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Sacred Four Sacred Four Used in the Stanzas of Dzyan in speaking of the primordial principles in cosmogenesis as numbers: "I. The Adi-Sanat, the Number, for he is One. II. The Voice of the Word, Svabhavat, the Numbers, for he is One and Nine. III. The 'Formless Square.' (Arupa). And these three enclosed within the O (boundless circle), are the sacred four" (SD 1:98). The triad forms within the circle the tetraktys or sacred four, the square within the circle being the most potent of all magical figures. The kumaras, though seven in number, are called the four, because the four chief of them sprang from the fourfold mystery. It is one of the several meanings of the swastika. This sacred four has to be distinguished from the manifested four or quaternary. The most sacred oath of the Pythagoreans was "by the Sacred Four," or tetraktys. See also ADI-NIDANA; ADI-SANAT; ARUPA; SVABHAVAT (See also: Sacred Four, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)
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