Jack T. Chakhesang
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hree months ago, I wrote about the significance of the number forty (40) with its general, biblical, symbolism, gematrix and occurrence. In fact practically every number from one to nine and zero has significance in some way or the other and in their various own ways and they do tend to affect us for better or worse. Today, we shall try and dwell on the number ten (10).
The number ten is only a part of the Number Theory which is itself a branch that grew out of human curiosity concerning properties of the positive integers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…. also called whole numbers, natural numbers or counting numbers. These numbers were the first mathematical creation of the human mind; interest in them is as old as civilization itself.
Number theory has always fascinated amateurs as well as professional mathematicians, many of the problems and theorems of number theory can understood by laymen, although solutions to the problems and proofs of the theorems often require sophisticated mathematical background.Number ten (10) is a cardinal number one more than nine (9). Its Roman numeral is X or x. In phrases like “ten out of ten” refers to an excellent performance. “Ten to one” means very probably. In its derivatives, ten-fold is adjective and adverb also. The word is derived from Old English.
SYMBOLISM
Number ten is the symbol of the matter in harmony—4 + 6.
It represents the Creator and the creation, 3 + 7, the Trinity resting in the universe.
For Greek mathematician, Pythagoras, 10 was the symbol of the universe and it also expressed the whole of human knowledge.
Sum of 5 + 5, the number 10 represents the two opposite directions of the conscience knowledge.
According to H.P. Blavatsky, the 1 is followed by 0 indicates the column and the circle, meaning the principle of the female and male, and this symbol would refer to the androgyne nature and also to Jehovah, being at the same time, male and female.
The zero in the form of the circle is a symbol of unit, completing then the meaning of the number 1 to show that the number 10 contains all preceding numbers as a whole contains its parts.
The number also represents the first couple, the marriage: 1 = the man, 0 the egg fertilized by the 1. The ten gives the indication of a spiritual regression since the marriage is a consequence of the fall of man.
The number ten is regarded as the most perfect of all numbers, because it contains the Unit that did it all, and the zero, symbol of the matter and the Chaos, of which all came out; it then includes in the figure the created and the non-created, the beginning and the end (alpha and omega), the power and the force, the life and the nothing.
It represents the straightness in the faith because it is the first number (of two digits), just as hundred and thousand, explains Hugues of Saint-Victor.
According to Agrippa, “ten is the called the number of all or universal, and the complete number marking the full course of life.” Also, he attributes to it a sense of totality, the achievement, the return to the unit after the development of the cycle of the first nine numbers.
Ten represents the Revelation and the Divine Law.
For the Maya people, it represents the end of a cycle and the beginning of another. The ten was regarded as being the number of the life and the death.
In China, the cross represents the number 10—as the totality of the numbers.
BIBLICAL
There were ten generations from Adam until Noah (Genesis 5).
The ten plagues of Egypt sent by God through the intermediary of Moses, according to the Bible. The water changed into blood, the frogs, the midges, the big flies, the plague of the animals, the epidemic of ulcers and tumours, the hail and the thunder, the grasshoppers, the three darkness days, and finally the deaths of the firstborns in Egyptian family (Exodus 7-11).
The Ten Commandments of God given to Moses (Exodus 20:1-17).
Boaz took ten witnesses to marry Ruth (Ruth 4:2).
The ten nations whose hostility towards Israel was constant (Psalms 83: 5-8).
God moved back the shadow on the sundial of Ahaz by ten degrees as a sign that he was going to deliver Hezekiah from his mortal sickness and the city where he was (2 Kings 20:9-11; Isaiah 38:1-8).
The ten lepers healed by Jesus (Luke 17:11-14).
The ten gold coins given to each of the ten servants by a man of high rank in the parable as he was going to a country far away (Luke 19: 12, 13).
The ten impotent powers against God (Romans 8:38).
The ten vices that are excluded from the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:10).
The ten horns of the Beast of the Revelation and the ten diadems on each of those horns (Revelation 113:1).
GENERAL
The man is the tenth hierarchy of the “celestial chorus” that will replace the Last Judgment, the rebellious angels.
The Book of Genesis is composed of ten chapters talking about the history of the world according to Darry: “Three of them talk about the creation about the creation and the life of Adam in the Garden of Eden. They correspond to the cabalistic world of the emanation. Three talk about the descendants of Adam and the preparation of the Flood. They correspond to the cabalistic world of the creation. Three talk about the Flood and its immediate consequences. They correspond to the cabalistic world of the formation. The tenth by establishing the descendants of Noah informs us of the realization of humanity in conformity to the intentions of God.
St Marcella (325-410 AD) played an important role in the founding of monasticism. In one of his numerous letters to her, St Jerome (345-425 AD), a prolific writer of the Catholic Church, mentioned ten divine names which he located in the Hebraic Bible. Those names such as given by the Latin Patrology (Paris, Migne, 1842, volume 22, column 428-429) are: El; Eloim; Eloe; Sabaoth; Elion; Esper Ieje; Adonai; Ia; Yod, He, Waw; and Saddai.
According to revelations received by Mary Jane Even, the Virgin Mary would have felt great pain in her soul after the sentence of death of His son, before His Resurrection occurred. Those dark days were so hard to her that She seemed to die of sorrow. Because of her prayers and Her suffering which would have exceeded any human capacity, Jesus would have preceded of ten hours His Resurrection in response to her supplications.
The ten days while is opened the Book of the life, according to the the Judaic tradition, between the Roshashana and the Yom Kippur.
Ten people necessary to open a Synagogue, in the Jewish religion.
According to Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet, Maria Valtorta (1897-1961), and who is also considered by many to be a mystic, ten Roman knights escort Jesus bearing His cross until Golgotha.
Each year, in the Temple of Jerusalem, during the office of Expiations, or Kippur (the most solemn of Jewish feasts) the great priest pronounced aloud clearly and distinctly ten times ten times the name of God; that is to say YHWH (otherwise pronounced as Yahweh, a form of the Hebrew name of God used in the Bible).
Ten is the number of souls that theA
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The ten evil spirits according to the Cbal.
The world was created by ten words, according to the Zohar. In Hebrew, Zohar literally means Splendor or Radiance. It is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah (the five books of Moses) and scriptural interpretations as well as material mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology. The Zohar contains a discussion of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of Ego to Darkness and “true self” to “The Light of God,” and the relationship between the “universal energy” and man. Its scriptural exegesis can be considered an esoteric form of the Rabbinic literature known as Midrash, which elaborates on the Torah.
Among the verses of Faust of Goethe, there are:
If nine is one
Ten is none
Hence all the mystery.
The ten degrees in the Jewish mystic, according to the Talmud, are necessary to reach the divine glory, Sachimah.
The payment or the tenth of Tithe would be originally an eof divine right.
The ten Sybils, or prophetess, inspired by Apollo, often announcing misfortunes in an ambiguous form. (Refer to Delphic oracle)
Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of modern Theosophy. The generals
The Chaldeans had ten kings before their famous flood of Xisuthrus, that ended the year, like the Jews had ten patriarchs before Noah and ten others from Noah to Abraham.
The ten “Lords of existence”, Pradjapati, that Brahma (of Hinduism) created at the beginning as secondary crteative forces.
In the past, the Roman year had only ten months, beginning in March and finishing in December. The Romans divided these lunar months into three parts which they called calends, nones and “ides.”
For the Indians, the ten avatars or incarnations of Wischnou (Vishnu) represented the ten months of the primitive year during each one when the god incarnated himself in a new constellation, and by which some authors think that perhaps the first zodiacs had only ten signs instead of twelve. Vishnu also known as Narayan or the god who walks on water, is the Word of Brahma.
In his first incarnation he took the form of an enormous fish and the second time, he changed into a turtle. At the third incarnation, he took the form of a boar; in the fourth, a lion man; in the fifth, he took the form of the dwarf named Trivicrama; in the sixth, he incarnates into the person of Rama; in the seventh, he is called Parasurama, or the Great Rama; in the eighth incarnation, he was Krishna; and in the ninth incarnation was Buddha.
The tenth incarnation of Vishnu will occur at the end of the world, when the whole divinity will come down as revenger and consumer.
After that, the just will be carried to the residences of the blessed where they will receive their reward.
The ten rules of wisdom that Krishna received in his torment.
The ten moral duties of the Code of Manu.
The ten weeks telling the story of the world that we find in the Apocalypse of the weeks of the Enoch Letter, known also under the name of Book of the exhortation, the writings of the library of Qumran.
The ten “sephiroth” of the Sephirotic Tree of the Cabal which are considered as being divine attributes, as indicates their names:- Kether-Crown; Chokmah-Wisdom; Binak-Intelligence; Chesed-Grace, Magnitude or Clemency; Geburah-Justice. Force or Rigour; Tiphereth-Beauty or Husband; Netzah-Triumph or Victory; Hod-Glory or Spendour; Jesod-Foundation or Basis; Malchut-Wife, Royalty, Kingdom or Reign.
It is also question of an eleventh “Sephirah” which is not represented on the Sephirotic Tree of the Cabal. Its name is “Daath” or “Ain-Soph”, the unknowable one.
The ten “weeks of years” from Noah to Abraham until the moment when Abraham fathered Isaac, according to the book “Ages of Creation” of the writings of Qumran.
In ancient Mexico, the number 10 was represented by two concentric circles or two concentric squares.
The ten petals of the Manipura Chakra in the area of the navel and the solar plexus.
Each of the thirty six parts of the astrological Zodiacs is divided into ten degrees.
According to peter Deunov, a maximum of ten possibilities would be given to the man in his life to start loving. Every ten years an opportunity would appear to him to work with this powerful force.
According to the ancients, there would be ten lessons, ten realities of each truth.
The magic square of 10 is as follows:
1 4 2 3
2 3 1 4
3 2 4 1
4 1 2 3
Ten is also anniversary of marriage: weddings of white iron or tin.
GEMATRIA
Numerical value of the Hebrew letter Iod, “Ego”, representing the active principle by excellence.
OCCURRENCE
The number 10 is used 244 times in the Bible.
The number 4,000 is used 10 ties in the Bible.
The number 10 is used eight times in the Koran ( Koran II, 192; II 234: V, 91; VII 137; XL, 136; XX, 103; XXVIII, 27 and I, XXXIX, 1).
The words “And Elohim tells” are inspired `0 times at the beginning of the Genesis. The word “family” is used 10 times in the New Testament and the words “Chalice”, fisherman and Messiah, 10 times in the Bible.
Thus, dear reader evry number has some significance or the other even in our very own Bible.
