Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht ueber das Buch Thot

fail to recognize it in the number of the four divisions which we find in every science, and which we mentioned above? See the footnote below for the author's previous mention of this fourfold division. Now we want to take the sphere in hand again, while never neglecting to apply it to the Book of Thoth. For the sphere is the symbol of nature, and the Book of Thoth is also nature, because it was recorded and written by the first great sages according to nature.

But how shall the great number 5, or the Deity in the center of the four main points and the four main elements, from which the universe took its existence, be contained in the sphere? How shall the 22, the greatest among all numbers, or the 4 divisions of every thing be contained? In the point of the center of the sphere, I answer, in the midpoint of the four points of the horizontal circle. Yes, I answer, you must yourself

Note from the original editor: One should remember what was said above: that, for example, philosophy, theology, medicine, and jurisprudence are all geviert fourfold.

determine and fix this center in the midst of a perfect number 6.

The sections of this circle form 7 points:

1. The zenith, where the Deity is.
2. The center of the universe, where man has been placed.
3. The nadir, where nature is.
4. Four main points.
   1 + 1 + 1 + 4 = 7.

If you give a person seven higher knowledges, in regard to the 7 points of the sphere, then he is the greatest Kabalist student of the Kabbalah, a system of Jewish mysticism. If you show a geometer seven points in the circle, he will have come upon the trail of discovering all mathematical truths. And finally, if you give seven virtues to one of the representatives of the French nation in the National Convention original: "Nationalkonvent", then in seven days France will blossom into Eden's garden, which was on earth before Adam's fall and Eve's lust. And why? Because the number

Luck or misfortune! The current representatives in the Convention seem to have found or lost the seven virtues.