, there is a symbol of mystical theology. The second is the image (Greek τύποϛ) of "divine economy". The third is an image (Greek εἰκών) of virtue and knowledge. " And, finally, the fourth unit contains the indication (δήλωσιϛ) of the "universal divine transformation of beings."
The innermost mysterious content of numerical messages in Holy Scripture, revealed in speculations at different levels of contemplation, can be expressed in different ways. It can appear in the form of laconic mystical-ascetic and didactic maxims, an example of which can be found in the two maxims of Bl. Theophylactus of Bulgaria from his interpretation of the Gospel episodes about the miracle of being fed with bread in the Gospel of Mark. According to the first of them: "Those who obey the five senses" cannot yet "bear the most difficult aspects of understanding the Law and the Gospel," and this can only be done by the apostles. According to the second: "From the history under consideration, learn also that we should be content with only what is needed and not ask for anything else."
But the reconstructed mysterious content can also appear in the form of detailed reasoning of a theological nature, approaching in the degree of its argumentation and depth to the philosophical and theological treatises, substantiating and developing the truths of the revealed speculations. This is the interpretation of the mentioned numerological series 12, 42 360, 7 347, 245, 435, 7 036, 245, 5 525 from the Second Book of Ezra in St. Maximus, which required him to create a whole "arrhythmological theology".
According to one of the spiritual meanings seen by St. By maxim, when contemplating the mentioned numerological series, the Word-Creator brings out of captivity and brings to heavenly Jerusalem those who have become, "as far as possible, close to Him." The Scripture, “embellishing symbolically,” compares such people with the mentioned types and numbers of people and animals. For, as St. Maxim, "every God-loving and righteous person, ascending in an intelligible way to the mountainous Jerusalem, completes [by himself] the named numbers of various kinds, bringing the logos of each type and number into the fullness of one virtue and knowledge." The main idea of these words, according to A.I. Sidorov, is that "a person who lives according to Christ and in Christ, through his spiritual work and knowledge, realizes in himself all the fullness ... of the heavenly world." And, as S.L. Epifanovich, the soul, collecting divine energies in itself, "itself becomes a Logos in miniature, accepts Him into itself" and, thus, "is completely likened to God and becomes worthy of divine indwelling."
Analyzing the composition of St. Maximus "Questions Answers to Falassius", containing a symbolic interpretation of the numerological series from the Second Book of Ezra of the Old Testament, S.L. Epifanovich notes that it is "more a mystical-ascetic than an exegetical composition." And this is no coincidence. For the prep. Maximus, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, patristic Tradition, mystical and dogmatic theology, as well as ascetic asceticism are united as different forms of manifestation, comprehension and embodiment of divine Revelation. Experienced in the infinity of the meaning of Holy Scripture, St. Maxim aspired in his numerological contemplations to see in the Holy Scriptures as the fullness of divine Revelation the meanings and ideas (the logos of Providence and Judgment) that live in secret in Scripture and are gradually revealed in the course of history in the field of moral life, spiritual knowledge and dogmatic consciousness.
5. "Gematria" and the limits of the numerological interpretation of the biblical text.
Since ancient times, they have tried to unravel the innermost meaning of the Holy Scriptures using methods based on the idea of an inextricable semantic connection between a number and a word (name). Such favorite methods of antiquity include a technique aimed at finding and interpreting the sums of numbers corresponding to the letters of the implied, i.e. behind the number of letters, the name. And - the opposite, more complex method, which consists in establishing the name behind the corresponding number ("gematria").
Thus, the numerological equivalent of the name Jesus (Christ) in its Greek transcription "Ἱῃσοῡς" is the number 888. The number of the name of Jesus was calculated by the ancient hermeneutists by adding the numbers corresponding to the letters of the name "Jesus" in Greek. Namely - by adding the number 10 corresponding to the first letter of this name Ἱ ("iota"), the number 8, corresponding to the second letter of the name ῃ ("ita"), the number 200, corresponding to the third letter of the name σ ("sigma"), number 70 , corresponding to the fourth letter of the name ο ("omicron"), the number 400, corresponding to the fifth letter of the name ῡ ("upsilon"), and, finally, the number 200, corresponding to the last letter of the name ς (σ). As a result of adding the numbers 10, 8, 200, 70, 400 and 200, the number 888 is obtained - a triple eight. Further semantic interpretation of this number is based on the intimate knowledge of the mystical semantics of numbers in the Orthodox Christian tradition. In the mystical-religious symbolary of Christianity, the idea of the highest perfection is associated with the number 888.
If the establishment of a numerical correlate for a name and its semantic interpretation does not usually present any particular difficulties for the hermeneut, then the unambiguous determination of a specific name behind the corresponding number, based only on the methods of numerology, is often an insoluble problem due to the variety of possible interpretations.
Such a situation has developed around attempts to onomatological interpretation of the "number of the Beast" 666 in the "Apocalypse" of John the Theologian. As Fr. S. Bulgakov in his experience of dogmatic interpretation of the "Apocalypse": "The" Number of the Beast "- 666, or, in another version, 616 - always represented the greatest mystery in the interpretation of the Apocalypse ... the exact decipherment of the" animal number ", in any case, is not indisputable ... Obviously, a special key is needed for this, suggesting a special “wisdom” of the initiates. "
Knowledge of the symbolism of the number in the Christian tradition makes it possible to establish only the general, negatively tinged, although at the same time rather vague meaning of the “number of the Beast”. This is what Fr. S. Bulgakov: “As for the nature of the number 666 = 2 x 333, it belongs to the category of apocalyptic numbers, expressing, on the one hand, the highest power and quality - three times, but doubled, so to speak, in a double aspect, expressing ambiguity and deceit. In comparison with the sacred number 7, it also expresses a certain incompleteness and inferiority: 6 = 7 - 1, and there is some kind of shadow on it. In general, to this day, only fortune-telling remains for the interpretation of this number. " The key to the onomatological interpretation of the "number of the Beast" was lost over time. According to Fr. Sergius, for such an interpretation a new revelation is necessary: “If we recognize here the mystery of the revelation about this number of the beast, which was available to contemporaries, then for us it has long ago, more precisely, and from the very beginning, ceased to be accessible and only in vain disturbs the thought with its mystery. As far as the Lord pleases, the mystery of this name in the fullness of time will be revealed to the end ... Here a new revelation is needed, which is not extorted by guesses and tricks, until it is given from above ”.
According to the observation of modern patrologists, not only the biblical texts themselves, but even some patristic symbolic interpretations of the Holy Scriptures in terms of the perception of their numerological symbolism often remain incomprehensible. An adequate interpretation of such interpretations requires the unification of joint efforts of theologians, cultural historians and mathematicians.
6. Mystical and symbolic interpretation of numbers in the modern era.
In conclusion, let us consider the question of whether the mystical-symbolic perception of the numerological layer of Holy Scripture and, more broadly, the spiritual reality of the Church and the world as a whole, is a living phenomenon in our days, or is it just a fact of history. Although symbolic exegesis as a way of interpreting the biblical text was supplanted from European biblical studies already in the era of the Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. , however, underlying the Alexandrian and Antiochian approaches to the interpretation of Scripture generic types worldviews - symbolic realism (mysticism) and nominalism (rationalism) - continue to exist today, manifesting themselves in a variety of forms and spheres.
Elements of the Antiochian approach can be clearly traced in the interpretation of the Gospel of John by Bishop Cassian (Bezobrazov). Commenting on some historical examples of the symbolic interpretation of numbers in this Gospel, Bishop Cassian emphasizes their artificial character. He claims that such interpretations are far from the thought of the evangelist and that in the corresponding fragments of the Gospel text "the emphasis does not lie on the symbolic meaning." This approach of Bishop Cassian echoes the historical criticism of symbolic exegesis, noting that many interpretations of the biblical text, although they have a certain basis in "allegorical, alphabetic and numerical symbolism", are increasingly moving away from the direct meaning of the text. And this can lead to the emergence of a "parallel biblical world."
The manifestation of a lively mystical-contemplative numerological mentality, consonant with the Alexandrian approach, is observed in the attempts of the philosophical and theological deduction of the seven sacraments in Fr. P. Florensky, who in his “Philosophy of the Cult” states: “The seven sacraments correspond to the seven main layers of our life; one grace is poured into seven streams ... because we have exactly seven mouths that receive grace ... There are seven sacraments because there are seven foundations of the human person, and there are not only seven of them, but there should be seven, no more and no less ... So, there are seven sacraments and there should be seven - no more and no less. "
In these arguments, Fr. P. Florensky relies on a living experience of the mysticism of number, which permeated the ecclesiastical consciousness of all ages. As Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov) notes today in his study "The Mysterious Osmeritsa" from the work devoted to the Orthodox twelve-year holidays: "The" Eighth Day "(in common use in the church consciousness) means a blessed future age. And "seven" denotes the present earthly existence. " The experience of number as a living reality is seen in the self-consciousness of some modern believers when they perceive reality in an apocalyptic way and experience some reflexes of the “number of the beast” in modern life... According to some journalists, the fear of the number 666 even received a special name - "hexakosioiheksekontagexaphobia" (from ancient Greek ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ - six hundred and sixty-six).
The living experience of the mysticism of number is also captured in the following reflection of A.F. Losev about the mythology of electric light, cited in his "Dialectic of Myth", which says: "The light of electric bulbs is a dead mechanical light ... There is no grace in it ... there are no numbers about which Plotinus said that these are clever statues at the root of things, but there is accounting, bookkeeping and stock exchange ... ". And further: “This is the multiplication table, which has become light, and clever doing expressed in balalaika ... You cannot pray with electric light, but you can only present a bill ... it's absurd ... for the Orthodox - the living and quivering flame of a candle or lamp should be replaced with a trivial abstraction ... a vulgar electric lighting ".
As A.F. Losev, in his response to the research of the pianist and musicologist M.M. Gamayunov “Dialectics of word, number and sound in the works of I.S. Bach ":" A number for him (the author - V.P.) - and here he remains true to the entire worldview of Bach, - is not just an ordinary instrument of counting and not just a multiplication table, but a life-trembling structure of reality itself ”(quoted by). And "the life of numbers is the essence of music." With the help of "detailed and very subtle musical-numerical analyzes" M.M. Gamayunov comes to the conclusion in his research that "the numbers symbolizing the basic concepts of the Christian religion turn out to be multiples of the" personal "Bach numbers."
This Alexandrian position of M.M. Gamayunov is opposed by the Antiochian position of the musicologist M.I. Druskina, who, referring to Bach's use of numbers 3 and 6 in his instrumental cycles, just like Bishop Cassian (Bezobrazov), who denied the adequacy of the symbolic interpretation of the biblical text, notes: the sacred meaning is supposedly a symbol of the divine trinity. The explanation is simpler - practical: it was possible to perform with a pause, intermission, or two cycles in a row, and then two more, or - with a pause - three in a row ”.
MM. Gamayunov asserts that Bach, as an artist creating “in Nomine Dei” (“for the glory of the Lord”), who considered the Bible in German and Latin as his reference book and was well acquainted, in addition, with biblical symbolism, “could not think of“ creation ” "Apart from the number 6". After all, this number, according to the classical-biblical understanding, going back to the Book of Genesis, is a symbol of divine creation. The very same musical creativity was for Bach, as it is revealed from the analysis of his alphanumeric transcriptions, "the fusion of universal human creativity with divine creativity."
The material was prepared based on the lectures of the Sunday School
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Since ancient times, numbers have played an important and multifaceted role in human life. Ancient people attributed to them special, supernatural properties; some numbers promised happiness and success, others could cause a blow of fate. In many cultures, especially Babylonian, Hindu, and Pythagorean, number is the beginning of all things. Ancient Indians, Egyptians, Chaldeans were recognized experts in the field of numbers. For the Chinese, odd numbers are yang, heaven, immutability and auspiciousness; even numbers are yin, earth, variability and unfavorableness.
In Christianity, before the teachings of Saints Augustine and Alexander, the symbolism of numbers was poorly developed.
Classical or Pythagorean school.
The founder of the European doctrine of numbers was Pythagoras, who is credited with saying: "The world is built on the power of numbers." In his school, knowledge of the properties of numbers was the first step on the path to esoteric knowledge. Numbers, according to Pythagoras, have both quantitative and qualitative features. Studying the properties of numbers, the Pythagoreans were the first to pay attention to the laws of their divisibility. They divided all numbers into even - "masculine" and odd - "feminine", or otherwise "gnomons" and, which is very important, into simple and compound ones. The Pythagoreans called composite numbers, represented as a product of two factors, "flat numbers" and depicted them as rectangles, and composite numbers, represented as a product of three factors, "solid numbers" and depicted them as parallelepipeds. They called prime numbers, which cannot be represented as products, "linear numbers".
The Pythagoreans considered perfect numbers to be numbers that were equal to the sum of their divisors (excluding the number itself), such as 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 or 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. There are not many perfect numbers. Among the single-digit ones - this is only 6, among the two-digit, three-digit and four-digit - only 28, 496 and 8128, respectively. Two numbers with the property that the sum of the divisors of one of them is equal to the other, were called "friendly".
Subsequently, the Greek numerological system was borrowed by Europeans, and later it was transferred to Russia.
Almost every world religion has its own "sacred numbers", and each number symbolizes a specific meaning.
DIGIT "0" has the same symbolism as the empty circle, indicating both the absence of death and the absolute life within the circle.
For Pythagoras, zero is the perfect form.
In Taoism, zero symbolizes emptiness and nothingness.
In Buddhism, it is emptiness and non-substance.
In Islam, it is a symbol of the Essence of the Divine.
In the teachings of Kabbalah - infinity, infinite light, one.
DIGIT "1" means the primary unity, the beginning, the Creator.
DIGIT "2" means duality.
According to Pythagoras, a dyad is a divided earthly being.
In Buddhism, the deuce is the duality of samsara, masculine and feminine, wisdom and method, blind and lame, united in order to see the path and walk along it.
In China, this is yin, feminine, earthly, unfavorable principle.
In Christianity - Christ has two natures: God and man.
In the Jewish tradition, life force.
In Kabbalah - wisdom and self-awareness.
In Hinduism - duality, shakta - shakti.
In Islam, it is spirit.
DIGIT "3". The idea of trinity is the basis of many ancient philosophical and religious teachings. Three-dimensionality of space is associated with the triplet: length-width-height; three-phase substance: solid-liquid - vapor; the trinity of time: past - present - future; a person (body, soul and spirit), as well as birth, life and death; beginning, middle and end; past, present and future; three phases of the moon; the trinity of the World; in many religions, the upper World is the sky, the middle one is the earth, the lower one is water.
Three is a heavenly number that symbolizes the soul. This is the number of luck.
In Christianity: Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; the unity of body and soul in man and the Church. Three hypostases - this is the dogma of the Trinity, which is a distinctive feature of Christianity from Islam and Judaism. Therefore, the number "3" is the sacred number of Christianity. The Bible speaks of three gifts of the Magi to Christ as God, King and the Atoning Sacrifice, three images of the Transfiguration, three temptations, three denials of Peter, three crosses on Calvary, three days of Christ's death, three appearances after death, three qualities, or theological virtues: Faith , Hope, Love.
In Kabbalah, the three symbolizes understanding, as well as the trinity of masculine and feminine principles and the mutual understanding that unites them.
In Hinduism - Trimurti, the threefold power of creation, destruction and preservation; various triplets of deities; the moon chariot has three wheels.
In Japan, the Three Treasures are a mirror, a sword and a gem; truth, courage and compassion.
In the Chinese character "wang" (three horizontal lines connected by a vertical line), which means the word "prince", the upper horizontal line symbolizes the sky, the lower - the earth, the middle - a person who, on behalf of the sky, rules the earth.
In folklore, there are three wishes, three attempts, three princes, three witches, fairies (two good, one evil).
Toasts are threefold. Three also means execution. Countless are the triplets of deities and powers. Triune lunar deities and trinity goddesses abound in the Semitic, Greek, Celtic, and ancient Germanic religions.
The main symbol of the triplet is a triangle. Three interlocking rings or triangles symbolize the indissoluble unity of the three faces of the trinity. Other symbols: trident, fleur-de-lis, shamrock, three lightning bolts, trigrams. Lunar animals are often tripods, representing the three phases of the moon.
DIGIT "4" means wholeness, totality, completeness; four cardinal points, seasons, winds, sides of a square.
In Pythagoreanism, the four means perfection, harmonious proportion, justice, earth. Four is the number of the oath of the Pythagoreans.
In Christianity, the number four is the number of the body, while the number three symbolizes the soul. The four rivers of paradise, the Gospel, the evangelist, the main archangel, the main devil. Four fathers of the church, great prophets, the main virtues (wisdom, firmness, justice, moderation). Four winds carrying the One Spirit, four apocalyptic horsemen, tetramorphs (synthesis of the forces of the four elements).
Four is a symbolic number in the Old Testament. The four rivers of paradise, forming a cross, four parts of the earth, etc., are found almost everywhere in symbolism. The four can be depicted as a four-leafed, as well as a square or a cross.
In Buddhism, the Tree of Life Damba has four branches, four sacred rivers of paradise flow from its roots, symbolizing four boundless desires: compassion, affection, love, impartiality; four directions of the heart.
In China, four is the number of the earth, which is symbolized by the square. Four rivers of immortality. Four is an even, Yin number. In Chinese Buddhism, there are four heavenly guards guarding each side of the world.
In Egypt, four is a sacred number of time, a solar measure. The firmament rests on four pillars. Four burial urns, placed on four sides around the deceased, are guarded by the four sons of Horus, who are connected to the four cardinal points.
In the Jewish tradition, this is a measure, a blessing, understanding.
Among the American Indians, this number is most often used as the four cardinal points. The four winds are depicted with a cross and a swastika. Ritual and ceremonial actions are repeated four times.
In Kabbalah, the four means memory. Four worlds of Kabbalah, four directions in space and four hierarchical levels of the Torah.
In Hinduism, the four is the totality, completeness, perfection. The Creator, Brahma, has four faces. The temple stands on four sides of a square, symbolizing order and finality. Four tattvas, four human bodies, four kingdoms of nature (animal, vegetable, mineral, the kingdom of the mind), four yugas. In a dice game, a four means a win. Four castes, four pairs of opposites.
The Islamic four includes the principle - creator, world spirit, world soul, primordial matter. They correspond to the four worlds of Kabbalah. There are four more angelic beings, four houses of death.
DIGIT "5"- the number of a sacred marriage, since it is the sum of a female (even) two and a male (odd) three.
In the Greco-Roman tradition, five is the number of marriage, love, unity; the number of Venus, and the years of Venus form groups of five years. Apollo as the god of light has five qualities: he is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, one.
In Christianity, the five symbolizes a person after the Fall; five senses; five points forming a cross; five wounds of Christ; five fish, with which five thousand people were fed; five books of Moses.
In Buddhism, the heart has four directions, which form a five in the center and symbolize universality. There are five Dhyani-buddhas: Vairochana - Blazing, Akshobhya - Unperturbed, Ratnasambhava - Gem, Amitabha - Infinite Light, Amoghasiddhi - Unchanging Fortune.
The Chinese have five elements, five atmospheric substances, five states, planets, sacred mountains, grains, flowers, types of taste, poisons, powerful amulets, basic virtues, initiations, eternal ideals, five types of relationships within humanity. In the Jewish tradition, five is strength and severity, understanding of the essence.
In Kabbalah, five means fear.
In Hinduism, these are five-member groups of the world, five elements of the subtle and gross states, five basic colors, feelings, five faces of Shiva and twice five incarnations of Vishnu.
In Islam, there are five pillars of faith, five divine presences, five basic tenets, five actions, five times daily prayer.
DIGIT "6". Means balance, harmony. The most prolific of all numbers (Philo).
In numerology, the number 6 means the union of two triangles - male and female, one of which stands on the base, and the other is turned upside down. This mark is well known as the Shield of David, the hexagon that is featured on the flag of the State of Israel.
DIGIT "7" considered sacred and divine and magical and happy. Seven was revered for many centuries BC, in the Middle Ages, and is revered today.
In Babylon, a seven-step temple was built in honor of the main gods. The priests of this city claimed that after death, after passing through seven gates, people enter the underworld, surrounded by seven walls.
In ancient Greece, the number seven was called the number of Apollo, one of the most important gods of the Olympic religion. It is known from mythology that the inhabitants of Athens annually sent seven young men and seven girls to be devoured by the people of Athens as a tribute to the bull-man Minotaur, who lived in the labyrinth on the island of Crete; Tantalus's daughter Niobe had seven sons and seven daughters; The nymph of the island Ogygia Calypso held Odysseus captive for seven years; the whole world is familiar with the "seven wonders of the world", etc.
Ancient Rome also idolized the number seven. The city itself is built on seven hills; the river Styx, surrounding the underworld, flows seven times around hell, divided by Virgil into seven regions.
Islam, Christianity and Judaism recognize the seven-step act of creating the universe. However, in Islam, the number "7" has a special meaning. According to Islam, there are seven heavens; those who enter the seventh heaven experience supreme bliss. Therefore, the number "7" is the sacred number of Islam.
In the Christian sacred books, the number seven is mentioned many times: “Whoever kills Cain will take revenge seven times”, “... and seven years of abundance ... and seven years of famine came”, “and count yourself seven Sabbath years, seven times seven years each, so that you have forty-nine years in the seven Sabbath years, "etc. Christians have seven weeks of Great Lent. There are seven angelic ranks, seven deadly sins. In many countries it is customary to put seven dishes on the Christmas table, the name of which begins with one letter.
In Brahmin and Buddhist beliefs and worship, the number seven is also sacred. From the Hindus, the custom went to give seven elephants for good luck - figurines made of bone, wood or other material.
The seven was very often used by healers, fortune-tellers and sorcerers: "Take seven bags, with seven different herbs, an infusion of seven waters and drink seven days in seven spoons ...".
The number seven is associated with many mysteries, signs, proverbs, sayings: "Seven spans in the forehead", "Seven nannies have a child without an eye", "Measure seven times, cut one", "One with a bipod, seven with a spoon", "For beloved friend seven miles is not the outskirts "," For seven miles of kissel "," Seven troubles - one answer "," Over the seven seas ", etc.
DIGIT "8"- the number of newly found paradise, as well as renewal, restoration, happiness. The eighth day gave birth to a new, perfect person. After seven days of fasting and repentance, on the eighth, spiritual renewal begins.
For the Pythagoreans, eight means three-dimensionality and stability.
In the Sumerian-Semitic tradition, eight is the magic number of Heaven.
For Buddhists, the eight is the completeness, the totality of all possibilities. Eight symbols of good omen.
For the Chinese, it means the whole, all the possibilities manifested, good luck. Ba-gua are eight trigrams and pairs of opposites, usually arranged in a circle, symbolizing time and space. Eight joys of human existence.
In Christianity, it means restoration and rebirth. The baptismal is usually octagonal, which symbolizes the place of rebirth. Eight Beatitudes.
In Egypt, eight is the number of Thoth.
The Jews have the number of the Lord; the Temple was consecrated for eight days.
In Hinduism, 8x8 means the order of the heavenly world established on earth. The structure of the temples reproduces the mandala, which is characterized by the same symbolism - 8x8. There are eight regions of the world, eight suns, parts of the day, chakras.
In Islam, the throne governing the world is supported by eight angels corresponding to eight directions and eight groups of letters of the Arabic alphabet.
In the Japanese, eight means a lot; there are eight gods in the sky.
DIGIT "9" means omnipotence, and represents the Triple Triad (3x3). This is the number of the circle, hence the division by 90 and 360 degrees.
The Pythagoreans have nine - the limit of all numbers, within which all others exist and circulate. This number is heavenly and angelic, heaven on earth.
Nine is a sacred number in Scandinavian and ancient Germanic symbolism.
In Christian symbolism, the nine rarely appears. There are triple triads of angelic choirs, nine spheres and circles around hell.
For Buddhists, nine is the highest spiritual force, a heavenly number.
For the Chinese, 3x3 is the most auspicious of all numbers, meaning also eight directions plus the center as the ninth point, as in the Hall of Light. There are nine basic social laws and nine classes of officials.
In the Greco-Roman tradition, there are nine gods, and later nine muses.
The Jews have nine - pure understanding, the truth, since the nine reproduces itself when multiplied.
In Kabbalah it symbolizes foundation.
DIGIT "10"- the number of the cosmos, it contains all numbers, and therefore all things and possibilities, this is the basis and turning point of the whole counting. Means something all-encompassing, law, order, power. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 - symbolizes the divine; one means a point, two - extension, three (triangle) - plane, four - volume or space.
For the Pythagoreans, a dozen is the renewal of the series, perfection.
In Rome, this number was represented by the sign X - a perfect figure, meaning completeness.
Ten is also the number of completing travels and returning to the starting point. Odysseus wandered for nine years, and returned in the tenth year. Troy was under siege for nine years and fell in the tenth year.
The Chinese depict a dozen in the form of a cross, the center of which is formed by the hieroglyph chi, which symbolizes the human I, in front of which lie both paths, yin and yang, this is a perfect figure. The Ten Heavenly Stems (Gan) are possibly associated with the ten-day week of the most common cycle.
Christians have ten commandments of the Decimal Books, parables about ten lamps, virgins, talents. Tithing was dedicated to God.
In Kabbalah, ten is the numerical value of the letter J-yod - the Eternal Word, the first letter of the name of God. Symbolizes a brilliant ability to understand, divine support.
In Islam, an important role is played by usr (tithe), a tax on land holdings, which should go to the general needs of Muslims.
DIGIT "11". Since ten is a perfect number and law, eleven symbolizes going beyond both and means sin, violation of the law, danger.
DIGIT "12" personifies the cosmic order. This is the number of zodiac signs and months in a year (six masculine and six feminine). Twelve o'clock in the afternoon and at night. Twelve fruits on the Cosmic Tree. In addition, the twelve days of a return to chaos at the winter solstice, when the dead return, were celebrated in Rome during the Saturnalia. The twelve days before Christmas have the same symbolism.
This figure is found in Vedic, Chinese, pagan and European symbolism: 12 members of the Dalai Lama's council, 12 paladins (peers) of Charlemagne, 12 Knights of the Round Table.
Christians have 12 fruits of the spirit, stars, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 12 gates and stones at the base of the Holy City, 12 days of the celebration of Christmas.
The Egyptians have 12 gates of hell, in which Ra spends the night hours.
The Greeks on Olympus have 12 gods and goddesses, 12 titans.
In the Jewish tradition - 12 fruits of the Tree of Life; 12 gates of the Heavenly City; 12 cakes on the table of the temple, representing the months of the year; 12 gems in Aaron's breastplate; 12 tribes of Israel, the sons of Jacob.
In Islam, 12 imams, descendants of Ali, rule the twelve o'clock of the day.
DIGIT "13". The attitude to this number has always been special: it was considered either unlucky, or, conversely, bringing good luck.
In Christianity during the evening services last week During Great Lent, thirteen candles (among the Catholics they are called tenebrae) are extinguished one after another, which symbolizes the darkness that came on earth after the death of Christ. The number thirteen is considered unlucky because it is the number of Judas along with Jesus and the apostles. It is also the number of the witches' coven.
Among the Aztecs, this mysterious number was associated with the concept of time, namely, it meant the end of the time cycle. They also believed that the number "13" is somehow connected with heaven. In the hair of one of their main deities, there were thirteen locks, and in the beard - the same number of locks.
The ancient Chinese built numerous temples in honor of the god Huang Di. The emperor's servants made sacrifices in these temples on the 13th of the first and fifth months of each year.
The sacred book "Kabbalah" mentions thirteen evil spirits, the number "13" designates a snake, dragon, Satan and a murderer.
The thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse concerns the Antichrist and the Beast.
This number is used in fortune telling. There are many superstitions associated with it. Many hotels in the United States do not have a thirteenth floor or a thirteenth room. In addition, there is no seat number 13 on the planes of American airlines. In a number of large cities in France, houses, which should have a serial number "13", are designated by the code 12 bis. The hostesses are wary of placing 13 guests at the table.
This is thought to be related to the memories of the Last Supper; when during the last meal of Jesus Christ, in addition to the twelve apostles around him, there was also the thirteenth - the traitor Judas.
"40". Means trial, trial, dedication, death. The special significance of forty days goes back, apparently, to Babylon, where the forty-day period of the disappearance of the Pleiades from the sky was a time of rains, storms and floods and was considered dangerous. The Romans quarantined arriving ships for forty days, and the word itself is derived from the word "forty."
Temples among the Persians, Tatars, in Baalbek, the temples of the Druids, the temple of Ezekiel had forty columns. In Christianity, forty days from Easter to Ascension is a period of inviolability and a time of the right to asylum. In the Old Testament, Moses spent forty days at Sinai; Elijah hid for forty days; for forty days the downpour of the Flood was pouring; the forty days of the trial of Nineveh at Jonah; the Jews wandered in the desert for forty years; they walked for forty years under the yoke of the Philistines; David and Solomon reigned for forty years; Elijah judged Israel for forty years. The book of the prophet Ezekiel speaks of a vision in which God commanded the prophet for forty years of the lawlessness of the house of Judah to lie on his right side for forty days.
In Egypt, forty days after his death, Osiris was absent, this is the period of fasting.
In Islam, forty is the number of change and death, but also reconciliation and return to principle. Mohammed was called at the age of forty. The Quran is read every forty days.
In Mithraism, forty is the number of days of initiation rites, festivals and sacrifices.
"60". Time number (60 minutes and 60 seconds).
In Egypt, it symbolized longevity.
In China, it is a cyclical number that symbolizes the sexagesimal cycle, known in the past in the West as the Chinese cycle. The interaction of alternating Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Branches is built in such a way that the cycle ends in the sixtieth year, when all combinations are exhausted, and then repeats again. Six cycles are roughly equal to a tropical year.
"70". In Jewish symbolism, seventy candelabra branches represent the Decans - twelve zodiacal divisions of seven planets into tens. Seventy years is the length of a human life.
"666". In Christianity - the sign of the Beast, the Antichrist.
In Kabbalah, 666 is the number of Sorat, a solar demon opposing Archangel Michael.
"888". According to the numerical value of the Hebrew letters, this is the number of Jesus as opposed to 666 - the number of the Beast.
The number 50 in spiritual numerology means creativity (both Divine and human), which fully expressed itself at a certain stage and can rest, ripening for next achievements.
The number 50 from the language of numbers is translated as "the threshold between one stage of Creation and another." It should be borne in mind that there is nothing in life that is not creativity. The absence of creativity is also a kind of creativity, because any “absence” is also created!
Number 50
The meaning of the number 50 is composed of the meanings of two numbers: five and zero. Number 5 in spiritual numerology means "creativity", "war" and "sex". But since war is the creation of history, and sex is the creation of the body, it would not be a mistake to say that the five means only Creativity. The number 0 from the language of numbers is translated as "absolute rest".
In the interpretation of the number 50, the key concept is “creativity”. Life itself is Creativity, and everything that does not seem to us to be creativity is still a derivative of it. Therefore, fifty can be called the number of Life, or rather, the hidden potential of life.
Fifty is an internally ripening, but externally still unmanifest potential creativity. By the way, spiritual numerology is also unique in that it allows you to trace the entire evolution of Creation - from the initial spiritual impulses of the Universe (or a person) to the final manifestation and rooting in the material world.
Angel number 50 meaning
The meaning of the number 50 is the joint work of God and Man. In general, divine and human creativity exist according to the same principle: the crushing of the old and the creation of the new.
The difference between divine creativity and human creativity is only in scale. Although, by and large, and in scale there is not the slightest difference if we talk about a person as a spiritual entity, and not just as a person.
We are created in the image and likeness of the Most High and create our worlds in the same way as He does his own. Home, work, family, friends - isn't this the world that we “paint” for ourselves, painting it with our own colorful thoughts?
The world around us is an exhibition of our paintings, which we try in every possible way to fill the price in order to sell at a higher price or exchange for power, fame, respect of others ...
When interpreting the number 50 by the method of spiritual numerology, our distorted idea of the creation of the world is striking. The creation of the world is not only a final process that fit into six days of creation, but also continues constantly through Man. That is, God created us, and we, in turn, created (and continue to create) the world in which we live and to which we are accustomed. It turns out something like "the world within the world."
If something in life is not going the way you would like, write complaints to yourself. Going to church, mosque, synagogue pacifies the soul, but does not solve the accumulated problems. Why?
Because the Faith and Creativity of the universe are by no means the same. Creativity is the offspring of Chaos, and faith is the offspring of Order. For a deeper understanding of the number 50, you can use another allegory: creativity is the Tree of Life, and faith is a support, if the Tree of Life bends under the weight of our everyday troubles ...
Number 50 in a person's life
The number 50 explains to us the following: who wants to fill his Existence with meaning (and therefore joy), he must approach his own life creatively. Precisely creatively, and not from the position of a weak-willed suppliant, pitying that babble that you cannot escape from fate.
God helps us to create, but only if we ourselves strive for it, trusting in the Lord as the Creator, and not as a strict Judge!
We all have some kind of chronically criminal perception of the world - "crime", "punishment", "rights", "wrong", "judge", etc. Try to perceive the surrounding reality from the position of "creator-creation", and you will see how pleasantly your life will change! At the same time, it will become much easier for you to understand the language of numbers.
After all, numerology without a properly tuned mind turns into useless chatter about numbers. Especially when it comes to two-digit numbers ending in zero (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, etc.). Such numbers always contain the bottomless depth of Meaning.
Take, for example, the meaning of the number 50. When interpreting it, it is necessary to understand how God creates us, and we create the world in which we live. This is reflected in the evolution of creativity, reflected in the number range from 50 to 59.
Number 50 - Human Life Expectancy
The number 50, in fact, implies the duration of human life! After all, a person does not die from diseases, they are only an external manifestation of the true cause.
The real Cause of death is when a person exhausts his original potential for Creativity.
We are all creators and our Life has meaning only as long as we are able to create!
Someone will object to me: but there are many talented people who have passed away "at full gallop", they would still have created hundreds of books, films, and made a lot of scientific discoveries! Alas, this is a sad and sentimental delusion ...
If they could create something else, they would not die. Nothing in nature dies before it exhausts its inner, creative potential. Law of life!
