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SEVEN, NUMBER

This is a perfect number and signifies completion or consummation. It follows six, which stands for completeness of process. Applied chronologically, seven indicates the beginning and the ending of a cycle, "alpha and omega."

“Numbers in the Word signify things, and seven, all things and all, and thence also what is full and perfect,-consequently, this number involves what is holy, and in an opposite sense, what is profane." - SWEDENBORG, Apoc. Rev, n. 10.

'What is conveyed to us in the number seven, saving the sum of perfection? for to say nothing of the arguments of human reasoning which maintain that it is therefore perfect, because it consists of the first even number, and of the first uneven; of the first that is capable of division, and of the first that is incapable of it; we know most certainly that holy Scripture is wont to put the number seven for perfection, whence also it tells us that on the seventh day the Lord rested from all His works. . . . Thus 'there were born to him (Job) seven sons' (JOB i. 2), namely the Apostles' manfully issuing forth to preach; who in putting in practice the precepts of perfection, as it were, maintained in their life the courage of the superior sex. For hence it is that twelve of them were chosen who should be replenished with the perfection of the sevenfold grace of the Spirit. . . . 4 + 3 == 7, 4 x 3 = 12." “The three sisters, daughters of Job, represent three virtuous affections." - ST. GREGORY THE GREAT, Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. I. pp. 40, 53.

The sons and daughters of Job, and all Job's possessions, represent the higher qualities on the buddhic plane which were taken from the incarnate Self (Job) on his descent into the lower nature of the soul.

See Also

HIKOBOSHI
JOB
KARSHVARES
PLANES
REGIONS
ROOT RACES
ROUND
SHEEP
SIX, NUMBER
SUMMER