Seven (Solar) Rays Sunlight contains the characteristic potency of every one of the seven solar logoi. It is possible for the adept to sound seven notes, each of which will be in more or less perfect synchrony with the vibrational rate of the respective solar ray or power issuing from its own solar logos.

Such ancient magic is not only an act of reverential unity with the lord and giver of life for the solar system, but puts one in synchrony of a spiritual and intellectual as well as psychical type with the spiritual and other powers resident in and issuing from the sun (cf ML 73). Mystic words of seven vowels refer in a general fashion to the same ancient wisdom-magic.

See also OEAOHOO

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Seven Vowels.

See OEAOHOO; VOWELS

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Seven Rishis.

See SAPTARSHIS

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Seven The fundamental number of manifestation, frequently found in the different cosmogonies as well as in many religious dogmas and observances of the different ancient peoples.

Although ten was called one of the perfect numbers by the Pythagoreans, seven was unique in their series of numbers because it has all the "perfection of the Unit -- the number of numbers. For as absolute unity is uncreated, and impartite (hence number-less) and no number can produce it, so is the seven: no digit contained within the decade can beget or produce it" (SD 2:582). Seven is the number of the manifested universe, while ten or twelve is the number of the unmanifested universe.

Pythagoras taught that seven was composed of the numbers three and four, explaining that "on the plane of the noumenal world, the triangle was, as the first conception of the manifested Deity, its image: 'Father-Mother-Son'; and the Quaternary, the perfect number, was the noumenal, ideal root of all numbers and things on the physical plane" (ibid.). Further, seven was called by the Pythogoreans the vehicle of life for it consisted of body and spirit: the body was held to consist of four principal elements, while the spirit was in manifestation triple, comprising the monad, intellect or essential reason, and mind.

There are innumerable instances of sevening -- the seven days of the week, the seven colors of the spectrum, the seven notes of the musical scale -- while special emphasis is placed upon the seven human and cosmic principles; the seven senses (five senses now in manifestation and two more to be attained in the future through evolutionary unfolding); the seven cosmic elements; the seven root-races and seven subraces; the seven kingdoms, human and below; the seven rounds; the seven lokas and talas; the seven manifested globes of the planetary chain; the seven sacred planets; the seven racial buddhas; the seven dhyani-bodhisattvas and -buddhas; the seven Logoi; etc.

Man as well as nature is called saptaparna (seven-leaved plant), symbolized by the triangle above the square {illust}. While the senary was applied to man in all ranges from the physical to the spiritual, when completed by the atman, thus making the septenary, the latter signified the entire range of the constitution, whether of man or nature, crowned by the immortal spirit.

In Hindu literature the number seven continually appears: the saptarshis (the seven sages), the seven superior and inferior worlds, the seven hosts of deities, the seven holy cities, the seven holy islands, seas, or mountains, the seven deserts, the seven sacred trees, etc. In Greece seven was often connected with the gods and goddesses: Mars had seven attendants, seven was sacred to Pallas Athene and to Phoebus Apollo -- the latter with his seven-stringed lyre playing hymns to septenary nature as well as to the seven-rayed sun; Niobe's seven sons and seven daughters, etc.

Apart from mythological considerations, in physical life manifestations of the number seven occur continuously: "if the mysterious Septenary Cycle is a law in nature, and it is one, as proven; if it is found controlling the evolution and involution (or death) in the realms of entomology, ichthyology and ornithology, as in the Kingdoms of the Animal, mammalia and man -- why cannot it be present and acting in Kosmos, in general, in its natural (though occult) divisions of time, races, and mental development?" (SD 2:623n).

Seven is indeed the sacred number of life, and with the circle and the cross it forms a triad of primordial symbols of the ancient wisdom.

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seven

1. Symbolic of "completion". 2. Symbolic of pursuit, marked individuality, and philosophical thought; planetary link is Uranus

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Definition and meaning of Seven Sisters:

Seven Sisters

The Seven Sisters were the leading women's colleges of the late nineteenth century. They were Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, and Radcliffe. Prevailing attitudes about women's role in society limited their graduates to careers in nursing, teaching, and social work.

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Seven Eternities Seven kosmic aeons or vastly long periods of duration, becoming time to human thought; and each such kosmic aeon is an eternity [from Latin aeternitas from aetas age, time period, a space of time]

which the Latins looked upon as a generalizing term for an aeon (cosmic age). "The Seven Eternities meant are the seven periods, or a period answering in duration to the seven periods, of a Manvantara, and extending throughout a Maha-Kalpa or the 'Great Age' -- 100 years of Brahma -- making a total of 311,040,000,000,000 of years" (SD 1:36). The expression applies both to the mahakalpa and to the solar pralaya.

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Seven Dream Symbols:

(Source: Myths - Dreams - Symbols)

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Seven, Number seven, 7

Seven Sacred Planets.

See PLANETS, (SEVEN) SACRED

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CHURCH OF SEVEN ARROWS (The): Founded in 1975, the Church of Seven Arrows in Colorado is a Universal Life Church congregation with a shamanic tradition. See also: Shamanism.   (See also: CHURCH OF SEVEN ARROWS, Pagan Organisations, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary, Wicca, )

CHURCH OF SEVEN ARROWS (The): A Universal Life Church congregation with a shamanic component that was founded in 1975. See also: Shamanism.   (See also: CHURCH OF SEVEN ARROWS, Magickal Traditions, Magickal Paths, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Seven aids to enlightenment

(Jpn.: shichi-kakushi or shichi-bodaibun)

Seven practices conducive to enlightenment. They are memory, discrimination, exertion, joy, lightness and ease, meditation, and impartiality (also referred to as indifference).

Memory here means to recollect one's own past deeds and states, and keep them in mind. Discrimination means to discern the true from the false. Exertion means to be ever diligent in the practice of true teachings, and joy to delight in the practice of true teachings.

Lightness and ease means that one's body and mind are at peace and free from burden. Meditation means to keep the mind concentrated and unperturbed, and impartiality to abandon feelings of attachment and keep the mind detached and calm.

The "seven aids to enlightenment" constitutes the sixth of the seven categories within the thirty-seven aids to the way, or the thirty-seven practices leading to enlightenment. The Sanskrit for "aid to enlightenment" is bodhyanga.

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SEVEN PLANES OF EXISTENCE: some people follow the belief: that you reincarnate at least 7 times within 7 Basic Soul Stages. The stages are: infant, baby, youth, mature, old, transcendental, & infinite. The 7 ROLES: sage, artisan, priest, slave, king, warrior, scholar.

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Definition and meaning of Seven Days' Battles:

Seven Days' Battles

These weeklong series of fierce engagements in June and July 1862 along Virginia'bs peninsula resulted in a Federal retreat during the Civil War.

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Definition and meaning of Seven Years' War:

Seven Years' War

This conflict (1756-1763) pitted France, Austria, and Russia against England and Prussia; in 1762, Spain entered the war on France's side. Often called the first "world war" because fighting occurred in Europe, India, the Philippines, and North America. The American phase was known as the French and Indian War.

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The Seven Jewels of Wisdom Theosophical term for seven fundamental teachings explanatory of the universe, its structure, laws, and operations. As enumerated with their Sanskrit names, they are: 1) reimbodiment (punarjanman); 2) the doctrine of consequences, results, or of causes and effects (karma); 3) hierarchies (lokas and talas); 4) individual characteristics involving self-generation or self-becoming (svabhava); 5) evolution and involution (pravritti and nivritti); 6) the two paths (amritayana and pratyekayana); and 7) the knowledge of the divine self and how the One becomes the many (atma-vidya).

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Seven Sacred Planets The ancients spoke of seven planets which they named the seven sacred planets, and they were serialized as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and Moon.

The Sun and Moon are, however, used as substitutes for two secret planets, one near the sun and one over the moon, these secret planets being invisible to us at present. That near the Sun, an intra-mercurial planet, has been called Vulcan and was supposed to have been discovered in 1859, when a black spot was seen in transit across the solar disk; but since that time the discovery has not been verified by astronomers.

The teaching regarding it is that it became invisible to our physical senses at about the midpoint of the third root-race; but as we have now reached again, on the upward arc, the plane corresponding to the same degree of development, in a relatively short cyclic period it should begin again to show itself.

The planet for which the Moon stands as a substitute, sometimes called the Planet of Death, is near the Moon and also invisible to our physical senses. It has a retrograde motion and is slowly dying.

Each of these seven planets is, like our earth, a chain of globes, sevenfold or twelvefold in composition, having six superior globes of finer, more ethereal matter above the physical globe. Only those globes which are on the same cosmic plane of nature are physically visible to each other. For instance, we can see only the fourth-plane planetary globes of each of the other planetary or sidereal chains because we are on the fourth cosmic plane.

These seven planets are called sacred because every one of the globes of the earth chain is under the dominant guidance, and is actually largely formed by, one of these planets, assisted in each case by the other six. Further, every root-race of every one of the globes during each round is under the protection and guidance of one of the seven sacred planets.

But the main reason for calling them sacred is that our universal solar system is composed of seven planes of being, or worlds, over which are the seven primordial logoi. These are subdivided into seven minor logoi or powers, forming sevenfold groups or minor solar systems, and our solar system is one such group. In our solar system, our sacred planets are the respective houses, each house containing the seven forces of one of the seven chief rays of the solar logos: one such chief ray being our particular logos.

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SEVEN LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

1                             Elemental: Moon

2                             Mineral: Saturn

3                             Vegetable: Venus

4                             Animal: Mars

5                             Human: Mercury

6                             Demi-God: Jupiter

7                             7               God: Sun

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SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES, THE

Each historical era can be characterized by its attraction for one or another of these principles.

1                             The Principle of Mentalism: Everything is mind. (Greece.)

2                             The Principle of Correspondence: As Above, so Below. (The European  Middle Ages.)

3                             The Principle of Vibration: Nothing ever rests. (Contemporary  Post-Modern Society.)

4                             The Principle of Polarity: Opposites are the same. (India.)

5                             The Principle of Rhythm: The pendulum never reaches its farthest  limit. (Ancient Egypt.)

6                             The Principle of Cause and Effect: Chance is but a connection  unrecognized. (Modern Scientific Technology.)

7                             7          The Principle of Gender: Everything is either male or female, in union  or coitus. (Ancient Taoist China.)

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SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES, THE

Each historical era can be characterized by its attraction for one or another of these principles.

1                             The Principle of Mentalism: Everything is mind. (Greece.)

2                             The Principle of Correspondence: As Above, so Below. (The European  Middle Ages.)

3                             The Principle of Vibration: Nothing ever rests. (Contemporary  Post-Modern Society.)

4                             The Principle of Polarity: Opposites are the same. (India.)

5                             The Principle of Rhythm: The pendulum never reaches its farthest  limit. (Ancient Egypt.)

6                             The Principle of Cause and Effect: Chance is but a connection  unrecognized. (Modern Scientific Technology.)

7                             7          The Principle of Gender: Everything is either male or female, in union  or coitus. (Ancient Taoist China.)

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