What is it about 3, 6, 9 ?
"THE ancients had a conception of numbers which is almost lost in modern times. The idea of the Unity in all its manifestations led to numbers being considered as the expression of absolute laws " Gerard Encausse wrote this in 1896 in his book The Tarot of the Bohemians
“The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”— Galileo (1564–1642)
"If you knew the magnificence of the 3, 6, and 9, you would hava key to the universe." -Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
Theosophical reduction is a method or an operation of reducing numbers to a single digit. This is done by taking a number, such as 21 or 34,897,231 and adding together all the figures until only a single number remains, one digit.
The number 21 would be reduced by adding figure 2 to figure 1, This is simply 2 + 1 = 3. The theosophical reduction of the number 21 would be 3.
The number 34,897,231 would be reduced first to 37 by adding all the numbers together, like this: 3+4+8+9+7+2+3+1 = 37 and then add 3 + 7 = 10, and 1 + 0 = 1. Now the number has been reduced to a single digit, 1.
Why do this? Well, we can't ask Tesla, or Galileo, or Gerard Encausse. But we learn from their works that the laws of numbers, or patterns of Nature are found in this way. By studying numbers the unseen unfolds something like an origami envelope holding a secret message.
-Gerard Encausse
And even if uncovering secrets isn't in the cards just having a little fun playing with numbers is an excellent way to s t r e t c h our brain power in a world where technology is seen as powerful and brains often are not.
In the year 1888 Gerard Encausse, a Frenchman (1865-1916), began the work to bring back into the visible world this knowledge of antiquity. This was a revitalization of Martinism and a history of this can be found at the Martinist website.
Before Encausse the philosophical works of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803) aroused much interest . Saint-Martin published his work Of Errors and Of Truth in 1775.
And those offering a legacy of mystical work before Saint-Martin were Martinès de Pasqually 1727-1774 Jakob Boehme (1575–1624).
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Gérard Encausse was a medical doctor. He died in Paris on 25 October 1916, at the age of 51. He had joined the the French army medical corps when World War I broke out and contracted an illness while working in a military hospital.
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