Theos-Talk Archives (October 1998 Message tt00090)

A beautiful study/paper.  Thanks.

Paul.

>Tony wrote:

> 777, the original edition of "The Voice of the Silence" and numbers.
>
> With a work/design/poem/..... as "The Voice of the Silence," its
> form is of
> interest too.  The book is made up of 7 gatherings.  That is 7 sheets of
> paper, each sheet folded 3 times, then cut and stitched, becoming 8
> leaves/16 pages (7 times).
>
> The 7 sheets folded 3 times is reminiscent of the 3 gold dots in the upper
> cover, within which are 7 invisible dots making up a triangle of 10 dots,
> the Tetraktys. [Within again are another 7 invisible metaphysical abstract
> mathematical points.]
>
> There are 3 Fragments.   What do these represent?
> Cycles/races/rounds/principles, or do they refer to the 3 jewels,
> the upper
> imperishable triad, AUM, amongst many other things?
>
>
> CONTENTS page:                     Page
>   I  The Voice of the Silence . . .  1
>  II  The Two Paths         . . . .  23
> III  The Sevent Portals     . . . . 45
>
> 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 (5 races/senses?) = 120
>
> "The Voice of the Silence" has 3 Glossaries (a Glossary to each part).
> Glossary 1 runs to  45 (notes/figures)
> Glossary 2          38
> Glossary 3          37
>
> These added together come to 120 (1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5)
>
> "The Voice of the Silence" is divided into 3 sections.
> Preface (or preliminaries)    1
> The Voice of the Silence      3 parts
> The Glossaries                3 parts
> 3 sections in 7 parts.
>
> The preliminaries run to [xiv] pages (2 x 7).
>
> The III fragments are 72 pages.
> The Glossaries end on page 97
> The Glossaries run to 25 pages (2 + 5 = 7).
>
> The numbers (figures) mentioned in the text of the PREFACE are
> *II*. 70 and
> *II*. 27 (70 + 27 = 97, the page on which the Glossaries end;
> also a kind of
> three sevens)
>
> There are 16 words on the upper cover (1 + 6 = 7).
>
> Ther are 3 double lines and 1 single line on the upper cover
> making 7 lines
> in all.
>
> The measurement of the cover is 12 x 16cms or 120 x 160mm {1 + 2
> = 3; 1 + 6
> = 7; ("7 sheets thrice folded") 3 + 7 = 10 dots}
>
> The book is publishe in:
> London, at....7, Duke Street
>
> New York, at...21, Park Row. (3 x 7)
>
> Tony
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