Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht ueber das Buch Thot

seven, 7, is the key to all things, and because, as a hermetic philosopher correctly said, one needs the key to lock and unlock.

Have the Book of Thoth always in your thoughts, and you will find that 1 is God; 2 is man, male and female (but neither must have a secret ambiguity of hermaphroditischer Bildung hermaphroditic form); 3 is the basic substances of nature; 4 is the elements of all things and sciences; and 7 finally is the key to all knowledge, which is preserved for the wise man in nature.

God is surrounded in the middle of the sphere by 6 radii or rays. 6 is the first perfect number among geometers, just as 28 is the second perfect number A perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors, excluding the number itself. The wise Egyptians thought exactly this way four thousand years ago, as the Book of Thoth proves.

The highest number of points produced by 3 circles described on a sphere is 7, when counted with the point of the center. If you cut the sphere, or a lemon, into three circles, you have the seven points and at the same time the number 8; for 7 and 8 make, as you well

know, 78, which is the number of leaves in the Book of Thoth. This is again a proof for you of how this sublime book was composed in every respect with the deepest knowledge of God, nature, man, and numbers.

But what is all this compared to when you find the subtle calculation of the number 78, which according to the hieroglyphs rises up to 360, and which will again be divided without fractions!

So that we may more easily come to simple instruction for our second lesson, let us now draw before us the three pieces with the remainder 24: 11, 17, 26, which have come out of our procedure:

26 . . . . . . . . . . . 1
17 . . . . . . . . . . . 1
11 . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Read here from the right to the left hand, just as you have had to lay out the leaves of the book in rows: from 1 to 26; from 1 to 17; and thirdly from 1 to 11.

Since 26 is the soul, 17 the spirit, and 11 the body of the book; so also