Contents

PAGE

Preface to the First Edition

5

„ „ Second Edition

7

„ „ Third Edition

9

PART I.

Pythagoras, his Tenets and his Followers

11

PART II.

Pythagorean Views on Numbers

16

PART III.

Kabalistic View on Numbers

22

PART IV.

Properties of the Numbers According to the Bible, the Talmuds, the Pythagoreans, the Romans, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Hindoos, Mediæval Magicians, Hermetic Students and the Rosicrucians:—

1. Monad

33

2. Dyad

36

3. Triad

41

3½. Three and a Half

49

4. Tetrad

50

5. Pentad

59

6. Hexad

66

7. Heptad

72

8. Ogdoad

85

9. Ennead

88

10. Decad

93

11. Eleven

100

12. Twelve

102

13. Thirteen

109

Some Hindoo Uses of Numbers

110

Other Higher Numbers

111

Numbers of the Apocalypse

126