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A mythical number is a number used and accepted as deriving from scientific investigation and/or careful selection, but whose origin is unknown and whose basis is unsubstantiated. An example is the number 48 billion, which has often been accepted as the number of dollars per year of identity theft.
Probe Records was a sub-label of ABC Records.It was started in 1968 as their label for psychedelic rock and progressive rock, but was deactivated in 1970.Between 1970 and 1974, the label was also used for international distribution of material made by ABC and its Dunhill Records subsidiary.
The first four numbers symbolize the musica universalis and the Cosmos as: Monad – Unity; Dyad – Power – Limit/Unlimited (peras/apeiron) Triad – Harmony; Tetrad – Kosmos [4] The four rows add up to ten, which was unity of a higher order (The Dekad). The Tetractys symbolizes the four classical elements—air, fire, water, and earth.
Numerorum mysteria (1591), a treatise on numerology by Pietro Bongo and his most influential work in Europe [1]. Numerology (known before the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events.
A mystic diagram used for astrology. Sri Yantra: Shri Vidya school of Hinduism: A yantra consisting of nine interlocking triangles. Four upward ones which represent Shiva, and five downward ones representing Shakti that surround the central bindu point. In three dimensions, it represents Mahāmeru, and in particular, all yantras emerge from Sri ...
The work discussed the significance of numbers in astrology, divination, magic formulas, amulets, seals and symbolic matrices. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] Kircher's purpose, as he declared in the final chapter, was to articulate a Christian philosophy of number, revealing the hidden harmonies within the material world and its connections with the spiritual.
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A profusion of charts, celestial diagrams, and spherical triangles is characteristic of Gemma's ars cyclognomica, as is the use of three as a mystic number. Disciplines are grouped under three faculties or spheres: imaginatio (physics, astronomy, medicine and related fields); ratio (grammar, rhetoric, cyclognomic, dialectic);